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sive bigtt opposite Rio de Janeiro) agrees well with that obtained 
in the same neighbourhood by Gomez and described by Richard. 
These also fully accord with the Cocculus oblongifolius of Martius, 
which has been again described and figured by Dr. Eichler under 
the name of Pachygone oblongifolius, from a specimen found at 
Cape FriOj in the same province and at no great distance from 
Jurujuba. There can be no doubt, therefore, of their identity. 
My specimen bears ^ flowers ; both the others, which I have not 
seen, are in fruit. There is no difference in the descriptions of 
Richard and Eichler, except that in the one the drupe is said to 
be only half the size of the other — a difference owing probably 
to the fruit in one not being matured. It is certainly a distinct 
species, inasmuch as all those before described have a very elon- 
gated ^ inflorescence, except the one immediately foregoing, 
where, as in this instance, the flowers are condensed into a short 
cylindrical spicated head. The structure of the putamen, with 
its septiform condyle, is precisely that of Hyperbcsna Domingensis, 
upon which the carpological features of this genus were esta- 
blished, and notably distinct from that of the East-Indian genus 
Pachygone, to which Dr. Eichler has referred the species, and 
where the putamen is nearly orbicular and osseous, with an ob- 
solete condyle. 
This is a shrub with somewhat erect branches, with axils 3-6 
lines apart ; the leaves are 2^-2f inches long, l^-lf inch broad, 
on a petiole 6-7 lines long : the raceme is about 6 lines long, 
bearing the appearance of an imbricated axillary oblong tuft, 
crowded with very small, reddish, pubescent ^ flowers, the struc- 
ture of which is quite conformable to the genus. Dr. Eichler 
has figured the $ inflorescence, 5-8 lines long, which is more 
laxly paniculate than the cJ; the drupes are shown 6-8 lines 
long, the seed, of which, owing to the length of the septiform 
condyle, is deeply hippocrepiform, as in Diploclisia and Tiliacora. 
15. Hyperbcena Culumbica, nob.; — Pachygone Columbica, 
in Mart. FI. Bras. fasc. xxxviii. 198; — ramulis validis, erectis, 
teretibus, striolatis, subtomentosis ; foliis longiuscule oblongis, 
imo oblique rotundatis, apice attenuatis, acumine obtuso 
mucronulato, piuninerviis, creberrime reticulatis, firmiter 
coriaceis, nitidis, glaberrimis; petiolo patente, tereti, apice 
tumidulo, limbo 5-8-plo breviore : racemis 6-12, supra- 
axillaribus, petiolo multo brevioribus, glomerulatis ; pedicellis 
brevissimis, simplicibus vel parce ramosis, 1-floris, imo brac- 
teolatis, fulvo hirtellis vel glabriusculis ; sepalis 6-9, exterio- 
ribus ovato-lanceolatis, interioribus elliptico-orbicularibus, 
membranaceis, glabris ; petalis minoribus, obovatis, margini- 
bus basalibus parumper involutis. — In Colombia. 
