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BY AUTHORITY OF CONGRESS. af 9g &K G77 Us8 }@54 UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION. DURING THE YEARS 1838, 1839, 1840, [841, 1842. UNDER THE COMMAND OF CHARLES WILKES, U.S.N. VO lw BV, BOTAN Y. PHANEROGAMIA. BY ASA GRAY, M.D. WITH A FOLIO ATLAS OF ONE HUNDRED PLATES. SOY, | | BARTS = PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED BY C. SHERMAN. 1854, D SMITHSON ae MAY 06 1988 SIBRARIED af Be OP sa ON XS PHANEROGAMIA., Orvn RANUNCULACE &. 1. CLEMATIS, Jinn. 1. Crematis PickErineu, Sp. Nov. C. floribus paniculatis ; foliis ternatis ; foliolis membranaceis ovatis acu- minatis integerrimis quinguenervatis laxe venosis glabris ; pedunculis 3—-T-floris ; caudis carpellorum plumosis. Has. Ovolau, Feejee Islands. Climbing, glabrous, at least when old, except the loose and ample panicles, which are minutely pubescent. Leaves ternate, without any tendency to farther division. Leaflets thin and membranaceous, ovate, acuminate, the larger ones conspicuously so, rounded or sometimes slightly cordate at the base, entire, five-nerved or quintuplinerved, and not inconspicuously veiny, glabrous, about 3 inches long, on partial petioles of about an inch in length. Flowers not seen; the only specimen procured being in advanced fruit. The fructiferous panicles elongated, somewhat racemiform; the peduncles 2 inches long, 3-7- flowered, rather longer than the pedicels. Bracts subulate, minute. Achenia oblong, pointed, pubescent; the ¢ads silky-plumose, an inch long. 1 2 PHANEROGAMIA. This is doubtless a polygamo-dicecious species. Although the flowers have fallen, they were evidently smaller than those of C. indivisa of New Zealand, of which the sepals, in a specimen gathered by Mr. Moss- man, are fully an inch in length, and the thin, broader, and acu- minated leaves, and more compound panicles, further distinguish it from that species. It has more points of resemblance with C. Jotida, Raoul, Pl. Nouv. Zel. p. 23, t. 22; but that likewise has coriaceous leaflets, which, moreover, are hairy underneath. I have dedicated the species to Dr. Pickering, who, with Mr. Brackenridge, secured a fine botanical collection in the Feejee Islands, under circumstances of great personal risk. 9. CLEMATIS PARVIFLORA, A. Cunn. C. parviflora, A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4, p. 259; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 7. Has. Tippona, Bay of Islands, New Zealand. (The specimens destitute both of flowers and fruit.) 3. CLEMATIS INDIVISA, Willd. C. indivisa, Willd. Spec. Pl. 2, p. 1291; DC. Prodr. 1, p.5; A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel., p. 228; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4398; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 6. CO. integrifolia, Forst. Prodr. no. 321, non Linn. : Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. (Foliage only; a peculiar state, with very thin leaves; evidently growing in deep shade.) 4. CLEMATIS ARISTATA, 2. Br. C. aristata, R. Br. in DC. Syst. 1, p. 147; Ker, in Bot. Mag. t. 2983; Hook. f. in Jour. Bot. 2, p. 399. Has. Sydney, New South Wales. The foliage varies greatly in this, as in other species of the genus; but our specimens, both in flower and fruit, belong to the typical form. RANUNCULACES?. 8 The leaflets show manifest traces of variegation with dark-brown and purple, as is said by Dr. Hooker to occur in Tasmanian specimens of this species. 5. CLEMATIS PERUVIANA, DC. C. Peruviana, DC. Syst. 1, p. 141, & Prodr. 1, p. 4. C. sericea, Hook. Bot. Mise. 2, p. 205, var. 8., non Humb. & Bonpl. Has. Bajos, Andes of Peru. Although very imperfect, like too many in the interesting collection hastily made in the Peruvian Andes, the specimen suffices to identify the plant as the C. Peruviana, described from Dombey’s collection ; and also as the plant gathered between Obrajillo and Culluay, by Cruck- shanks, and named by Hooker C. sericea; but it is not the C. sericea of Humboldt and Bonpland. Mr. Matthews and Mr. M’Lean have also sent to the Hookerian herbarium specimens of the same species from the Andes of Peru. 6. CLEMATIS DIOICA, Linn. , C. dioica, Linn. Ameen. Acad. 5, p. 398, & Spec. ed. 2, p. 765; DC. Syst. 1, p. 148; Benth. Pl. Hartw. p. 167, no. 872. Has. Bafios, Andes of Peru. 4 Our specimen accords with the Bogotensian plant of Hartweg, re- ferred by Bentham to C. dioica, as well as with that gathered by Mat- thews at Chachapoyas; and I see no valid differences between it and the Jamaica plant. 7. CLEMATIS H@NKEANA, Prest. ? C. caulibus scandentibus glabriusculis teretibus ; foliis quinque foliolatis ; foliolis cordatis acuminatis integris vel apicem versus dentibus grossis 4 PHANEROGAMIA. 2-3 instructis, adultis supra glabratis subtus petiolis cum pedunculis sepalisque molliter pubescentibus ; paniculis multyfloris. C. Heenkeana, Presl. Rel. Henk. 2. p. 69? Has. Obrajillo, Peru. Although probably the Clematis Hankeana of Presl., I suspect this plant may be no more than a less pubescent C. sericea, Humb. & Bonpl. The stems, or rather branches, are terete, very slightly sulcate- striate, and nearly glabrous, except the younger parts. The leaves, even the uppermost, are pinnate, with 5 leaflets; these are ovate, cordate at the base, acuminate, from 2 to 3 inches long, rather thin, entire or coarsely 2—3-toothed, 3-5-nerved and veiny; the younger clothed with a soft and fine, rather silky pubescence (like that of the petioles, inflorescence, &c.) on both surfaces, but the upper surface soon becomes glabrous, or nearly so. The specimen is in flower only, and the axillary, rather densely flowered panicles are not longer than the leaves. Flowers about as large as those of C. Virginiana. Sepals 4, obovate-oblong, about the length of the pedicels, silky-pubescent ex- ternally. There is no fruit; but the styles in the fertile flowers are very silky-villous.. In the same panicle are staminate flowers with abortive ovaries, and hermaphrodite flowers with both perfect anthers and fertile ovaries, just as indicated by Mr. Bentham of C. diowca (Plante Hartwegiane, p. 157), and as is the case, I believe, in most of the related species; although some are diceciously polygamous. 2. ANEMONE, Tourn. 1. ANEMONE HELLEBORIFOLIA, DC. A. “foliis pedatisectis, segmentis glabris subcoriaceis [vel membranaceis] subpetiolulatis basi cuneatis trifidis, lobis serratis acutis ; involucris om- nibus trifoliis subsessilibus ; ovariis glabris ;” acheniis levibus oblongis via compressis gibbosis ex angulo interno breviter stipitatis stylo brevi nudo revoluto uncinatis in capitulum globosum supra receptaculum vil- losum aggregatis. A, helleborifolia, DC. Syst. 1, p. 211, & Prodr. 1, p. 21. RANUNCULACES®. 5 Has. Near Obrajillo (in fruit) and Baiios (in flower), Andes of Peru. To complete the character of this well-marked species, that of the fruit only was needed, which desideratum is supplied by one of the specimens in this collection. The achenia, like the ovaries, are per- fectly glabrous, narrowly oblong, turgid, distinctly stipitate from the inner angle at the base, therefore gibbous, and tipped with a short, strongly revolute or hooked style; they form a globular head, the recep- tacle of which is villous. The leaves of our flowering specimen, more- over, are thin and membranaceous, and so they are in one of the speci- mens from Matthews, in the herbarium of Sir Wm. Hooker; while in others, as in Dombey’s plant, they are more or less coriaceous. The flower also varies in size. 3. RANUNCULUS, Linn. * Peruvians et Chilenses. 1. RANUNCULUS PRaMorRsUS, H. B. K. R. premorsus, H. B. K. in DC. Syst. 1, p. 292, & Nov. Gen. & Spec. 5, p.47; Benth. Pl. Hartw., p. 158. Has. Baiios, Andes of Peru. Both Cruckshanks and Matthews have gathered the same species in the Peruvian Andes (about Pasco, &c.), and some specimens show the preemose rhizoma. 2. RANUNCULUS BonpLanpbIANUS, H. B. K. 1. . Var. folits etiam pagina superiore pubescenti-pilosis ; caulibus decumben- ~ tibus vel declinatis. Has. Bajios, Andes of Peru. 6 PHANEROGAMIA, Stems a foot long, decumbent or reclining, sparsely hirsute with long hairs, those of the lower part of the stem spreading, those of the peduncles appressed and more strigose. Leaves pilose-hirsute on both surfaces; the radical and lower cauline trisected; the upper three- parted or trifid; their divisions incised. Flowers as large as those of R. acris. Petals 10 or 12, spatulate-obovate, entire, apparently light yellow. Styles uncinate-recurved. Fruit not seen. 3. Ranuncuus Cuitensis, DC. R. Chilensis, DC. Syst. 1, p. 286; Schlecht. Animad. Ranun. p. 27; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 4, t. 3; Gay, Fl. Chil. 1, p. 42; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 224. | Casalea Chilensis, St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. 1, p. 9. Has. About Valparaiso and Santiago. Although the sepals are only three (a point unnoticed by Hooker and Arnott); it has no further resemblance to St. Hilaire’s genus Casalea, to which he referred it. * * Antarctict. 4, RANUNCULUS BITERNATUS, Smith. R. biternatus, Smith, in Rees Cycl. no. 48; DC. Syst. 1, p. 286; Deless, Ic. Sel. 1, t. 24; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 397; Hook.f. Fl. Antare. p. 224. R. exigiuus, D’Urv.; Gaudich. Bot. Freyc. Voy. p. 186. Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia. This species has been gathered by nearly all Antarctic collectors, from Commerson and Banks down to the most recent times. It takes the place of the Arctic R. Lapponicus and R. pygmeus. The petals are decidedly yellow, as stated by Hooker (not white, as described by DeCandolle), but rather pale. The fruit was first represented by Hooker (lcon. supr. cit.); when mature it is considerably rounder than in his figure. RANUNCULACEAZA, 7 * * * Novo-Zelandici et Aucklandici, 5. RANUNCULUS RIVULARIS, Banks & Sol. Ranunculus rivularts, Banks & Solander, Mss. in Herb. Banks; DC. Syst. 1, p. 270, & Prodr. 1, p. 34; A. Cunn., Bot. N. Zeal. in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4, p. 257; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal., p. 11. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. The characters of this species given by DeCandolle are well com- pleted by Cunningham. In our specimens the achenia, sometimes 12 or more in number, are manifestly compressed, and surrounded by a sharp margin. The species is related to the preceding. 6. RANUNCULUS ACAULIS, Banks & Sol. Ranunculus acaulis, Banks & Solander, 1. c.; DC., 1. ¢., A. Cunn., 1. ¢.; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 4. t. 2, & Fl. N. Zeal. p. 11. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. This species is admirably illustrated by Dr. Hooker, in his An- tarctic Flora, from Aucklandian specimens, and is again described in his Flora of New Zealand. 7. RaNnuncuLus Hirtus, Banks & Sol. R. hirtus, Banks & Solander, 1. c.; DC. 1. ¢. p. 289; A. Cunn. 1. c. p. 259; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 9. | Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. This has smaller flowers, especially the petals, and more incised leaves, with sharper lobes, than the following. I should suppose that this was the plant which Richard and Cunningham referred to R. acris, notwithstanding the small flowers. But Dr. Hooker adduces the synonym under £. plebevus. 8 PHANEROGAMIA. 8. RANUNCULUS PLEBEIUS, Rt. Br.? Ranunculus plebeius, A. Cunn., Bot. N. Zeal., 1. ¢. p. 258; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 9; an R. Br.? Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. This is certainly the R. plebeius of A. Cunningham, and a species abundantly collected in New Zealand by Mr. Colenso and Dr. Hooker; ‘but I doubt if it be Mr. Brown’s New Holland species. It does resemble some forms of the polymorphous R. repens; but is quite un- like R. acres. 9, RAnUNcULUS AUCKLANDICUS, Sp. Nov. R. sericeo-strigosus ; caule simplici e rhizomate subrepente erecto bifoliato superne longe nudo unifloro ; foliis longe petiolatis rotundatis vel reni- formibus trifidis sinubus clausis, segmentis cuneiformibus inciso-sub- lobatis ; carpellis compressis immarginatis levibus breviter apiculatis im receptaculum cylindraceum pilosiusculum acervatis. Has. Lord Auckland Islands. Rhizoma horizontal, short and rather thick, sending out stout fibrous roots, and throwing up a solitary erect stem, which in the fruiting state is from 6 to 10 inches high, rather stout, strigose-hir- sute with appressed and stiff hairs, two-leaved below, the long and naked swmmit or peduncle from 3 to 6 inches long. Radical and cauline leaves similar, on long strigose-hirsute petioles, which are dilated and partly sheathing at the base; the blade round or rounded kidney-shaped, or the uppermost truncate or barely subcordate at the base, both surfaces clothed equally with silky-strigose pubescence ; they are from an inch to an inch and a half in diameter, thickish in texture but not fleshy, three-cleft to or beyond the middle, but with the sinuses mostly closed ; the broadly cuneiform lobes again 2—3-lobed, or coarsely toothed and incised. The flowers not known. The ripe carpels are ovate, compressed, not margined, apiculate with a very short RANUNCULACES. 9 and straight subulate style, smooth and glabrous, a little more than a line long. The cylindraceous or somewhat club-shaped and papillose receptacle, from which the ripe achenia have fallen, is a quarter of an inch long, and minutely hairy. It is much to be regretted that all the specimens of this interesting and well-marked species were past flowering, and even the fruit had mostly fallen from the receptacle. The species is probably allied to the curious /. pinguis, Hook. f., also an Aucklandian species, on the one hand, as it certainly is to the Tasmanian &. scapigerus, Hook., on the other; but it is entirely distinct from both. x * * * Novo-Hollandici. 10. RANUNCULUS LAPPACEUS, Smith. FR. lappaceus, Smith, in Rees Cycl. no. 61; DC. Syst. 1, p. 286; Hook. Jour. Bot. 1, p. 243 (excl. syn. FR. plebeius, R. Br. 7). Has. Near Sydney, New Holland. A species very variable in foliage, with flowers as large as those of R. acris, with which it is justly compared by Smith, or of FB. bulbosus, and of the same deep yellow colour. 11. Ranuncuus inunpatus, &. Br. in DC. Var. floribus majoribus ; petalis sepala plerumque duplo superantibus. Has. Hunter’s River and Woolongong, New Holland (also, Sydney, Bynoe and Wilberforce, Backhouse, in herb. Hook.) Some specimens appear to have the very small flowers assigned to the species by DeCandolle; in others they are more developed, with petals a quarter of an inch in length; and all belong, I doubt not, to Mr. Brown’s Ranunculus inundatus; these amphibious plants being variable in such respects, according to the conditions under which 3 10 PHANEROGAMIA. they grow. The smooth and turgid achenia are abruptly subulate with a very slender and straight style. x * * * * Sandwicenses. i 12. Ranuncutus Hawazensis, Sp. Nov. R. hirsutus; caule valido erecto superne ramoso ; pedunculis plurimis corymbosis; foliis biternatisectis divisionibus primariis longe petiolu- latis, ramealibus biternatipartitis trisectisve, segmentis omnium cuneato- oblongis lanceolatisve incisis dentatis ; sepalis ovatis margine lato hyalino limbatis retusis eatus hirsutis petala obovata (flava) sub- cequantibus ; achentis levibus late semiovatis compressis stylo conspicuo subulato apice recurvo vel rectiusculo acuminatis in capitulum subglo- bosum aggregatis. Has. Hawaii, Sandwich Islands, in water-runs (also collected by Douglas). Stems 3 feet or more in height, erect, thick, fistulous, terete, branch- ing, clothed, as well as the branches, petioles, &c., with short and spreading hirsute pubescence. Leaves clothed throughout with a similar pubescence; the radical and principal cauline biternately com- pound; the primary divisions on partial petioles of an inch to 3 inches in length; the secondary divisions narrowed at the base into short and usually margined petioles or nearly sessile, cuneate or oblong, 2-3-cleft; the lobes oblong or sublanceolate, incised and toothed. Main petioles dilated and partly sheathing at the base. Upper cau- line and rameal leaves simply ternate or trisected, with the divisions laciniate-toothed and incised; the floral commonly undivided and lanceolate. Peduncles an inch or 2 inches long, often somewhat fascicled or umbellate-corymbose on the summit of a common peduncle or branch, forming altogether an ample and many-flowered compound corymb. Flowers smaller than those of 2. acris, although the fruits are larger. Sepals rather persistent, hairy outside, very concave, thin and membranaceous, somewhat coloured, several-nerved near the centre, ovate-orbicular in outline, including the broad and delicate hyaline margin, retuse at the summit. Petals yellow, obovate, fur- RANUNCULACEA, 11 nished with a conspicuous two-cleft appendage on the short claw, scarcely exceeding the sepals in the later flowers, which the speci- mens alone furnish. Uraria lagopoides, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 824; Wight. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 289. Hedysarum lagopodioides, Linn.? Forst. Prodr. F]. Ins. Austr. p. Ol. H. lagopoides, Burm. Fl. Ind. p. 68, t. 53, f. 2. Has. Feejee Islands; on the leeward coast of Vanua-levu. Samoan Islands; common on Savaii, in cultivated grounds. Also near Cal- dera, Philippine Islands; a variety with narrowly oblong leaflets, the same as No. 1873 of Cuming’s Philippine collection. Forster found it at New Caledonia. LEGUMINOS &. 43] 57. DENDROLOBIUM, Wight & Arn., Benth. Desmopium, § Evprsmopium, DC. Prodr. 2, p. 325, excl. sp. no. 3. Desmoprum, subgen. DenpDRoLoBIUM, Wight & Arn. Prodr. Fl. Ind. Or. 1, p. 2238. DeNDROLOBIUM, Benth. in Pl. Jungh. Jav. fase. 2, p. 21. 1. DENDROLOBIUM UMBELLATUM, Wight & Arn. l. ¢. Has. Small islands in the Sooloo Sea. Ovolau, Feejee Islands. Tongatabu. Manua, Upolu, and Savaii, Navigators’ Islands. “A mostly littoral shrub, 6 to 20 feet high, with white flowers.” 2. DENDROLOBIUM AUSTRALE, Benth. 1. c. Hedysarum umbellatum, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 51? non Linn. H. australe, Willd. Spec. Pl. 8, p. 1183. Desmodium australe, DC. Prodr. 2, p. 326. Has. Nukulau, Feejee Islands. The specimen, in fruit only, accords both with Willdenow’s and DeCandolle’s character, and has much smaller leaves than the fore- going species. 58. PHYLLODIUM, Desv., Benth. 1. PHYLLODIUM PULCHELLUM, Desv. Phyllodium pulchellum, Desv. Jour. Bot. 3, p. 123, t. 5; Benth. in Kew Jour. Bot. 4, p. 46. 432 PHANEROGAMIA. Dicerma pulchellum, DC. Mem. Legum. & Prodr. 2, p. 8389; Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. t. 418. Has. Philippine Islands: near Bafios, Luzon. 59. DESMODIUM, Desv., Benth. 1. Desmoprum (SAGoTIA) TRIFLORUM, DC. Desmodium triflorum, DC. Prodr. 2, p. 3834; Wight & Arn. Prodr. 1, p. 229, var. 6. D. (Sagotia) triflorum, Benth. in Pl. Jungh. 2, p. 221. Nicolsonia reptans, Meisn. in Linnea, 21, p. 260. Sagotia triflora, Walp. & Duchass. in Linnea, 23, p. 738, & Ann. Bot. 2, p.. 413. Has. Luzon, Philippine Islands. A widely diffused tropical species. 2. Desmopium (NICOLSONIA) BARBATUM, Benth. Desmodium (Nicolsonia) barbatum, Benth. in Pl. Jungh. fase. 2, p. 224, non Wall. Hedysarum barbatum, Linn. Spec. Pl. ed. 2, p. 1055; Swartz, Obs. p. 287. Nicolsonia barbata, Cayennensis, & venustula, DC. Prodr. 2, p. 825. Has. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 3. Desmopium (Nicotsonra) poLycarruM, DC., Benth. l. c. Has. Society Islands; Tahiti, Matia, and Eimeo: on dry hills, near the coast. Samoan Islands. Tongatabu. Feejee Islands: common at most of the stations visited, near the shores. The copious synonymy of this widely diffused species is collated in Wight & Arnott’s Prodromus, and lately corrected by Bentham, in his account of the Leguminose of Junghuhn’s collection (Pl. Jungh. fasc. 2). Among the synonyms are D. heterocarpum, DC. (the Hedy- sarum heterocarpum of Linneeus and of Forster), D. purpureum, Hook. & Arn., and D. nervosum of Vogel. LEGUMINOS&. 433 4, Desmopium (NicotsoniA) capitatum, DC., Benth. l.c. Hedysarum capitatum, Burm. Fl. Ind. p. 167, t. 54, f. 1. Pseudarthria capitata, Hassk. Pl. Jay. Rar. p. 390. Has. Baiios, Luzon, Philippine Islands. (With ripe fruit.) 5. Desmopium (HetrrotomaA) Ganceticum, DC, Benth. 1. c. Has. Luzon; with the preceding species. 6. Desmoprum (HETEROLOMA) SANDWICENSE, . Meyer. Desmodium Sandwicense, E. Meyer, Ind. Sem. Hort. Regiomont. 1850, & in Linnea, 24, p. 230. Has. Oahu, Sandwich Islands; on the hills behind Honolulu. (Also gathered by Seemann.) This is described from specimens raised from seed, which was gathered at Oahu by Diedrichson. Our specimen is in fruit, with longer pods than is described by E. Meyer, often as much as nine- jointed. Dr. Pickering mentions a flowering specimen, which is not found in the collection. Seemann’s specimen is in flower. This is the only species known from the Sandwich Islands; for D. Chamis- sonis of Vogel came from Luzon, not from Oahu, as was erroneously stated by Walpers. 7. Desmoprum (Hrrrrotoma) Limense, Hook. Desmodium Limense, Hook. Bot. Misc. 2, p. 215; Walp. Repert. 1, p. 743. Has. Callao, Peru. Two other species are mentioned in Dr. Pickering’s notes as having 109 434 PHANEROGAMIA. been found at Callao and Lima: one of them appears to be D. Peru- vianum, Vogel, in Rel. Meyen. p. 30; but neither have been identified in the herbarium of the Expedition. 8. Dresmopium (HETEROLOMA) INCANUM, DC. Desmodium incanum & D. ancistrocarpum, DC. Prodr. 2, p. 382. Has. Rio Janeiro and Organ Mountains, Brazil. The typical form of the species, and likewise the D. ancistrocarpum, which appears to be no more than a variety. 9. Dresmoprium (HETEROLOMA) AXILLARE, DC. Desmodium axillare (& D. reptans), DC. Prodr. 2, p. 833; Benth. Bot. Sulph. p. 82. Has. Rio Janeiro, Brazil: the var. villosum, Benth. 10. Desmopium (HETEROLOMA) oBovATuUM, Vogel. Desmodium obovatum, Vogel, in Linnza, 12, p. 106, & Rel. Meyen. p. 30. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. (Without flowers or fruit.) 11. Desmoprum (HETEROLOMA) BRACHYPODUM, Sp. Nov. D. erectum, glabellum; stipulis persistentibus striatis e basi ovata vel subcordata acuminatis subaristatis ; foliis trifoliolatis ; foliolis oblongis obtusis laxe venosis ; racemo virgato terminali elongato; bracteis e basi lata subulatis deciduis; pedicellis geminis perbrevibus post anthesin deflexis ; lomenti articulis 4-6 pubero-scabris parvulis. Has. Sydney and Hunter’s River, New South Wales. (Port Curtis, Australia, Macgillivray, in Herb. Hook.) LEGUMINOSE. 435 A rather tall, herbaceous, apparently erect, nearly glabrous species of the section Heteroloma, division Strobilacea, Benth. in Pl. Jungh. Branches, &c., minutely scabrous-puberulent. Stipules persistent, striate, rather rigid, with a dilated ovate or subcordate base, contracted into an awn-pointed acumination, in all 4 lines long. Stipels seta- ceous. Leaflets 8, oblong, or ovate-oblong, very obtuse, loosely veined, and somewhat reticulated, chartaceo-membranaceous, 12 to 3 inches long, glabrous and smooth above, slightly puberulent and a little paler underneath. Racemes terminal, at least the principal one, strict and virgate, at length elongated, the stronger ones in fruit becoming a foot or more in length; the flowers small (2 or 3 lines long), rather crowded. Bracts subulate from a broad base, striate like the stipules, about 3 lines long, deciduous. Pedicels in pairs under each bract, barely a line long, deflexed after anthesis, and remaining so in fruit. Calyx-lobes triangular-subulate. Loment of 4 to 6 joints, the upper suture slightly, the lower deeply sinuate, not stipitate; the joints obliquely oval, or at length semioval, from 12 to 2 lines long, scabrous- puberulent. 12. Desmopium (HetTErotoma?) Guynianum, Benth, ined. Has. Near Sydney, New South Wales. (Also gathered by Mr. Backhouse, in Eastern Australia, and by Mr. Gunn in Van Diemen’s Land.) The character of the species has not yet been published by Mr. Bentham; and our specimens, having no good fruit, are insufficient. 13. Desmoprum Scorriurus, Desv. Has. Tahiti, Society Islands —Probably introduced from America. 14. Desmoprum (CHALARIUM) TorRTUOSUM, DC. Has. St. Jago, Cape de Verde Islands.—Chiefly a tropical Ame- rican species. 436 PHANEROGAMIA. 15. Desmoprum (PopocARPIUM) LEPTOPUS, Sp. Nov. D. glabriusculum; foliolis ovato-lanceolatis, terminali subrhombeo acu- minato; racemo laxo subsimplici; pedicellis articulo longioribus ; lomento scabro-pubescente stipite longo gracili; articulis longe cuneato- semirhombeis latitudine triplo longioribus. Desmodium (Podocarpium) leptopus, Gray, ined.; Benth. in Pl. Jungh. fase. 2, p. 226, in adn. Has. Luzon, Philippine Islands; on mountains near Baiios. A slender, nearly glabrous species, of the section to which belongs our North American D. acuminatum, D. pauciflorum, &. Stem with two or three scattered leaves, a foot or two in height. Stipules and bracts caducous. Leaflets 3, ovate-lanceolate, or the terminal one somewhat rhomboidal, acuminate, membranaceous, 2 or 3 inches long, scarcely paler underneath. Peduncle terminal, filiform, 6 or 8 inches long, bearing a nearly sumple and lax raceme of few flowers. Pedicels in pairs, 6 to 11 lines long. Stamens monadelphous. Loment on a /fili- form stipe as long as the pedicel, of 2 scabrous-pubescent, cuneate and semirhomboidal joints, each nearly half an inch long and 2 lines wide. 60. ALYSICARPUS, Necker. 1. ALYSICARPUS VAGINALIS, DC. Has. St. Jago, Cape de Verde Islands. 61. ABRUS, Linz. 1. ABRUS PRECATORIUS, Linn. Has. Feejee Islands, Tongatabu, Samoan, and Society Islands. Introduced. LEGUMINOSA. 437 62. NEUROCARPUM, Desv. 1. NEUROCARPUM CAJANIFOLIUM, Presl. Neurocarpum cajanifolium, Presl, Symb. Bot. 1, p. 17, t. 9; Benth. Comm. Legum. Lotus Fluminensis, Velloz. Fl. Flum. 7, t. 152. Has. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 63. CENTROSEMA, DC, Benth. 1. CenTROSEMA PLuMIERI, Benth. 1. c. Has. Rio Janeiro, Brazil; very common. 2. CENTROSEMA DECUMBENS, Mart., Benth. l. c. Has. Near Rio Janeiro, Brazil. (Also, like the preceding, a West Indian species.) 64. KENNEDYA, Vent. 1. KENNEDYA RUBICUNDA, Vent. Has. Sydney and Hunter’s River, New South Wales. Also, Woolongong: a variety (in fruit only) with the leaves remarkably silky underneath. 2. KENNEDYA (ZICHYA) COCCINEA, Vent. Has. New South Wales, in the neighbourhood of Sydney. 110 4388 PHANEROGAMIA. 6. HARDENBERGIA, Benth. 1. HARDENBERGIA OVATA, Benth. Hardenbergia ovata, Benth. Pl. Hugel. p. 40, & Comm. Legum. |. c. p. 60. Kennedya ovata, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2169; DC. Prodr. 2, p. 384. Has. Hunter’s River, New South Wales. (In fruit.) The allied HA. monophylla, which must have been noticed in the vicinity of Sydney, does not occur in the collection. 66. LEPTOCYAMUS, Benth. 1. LEPTOCYAMUS MICROPHYLLUS, Benth. Leptocyamus microphyllus, Benth. in Linn. Trans. 18, p. 209; Walp. Repert. 1, p. 798. Has. Sydney, New South Wales. 2. LEPTOCYAMUS ELONGATUS, Benth. 1. c. Has. Puen Buen and Hunter’s River, New South Wales. 67. GALACTIA, P. Browne. 1. GALACTIA HISPIDULA, Benth. Galactia hispidula, Benth. in Linnea, 22, p. 514; Walp. Ann. Syst. Bot. 2, p. 422. Has. Near Rio Janeiro, Brazil; “rare.” LEGUMINOS &. 439 68. CLEOBULIA, Mart. Char. fruct. Legumen oblongum, plano-compressum, coriaceum, exa- latum, suturis haud incrassatis. Semina Dioclez. P 1. CLEOBULIA MULTIFLORA, Mart. Cleobulia multiflora, Mart. in Herb. Bras.; Benth. Comm. Legum. l.c. p. 67. Has. Brazil; in the Organ Mountains, near Rio Janeiro. The specimen bears only the fruit, which was not before known, on which account the characters are now given. The legumes appear to be essentially those of Cratylia, while the seeds are those of a Dioclea. The former are 2 or 24 inches long, three-fourths of an inch wide, much compressed, obtuse at both ends, not stipitate, of a coria- ceous texture, coated with a rusty down, two-valved, within inter- cepted between the seeds by a soft cellular tissue. The sutures are not perceptibly thickened, nor are there any traces of wings. Seeds 5 or 6, transverse, 3 lines long, oval, not much compressed, chestnut- brown, with darker spots, nearly the whole length of one side occu- pied by the linear hilum, from which the slender strophiole separates. 69. DIOCLEA, ZB K. 1. DiocLeA VIoLACEA, Mart. Dioclea violacea, Mart. in Herb.; Benth. Comm. Legum. |. c. p. 69. Dolichos altissimus, Velloz. Fl. Flum. 7, t. 134. Has. Hawaii, Sandwich Islands; on the coast near Hilo: also on Kauai. (Byron’s Bay, Macrae.) Probably introduced into the Sandwich Islands, as it is a native of 440 PHANEROGAMIA. Brazil, although cultivated in Mauritius, &. The pods are 3 or 4 inches long, 14 to 2 inches wide, flat, glabrate when mature, about two-seeded, conspicuously tricarinate at the ventral suture. Seeds nearly orbicular, compressed, 9 or 10 lines in diameter, with a bony testa; the linear hilum extending more than half way round the cir- cumference of the seed. 70. CANAVALIA, DC. 1. CANAVALIA OBTUSIFOLIA, DC. Canavalia obtusifolia, miniata, rosea, & rutilans, DC. Prodr. 2, p. 404, ex Benth. Has. On the sandy shores of Upolu, Samoan Islands, and of Ovolau, &., Feejee Islands; common. 2. CANAVALIA TURGIDA, Graham. Canavalia turgida, Graham, in Wall. Cat. no. 5534. Has. Mangsi Islands. Feejee and Samoan Islands. Tongatabu. Tahiti: on the coast. This species is closely allied to C. gladiata, and is probably only a variety of it, with somewhat turgid and short pods, of 4 or 5 inches in length and about an inch and a half in width. Dr. Wight, in his Icones Pl. Ind. Or. t. 753, figures C. gladiata with pods only six inches long. 3, CANAVALIA SERICEA, Sp. Nov. C. sericeo-tomentosa ; foliolis obovato-rotundis retusis supra demum gla- bratis subtus eximie sericeis ; racemis plurifloris folia subcequantibus ; calycibus glabriusculis ; leguminibus tomentulosis triplo quadruplove longioribus quam latis. LEGUMINOSS. 4A] Has. Feejee Islands: found at Rewa, Ovolau, and Direction Island. A species of Hucanavalia, section Malochia ; with rather stout, pro- cumbent or somewhat twining, softly tomentose stems and branches. Stipules ovate-subulate, caducous. Leaflets rounded-obovate, retuse or emarginate, thickish, 3 or 4 inches long, 23 to 3% inches broad, minutely silky pubescent, but at length glabrate above, very silky under- neath with a thick and somewhat silvery pubescence; the petioles, inflorescence, &c., downy. Racemes several-flowered, short-peduncled, nearly as long as the leaves. Flower an inch and a half in length. Calyx almost glabrous; the large upper lip emarginate-two-lobed; the short lower lip three-cleft; its lobes broadly triangular, acute, of equal length. Ovary canescently tomentose. Legume tomentulose, oblong . or oblong-linear, 3 or 4 inches long and an inch wide, straight, com- pressed, raised on a stipe of half an inch in length. Seeds 3 or 4. 4, CANAVALIA GALEATA, Gaud. C. subpubescens, mox glabrata ; foliolis ovato-ellipticis acuminatis, adultis superne vel undique glabris; racemis 3-10-floris ; calycis labio supe- riore subbilobo recurvo, inferiore trifido, lobis lateralibus ovatis obtusis, infimo triangulato subacuto; corolla purpurea; leguminibus lineari- oblongis quadruplo longioribus quam latis. Dolichos galeatus, Gaud. Bot. Freyc. Voy. p. 486, t. 115. Canavalia galeata, Gaud. 1. c. adn.; Vogel, in Linnza, 10, p. 584. C. Gaudichaudii, Endl. Syn. Fl. Ins. Austr. in Ann, Wien. Mus. 1, p. 186. Var. 3. PUBESCENS: foliolis etiam adultis subtus pubescentibus. Canavalia pubescens, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 81; Vogel, in Linnza, L.¢. Has. Sandwich Islands: near the coast at Waianae, Oahu; also on Kauai. (Collected by Gaudichaud, Chamisso, Hinds; the pubescent variety by Gaudichaud, Chamisso, Lay & Collie, Douglas, &c.) Stem slender, twining, the young shoots and the leaves more or less pubescent when young, soon glabrate or nearly glabrous in most cases. 11 4492 PHANEROGAMIA. Stipules minute, ovate-subulate, caducous. Leaflets ovate-elliptical or oblong-ovate, more or less acuminate, rounded at the base, membra- naceous, 3 to 5 inches long, green and glabrate both sides, or (espe- cially in var. (.) pubescent underneath, as are the partial petioles, Racemes 3-10-flowered, rather shorter than the leaves. Flowers an inch and a half long. Upper lip of the calyx recurved in flower, very large even for the genus, strongly emarginate or somewhat two-lobed, the lobes rounded; the short lower lip three-cleft, its lateral lobes ovate or triangular-ovate and obtuse; the middle one more triangular and acutish or acute. Corolla purple, apparently dark reddish-purple; the obovate and emarginate vexillum rather longer than the wings and keel. Androecium and pistil almost straight. Ovary silky-canescent, many-ovuled. Legume linear-oblong, 4 or 5 inches long in the speci- men, an inch or more in width, straight, compressed, glabrous, when half grown minutely silky, slightly tricarinate at the ventral suture, apiculate, short-stipitate. Seeds 6 or 7. In the dried specimens the lower lobes of the calyx often appear to be lanceolate and acute, as they are described and figured by Gaudi- chaud. But this is owing to the involution of their margins: when explanate they are seen to be as above described, and as in OC. pubes- cens, Hook. & Arn. 1. ¢., which is evidently no more than a downy- leaved variety of this species. These lobes are somewhat variable in shape. In the specimen from Kauai they are unusually broad and blunt, and the upper lip is more decidedly lobed; but no other diffe- rence is remarked. In Gaudichaud’s figure, the flowers are repre- sented considerably too large——The specimen collected by Chamisso must have borne shorter pods than ordinary, as they are said by Vogel to be only two inches and a half long, and of more than half that width: 71, MUCUNA, Aduns. 1. Mucuna gigantea, DC. Mucuna gigantea, DO. Prodr. 2, p. 405; Wight, in Hook. Bot. Mise. 2, p. 307, Suppl. t. 14; Guill. Zeph. Tait. p. 65. LEGUMINOSE. 443 Has. Feejee Islands; on Ovolau and Vanualevu. Samoan Islands; on Tutuila, Savaii, &c., “with a stem 3 inches in diameter, spreading over the tallest trees.” Hawaii, Sandwich Islands; in the district of Puna, at a watering place, near Kaimo: a form with a elabrate pod. Introduced? “Flowers green.” The MV. altissima enumerated in Vogel’s account of Chamisso’s col- lection, in Oahu, is probably this species. That of Hooker & Arnott, in Beechey’s Voyage, as to the specimens, is Strongylodon ruber. 2. Mucuna vRENS, DC. l. ¢. Dolichos urens, Linn.; Jacq. Stirp. Amer. t. 182, f. 84. (Plum. Amer. t. 107.) Has. Hawaii, Sandwich Islands, in the district of Waimea, near the coast (in flower and fruit): probably introduced. (Also gathered by Gaudichaud, in the Voyage of the Bonite.) Tahiti, in the interior forest; where Dr. Pickering noted a species with alate sutures and oblique ridges, probably IZ wrens; but there is no such specimen in the collection. 3. MUCUNA PLATYPHYLLA, Sp. Nov. M. fulvo-pubescens ; foliolis magnis rotundis apiculatis subtus reticulatis supra mox glabris; floribus cymosis viridulis ; leguminibus ovalibus plano-compressis transverse lamellosis, junioribus hispidissimis. Has. Ovolau and Rewa, Feejee Islands. Plant with a stout and apparently tall-climbing, woody stem ; the branches, ample foliage, &c., clothed throughout with a soft rusty or fulvous pubescence. Petioles 5 or 6 inches long. Leaflets roundish, 5 or 6 inches in length, the terminal one often broader than long, the lateral ones obliquely rotund-ovate, all abruptly apiculate with a small acumination, tomentose with rusty pubescence and conspi- cuously reticulated underneath, early glabrous above. Stipels seta- ceous. Peduncle axillary, shorter than the petiole, bearing many 444 PHANEROGAMIA. flowers in a compound cyme or a cymose cluster of short racemes. Pedicels 3 to 7 inches long. Calyx canescent, and hispid with a few scattered bristles; the lower lobe triangular-lanceolate, twice the length of the ovate and obtuse lateral ones, which are shorter than the ovate upper lip. Corolla “green,” as large as in M. monosperma (2 inches long). Legume oval, flat, 4 inches long and 2 inches wide, and still immature, very hispid with rusty and short prurient bristles, which are soon deciduous; each membranaceous valve produced at the sutures into a narrow wing-like margin, and its face strongly lamellate with obliquely transverse and nearly straight salient plates. Seeds apparently about 3. 722. ERYTHRINA, Linn. 1. ERYTHRINA MACROPHYLLA, DC. ? Has. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. (Terminal leaflets only, 12 to 15 inches long.) 2. Eryturina Inpica, Lam. Has. Feejee Islands. Tongatabu. Samoan and Society Islands. “Introduced, abundant: often cultivated by the natives.” 3. ERYTHRINA MONOSPERMA, Gaud. Erythrina monosperma, Gaud. Bot. Freye. Voy. p. 486, t. 114; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 81. Has. Oahu, Sandwich Islands; on the Kaala Mountains, in the district of Waianae. (In fruit.) The specific name is badly chosen, since the torose, at length dehis- cent pod frequently matures two seeds, and perhaps more, as the ovary has as many as five ovules. The leaflets are for the most part LEGUMINOSE. 445 dilated rhomboidal rather than ovate-reniform, as in Gaudichaud’s original specimens and figure. 4, ERYTHRINA OVALIFOLIA, Roxb. Erythrina ovalifolia, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 3, p. 254; Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. 1, t. 247. Has. Near Manilla, Luzon. (Foliage only.) 73. STRONGYLODON, Vogel. Char. auctus. Calyx campanulatus, truncatus sew 4—5-dentatus, denti- bus obtusissimis vel obsoletis. Vewxilluwm ovato-oblongum, acutum, demum recurvo-patentissimum, basi breviter unguiculatum et mem- branula infleca appendiculatum, intus bicallosum. Ale subfalcate, vevillo et carina multo minores. Carina gamopetala, falcata, ros- trata, vexillo equilonga. Stamina 10, diadelpha: anthere fere uni- formes. Ovarium stipitatum, uni—pauciovulatum: stylus capillaris, longissimus, stigmate subcapitato penicillato terminatum. (Fructus adhuc ignotus.)—Frutices vel suffrutices, caulibus gracilibus volu- bilibus scandentes, inermes, glaberrime; foliis pinnatim trifoliolats stipellatis ; racemis elongatis multifloris, pedicellis gracilibus ad nodos fasciculatis ; floribus rubris. Strongylodon ruber, the typical species of this genus, is distin- guished from Erythrina (Micropteryx) by its appendiculate and con- spicuously bicallose veawillum, its obtusely four-lobed calyx, with the upper lobe notched, its wni(—bi-)ovulate ovary, its setaceous stipels, and its voluble, Phaseoloid habit. From Spatholobus, which has a similar habit, it differs in the form of the calyx, in the acute as well as appendiculate and bicallose vexillum, and in the uniovulate, long- stalked ovary. From Mucuna it differs in the calyx, vexillum, the uniform anthers, the stigma, ovary, &c. The fruit is still unknown. The ovary, although often uniovulate, as characterized by Vogel, I find as frequently to contain two ovules. I therefore venture to annex to the genus a plant from Luzon, of similar habit and cha- 112 446 PHANEROGAMIA. racter, except that the calyx is obscurely toothed, and the ovary contains several ovules (accumulated in the middle of the cell); the legume of which is equally unknown. If this be admissible, we shall have a genus differing from Spatholobus in the characters above- mentioned, from Hrythrina (including Micropteryx, &c.) in the form of the corolla, in its stipels, and especially in habit, and from both in the appendiculate and bicallose vexillum. 1. StRONGYLODON RUBER, Vogel. (Tab. 48.) S. foliolis ovatis membranaceis ; racemis folio duplo longioribus ; pedi- cellis flore cequilongis; calyce basi bibracteolato manifeste quadri- quinqguedentato, dentibus obtusissimis; carina falcato-incurva ; ovario uni—biovulato. Strongylodon ruber, Vogel, in Linnza, 10, p. 585. Mucuna altissima, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 81, quoad specimen. Harpxtropis speciosus, Nutt. in Herb. Hook. Has. Sandwich Islands: on the Kaala Mountains behind Hono- lulu, Oahu: in forests on the side of Mouna Loa, Hawaii. (Also gathered by Chamisso, Macrae, Diell, Barclay, Nuttall, &.) Ovolau, Feejee Islands: in forests. “ A woody, twining vine,” with slender herbaceous branches, gla- brous throughout. Stipules ovate, obtuse, striate, free, persistent. Petioles 3 or 4 inches long. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate. Stipels subulate-setaceous, rather persistent. Leaflets ovate, varying from roundish to oblong-ovate, more or less acuminate, 23 to 5 inches long, membranaceous in texture, green, both sides of nearly the same hue, triplinerved, the minuter veinlets reticulated : petiolules 3 lines long, exceeding the stipels. Racemes axillary, at least twice the length of the leaves, 10 to 18 inches in length, including the peduncle, ascend- ing; the rhachis multinodal, each node fasciculately about three- flowered, or rarely bearing a partial peduncle which is three-flowered at its apex, so that the raceme becomes somewhat paniculate. Bracts minute? caducous. Pedicels an inch long, equalling the developed flower in length, filiform, naked, bearing a pair of ovate bractleis, of LEGUMINOS &. 447 about a line in length, which immediately subtend the calyx, and are early caducous. Calyx campanulate, 3 lines long, truncate or even, manifestly four-toothed with broad and very obtuse teeth, the upper one broader, but not otherwise larger, and emarginately two-lobed, so that the calyx appears five-toothed. Corolla papilionaceous, red, apparently bright purplish red: petals thin. Vexillum ovate-oblong, acute, an inch or an inch and a quarter in length, complicate and more or less recurved-falcate in the bud, at length spreading or recurved; the base raised on a very short claw (a line and a half long), appendiculate on each margin by a strongly inflexed membrane ; the face callose as if by an adherent membrane, which is denticulate at the upper edge, and produced on each side into a free and salient auricle or lamella. Ale small, less than half the length of the vexil- lum, the lamina obliquely obovate and falcate, very obtuse, 4 or 5 lines long, on a claw of about 3 lines long, appressed to the carina and partly adherent to its face. Carina about the length of the vexil- lum, faleate and incurved, complicate, acuminately beaked, unguiculate, its two petals cohering by their anterior edges for the whole length more or less firmly. Stamens 10, diadelphous; the tenth filament wholly distinct, not geniculate; the others united to the middle : anthers oblong, similar, or five alternate ones a little shorter and sub- cordate. Ovary raised on a stipe which is at length longer than itself and as long as the calyx, glabrous, compressed, one-ovuled, or more frequently two-ovuled; the ovules then superposed. Style capillary, very long, exceeding the stamens, gradually incurved with the carina: the stigma terminal, capitellate, and minutely penicillate. Legume unknown. The specimen from the Feejee Islands, a very imperfect one, has shorter racemes and ovate-oblong leaflets. The latter, however, are said by Vogel to be “oblong” in Chamisso’s specimens; while in all of ours from the Sandwich Islands they are ovate-rotund. No other difference is noted, PrAtn 48.—STRONGYLODON RUBER: portion of a flowering specimen, of the natural size. Fig. 1. A young flower-bud, with the bractlets. 2. Calyx, in anthesis. 3. Corolla displayed. 4. Stamens and pistil, displayed. 5. Pistil and its stipe; the ovary longitudinally divided, to show the ovules.—The details variously enlarged, 448 PHANEROGAMIA. 9. SrRONGYLODON MACROBOTRYS, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 49.) S. foliolis oblongis; racemis pendentibus? longissumis ; pedicellis flore brevioribus; calyce truncato obsolete quadri—quinquedentato ; carina leviter incurva; ovario quadri—sex-ovulato. Hap. Tn the mountains near Bafios, Luzon, Philippine Islands, Probably a woody vine, with herbaceous and twining branchlets, glabrous throughout. There is only a short leafy branch, with the leaflets disarticulated, and a flowering raceme in the collection, unac- companied by notes. Stipules caducous, or a depressed gland in their place. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate. Stipels setaceous, deciduous. Leaflets oblong or ovate-oblong, acuminate, green both sides, somewhat coriaceous in texture, triplinerved and veiny, about 4 inches long; the terminal one slightly cuneate, the others rounded at the base. Raceme very long, probably axillary and pendent, 42 feet long, in- cluding the short peduncle, above which it bears a series of alternate, small and salient nodes, each bearing a fascicle of from 3 to 5 flowers, on pedicels of an inch and a half in length. Bracts and bractlets not seen (either caducous or obsolete). Calyx campanulate, truncate, 4 or 5 lines long, the border obscurely 4—5-toothed or repand. Corolla papilionaceous, reddish or purple. Vexillum ovate-oblong, acute, of a rather thickish texture, an inch and a half long, many- striate, complicate in the bud, and slightly falcate-recurved, at length expanding and spreading, at the base subunguiculate, and the mar- gins appendiculate; the face callose and bilamellate nearly as in 4, ruber, Ale oblong, falcate, short-unguiculate, obtuse, nearly half the length of the vexillum, partly adherent to the base of the falcate, taper- ing-beaked, moderately incurved carina, which is as long as the vexil- lum, its two petals coherent by their anterior edge for nearly or quite their whole length. Stamens and style, as in the foregoing species. Anthers linear-oblong, uniform or nearly so. Stigma capitellate-trun- cate, somewhat expanded or indusiform, the margin fringed with minute hairs. Ovary puberulent, oblong, compressed, raised on a stipe as long as itself, with from 4 to 6 ovules crowded about the middle of the cell, probably only one or two of them fertile. Fruit unknown. LEGUMINOS4E. 449 Piate 49.—StTRONGYLODON MACROBOTRYS: in flower, of the natural size. Fig. 1. The calyx. 2. Corolla displayed. 38. The carina. 4. Stamens and pistil, enlarged. 5. Pistil, more enlarged; the ovary divided, showing the ovules. 74. PHASEOLUS, Linn. 1. PHASEOLUS ROSTRATUS, Wall. Phaseolus rostratus, Wall. Pl. Asiat. Rar. 1, p. 50, t. 63; Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. t. 34. P. ameenus, Soland. ex Forst. Prodr. Ins. Austr. no. 533, abs. char. Has. Tahiti, Society Islands; common on the coast. Tutuila, &c., Samoan Islands. Ovolau, &c., Feejee Islands. On Diamond Hill, Oahu, Sandwich Islands. Probably introduced into the South Sea Islands. 2. PHASEOLUS TRUXILLENSIS, H. B. EK. Phaseolus Truxillensis, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Spec. 6, p. 451; DC. Prodr. 2, p. 391. P. Cumingii, Benth. Comm. Legum. (in Ann. Wien. Mus.) p. 75. Has. Callao, Peru: on the sea-coast. A glabrate and a villous- pubescent form. 3. Paasrotus (StropHostyLes) Muneo, Linn. Has. Samoan and Feejee Islands. (Only fragments, apparently referable to this species.) 4, Puaseotus (StropHostyLes) Scuorru, Benth. Phaseolus (Strophostyles) Schottti, Benth. Comm. Legum. in Ann. Wien. Mus. p. 75. Has. Organ Mountains, near Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 118 450 PHANEROGAMITIA. 5. PHASEOLUS (MAcRopTILIUM) MARITIMUS, Benth. Phaseolus (Macroptilium) maritimus, Benth. Comm. Legum. 1. c. p. 77. Lotus maritimus, Velloz. Fl. Flum. 7, t. 1338. Has. Near Rio Janeiro, Brazil: on the sands of the coast. 6. PHASEOLUS VESTITUS, Hook. Phaseolus vestitus, Hook. Bot. Misc. 2, p. 216; Benth. Comm. Legum. 1. ec. Has. Near Callao, Peru. (Also gathered by Mr. Cuming.) 75. VIGNA, Savi, Benth. 1. ViGNA BRACHYSTACHYS, Benth. Vigna brachystachys, Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. p. 8. Has. Callao, Peru. A narrow-leaved variety of the species, which was also gathered by Cuming. 7 2. Viana OAHUENSIS, Vogel. Vigna Oahuensis, Vogel, in Linnzxa, 10, p. 585; Walp. Repert. 1, p. 779. Vigna villosa, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 81, non Savi. Has. Oahu, Sandwich Islands; on the Kaala Mountains (where it was likewise gathered by Chamisso, Douglas, &.). Also on Kauai and Maui. Our specimens are imperfect, and want the fruit: and I have not the means of properly comparing this with the related species. The upper lobe of the calyx is decidedly emarginate. LEGUMINOSAE. 451 3. Viena SAnpwicensis, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 50.) V. radice tuberosa? eduli; caulibus volubilibus foliisque hirsutulo-puben- tibus; stipulis stipellisque subulatis parvis; foliolis linearibus seu lineari-lanceolatis mucronulatis utrinque reticulatis ; pedunculis folio brevioribus bi-quadrifloris; calycis dentibus subcequilongis, supremo ovato obtusissimo subemarginato, inferioribus 3 subulatis; carina rectiuscula; legumine elongato-lineart recto glabrato compresso. Has. Sandwich Islands: Hawaii, on Mouna Loa, six miles from the crater Lua Pele: Kauai, on mountains: Maui, on mountains in the western division of the island. ¢ Root edible,” according to Dr. Pickering’s notes; therefore probably tuberous. Stems twining, slender, retrorsely and minutely hirsute- pubescent, as are the petioles and peduncles; and the leaves are beset on both sides with a similar pubescence. Stipules and stipels subulate, minute. Leaflets linear or lUinear-lanceolate, 14 to 2 inches long, and from one to 4 lines wide, acutish or obtuse, mucronulate, of a rather firm texture, and of the same hue both sides, rather conspicuously reticulated with transverse veinlets, abrupt or retuse at the base, short- petiolulate. Peduncles shorter than the leaj, an inch or less in length, 2-4-flowered. Pedicels opposite in pairs, 3 or 4 lines long. Flower almost an inch in length. Calyx deeply four-toothed, subtended by a small deciduous bractlet; the teeth nearly equal in length, fully as long as the tube; the uppermost ovate, very obtuse, or slightly emar- ginate; the others subulate. Corolla “ yellow or yellowish :” yexillum on a very short claw, obovate, entire, with two semilunar callosities and two short and auriculate deflexed basal appendages: ale nar- rowly oblong, straightish, shorter than the carina, furnished with a spur-like appendage at the base of the lamina. Carina straightish or merely arcuate, as long as the vexillum, somewhat beaked ; its petals partly united, similar, each with a minute inflexed auricle at the base of the lamina. Stamens diadelphous: the free filament not geniculate or appendaged at the base. Ovary hirsute, many-ovuled. Style filiform, slightly incurved, much longer than the ovary, the upper part not dilated, and only slightly flattened on the back, the 452 PHANEROGAMIA. vexillar face densely and strongly bearded for a considerable length below the stigma, which is lateral, but almost apical, since only a minute lamellar appendage projects beyond it. Legume linear, elon- gated, almost 3 inches long, 3 lines wide, manifestly flattened, straight, or nearly so, glabrate, somewhat torulose, intercepted between the seeds. These are 8 or 10 in number, oblong-oval, compressed, chest- nut-brown, shining; the oblong hilum covered with an inconspicuous strophiole. Without doubt, this well-marked species belongs to Vigna, as the genus is received by Mr. Bentham, notwithstanding the compressed legume and the straightish keel. Piate 50.—VienA SANDWICENSIS: of the natural size. Fig. 1. Corolla displayed. 2. Stamens and style. 38. Calyx and pistil. 4. Upper part of the style and the stigma, more magnified. 5. A seed. 6. Embryo.—The analyses more or less magnified. 4, VIGNA LUTEA. Dolichos luteus, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Oce. 8, p. 1246? DC. Prodr. 2, p. 898? Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 81. D. luteolus ? Guillem. Zeph. Tait. p. 64, an Linn. ? Scytalis anomala, Vogel, Rel. Meyen. p. 83? et Vigna anomala, Walp. Repert. 1, p. 779? Has. Sandwich Islands: on the shores at Oahu; and on mountains of the west part of Maui. Society Islands, at Tahiti and Eimeo; on the coast. (Probably introduced.) Mangsi Islands. The seeds are dark chestnut-brown.—Perhaps this passes into J. Sinensis ; but the leaflets are mostly roundish and very obtuse, espe- cially when it grows on the sea-shore. I am doubtful whether it is the Scytalis anomala of Vogel, which also came from Oahu. In the collection from Sydney, New South Wales, is a flowerless specimen, apparently of a Vigna, near the South African V. hirta, and the Australian V. lanceolata, but not the same. It was also gathered by Col. Mitchell. LEGUMINOSE. 453 76. DOLICHOS, Linn., Benth. 1. Doxicnos FALCATUS, [Klein. Dolichos falcatus, Klein, in Willd. Spec. Pl. 3, p. 1047; DC. Prodr. 2, p. 398. Has. Shores of Laguna, at Bajios, Luzon. 77. LABLAB, Adans. 1. LABLAB VULGARIS, Save. “Has. Feejee and Sandwich Islands: introduced and partially naturalized. 78. FAGELIA, Necker. 1. Fagenia pituminosa, DC. Has. Cape of Good Hope, in the neighbourhood of Cape Town. 79. CAJANUS, DC. 1. Casanus Inpicus, Spreng. Cajanus Indicus, Spreng. Syst. 3, p. 248; Wight & Arn. Prodr. Ind. Or. 1, p. 256. C. flavus & C. bicolor, DC. Prodr. 2, p. 406. Haz. Luzon. Sandwich Islands: “cultivated.” Rio Janeiro, Brazil. Introduced from India, to which the Pigeon Pea is indigenous. 114 454 PHANEROGAMIA. 80. RHYNCHOSIA, Lour. 1. Ruyncnosia mintma, DC. Has. St. Jago, Cape de Verde Islands. Doubtless introduced from America. 81. FLEMINGIA, Roxb. 1. FLEMINGIA STROBILIFERA, 22. Br. Flemingia strobilifera, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. 4, p. 350; DC. Prodr. 2, p. 351; Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 267. Has. Philippine Islands; Luzon, near Manilla and Bajios. 82. HECASTOPHYLLUM, P. Browne, Kunth. 1. HecastopHyLttum Brownel, Pers. Has. Rio Janeiro, Brazil; common along the shores of the bay. 83. MACH ZRIUM, Pers. 1. Macuarium Ancustirotium, Vogel. Macherium angustifolium, Vogel, in Linnea, 11, p. 193; Benth. Comm. Legum. in Ann. Wein. Mus. 1. ¢. p. 33. Has. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. (Without flowers or fruit.) LEGUMINOSAE. 455 92. MAcuarium acutirotium, Vogel. Macheriwm acutifolium, Vogel, in Linnea, 11, p. 187, non Mart. in Benth. Comm. 1. c. M. muticum, Benth. Comm. Legum. 1. ¢. p. 36. Has. Rio Janeiro and Organ Mountains, Brazil. (In flower.) 3. MAcHARIUM OBLONGIFOLIUM, Vogel. Macheriwm oblongifolium, Vogel, in Benth. Comm. Legum. ]. ¢. p. 36. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. (In fruit.) 4, MACH&RIUM INCORRUPTIBILE, Benth. Macherium incorruptibile, Benth. Comm. Legum. 1. ¢. p. 37. Nissolia incorruptibile, Velloz. Fl. Flum. 7, t. 82. Has. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. (In fruit.) From the account of Dr. Allemfo, in the Transactions of the Vel- losian Society of Rio Janeiro, as noticed by Mr. Bentham (in the Kew Journal of Botany, for September, 1853), it at length appears to be settled that the rosewood of the cabinet-makers is furnished by this tree and some other species of Macherium. 84. PONGAMIA, Lam. 1. PongamiA GLABRA, Vent. (Tab. 53.) Pongamia glabra, Vent. Hort. Malm. t. 28; Wight & Arn. Prodr. Fl. Ind. Or. 1, p. 262; Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 99; Benth. in Pl. Jungh. fase. 2, p. 251. Pongamia, Lam. Ill. Gen. t. 603, f. 1. Has. Feejee Islands: on the mountains of Muthuata; in flower: 456 PHANEROGAMIA. Vanua-levu, &c.; in fruit. Mindanao, Philippine Islands, near Cal- dera.—The specimens from the Feejee Islands belong to. the variety with rather narrow leaflets: in that from Caldera (in fruit only) the leaflets are broader. PuatE 53.—PoNGAMIA GLABRA: a flowering branch, from the Feejee plant. Fig. 1. Flower and pedicel. 2. Corolla displayed. 3. Sta- mens and pistil. 4. Pistil and ovules—The analyses enlarged. 85. MILLETTIA, Wight & Arn. Miuterria, Wight & Arn. Prodr. Fl. Ind. 1, p. 263; Benth. in Pl. Jungh. p. 249. 1. Mittertia? Luzonensis, Sp. Nov. M. scandens? glabrata; foliolis 7 ovatis seu ovalibus acuminatis mem- branaceis supra glabris subtus glaucis; racemis axillaribus sessilibus confertifloris folio brevioribus ; pedicellis solitariis vel geminis calyce truncato subcequilongis ; vexillo glabro ecalloso; ovario glaberrimo. Has. Shores of Laguna, Bafios, Luzon. There is only a miserable flowering specimen of this plant in the collection, which, from the floral characters, must belong to Millettia, as the genus is defined by Mr. Bentham (in Pl. Jungh.), since the vexillum is not auriculate, and the stamens are diadelphous: but it does not accord with any described species. The plant is apparently a clumbing or sarmentose, stout, shrubby vine, glabrous, except a minute pubescence on the young parts. Leaves pinnate. Lea/lets 7, ovate, or nearly oval, acuminate, about 24 inches long, pale or glaucous underneath, membranaceous. eacemes axillary, shorter than the leaf, sessile, being floriferous quite to the base. Pedicels crowded, either single or in pairs on the nodes of the rhachis, about the length of the truncate calyx, 3 lines long. Corolla 7 or 8 lines long: vewillwm gla-' brous, not callose at the base, not auricled, oval or roundish. Carina very obtuse; the apex incurved. Ovary glabrous, linear, several- ovuled. Fruit unknown. | LEGUMINOSE. 457 86. DERRIS, Lour. 1. Derris uLicinosa, Benth. Derris uliginosa, Benth. in Pl. Jungh. fase. 2, p. 252. Pongamia uliginosa, DO. Prodr. 2, p. 416; Wight & Arn. Prodr. Ind. Or. 1, p. 262. P. religiosa (sphalm.), Wight, in Hook. Bot. Misc. 3, p. 301, & in Suppl. t. 41, sub nom. P. triphylla. Has. Philippine Islands, near Caldera, Mindanao. Feejee Islands, at Rewa, &. (In fruit.) Tongatabu. (In fruit.) The specimens from Tongatabu frequently have seven leaflets, instead of five, or even three, but apparently do not otherwise differ from the Indian D. uliginosa. In the figure cited above, the tenth - stamen is represented as distinct; but in the description it is properly said to be united with the sheath of filaments except at the base and summit. 87. DALBERGIA, Linn. f DaLBerGiA, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 52; Benth. Pl. Jungh. fase. 2, p. 254. 1. DALBERGIA MULTIJUGA, Graham. Dalbergia multijuga, Graham, in Wall. Cat. no. 5865, non H. Meyer. Has. Singapore—A specimen without flowers or fruit, probably belonging to this species, but glabrous or nearly so. 2. DALBERGIA CASSIOIDES, Wall. Dalbergia cassioides, Wall. Cat. no. 5861; Benth. Pl. Jungh. fasc. 2, p. 254, in adnot. Has. Philippine Islands, at Caldera, Mindanao. (Without flowers or fruit.) 115 458 PHANEROGAMIA. 3. DALBERGIA TORTA, Graham. Dalbergia (Selenolobium) torta, Graham, in Wall. Cat. no. 5789; Benth. 1. c. Has. Feejee Islands: the particular habitat not recorded. The specimens, in flower only, accord with one in Griffith’s col- lection from Malacca, so named by Mr. Bentham. 4. DALBERGIA (TRIPTOLEMEA) VARIABILIS, Vogel. Dalbergia variabilis, Vogel, in Linnzea, 11, p. 196. Triptolemea latifolia, ovata, montana, &c., Mart. in Benth. Comm. Legum. p. 38. Pterocarpus frutescens, Velloz. Fl. Flum. 7, t. 96. Has. Brazil, at Rio Janeiro (the Triptolemea montana, Mart.), and Organ Mountains (the 7! ovata, Mart.). 5. DALBERGIA (‘TRIPTOLEMEA) MYRIANTHA, Benth. Triptolemea myriantha, Mart. in Benth. Comm. Legum. 1. c. p. 88. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. (In flower only.) 88. EDWARDSIA, Salisb. 1. EDWARDSIA GRANDIFLORA, Salish. Edwardsia grandiflora, Salisb. in Linn. Trans. 9, p. 209; DO. Prodr. 2, P- 97; A. Rich. Bot. Voy. Astrolab. 1, p. 244; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 02. Sophora tetraptera, Linn. f.; Forst. Prodi: p. 82; Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 167. Var. @. MICROPHYLLA (Hook. f. 1. c.): foliolis parvis. Edwardsia microphylla, Salisb. 1. c.; DC. 1.c.; Bot. Mag. t. 1442; A. Rich. |. . Sophora microphylla, Ait.; Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. t. 269. LEGUMINOSAE. 459 Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand: in fruit; with foliage of the smaller-leaved state, which, as Mr. Bentham remarks (in Hook. f. FI. N. Zeal.) is not to be definitely distinguished, even as a variety, from the larger-leaved form of the species. 2. EDWARDSIA CHRYSOPHYLLA, Salish. Edwardsia chrysophylla, Salisb. in Linn. Trans. 9, p. 802, t. 26, f. 1; Ker. Bot. Reg. t. 788; DC. l.c. Var. G. GLABRATA: foliis calycibusque glabratis ; floribus minoribus. Has. Sandwich Islands (where it was first collected by Menzies) ; on the mountains above the forest zone. Mouna Kea, Hawaii, occu- pying a zone reaching to an elevation of 11,000 feet; and Mouna Loa, above the crater Lua Pele. Also on the mountains of Kauai; and of the eastern part of Maui, on the banks of the crater Haleakala. Var. @. Hawaii, 1,000 feet above Puna. The Mamani of the natives is a small tree, 20 or 30 feet high, somewhat variable in its foliage, pubescence, &c.; the silkiness of the lower face of the leaflets being sometimes of a golden or tawny hue, and sometimes almost silvery. In the variety @. this pubescence is shorter as well as more scanty, and the calyx is still more glabrate ; but I perceive no farther difference, except that the flowers are rather smaller. In all, the upper surface of the leaflets becomes glabrous and more or less shining. The yellow flowers are not quite an inch in length. The broad vexillum is recurved, as noted by Mr. Ben- tham in this and in two East Indian species. The stamens are as long as the keel, but not exserted. Ovary tomentose. Legume about 4 inches long, 6—9-seeded, more or less constricted between the seeds, quadrate by the 4 narrow wings, which, with the whole corky epicarp, separate in a somewhat bivalvular manner at full maturity, when the chartaceous and moniliform endocarp becomes more or less two-valved. Seeds oval, somewhat compressed, chestnut-colour. The unpublished species of Edwardsia, from the Sandwich Islands, mentioned by Mr. Bentham, in Dr. Hooker’s New Zealand Flora, 460 PHANEROGAMIA. cited above, is our var. 8. I believe it is only a state of EL. chryso- phylla, occurring at a lower elevation than the ordinary form of the species. . 89. SOPHORA, Lunn, FR. Br. 1. SoPHORA MACROCARPA, Smith. Sophora macrocarpa, Smith, in Rees, Cycl. no. 6; DC. Prodr. 2, p. 96; Benth. 1. c. Edwardsia Chilensis, Miers, Trav. Chil.; Hook. in Bot. Reg. t. 1798, & Bot. Mise. 3, p. 177; Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 215. Has. Chili; common in the neighbourhood of Valparaiso. 2. SOPHORA TOMENTOSA, Linn. Has. On the coast, at Rio Janeiro, Brazil: also at the Society, Friendly, Feejee, and Mangsi Islands. 90. VIRGILIA, Lam. 1. Vire@it1aA CAPENSIS, Lam. Has. Cape of Good Hope, in the vicinity of Cape Town. 91. GOURLIEA, Gillies. 1. GOURLIEA DECORTICANS, Gillies. Gourliea decorticans, Gillies, in Hook. Bot. Misc. 3, p. 208, t. 106. Has. Rio Negro, North Patagonia. (Without flowers or fruit: the inflorescence in a diseased state.) LEGUMINOS &. A461 Susorv,. LL CHSALPINIE &. 92. GUILANDINA, Juss. 1. GuitanpiIna Bonpwuc, Att. Has. On the coast at Rio Janeiro, and of the Friendly, Navigators’, Feejee, and Sandwich Islands. Two forms, noted by Dr. Pickering as species, were observed in the South Sea Islands, one of them with tall and climbing stems. 93. CHSALPINIA, Linn. 1. CHSALPINIA SAPPAN, Linn. Has. Small island in the Sooloo Sea. (In fruit.) 2. CHSALPINIA GLABRATA, H. B. KX. Cesalpinia glabrata, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Spec. 6, p. 826; DC. Prodr. 2, p. 482. C. corymbosa, Benth. Pl. Hartw. p. 117. Has. Peru; between Lima and Obrajillo. Apparently intermediate between the C. glabrata and C. corymbosa, which may with probable reason be united. 3, CRSALPINIA (POINCIANA) PULCHERRIMA, Swartz. Has. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. Tahiti, Society Islands. “Cultivated.” Also cultivated at the Friendly and Navigators’ Islands. Another species was noticed in the Organ Mountains, Brazil; but there are no specimens in the collection. 116 462 PHANEROGAMIA. 94. COULTERIA, AB. XK. 1. CovuLtTEeRIA TINCTORIA, H. B. K. Has. The specimen is ticketed “Tahiti?” But it was probably gathered in Peru. There is, moreover, a sterile branch in the collec- tion from near Lima, either of this species or of C. horrida. 9. HOFFMANSEGGIA, Cav. 1. HorrManseceia viscosa, Hook. & Arn. Hoffmanseggia viscosa, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Misc. 3, p. 209; Benth. in Gray, Pl. Wright. 1, p. 57. Larrea viscosa, Ruiz & Pay. Fl. Peruv. t. 377 (ined.). Has. Peru; on a mountain ridge near Yanga. 96. CASSIA, Linn. 1. Cassia ALATA, Linn. Has. Shores of Laguna, Baiios, Luzon, Philippine Islands. 2. CASSIA OCCIDENTALIS, Linn. & Var. 8. SoPHERA: foliolis numerosioribus (legumine turgido breviore.) Cassia Sophera, Linn, Wight & Arn., etc. Has. St. Jago, Cape de Verde Islands. Upolu, Samoan Islands: LEGUMINOS&Z. 463 “introduced, and as yet rare.” Var. 8. Feejee Islands. (A form with more numerous leaflets, in which respect C. Sophera alone differs from C. occidentalis, and with shorter and rather turgid pods, only two inches long.) 8. CASSIA TOMENTOSA, Linn. f. Has. Hunter’s River, New South Wales. Probably introduced ? 4, CASSIA OBLONGIFOLIA, Vogel. Cassia oblongifolia, Vogel, Syn. Cass. p. 23, & in Linnea, 11, p. 666. Has. Brazil, near Rio Janeiro: in sand, near the coast, 5. CASSLA OBTUSIFOLIA, Linn. Has. St. Jago, Cape de Verde Islands. Probably introduced. 6. Cassra GAupicHAupi, Hook. & Arn. Cassia Gaudichaudii, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 81; Vogel, Syn. Cass. p. 26. CO. montana, Nutt. ined. in Herb. Hook. Has. Mountains behind Honolulu, Oahu, Sandwich Islands. (Also gathered by Gaudichaud, Lay & Collie, Nuttall, &c.) This shrubby species is pretty well characterized in both the works above cited. When the leaflets are reduced to three pairs, the gland is not between the lowest, but on the petiole at some distance below: this gland, at first clavate, as described by Vogel, at length becomes filiform and nearly 2 lines long. The leaflets vary from two-thirds of an inch to 2+ inches in length, and are soon glabrate: so are the pods in most cases, although sometimes finely pubescent, even at maturity. They are broadly linear and very flat, like those of C. glauca, mem- branaceous, acuminate or abruptly pointed at both ends, somewhat 464 PHANEROGAMIA. stipitate, varying from 13 to 42 inches long, from 4 to 6 lines in width. Seeds from 8 to 10, flat (parallel with the valves), nearly orbicular, blackish. 7. Cassta @LAuCcA, Lam. Has. Feejee Islands; on Ovolau and Oneata. 8. CASSIA MULTIUGA, Rich. Cassia multijuga, Rich. in Act. Soc. Par. p. 188; Vogel, in Linnza, 15, p. 69. C. calliantha, Meyer, Prim. Esseq. p. 169; Vogel, Syn. Cass. p. 31. Has. Brazil, near Rio Janeiro, and in the Organ Mountains. 9, CASSIA LATOPETIOLATA, Dombey ? Cassia latopetiolata, Dombey, ex Vogel, Syn. Cass. p. 29? Has. Andes of Peru, near Obrajillo. (The specimen too imperfect for proper determination.) 10. CASSIA COLUTEOIDES, Colladon. Cassia coluteoides, Colladon, Mon. Cass. p. 102, t. 12; Vogel, Syn. Cass. p. 42, & in Linnea, 15, p. 72. C. flexuosa, Bertero, in Not. Pl. Rar. Genev. 7, p. 34, t. 6, non Burm. C. Candolleana, Vogel, Syn. Cass. p. 42. C. frondosa, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 22, 75, & Bot. Misc. 8, p. 210. Has. Chili, near Valparaiso. 11. Cassta uirsuta, Linn. /. Has. Peru, between Lima and Obrajillo. (In fruit.) LEGUMINOS &. 465 12. CASSIA ZYGOPHYLLA, Benth. Cassia zygophylla, Benth. in Mitch. Jour. Trop. Austral. p. 258. Has. New South Wales: in the interior. (A nearly glabrous variety : probably not distinct from C. eremophila, Cunningham, and of Brown in Sturt. Exped. Centr. Austral.) 13. CASSIA ACIPHYLLA, Benth. ined. Has. Hunter's River, New South Wales; in fruit: accompanied by a flowering specimen, which is noted as having been presented by Mr. Cunningham. A species allied to C. artemisioides, Gaud., C. Sturtii, R. Br., &. The flowering specimen is canescently sitions: with the leaves soon glabrate. Leaflets 4 to 8 pairs, linear, about an inch long and a line or two in width, coriaceous, with revolute margins, and a sharp cuspi- date point: a subulate gland interposed between most of the pairs: the rhachis terminated by a subulate process. Peduncle two-flowered, about the length of the leaves. Corolla yellow. Legume linear, flat, scarcely stipitate, from 3 to 5 inches long, falcate, obtuse, glabrous. 14. CASSIA AUSTRALIS, Sims. Cassia australis, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2676; Bot. Reg. t. 1322; Vogel. Syn. Cass. l. c. CO. umbellata, Reichenb. Ic. Exot. t. 206. Has. Newington, New South Wales. 15. Cassta Apoucouita, Awbl. Cassia Apoucouita, Aubl. Pl. Guian. 1, p. 379, t. 116; Vogel, in Linnea, 15, p. 72. OC. ramiflora, Vogel, Syn. Cass. p. 48. C. ensiformis, Velloz. Fl. Flum. 4, p. 79. Has. On the Corcovado, near Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 117 466 PHANEROGAMIA. 16. Cassta RAMOSA, Vogel. Cassia ramosa, Vogel, Syn. Cass. p. 55, & in Linnea, 15, p. 72. Has. Brazil, in the immediate neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro. 17. CASSIA ROTUNDIFOLIA, Pers. Cassia rotundifolia, Pers. Ench. 1, p. 456; Vogel, Syn. Cass. p. 57. C. bifoliolata, DC.; Colladon, Mon. Cass. p. 120, t. 9. ¢ Has. Brazil; with the preceding. 18. CAssiA CHAMACRISTA, Linn. y. BRASILIENSIS, Vogel. Cassia Chamecrista, Linn., var. y. Brasiliensis, Vogel, Syn. Cass. p. 63. An spec.? Has. Brazil, in the vicinity of Rio Janeiro. 19. CasstA PAvontana, Don. Cassia Pavoniana, Don, Syst. Gard. & Bot. 2, p. 447. C. calycioides ? Hook. Bot. Mise. 2, p. 217. Has. Peru, near Callao and Lima. Probably, as Vogel suggests, a mere variety of C. Chameecrista. 20. CasstA LESCHENAULTIANA, DC. Has. Singapore. From Manilla there is also the foliage of an undetermined species, apparently the same as No. 968 of Cuming’s Philippine Islands’ col- lection. LEGUMINOSS. 467 97. SWARTZIA, Willd. 1. SWARTZIA GRANDIFLORA, Willd. Swartzia grandiflora, Willd. Spec. Pl. 2, p. 1219; DC. Prodr. 2, p. 422. Has. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. Indigenous? 2. SWARTZIA ELEGANS, Schott. Swartzia elegans, Schott. in Spreng. Syst. Veg. Cur. Post. p. 407. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. 98. AFZELIA, Smith. 1, Arzerza suuGa. (Tab. 51.) A. glabra; foliolis bijugis (summisve raro unijugis) ovatis nitidis ; pani- culis corymbosis; bracteis bracteolisque parvis caducis ; vexillo bre- vissime unguiculato, alis aut parvulis aut nullis ; staminibus fertilibus 3, sterilibus T anantheris minimis ; ovario sessilt ; leguminibus oblongis planis mono—pentaspermis demum bivaloibus ; seminibus compressis hilo nudis. Macrolobium bijugum, Colebr. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 5, p. 12. Outea bijuga, DC. Prodr. 2, p. 511. Intsia 2. Amboinensis, DO. Prodr. 2, p. 509? (Metrosideros Amboinensis, Rumpb. Amboin. 8, p. 21, t. 10), ex Benth. Has. Feejee Islands: Ovolau and Somu-somu, near the coast. “A spreading tree, 50 feet high,” glabrous throughout, except a minute and cinereous pubescence on the inflorescence and flower-buds. 468 PHANEROGAMIA. Leaves abruptly pinnate. Petioles with the rhachis an inch to 2 inches in length. Stipules not seen. Leaflets 2 pairs, or the upper- most reduced to a single pair (or rarely 3 pairs, according to Dr. Pickering’s memoranda), ovate, either obtuse, acutish, or somewhat acuminate, coriaceous, somewhat Jucid, and of nearly the same hue both sides, 3 or 4 inches long, veiny, on partial petioles of 2 or 3 lines in length. Panicle terminal, small, consisting of short and corymbose racemes, Only flower-buds occur on the specimens: the largest of these are but 2 or 3 lines long, obovoid, on pedicels of about the same length: these are articulated with the rhachis, subtended by a small ovate bract, and furnished about the middle with a pair of similar bractlets, that do not enclose even the half-grown bud: the bracts and bractlets both caducous. Calyx four-parted; the segments ovate, obtuse, nearly equal. Veaillwm in the bud roundish, plicate, auricu- late at the base, and with a short claw, at this period not longer than the auricles, the margins undulate: its position is opposite the poste- rior sepal, and its size in the bud is about the same. Lateral petals, or alee much smaller, about half the length of the vexillum, semi-ovate with the upper edge straight, raised on a short and slightly pubescent claw: but in the greater number of flower-buds examined the ale are altogether wanting, as are the anterior petals in all of them. Fertile stamens 3, being the anterior and two lateral of the outer series, on filiform and at length elongated slightly hairy filaments: anthers oblong, fixed by the middle, two-celled; the cells opening longitu- dinally. Sterile stamens 7 (or sometimes fewer), reduced to very small and naked. filaments, one of them interposed between each fertile sta- men, the others belonging to the posterior side of the flower. Ovary sessile or nearly so, compressed, semi-ovate, silky-pubescent, containing from 0 to 7 roundish ovules in a single series. Style filiform, spirally involute in the bud: stigma terminal, subcapitate. Legume oblong, flat, coriaceous, glabrous, from 5 to 8 inches long, about 2 inches wide, at length two-valved; the valves externally reticulated, within fur- nished with narrow transverse projections, which intercept the cavity between the seeds. Seeds from 2 to 5, or sometimes solitary, compressed, orbicular, an inch or more in diameter, not avillate nor appendaged at the small hilum; the bony but thin testa smooth, involved in a covering of furfuraceous matter; which when fresh is probably juicy. Cotyledons flat and thin, orbicular, enclosing the short and straight retracted radicle. LEGUMINOS2. 469 “The Outea byuga, DC. is certainly closely allied to the African Afzelia, Anthonota, Intsia, and Berlinia, and also to the American EHperua, Parivoa, Outea, and Vouapa: but if these are kept distinct, Outea is certainly the one of them all it is farthest from in habit and in the pod. I am not acquainted with the Intsia Madagasca- riensis; but the L Amboinensis is probably a congener of, if not the same species as Outea bijuga, and I think, as far ‘as we know both Intsia and Outea bijuga, cannot well be generically separated from Afzelia. Intsia Madagascariensis is said to have unequally pinnate leaves; but the allied genera Hperua and Parivoa appear to have them both abruptly and unequally pinnate on the same plant.” Ben- tham, in litt. PLATE 51.—AFzELIA BIUGA: a branch, with fruit and flower-buds, of the natural size. Fig. 1. A flower-bud, with its pedicel and bract- lets. 2. Diagram of the flower. 38. An opened flower-bud. 4. Petals, from the same. 5,6. Fertile stamens. 7. Pistil. 8. Same, with the ovary divided longitudinally—All these details magnified. 9. A legume, of the natural size, with one valve removed. 10. A seed divided. 99. BAUHINIA, Linn., Benth. 1. BAuninia Brasitiensis, Vogel. Bauhinia Brasiliensis, Vogel, in Linnxa, 18, p. 302. Has. Brazil; common in the Organ Mountains, and near Rio Janeiro. 2. BAUHINIA GRANDIFLORA, Juss. Bauhinia grandiflora, Juss. in Poir. Dict. Suppl. 1, p. 600; DC. Prodr. 2, p. 513. Has. Peru, in the vicinity of Lima. “The tree perhaps not there indigenous.” 118 470 PHANEROGAMIA. 100. PILIOSTIGMA, Hochst. Prrzosti¢ma, Hochst. in Flora, 1846, p. 598; Benth. in Pl. Jungh. fase. 2, p. 261. 1. Pittostiama ActpuM, Benth. 1. c. Bauhinia acida, Reinw. in Korth. Verhand. Nat. Gesch. Kruidk. p. 86. B. purpurea, DC. Prodr. 2, p. 515, non Linn. Casparea castrata, Hassk. Pl. Jav. Rar. 1, p. 412. Has. Philippine Islands: in mountains, near Bafios, Luzon. 101. SCHNELLA, Raddi. 1. SCHNELLA MACRosTACHYA, Ltaddt. Schnella macrostachya, Raddi, Pl. Bras. Addend. in Mem. Moden. 18, p. 411. Bauhinia ungulata, Linn. Spec. Pl. p. 535, ex Spreng. B. Raddiana, Bongard, in Mem. Acad. Petrop. (1836), t. 3? Has. Near Rio Janeiro, Brazil. (Foliage only.) There is also foliage of what is probably another species resembling S. splendens, but with almost lanceolate and acuminate leaflets. 102. CYNOMETRA, Linn. 1. CYNOMETRA GRANDIFLORA, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 52.) C. glaberrima ; foliolis bijugis ovalibus oblongisve inequilateris scepis- sume emarginatis coriaceis; racemis corymbosis confertifloris ; stami- nibus 21-32; ovario levi stylo breviore. LEGUMINOSA, 47] Has. Ovolau and Vanua-levu, Feejee Islands. “A spreading tree, about 40 feet high; the branchlets verrucose, and, with the leaves, flowers, &c., entirely glabrous. Stipules linear, very caducous. Leaflets two pairs, of equal size and shape, oval or oblong, 2 or 3 inches in length, more or less wnequal-sided, either obtuse or more or less acuminate, but the apex almost always nar- rowly emarginate, coriaceous in texture, dull or pale, sometimes a little shining above, inconspicuously feather-veined and reticulated. Petiole somewhat woody. Buds of the inflorescence (sessile in the axils and terminal) and also the leaf-buds, large and scaly, two-thirds of an inch long, ovoid-fusiform ; the scales coriaceous, orbicular or ovate, finely striate, minutely rusty-pubescent externally, regularly imbricated, deciduous before the flowers expand; the uppermost passing into spatulate and linear and chartaceous deciduous bracts, which are as long as the pedicels. Racemes short and corymb-like, nearly sessile, often as long as the leaves; the lowers (apparently flesh-colour) crowded, on pedicels of about an inch in length. At the base of each is a pair of subulate, stipule-like bractlets, which are sparsely hispid on the midrib. Tube of the calyx turbinate, fleshy, free from the substipitate base of the ovary, which it closely encloses; the lobes 4, petaloid, oblong, naked and glabrous, half an inch long. Petals 4, spatulate-lanceolate, as long as the lobes of the calyx, inserted on its throat. Stamens 21 to 32, inserted with the petals: filaments fili- form, an inch in length: anthers oval-oblong, subcordate, with a rather fleshy connective; the two cells longitudinally dehiscent for their whole length. Ovary flat, oblong, somewhat falcate, smooth and glabrous, or slightly pubescent towards the apex, two-ovuled, tapering into a slender, filiform, and -straightish style, which is terminated by a depressed discoid stigma. Mature fruit not seen. There are two or three forms of this species in the collection, vary- ing principally in the breadth of the leaflets. One, from Ovolau (Plate 52, C), has broadly oval and rather thinner leaflets, somewhat shining above, and may possibly belong to a different species; but it is not in flower, and its large scaly buds are leaf-buds only. Puate 52,—CyYNOMETRA GRANDIFLORA: A, B. Flowering specimens, two forms, of the natural size. C. Branchlet of a variety with 472 PHANEROGAMIA. broader and thinner leaflets, and large scaly leaf-buds. Fig. 1. A detached flower from B, with its pedicel, bract, and bractlets. 2. A bractlet, magnified. 3. Calyx and pistil. 4. Vertical section of a flower, enlarged. 5, 6. Stamens, enlarged; the former seen poste- riorly, the latter anteriorly. 2. CYNOMETRA FALCATA, Sp. Nov. C. foliolis unyjugis glaberrimis ovato-lanceolatis obliquis falcatis coria- ceis; floribus sine pedunculo; fasciculatis decandris ovario lunato pubescente stylo recurvo longiore. Has. Feejee Islands, at Ba, on the western coast of Viti-levu. Branches slender, minutely verrucose. Petioles at most 2 lines in length, bearing a single pair of leaflets. These are ovate-lanceolate, oblique, and falcate, gradually acuminate, with the apex rather blunt, 2 or 8 inches long, coriaceous, very glabrous, and somewhat shining both sides, minutely feather-veined. The scaly flower-buds are ovoid, axillary, only 2 or 3 lines long; the scales orbicular and striate. In the solitary specimen most of these are undeveloped: but the single undeveloped flower in the axil of the scales is seen to be laterally enveloped by a pair of diaphanous and ciliate-fringed bractlets; and the sepals appear to be obscurely puberulent, but not tipped with a tuft of hairs. They enclose only 10 stamens, or sometimes perhaps fewer. The scaly buds that have expanded display a sessile Jascicle, or rather a small corymb (the axis 2 or 3 lines long), bearing a number of pubescent pedicels (2 or 3 lines long), from which all but the ovary has fallen. The ovary is lunate, tomentulose-pubescent, a line and a half long, and rather longer than the recurved style by which it is pointed. Fruit unknown. This species belongs to Wight & Arnott’s first subgenus, or Cyno- metra proper, although the sepals are not “tipped with a tuft of hairs.” I have not the means of comparing it with the C. rami- flora, of Linnzus. The flowers are very small, as compared with the preceding species, and apparently much smaller than those of @ polyandra. LEGUMINOSS. 473 3. CYNOMETRA INAQUIFOLIA, Sp. Nov. ©. foliolis bijugis coriaceis glabris reticulatis valde incequilateris ineequa- libus, duobus inferioribus ovalibus quam superioribus oblongis multo minoribus. Has. Philippine Islands, near Bafios, Luzon. (Also collected by Mr. Cuming: no. 1297.) The specimen exhibits the foliage only, with a young scaly bud. Leaflets 2 pairs, coriaceous, glabrous, pale beneath, lucid above, loosely reticulate-veined, obtuse or emarginate, very unequal-sided, especially the terminal pair, which also is very much larger than the lower pair: the two upper are oblong, 6 or 7 inches long, and almost dimidiate ; the lower are oval, 2 to 24 inches long, about the length of the rhachis with the petiole. Fruit and flowers unknown. Susorv. LI]. MIMOSE &. 103. ENTADA, Adans. 1. ENTADA SCANDENS, Benth. Mimosa scandens, Linn. Spec. Pl. ed. 2, p. 1501; Swartz, Obs. p. 389. Entada scandens, Benth. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 4, p. 382. E. Gigalobium, Purscetha, monostachya, & Adenanthera, DC. Mem. Legum. & Prodr. 2, p. 425. Has. Samoan and Feejee Islands; climbing over tall trees: appa- rently indigenous. (Remarkable for the extraordinary size of its pods.) 104. PIPTADENTA, Benth. 1. PrerapEenta communis, Benth. Piptadenia communis, Benth. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 4, p. 3387. 119 474 PHANEROGAMIA. Has. Brazil, near Rio Janeiro. (The leaves of one specimen are in a monstrous state, probably from the sting of insects.) 2. PIPTADENIA MACROCARPA, Benth. 1. c. Has. Brazil; with the preceding species. 105. ALGAROBIA, Benth. ALGAROBIA, Benth. Pl. Hartw. p. 18; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1, p. 399; Gray, Pl. Lindh. 1, p. 85, & Pl. Wright. 1, p. 60. Prosopis, § ALGAROBIA, Benth. Mimos. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 4, p. 348. 1. ALGAROBIA JULIFLORA. Mimosa juliflora, Swartz, Prodr. Fl. Ind. Oce. p. 85. Prosopis juliflora, DC. Prodr. 2, p. 447; Benth. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 1. ¢. #~. affinis, Spreng. Syst. Veg. 2, p. 826. Has. Rio Negro, North Patagonia; common on the plains. In fruit: with foliage also of a small-leaved form, the Prosopis dulcis, y. australis, Benth. 1. ¢. The pods as well as the foliage so closely resemble those of our Texan and Mexican Mezquite (A. glandulosa, Torr. & Gray) as to render it most probable that we have one polymorphous species, extending from Arkansas to Patagonia, as Mr. Bentham suggests. In either case, the plant before us must bear the name of juliflora. The fruit shows well the character of the genus, namely, the separa- tion of the endocarp into a series of detached and closed joints, or pips, each containing a seed. 106. STROMBOCARPA (Benth. sub Prosop.). Prosopis, § SrromBocarPA, Benth. Mimos. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 4, p. 351, excl. sp. StromBocarpa, Gray, Pl. Wright. 1, p. 60. LEGUMINOSAE. 475 1. STROMBOCARPA STROMBULIFERA. Mimosa strombulifera, Lam. Dict. 1, p. 15. Acacia strombulifera, Willd. Spec. 4, p. 1055; DC. Prodr. 2, p. 455. Prosopis strombulifera, Benth. Mimos. 1. c. Has. Rio Negro, North Patagonia. (In flower only.) This and S. reptans, take the place in the pampas of the southern temperate zone on this continent that S. pubescens, S. cinerascens, and S. odorata do in the arid plains of Texas, New Mexico, and the inte- rior of California. 107. NEPTUNIA, Louwr., Benth, 1. NEPTUNIA PUBESCENS, Benth. Neptunia pubescens, Benth, Mimos. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 4, p. 364. Has. Peru; in the vicinity of Callao. 2. NEPTUNIA GRACILIS, Benth. 1. 6. Has. New South Wales; in the district of Hunter’s River. 108. DESMANTHUS, Willd., Benth. 1. DESMANTHUS DEPRESSUS, Kunth. Desmanthus depressus, Kunth, in Willd. Spec. Pl. 4, p. 1546, & Pl. Legum. p. 119, t. 85. Has. Peru; in the vicinity of Callao and Lima. (In fruit.) 476 PHANEROGAMIA. 109. MIMOSA, Linn., Willd. 1. Mruosa ALBIDA, Kunth. Mimosa albida, Kunth, Mimos. t. 1; DC. Prodr. 2, p. 426; Benth. Mimos. in Hook, Jour. Bot. 4, p. 860. Has, Peru; in the vicinity of Callao and Lima. 2. Mimosa VELLoziANna, Mart. Mimosa Velloziana, Mart. Herb. Fl. Bras. p. 185; Benth. Mimos. 1. ¢. p. 361. M. viva, Velloz. Fl. Flum. 11, t. 33, non Linn. Haz. Organ Mountains, Brazil, in the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro; very common. 3. Mimosa pupica, Linn. Has. Tahiti and Tongatabu: where the Sensitive Plant occurs only as “an introduced weed, around dwellings.” 4, Mimosa SEPIARIA, Benth. Mimosa sepiaria, Benth. Mimos. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 4, p. 395. Has. Brazil, in the vicinity of Rio Janeiro; very abundant. 5. Mimosa ELLIPTICA, Benth. 1. c. Has. Brazil; with the preceding species. LEGUMINOSS. 477 6. Mimosa Giuuiesu, Benth. Mimosa Gilliesii, Benth. Mimos. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 4, p. 413. Prosopis globosa, Gillies, in Hook. Bot. Misc. 3, p. 205. Has. Rio Negro, North Patagonia: on the sandy plains. This and M. ephedroides, the other species of the section, appear to be very closely allied. The pods, as well as the spinescent Broom- like branchlets, of our plant are quite glabrous; but the capitula are peduncled, and there are a few leaflets. Flowers not seen. The ripe pods, with the replum, break up into indehiscent articles. 110. LEUC ANA, Benth. 1. Levcana Forster, Benth. Leucena Forster’, Benth. Mimos. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 5, p. 94. Mimosa glandulosa, Soland. in Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 92. Acacia insularum, Guillem. Zeph. Tait. p. 66. Has. Point Venus, Tahiti. Vanua-levu, Feejee Islands. Tongatabu. There is nothing to add to Guillemin’s detailed description of this plant (which is rightly referred to Leucena by Bentham), except that the mature pods in our specimens are plane. 111. ACACIA, Linn., Benth. x PHYLLODINEH Australasice. 1. Acacia Brownu, Steud. Acacia Brownti, Steud. Nomencl. Bot. ed. 1, p. 2; DC. Prodr. 2, p. 449; Benth. Mimos. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 1, p. 338. 120 478 PHANEROGAMIA. Has. New South Wales, in the neighbourhood of Sydney. 2. ACACIA JUNIPERINA, Welld. Acacia juniperina, Willd. Spec. Pl. 4, p. 1049; Vent. Hort. Malm. t. 46; Benth. 1. c. A. echinula, DC. Prodr. 2, p. 449. Haz. New South Wales, near Sydney. 3. AcAcIA Bauer, Benth. Acacia Bauert, Benth. Mimos. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 1, p. 344. Has. New South Wales, near Woolongong, &c. 4, ACACIA HISPIDULA, Willd. Acacia hispidula, Willd. Spec. Pl. 4, p. 1054; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 823; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 161. Has. New South Wales; abundant in the neighbourhood of Sydney. 5. ACACIA VESTITA, Ker. Acacia vestita, Ker, Bot. Reg. t. 698; Benth. Mimos. 1. c. p. 348. Has. New South Wales. 6. ACACIA CULTRIFORMIS, A. Cunn. Acacia cultriformis, A. Cunn. in Don, Gard. Dict. 2, p. 406; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 170. Has. Hunter’s River, New South Wales. LEGUMINOS 4. 479 7. ACACIA MYRTIFOLIA, Willd. Acacia myrtifolia, Willd. Spec. Pl. 4, p. 1054; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 772; Benth, l.c. Has. New South Wales, near Sydney. - 8. ACACIA SUAVEOLENS, Willd. Has. New South Wales, near Sydney and Hunter’s River: with a narrower-leaved form, perhaps A. angustifolia, Wendl. 9, ACACIA LINIFOLIA, Willd. Has. New South Wales, in the vicinity of Sydney, &c. 10. ACACIA PROMINENS, A. Cunn. var. LATIFOLIA, Benth. ined. Has. New South Wales. (A. Cunninghams) 11. AcAcIA ELONGATA, Sieber, in DC. Has. New South Wales. (A. Cunningham.) 12. ACACIA MELANOXYLON, It. Br. Has. New South Wales, near Sydney, Newington, &.: very common. 18. ACACIA LINEARIS, Sums. Has. Sydney, New South Wales; where it appears to be common. 480 PHANEROGAMIA. 14. AcAcrA FLoRIBUNDA, Willd. Has. New South Wales (the particular station not recorded). 15. ACACIA LONGIFOLIA, Willd. Has. New South Wales, near Newington, &. (Also St. Helena: doubtless from a cultivated plant.) Principally a broad-leaved form. 16. ACACIA GLAUCESCENS, Willd. Has. New South Wales (A. Cunningham); with a shorter and broader-leaved variety. x * PHYLLODINE® Oceanice. 17. AcAcIA Koa. A. glabra; ramulis viz’ angulatis; phyllodiis elongatis falcatis lanceo- latis basi vel utrinque angustatis coriaceis multinerviis hine inde folio bipinnato terminatis ; foliolis oblongis emarginatis 12-libjugis ; pedunculis solitariis vel brevissime racemosis; capitulis dense multi- Jloris ; calyce breviter dentato, dentibus flavo-tomentosis subglandulosis ; legumine lato-lineari plano glabro, suturis angustissime marginatis, Acacia heterophylla, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 81; Benth. Mimos. 1. c. p. 368, excl. syn. Has. Sandwich Islands: Oahu; on the mountains behind Hono- lulu: Hawaii; on the sides of Mouna Loa and Mouna Kea. A large tree; glabrous, or the nascent parts puberulent; the branches terete: branchlets slightly angled, not striate. Phyllodia Jalcate, lanceolate, coriaceous, rarely oval-oblong, 4 to 6 inches long, varying from 3 or 4 lines to an inch or more in breadth, narrowed at LEGUMINOSS. 481 the base, and often tapering towards the apex, which is either acute or obtuse, often sphacelate and rounded; the smooth surface is striate with many nerves, of which 4 or 5 are stronger and more conspicuous. On younger plants especially, some of the phyllodia bear a bipinnate leaf, of few pinne; the leaflets 12 to 15 pairs, oblong, emargimate, crowded. Peduncles solitary or fascicled in the axils, or often several and somewhat racemose on a short rhachis, about half an inch long, bearing a dense many-flowered head, of 4 lines in diameter. Calyx turbinate, glabrous, except the rounded and very short teeth, 5 in number, which are densely bearded or tomentose with a yellow and somewhat glandular pubescence. Petals 5, oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, more or less united, about one-third longer than the calyx, half the length of the stamens. Ovary pubescent, or when sterile glabrous, subsessile, oblong. Legume broadly linear, straight or slightly falcate, 3 to 6 inches long, two-thirds or three-fourths of an inch broad, gla- brous, flat, obtuse at both ends, about twelve-seeded ; the thin valves transversely venulose; the sutures not thickened, furnished with an acute but very narrow margin. This, the Kou of the natives, is one of the largest and most impor- tant timber trees of the Sandwich Islands: from its trunks the canoes of the Hawaiians are made. Mr. Bentham’s var.? /atifolia is only a state of the species. Our specimens are wholly destitute of leaflets. Gaudichaud, who had the advantage of seeing both growing in their native countries, pronounced the tree of the Sandwich Islands identical with the original A. heterophylla, Willd. (Mimosa heterophylla, Lam. excl. 3.) of Isle Bourbon, which moreover has long been culti- vated in botanic gardens. Hooker and Arnott, adopted this view (and even referred to it the A. lawrifolia, Willd.), in which they were followed by Bentham, who inadvertently overlooked the Bourbon plant, and cited no habitat except the Sandwich Islands. In distin- euishing the two trees, peculiar to these most widely separated stations, perhaps I incur the charge of being influenced by geogra- phical considerations rather than botanical characters: for neither the flowers nor the phyllodia of the two differ very much; and, for lack of proper materials, I cannot complete the comparison, possessing no leaflets of the present plant, and no pods of the original A. hetero- phylla. I feel confident, however, that sufficient differences will be found. 121 482 PHANEROGAMIA. 18. ACACIA LAURIFOLIA, Welld. Acacia laurifolia, Willd. Spec. Pl. 4, p. 1053; Labill. Sert. Austro-Cal. p. 68, t. 68 ; Benth. Mimos. 1. c. p. 369. Mimosa Mangium, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 75, non Linn. M. simplicifolia, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 436. Has. Friendly, Navigators’ or Samoan, and Feejee Islands: along the shores. The phyllodia vary from 2 to 5 inches in length, and from 12 to 3 inches in width. There is likewise a form from Vanua-levu, Feejee Islands, with narrower and mostly pointed phyllodia. The pods are sharply margined, as described by Mr. Bentham; leaving no doubt that the species is distinct from the foregoing, to which Hooker and Arnott united it. 19. AcactA Ricuu, Sp. Noy. (Tab. 53.) A. glaberrima; ramulis angulatis; phyllodiis lanceolatis acuminatis subfalcatis chartaceo-coriaceis multinerviis, apice scepius hamato; pedunculis fasciculatis capitulo parvo multifloro longioribus; calyce dentato; leguinine oblongo plano glabro, marginibus acutis angustis- suis. Has. Feejee Islands; common in barrens, at Sandalwood Bay, Vanua-levu, and Naloa. “Tree 20 or 30 feet high, with the habit of a Willow,” entirely gla- brous; the branchlets angled, slender. Leaves (phyllodia) lanceolate, from 12 to 3 inches long and 23 to 6 lines wide, tapering tec an acute apex, which is often hooked or curved, slightly falcate, chartaceo-coria- ceous in texture, sessile, thickened, but not glanduliferous at the base, closely many-nerved, and with minute connecting veinlets. Peduncles Jascicled in the axils, from 8 to 8 together, filiform, 3 or 4 lines in length, bearing single small and many-(16—20-) flowered capitula, of only 2 lines in diameter (including the stamens). Calyx glabrous, LEGUMINOS &A 483 obtusely five-toothed. Petals oblong, thrice the length of the calyx. Ovary glabrous. Legume oblong, perhaps also oblong-linear, flat, gla- brous, 7 or 8 lines wide; the valves thin, reticulated; the margins acute but much less salient than in A. laurifolia. Prats 53, B—Acacia Rica: a flowering branch, of the natural size. Fig. 1. A leaf, capitula, &., enlarged. 2. A flower, magnified. 3. Posterior view of the same. 4. A petal, magnified. 5. A stamen, magnified. 6. Pistil, equally magnified, the ovary divided. 7. Legume. 8. A seed, magnified. 9. Vertical section of the same. » * * BoTRYCEPHALE (Australasice). 20, ACACIA ELATA, A. Cunn. Acacia elata, A. Cunn.; Benth. Mimos. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 1, p. 388. Has. New South Wales, near Newington. 21. ACACIA SPECTABILIS, A. Cunn., l. ¢. Has. New South Wales. (A. Cunningham.) 22. ACACIA DISCOLOR, Willd. Has. Sydney, New South Wales. 23. ACACIA DECURRENS, Willd. Has. New South Wales: probably from the vicinity of Sydney. 24. ACACIA MOLLISSIMA, Willd. Has. New South Wales, near Sydney and Hunter's River :—a variety (stenoloba) with narrower pods than ordinary. 484 PHANEROGAMIA. * * * * GUMMIFERZ. 25. ACACIA PELLACANTHA, Vogel. Acacia pellacantha, Vogel, in Rel. Meyen. p. 45; Benth. Mimos. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 1, p. 390. Has. Peru; around Callao and Lima. 26. AcactA FarRNESIANA, Willd. Has. St. Jago, Cape de Verde Islands. Tahiti, Society Islands. Bafios, Luzon.—Doubtless introduced, into all these stations, from America. 27. Acacta CAVENIA, Hook. & Arn. Has. Chili; common near Valparaiso.—Probably, as Mr. Bentham intimates, not distinct from the preceding species. 28. ACACIA ALBIDA, Delile. Has. St. Jago, Cape de Verde Islands. * x x * * VULGARES (Americana). 29, ACACIA LACERANS, Benth. Acacia lacerans, Benth. Mimos. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 1, p. 511. Has. Brazil, near Rio Janeiro. 30. ACACIA PTERIDIFOLIA, Benth. 1. c. Has. Brazil, in the vicinity of Rio J aneiro. LEGUMINOSEZ. 485 112, PITHECOLOBIUM, Mart., Benth. 1. Prruecotopium DULCE, Benth. Pithecolobium dulce, Benth. Mimos. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 3, p. 199. Has. Luzon, Philippine Islands; introduced from Tropical America. 2. PirnecoLopium CiyPEARIA, Benth, 1. c. Has. Singapore. 113. SERIANTHES, Benth. 1, SERIANTHES MYRIADENIA, Planchon, ined. Acacia myriadenia, Bertero, in Guillem. Zeph. Tait. p. 65, excl. syn. Has. Eimeo and Tahiti, Society Islands: in forests. Somu-somu, &c., Feejee Islands: on the banks of streams. The specimens bear only fruit, and a few young flower-buds. The ripe pod accords with the character given by Bentham for 8. grandi- flora, except that it is not bullate, but finely wrinkled transversely, and ferrugineous. The flowers are noted by Bentham, in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 5, p. 108. In Dr. Pickering’s notes this is said to be a large tree at Eimeo, with the foliage of Zumarindus: at the Feejee Islands, a spreading tree, 40 feet high. 9, SERIANTHES VITIENSIS, Sp. Nov. S. foliolis ellipticis emarginatis utrinque letevirentibus supra lucidis 122 486 PHANEROGAMIA. penninerviis ; glandulis petiolaribus nullis; legumine tenwi-lignoso tomentello, valvis laxe venosis. Has. Feejee Islands, at Sandalwood Bay, Vanua-levu, Xe. This is nearly related to S. grandiflora, Benth.: but the pod is thinner; the pinne and the leaflets are rather fewer; there are no petiolar glands, and none between the pinne; but they occasionally occur between the uppermost leaflets. The leaflets are bright green both sides, shining above, glabrous, scarcely oblique, elliptical, emar- ginate, about half an inch long, pinnately veined. Flowers not seen. Legume oblong, 5 or 6 inches in length and 2 inches wide, thin and plane, twisted, minutely tomentose with a rusty down, scarcely thickened at the margins; the thin but woody valves strongly cohe- rent between the seeds, loosely veined with a few salient and narrow veins, which branch into slender reticulated veinlets. Seeds trans- verse, oblong, about 8 lines in length. 114. INGA, Plumier, Mart. 1. INGA SEMIALATA, Mart. Inga semialata, Mart. Herb. Fl. Bras. p. 114; Benth. Mimos. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 4, p. 588. Mimosa semialata, Velloz. Fl. Flum. 11, t. 5. Has. Brazil; in the Organ Mountains. 2. Inca Fevrmnuet, DC. Has. From a garden at Lima (without flowers or fruit) : cultivated under the name of Pacai. The foliage accords with the figure of the Pucai in Feuillée, except that the leaflets are rather obtuse at both ends. There are no mate- rials for clearing up this obscure species. LEGUMINOS&. 487 3. Inca CuminciANA, Benth. 1. c. Has. Peru; abundant between Lima and Obrajillo. The leaflets are either obtuse and pointless, or mucronate, or caudate-acuminate. 4, InGA AFrFinis, DC. Inga affinis, DC. Prodr. 2, p. 483; Benth. Mimos. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 4, p. 619. I. dulcis, & I. Velloziania, Mart. Herb. Fl. Bras. p. 118. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. 115. AFFONSEA, S&. Hil. 1. AFFONSEA BULLATA, Benth. Affonsea bullata, Benth. Mimos. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 5, p. 77. Has. Brazil; near Rio Janeiro. (With flower-buds only.) Orv. CHRYSOBALANACE &. 1 PARINARIUM, Juss. Parinarium (Parinari, Aubl.), Juss. Gen. p. 8342; DC. Prodr. 2, p. 526; Benth. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 211, & Niger Fl. p. 335. 1. Parinartum (PETROCARYA) INSULARUM, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 54.) P. foliis lanceolato-ovatis seu oblongo-lanceolatis basi subcordatis vel obtusissimis supra nitidis subtus incanis; stipulis lanceolato-subulatis petiolo eglanduloso duplo longioribus; floribus cymoso-paniculatis ; staminibus fertilibus 6-8, sterilibus 2-4; drupa biloculari scepius disperma. Has. Feejee Islands: Sandalwood Bay, Vanua-levu, and Ambau. Samoan or Navigators’ Islands: the habitat not recorded. A “tree 50 feet high, with spreading branches; the trunk 24 feet in diameter.” Branchlets tomentose, at length glabrate; the older ones very warty. Leaves lanceolate-ovate, varying to oblong-lanceolate, usually acuminate, subcordate or very obtuse at the base, 3 to 5, and on sterile shoots 6 to 8 inches long, thickish, copiously feather-veined, and beneath with rather conspicuously reticulated veinlets, the nascent ones clothed on both sides with a rusty or whitish wool, the upper surface soon glabrous and shining, the lower canescent or whitened with a fine and close pubescence. Stipules lanceolate-subu- late or linear, fuscous, about half an inch long, twice the length of the petiole, which, as well as the base of the leaf, is glandless. Inflores- cence terminal, cymose-paniculate, tomentose, only seen with unde- CHRYSOBALANACE &. 489 veloped flower-buds, when it is shorter than the adjacent leaf. Flowers bibracteolate, small; the buds only 2 lines in length. Tube of the calyx short, gibbous, villous inside; the 5 lobes ovate, acute. Petals 5, not longer than the calyx, ciliolate, 2 or 3 of them (on the side next the ovary) ovate, the others oblong-lanceolate. Stamens apparently varying from 8 to 12, of which from 6 to 8 are fertile, and 2 to 4, on the side remote from the ovary, sterile; the latter being reduced to small and naked tooth-like processes or filaments: anthers didymous, two-celled. Ovary coherent to the gibbous side of the calyx-tube, two-celled, villous, as is the base of the basilar style. Ovule solitary in each cell, anatropous; the rhaphe on the side next the dissepiment. Fruit an ovoid drupe, of nearly 2 inches in length, slightly flattened laterally; the epicarp smooth; the putamen very thick and woody, with its surface little roughened, two-celled, and usually two-seeded: but no well-formed and mature seeds are found in the fruits preserved in the collection. In a drawing made by the Botanical Artist of the Expedition, the flower is represented as having fourteen fertile stamens, occupying a complete circle, and no sterile filaments. But all the young flower- buds I could venture to dissect were as represented in the above description and the accompanying analyses. The species is, without doubt, nearly related to P. Sumatranum, Benth. (Pétrocarya Sumatrana, Jack); which is said to have the elliptical-oblong leaves acute at the base, and seven fertile stamens on one side of the flower, and as many abortive ones on the other. Puate 54, B.—PARINARIUM INSULARUM: a branch, with flower-buds, and the summit of another, with a fruit, of the natural size. Fig. 1. An opened flower-bud. 2. Vertical section of the same. 3. One of the anterior petals. 4. One of the posterior petals. 5, 6. Stamens, seen anteriorly and posteriorly—These details variously enlarged. 7. Transverse, and 8, longitudinal section of the drupe, of the natural size. 2. Partnartum? MarGarata, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 54.) P. glabrum ; foliis oblongis basi acutis eglandulosis ; drupa septo tenur evanido demum scepe uniloculart; cotyledonibus conferruminatis. 123 490) PHANEROGAMIA. Has. Feejee Islands; in the Sandalwood district of Vanua-levu. (In fruit only.) This is recorded in Dr. Pickering’s notes under its native name of “ Margarata.” He states that the fruit is “indehiscent, two-celled,” and that it is “used to blacken the face and hair.” The specimens consist of a leafy branch, entirely glabrous, with oblong, mostly acu- minate, ample leaves (from 7 to 10 inches long), acute at the base, glandless, rather thin, dull, sparsely feather-veined, the veins con- nected by inconspicuous reticulated veinlets; the petiole about half an inch long; with which are two separate, unripe drupes. The latter are oval, slightly flattened laterally, an inch and a half or more in length, and an inch and a quarter in width: one of them exhibits a thin and evanescent partition: the other has become one-celled by the obliteration of this partition, and contains a single seed, in which the unripe and partly decayed or injured cotyledons are seen to be strongly conferruminate, thus appearing not unlike the albumen of a Nutmeg. Piate 54, A.—PaArinarium? MArcarata. Fig. 1. A leaf, with a part of the branch. 2. A drupe. 3. Transverse section of the same and of the contained seed. 4. Vertical section of an empty and infer- tile drupe, showing the thin partition.—All of the natural size. 3. PARINARIUM (SARCOSTEGIA) LAURINUM, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 55.) P. ramis gunioribus subsericeis ; foliis oblongis acuminatis basi rotundata biglandulosis glabris lucidis; stipulis linearibus caducis; jfloribus racemosis ; calyce infundibuliformi subobliquo, ore ceequali, lobis obo- vatis obtusis petalis brevioribus; staminibus fertilibus circiter 15, anticis elongatis, sterilibus T-10 brevissimis dentiformibus. Has. Samoan or Navigators’ Islands: the particular habitat not identified. Apparently a tree, with glabrate branches; the young branchlets and inflorescence silky-pubescent. Leaves oblong, inclining to lanceo- late, more or less acuminate, rounded at the base, where there is a pair CHRYSOBALANACES. AQ] of glands attached to the base of the midrib: they are glabrous, 6 to 8 inches long and 2 or 3 inches wide, rather coriaceous and /ucid, especially the upper surface, copiously feather-veined; the veins 10 to 12 pairs, divergent, and connected by an elaborate network of veinlets. Petiole only 2 or 3 lines in length. Stipules linear, 5 or 6 lines long, very caducous. Flowers crowded in axillary or terminal, short-peduncled, sometimes geminate racemes, which are shorter than the leaves, more or less spreading. Bracts oblong-linear, coriaceous, caducous. Pedicels articulated with the axis, 12 to 22 lines long, bibracteolate near the summit; the bractlets oblong-linear, longer than the pedicel, shorter than the calyx-tube, deciduous. Calyx externally silky-canescent; the tube funnelform or club-shaped, a little oblique, 3 or 4 lines long, not thickened nor fleshy; the orifice equal, the interior villous with reflexed hairs, in the manner of the genus; the lobes obovate or oblong, obtuse, shorter than the obovate-orbicular and deciduous petals; the latter nearly equal, convolute in estivation, except the posterior, which is wholly external in most cases. Stamens monadelphous at the very base (or raised on a narrow annular disk), inserted on the throat of the calyx; the 14 or 15 anterior fertile, with elongated and filiform filaments (involute in sestivation); the posterior 7 to 10, reduced to as many rigid and short teeth. Ovary two-celled, with a single erect ovule in each cell, very villous, its long stipe laterally adnate to the anterior side of the calyx-tube quite up to the throat; the free side densely bearded with deflexed villous hairs. Style basal, filiform, as long as the stamens, excessively villous at the base, the upper part glabrous, the apex tipped with a simple stigma, Fruit not seen. This species is manifestly related to P. Jackianum, Benth. (Petro- carya excelsa, Jack), and to P. Grifithianum, Benth.; but it has not the fleshy calyx which Bentham assigns to his section Sarcostegia. Having a racemose inflorescence and short pedicels, this species 18 con- venient for determining the position of the several floral organs in relation to the bract and axis. We find the odd sepal to be anterior, with a slight obliquity: it nearly, but not exactly, subtends the ovary, as in Leguminose, being between that and the bract, but a little to the right of the median line (vide Fig. 4): thus essentially confirming the view indicated by Mr. Bentham, in Hooker’s Journal of Botany, 2, p. 211. 492 PHANEROGAMIA. Puate 55.—PARINARIUM LAURINUM: a flowering branch, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Stipules, and base of a leaf, showing the glands. 2. Flower-bud, with the bract and two bractlets. 8. An opening flower, with the bractlets. 4. Diagram of the flower, with the bract and bractlets. 5. A petal, from Fig. 8. 6. A flower from which the petals have fallen. 7. Anthers. 8. Vertical section of the calyx, ovary, &c. 9. Longitudinal section through the partition.—All the details enlarged. 2 HIRTELLA, Linn. 1. HIRTELLA OBLONGIFOLIA, DC. Has. Brazil, near Rio Janeiro. (Perhaps a variety of H. Ameri- cana.) The flowers are tetrandrous. There is besides a branchlet of a Chrysobalanaceous plant, from the Organ Mountains, near Rio Janeiro, probably a Licania, which I cannot identify, and the forming flower-buds are too young for inves- tigation. Orv ROSACE &. 1. QUILLATIA, Molina. 1. QUILLAIA SAPONARIA, Molina. Quillaia saponaria, Molina, Hist. Nat. Chil. p. 187; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Mise. 38, p. 804; Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 274. Q. Moline & Q. Smegmadermos, DC. Prodr. 2, p. 547. Has. Chili; common from Valparaiso to the Cordilleras above Santiago. 2, KAGENECKIA, Ruz & Pov. , 1. KAGENECKIA OBLONGA, Ruiz & Pav. Kageneckia oblonga, Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Peruv. & Chil. Prodr. t. 87; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Misc. 3, p. 304. K. crategoides, Don, in Edinb. Phil. Jour. ex Hook. & Arn. Has. Chili: in ravines; common from Valparaiso to the lower Cordilleras. 2. KAGENECKIA LANCEOLATA, Ruiz & Pav. l. e. Has. Peru; “between Yaso and Obrajillo; rare.” (Specimens not found in the collection.) 124 494 HAB. Has. Has. HAs. Has. Has. Has. Has. PHANEROGAMIA. 3. CLIFFORTIA, Linn. 1. CLIFFORTIA ILICIFOLIA, Linn. Cape of Good Hope, in the immediate vicinity of Cape Town. 2. CLIFFORTIA RUSCIFOLIA, Jann. Cape of Good Hope; with the preceding species. 3. CLIFFORTIA ODORATA, Linn. f. Cape of Good Hope; with the preceding species. 4, CLIFFORTIA STROBILIFERA, Linn. Cape of Good Hope; with the preceding species. 5. CLIFFORTIA SARMENTOSA, Linn. Cape of Good Hope: on the sea-shore. 6. CLIFFORTIA TRIFOLIOLATA, Linn. Cape of Good Hope, in the vicinity of Cape Town. 7. CLIFFORTIA DENTATA, Willd. Cape of Good Hope; with the preceding species. 8. CLIFFORTIA FALCATA, Linn. f. Cape of Good Hope; with the preceding species. ROSACES. 495 4, MARGYRICARPUS, Ruiz & Pav. 1. MARGYRICARPUS SETOSUS, Ruiz & Pav. Has. Rio Negro, North Patagonia; common on the sand-hills. Chili, near Valparaiso. 5. TETRAGLOCHIN, BPepp. 1. TETRAGLOCHIN STRICTUM, Poepp. Tetraglochin strictum, Poepp. Fragm. Syn. p. 26; Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 281. Margyricarpus alatus, Gillies, in Hook. Bot. Misc. 3, p. 3065. Has. High Andes of Peru, above Bajos. The specimen, although destitute of flowers and fruit, appears to be the same as the Chilian plant. 6. AC ANA, Linn. * Austro-Americane., 1. Aca&naA puMILA, Vahl. Acena pumila, Vahl, Enum. 1, p. 298; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 264, t. 105. Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia. (In flower and fruit.) 2. Acm#NA Maceinanica, Vahl. Acena Magellanica, Vahl, Enum. 1, p. 207; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 267. Ancistrum Magellanicum, Lam. Ill. Gen. t. 22, f. 2; Poir. Suppl. 1, p. 346. Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia. (In flower.) 496 PHANEROGAMIA. 3. ACHENA OVALIFOLIA, Ruiz & Pav. Acena ovalifolia, Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Per. & Chil. 1, p. 67, t. 103; Hook. f. 1. ¢. Ancistrum repens, Vent. Hort. Cels. t. 5. Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia. 4, ACHNA ADSCENDENS, Vahl. Aceena adscendens, Vahl, Enum. 1, p. 207; DC. Prodr. 2, p. 593; Hook. f. Fl. Antarc. p. 268, t. 106. Ancistrum humile, Pers. Ench. 1, p. 30. Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia. (In flower and fruit.) ). Acana Antarctica, Hook. /. A. pumiia; caulibus brevibus procumbentibus ; foliis confertis ; Joliolis 3-Ajugis late oblongis grosse serratis medio canaliculatis subtus ad costam venasque prominentes et supra preesertim villoso-sericeis ; pedun- culo scapiformi ; capitulo globoso; calycibus glabris; fructu obconico aristis 4 brevibus apice glochidiatis armato. Acena Antarctica, Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 269. Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia. (In fruit.) This rare species was gathered on Staten Land by Menzies, and Hermite Island, Cape Horn, by Dr. Hooker; in both cases with the flowers and fruit fallen. Our specimens afford the fruit; but the stigma and stamens are still unknown. It is a small plant, with lig- nescent and short procumbent stems, clothed with the glabrous petiolar stipules, and with crowded leaves. Leaflets 3 or 4 pairs, with an odd one, 2 or 3 lines in length, subcoriaceous, elliptical or broadly oblong, coarsely serrate with obtuse teeth, channelled above in the middle; the upper surface silky with dense villous hairs, of a silvery-fulvous hue, ROSACES 497 partially glabrate with age, the lower similarly silky on the very prominent midrib and straight veins, in the intervals puberulent or glabrate. Peduncle scape-like, naked, slightly pubescent, in fruit 2 inches long, bearing a globose head of scarcely more than 2 lines in diameter. Bractlets obovate-spatulate, sparingly pilose-ciliate at the apex. Sruiting calyx glabrous, obconical; its small lobes oval, thickish, shorter than the four spine-like short awns, which are ' minutely glochidiate at the apex, and hardly as long as the fruit. 6. ACHNA MYRIOPHYLLA, Lindl. Acena myriophylla, Lindl. Bot. Reg. sub. t. 1271; Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Mise. Has. Chili; in the Andes above Santiago. (Without flowers or fruit.) —Probably only a form of A. pinnatifida. 7. ACHNA TRIFIDA, Ruiz & Pav. Acena trifida, Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Per. & Chil. 1, p. 67, t. 104; Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 292. Has. Chili; common near Valparaiso. To this belongs the Californian plant, referred to A. pinnatifida by Hooker & Arnott, and Torrey & Gray. 8. ACHNA SPLENDENS, Hook. & Arn. Aceena splendens, Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Mise. 8, p. 886; Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 292. Has. Chili; on the first Cordillera above Santiago. (The flowers and fruit fallen.) 9, ACHNA LAPPACEA, Ruiz & Pav. Aceena lappacea, Ruiz & Pay. Fl. Per. & Chil. 1, p. 66, t. 108. 125 498 PHANEROGAMITIA. Has. High Andes of Peru, between Obrajillo, Culnai, and Bajos. (Also gathered by Matthews and M’Lean.) There are fragments apparently of another species from the Andes of Peru, which is indeterminable, for the want of flowers and fruit. * * Novo-Zelandice & Novo-Hollandice. 10. Acmna ovina, A. Cunn. Aceena ovina, A. Cunn. in Field, N. 8. Wales; Benth. Pl. Hugel. p. 48. Has. Hunter's River, New South Wales. (Also collected by Labillardiere.) 11. Acmna SANGuUISORBA, VaAl. Acena Sanguisorbe, Vahl. Enum. 1, p. 294; DO. 1. ¢.; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 54. Ancistrum Sanguisorbe, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 189. A. anserinifolium, Forst. Char. Gen. t. 2. A. diandrum, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 10. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. Sydney, New South Wales. * x * Sandwicenses. 12, AczNA Exicua, Sp. Nov. A. foliis in caudicibus multicipitibus rosulatis confertissimis ; foliolis 7-8jugis minimis confertis ovatis oblongisve seepius bi—tridentatis seu bilobis coriaceis supra bullatis venosis glaberrimis subtus canescentibus ; scapo gracilt parce bracteato; spica parva cylindrica ; calycis lobis 4—5 oblongis, tubo ovoideo undique setis glochidiatis armato; stami- nibus 2; stigmate patelleeformi fimbriato. Has. Sandwich Islands: on the table-land of the mountains of Kauai, in a marsh. ROSACE &. 499 A diminutive species, with short branching caudexes, crowned with a very dense rosulate cluster of leaves, each half an inch or an inch long, including the petiole, which is winged for nearly its whole length by the adnate and scarious, brownish, glabrous stipules. Leaflets 7 or 8 pairs, crowded, very small, about a line in length, ovate or oblong, com- monly two-lobed or two-toothed, sometimes three-toothed, otherwise entire, rather coriaceous in texture, the convex upper surface bullate, reticu- lately veiny under a lens, glabrous and somewhat shining; the lower surface concave, whitened with a very minute close-pressed pubescence, and with stouter hairs on the veins and midrib; the latter somewhat projecting into a bearded point. Scape slender, 4 to 6 inches high, minutely pubescent, leafless, beset with a few subulate bracts, which are chiefly opposite: from most of them in the collection the flowers and fruit have wholly fallen; but one or two, in an effete state, show the inflorescence to be a small, cylindrical spike, not more than half an inch in length. Flowers minute, crowded, subtended by subulate or linear bracts. Calyx-lobes 4 or 5, oblong, glabrous; the ovoid tube covered with slender bristles (as in Huaccena), which are minutely retrorsely barbed at the apex, otherwise smooth. The flowers are pro- bably hermaphrodite: at least, in a spent flower, the remains of two filaments were detected, and also a sessile, dilated and depressed, fim- briate stigma, Anthers not seen. Mature fruit unknown. Incomplete as the specimens are, they suffice to show that this is a new and peculiar species of Acena. The leaflets are not larger than the leaves of many a Jungermannia, which, indeed, they considerably resemble, except in their rigidity. 7 ALCHEMILLA, Tourn. 1. ALCHEMILLA TRIPARTITA, Ruiz & Pav. Alchemilla tripartita, Ruiz & Pay. Fl. Per. & Chil. I, p. 68; Hook. Bot. Mise. 2, p. 218. Has. Andes of Peru, near Bafios, (Also gathered by Cruck- shanks, M’Lean, &c.) 500 PHANEROGAMIA. 2. ALCHEMILLA PINNATA, Ruiz & Pav.? l.c. Has. Andes of Peru; with the preceding. (Without flowers or fruit.) 8. POTENTILLA, Lunn. 1. PoTENTILLA PROCUMBENS, Sibth. Potentilla procumbens, Sibth.; Koch; Lehm. Nov. Recen. Potentill. (1851), p. 71. P. Tormentilla, var. nemoralis, Seringe, in DC. Prodr. 2, p. 574. Has. Madeira. 9 FRAGARIA, Linn. 1. FRAGARIA vEscA, Linn. Has. Madeira. Probably indigenous. 2. FRAGARIA CHILENSIS, Hhrh. Has. Sandwich Islands: Hawaii, in moist places, on the edges of the crater Lua Pele, &.; on Mouna Kea; and in the district of Waimea. (Specimens were gathered in the bullock-pit in which the unfortunate Douglas lost his life.) Also on the mountains of Maui. This species was not gathered in Chili, where it appears to be spon- taneous only along the coast. It is probably truly indigenous to —Chiloe; as it is on the coast of California and Oregon, and apparently in the Sandwich Islands. The leaflets in the specimens from the Sandwich Islands are thick and rigid, with their lower surface and the stalks very silky-villous. ROSACE &. 501 10. GEUM, Linn. 1. Geum MaGELLANICcUM, Commers. Geum Magellanicum, Commerson, ex Pers. Ench. 2, p. 57; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 262, & Fl. N. Zeal. p. 55. G. ranunculoides, Seringe, in Mem. Soc. Genev., & Prodr. 2, p. 551. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. To this species Dr. Hooker refers the G. ranunculoides, G. Chi- loense or G. Chilense, G. Quillyon, and G. intermedium of authors, and likewise our North American G. strictum, Ait.,—apparently with reason: but in that case the plant should bear the latter name. He also strongly inclines to unite the whole of them to the European G. urbanum. 2. GEUM PARVIFLORUM, Commers. Geum parviflorum, Commerson, ex Smith, in Rees, Cycl.; DC. Prodr. 2, p. 552; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 268, & Fl. N. Zeal. p. 56. G. involucratum, Juss. ex Pers. Ench. 2, p. 57; DC. l.c. p. 504. Sieversia albiflora, Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 1, t. 7? Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia. 11. RUBUS, Linn. 1. Rusus ros#FoLius, Sinith. Rubus rosefolius, Smith, Ic. Pl. Ined. p. 60, t. 60; Seringe, in DO. Prodr. 2, p. 556. Has. Luzon, near Baiios. Obrajillo, Peru. The latter doubtless a cultivated plant, as the petals are multiplied. 126 502 PHANEROGAMIA. 2. Rusus EGLanteriA, Tratt. Rubus Eglanteria, Trattinick, Ros. 3, p. 9; Seringe, in DC. Prodr. 2, p. 556. Has. New South Wales, near Sydney. 3. Rusus prnnatus, Willd. Has. St. Helena: probably an introduced plant. 4. RUBUS AUSTRALIS, Forst. Rubus australis, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 40; DC. Prodr. 2, p. 559; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 53, t. 14. R. schmidelioides & R. cissoides, A. Cunn. Bot. Fl. N. Zeal., ex Hook. f. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand: various forms, either glabrous or pubescent; the leaflets ovate, lanceolate, or linear. Sydney and Hunter's River, New South Wales. d. Rupus mAcropopus, Seringe. Rubus macropodus, Seringe, in DC. Prodr. 2, p. do7. Has. Sydney and Hunter's River, New South Wales. Also “ Bay of Islands, New Zealand ;” but I suspect there is some misplacement in the tickets here, since no other collector has ever brought it from New Zealand, nor does Dr. Hooker mention it in his Flora of that country. 6. Rubus Frruticosus, Linn. Has. Madeira: common. ROSACES. 503 7. Rusus Bereu, Cham. & Schlecht. ? Rubus Bergit, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnea, 2, p.16; Eckl. & Zeyh. Enum. p. 262. R. heterophyllus, H. Meyer, non Willd. Has. Cape of Good Hope. 8. RuBus URTICAFOLIUS, Por. Rubus urticefolius, Poir. Dict. 6, p. 246; Seringe, in DC. Prodr. 2, p. 563. Has. Peru, below Obrajillo. Brazil, from Rio Janeiro to the Organ Mountains. 9. Rusus GEOIDES, Smith. Rubus geoides, Smith, Ic. Pl. Ined. t. 19; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 495; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p- 268. Dalibarda geoides, Pers.; DC. Prodr. 2, p. 568. Has. Orange Harbour. (With mature fruit.) 10. Rusus rucosus, Smith. Rubus rugosus, Smith, in Rees, Cycl.; Wight & Arn. Prodr. Fl. Ind. Or. 1, p. 290. Has. Singapore. Luzon. New South Wales. To this species is referred the R. alcecefolius, R. reflexus, and R. Hamiltonianus of authors, as well as &. Molluccanus of Roxburgh. Probably it is also the Linnzean plant of the latter name. 11. Rusus tittaceus, Smith, 0. c. Has. Feejee Islands; at Ovolau and Rewa: “a climbing plant.” 504 PHANEROGAMIA. 12. Rusus Hawaiensis, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 56.) R. tomentoso-pubescens ; caule fruticoso erecto setoso-aculeolato seu inermt ; stipulis filiformibus ; foliis trifoliolatis; foliolis ovatis scepius acumt- natis pinnatifido-ncisis vel duplicato-dentatis (dentibus acuminatis) membranaceis supra glabratis, terminali longe petiolulato; pedunculo unt—trifloro ; calyce tubo setoso, lobis ovatis integerrimis longe acumi- natis petala ovata rubra cequantibus; fructu ovoideo; ovariis parce glanduloso-hispidulis demum glabratis. Var. 3. foliis ramulisque glabratis vel glabellis. Has. Sandwich Islands: in the forests and the bullock plains on Mouna Loa and Mouna Kea, Hawaii (where it was discovered by Menzies). Var. @. District of Waimea and Hilo, Hawaii; and in the mountains of Kauai. (Also collected, in fruit, by Gaudichaud.) A shrubby species, the erect stems apparently of considerable height: a short truncheon of a stem in the collection is almost two inches in diameter! The younger branches, leaves, &c., are tomentose-pubescent, apparently not glandular nor viscous, flexuose, unarmed or frequently aculeolate with small and straight bristly prickles, at length glabrate. Stipules filiform or setaceous, 3 or 4 lines long. Leaves trifoliolate. Leaflets ovate, acuminate or acute, with an obtuse or truncate base, pinnatifid-incised or very deeply doubly toothed (the close teeth sharply pointed), membranaceous, strongly pinnately veined, the lower surface softly and usually densely tomentose, the upper glabrate with age; the lateral leaflets slightly petiolulate, 13 to 2 inches long; the terminal one long-petiolulate (the stalk half or two-thirds of an inch long), 24 to 3 inches in length, occasionally subcordate. Peduncles 1-3-flowered, axillary and terminal, solitary or in pairs, short; when branched the pedicels an inch or less in length, tomentose, unarmed. Calyx flattish, more or less tomentose externally; the short tube sparingly setose-prickly ; the lobes ovate, entire, 6 or 8 lines long, tapering into a slender and long acumination, as long as the broadly ovate petals, which are of a red or bright purple colour, and apparently as showy as those of R. odoratus. Stamens and pistils very numerous. Recep- tacle rather hairy. Ovaries sparsely hispid with a few glandular- ROSACES. 505 tipped bristles: but the drupaceous mature carpels glabrous, tipped with slender styles. Fruit ovoid, half an inch in length and breadth, apparently red and edible: it is plainly that of a Raspberry, the carpels separable from the conical receptacle. The variety, above indicated, appears to differ only in the less pubescent shoots, leafstalks, &c., and in the soon glabrate leaflets, &c. Perhaps it is a state of the species growing in deep shade. This striking species is most related to the FR. spectubilis, Pursh, of Northwest America, which the smoother form considerably resembles. The long-acuminate sepals, equalling the broad petals in length, and the greater prickliness, as well as the usually downy leaves, Xc., serve to distinguish them. The wood of the stem is compact, with broad and conspicuous medullary rays, but no obvious annular layers. It is singular that so conspicuous a plant should have hitherto escaped notice. I believe it was gathered, however, by the late Mr. Macrae. Pirate 56.—Rusus Hawatensis: a flowering branch and fruit, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Section of a flower. 2. A pistil. 3. Ovary, vertically divided. 4. Putamen. 5. Vertical section of a carpel, in fruit. 6. Vertical section of a seed. 7. Embryo.—The details vari- ously enlarged. 13. Rusus Macrar, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 57.) R. tomentoso-pubescens ; caulibus procumbentibus setoso-aculeolatis ; sti- pulis subulatis ; folirs caulinis trifoliolatis, ramulorum floriferorum trilobatis ; foliolis rotundis ovatisve duplicato-dentatis (dentibus mucro- natis) nunc incisis subcoriaceis subtus molliter canescenti-tomentosis supra glabratis, terminali scepissime petiolulato ; pedunculis unifloris ; calyce inermi quinquepartito, lobis oblongis laciniato-dentatis petala (pallida) obovatu scepius emarginata adcequantibus ; ovariis superne hirsutis eglandulosis. Has. Sandwich Islands: Hawaii, on Mouna Kea (where it was first collected by Mr. Macrae): Kast Maui, on the banks of the crater Haleakala. | A well-marked, tomentose-pubescent species, with reclined or prostrate 127 506 PHANEROGAMIA. stems and ascending flowering branches, armed with weak and slender prickles, apparently suffruticose. Stipules subulate, rather large, sometimes almost setaceous. Cauline leaves trifoliolate, or those of the short flower-bearing branches simple and three-lobed. Leaflets rotund or ovate, either obtuse or acute, 14 to 2 inches long, thickly doubly toothed (the teeth mucronate and short), often incised or obscurely lobed, rather coriaceous in texture, canescently tomentose-pubescent under- neath, glabrate above; the lateral ones slightly, the terminal manifestly, petiolulate, or sometimes almost sessile. Peduncles one-flowered, usually axillary, setose-prickly, apparently recurved after anthesis, an inch to 2 inches long, the lower ones shorter than the leaves. Flowers large, fully an inch in diameter. Calyx five-parted almost to the base, tomentose-pubescent, not armed nor glandular; the sepals oblong, acute or sometimes obtuse, or the innermost pointed, rather foliaceous, becoming three-quarters of an inch long after flowering, the edges strongly serrate or laciniate-toothed from the middle to the apex. Petals obovate, often deeply notched at the apex, apparently white (the colour not recorded by the collectors), as long as the calyx. Stamens and pistils numerous. Ovaries hirsute, especially towards the summit, with soft and glandless hairs, which persist on the ovoid unripe fruit. This species is remarkable for the serrated sepals; a character which, although variable in degree, is presented by all the specimens seen. ‘he petals are all imperfect in our flowering specimens. They are restored in the plate from a flower of a plant which was gathered long ago by Mr. Macrae. The flowering branch represented in the left-hand figure is also from one of his specimens. Piate 57.—Ruzsus Macrai: a procumbent stem and flowering branches, of the natural size. Fig. 1. A petal. 2. Vertical section through the receptacle, &. 3. A pistil—The details magnified. 12, CHAMAMELES, Lindl. 1. CHAMMMELES CoRIACEA, Lind. Chameemeles coriacea, Lindl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 18, p. 104, t. 11; DC. Prodr. ROSACES. 507 Has. Madeira; on rocks of the coast at Funchal. (Without flowers or fruit.) 13. HESPEROMELES, Lindi. 1. HESPEROMELES CUNEATA, Lind. Hesperomeles cuneata, Lind]. Bot. Reg. sub. t. 1956, in adnot. Has. High Andes of Peru; common from Obrajillo to Culnai. 14. OSTEOMELES, Lind. 1. OSTEOMELES ANTHYLLIDIFOLIA, Lindl. Osteomeles anthyllidifolia, Lindl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. 13, p. 98, t. 8. Has. Sandwich Islands: Oahu, on the plains near Ewa, and on the coast towards Pearl River: Hawaii, in the district of Waimea, and on Mouna Loa. (Found by all collectors since the islands were first botanized upon by Nelson, in Cook’s last voyage.) The fruit is said to be “ white and sweet-tasted.” Orv MYRTACE &. 1 BARRINGTONIA, Forst. 1. BARRINGTONIA SPECIOSA, Linn. f. Barringtonia speciosa, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 312; Forst. Prodr. p. 47; Guill. Zeph. Tait. p. 59, cum descr. Forst.; Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. 2, t. 547. B. Butonica, Forst. Char. Gen. t. 38. Has. Society and Samoan Islands; common on the coast. Feejee Islands; “submaritime and not very common.” Mangsi Islands. 2. BARRINGTONIA EXCELSA, Blume ? Barringtonia excelsa, Blume, Bijdr. p. 1097? Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 221. B. racemosa, Gaud. Bot. Voy. Freye. p. 483, t. 107? Has. Ovolau, and Sandalwood Bay, Feejee Islands. (In flower, and with young fruit.) This accords very well with the figure of Gaudichaud’s B. racemosa : whether it is the plant of Blume under that name, or truly his B. excelsa, | cannot determine. 3. BARRINGTONIA SAMOENSIS, Sp. Nov. B. folvis membranacers oblongo-cuneatis oblanceolatisve acuminatis obsolete serrulatis im petiolum brevem attenuatis; racemo gracili elongato MYRTACES&. 509 nutante; floribus parvis; pedicellis alabastro duplo triplove longio- ribus ; calyce quadrilobo. Var. 3. foliis majoribus dilatatis obovato-cuneatis ; pedicellis alabastro haud longioribus. Has. Upolu and Tutuila, Samoan or Navigators’ Islands. 8. Upolu. A tree, the size not recorded, glabrous throughout. Leaves mem- branaceous, from 7 to 10, or in var. 8. from 10 to 18 inches in length, oblong with a cuneate base, or oblanceolate, or in var. @. obovate-cuneate, obsoletely serrulate, more or less acuminate, tapering into a short petiole. Raceme terminal and simple, a foot or two in length, slender, nodding, rather closely-flowered. SF lower-buds 3 lines in diameter, shorter by twice or thrice than the pedicel: but in var. 3. the pedicels are only 3 or 4 lines long. Calyx four-cleft, sometimes two of the sinuses deeper than the others. Petals 5 or perhaps 6 lines long. “Stamens red,” probably an inch long when expanded. Fruit not seen. The species of Barringtonia are by no means well settled; but this is different from any one I have seen. 2. EUGENIA, WMich., Linn. Kueentia, Mich., Linn., Juss., St. Hil., Wight. EvucEnta (excl. sp. Chilens. & EH. Pimenta), JamBosa, AomenA, & Syzyarum, DC. EuGenta, GELPKEA, STRONGYLOCALYX, JAMBosA, CLAVIMyRTUS, & MicRoJAM- BosA, Blume. Sytiysium, Meyen & Schauer. Although strongly predisposed to receive the Candollean genera above cited, yet even the comparatively small amount of materials before me furnishes such complete gradations between them all, as to leave no doubt that Dr. Wight was justified in combining them. Neither the shape of the tube or of the limb of the calyx, nor the difference between an operculately deciduous and an expanding corolla, can be relied upon for definite characters. The recent, very careful labours of Blume (in Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat.) evidently lead to 128 510 PHANEROGAMIA. the same conclusion, unless we still more largely increase the number of genera, and abandon all absolute distinctions. A series of such groups may be more appropriately regarded as sections of a genus. The old genus Hugenia may thus be more simply and definitely characterized by its thick and large, more or less conferruminate cotyledons, including the usually short and retracted radicle; the two or three pluriovulate cells to the ovary, but the fruit only 1—2-seeded ; the stamens not collected in phalanges. The last-named character barely distinguishes Caryophyllus. As Jossinia is characterized by Blume, it would also fall into Eugenia, except for the thick testa of the seed; but according to Wight it has foliaceous cotyledons. The seeds of the original species, however, do not yet appear to be known. § 1. JAMBOSA, Rumph.— Calyx fauce ultra ovarium producta, lobis rotundatis eesti- vatione manifeste imbricatis. Petala in anthesin expansa.—F lores seepissime magni vel majuscult. 1. Eucenta (JAmBosaA) Maraccensis, Linn. Eugenia Malaccensis, Linn. Spec. Pl. p. 672; Wight, Ill. Ind. Bot. 2, t. 98. Jambosa domestica, Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1, p. 127, t. 37; Blume, Mus. Bot. p. 91. J. Malaccensis, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 287, et Auct. Has. Feejee, Samoan, Society, and Sandwich Islands: introduced. “Cultivated and intrusive.” Pickering. The imperfect specimen from Tahiti, like that gathered by M. Meerenhout and mentioned by Guillemin (in Zeph. Tait. p. 59), would seem to belong to a different species, having oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, almost membranaceous, and pellucid-punctate leaves. But Dr. Pickering, who was familiarly acquainted with the Red Rose- Apple in different habitats, appears not to have distinguished it. 2. EvcEnta (JamBosa) Rica, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 58.) E. ramulis ultimis quadrangulatis scepius argute marginatis; foliis brevi-petiolatis ovatis oblongisve obtusis basi subcordatis coriaceis venosis (venis infra marginem laxe arcuato-anastomosantibus) impel- MYRTACE &. 511 lucidis opacis ; cyma pluriflora ; pedunculis partialibus subgracilibus ; calycis tubo turbinato, lobis 4 subequalibus.— Variat: foliis maximis ovatis fere pedalibus, seu spithameis, seu anguste oblongis nune aci- tiusculis 5—9-pollicaribus. Has. Feejee Islands: at Ovolau, Rewa, Somu-somu, Muthuata, &c. A “tree 20 feet high,” glabrous, apparently varying considerably in the size and shape of the leaves. Ultimate branches more or less four- angled and sharply margined by 2 salient lines decurrent from the base of each petiole: these are sometimes so prominent as to form wings, while on other branches of the same individual they are obsv- lete or wanting. Leaves coriaceous in texture, and dull, ovate, or more commonly oblong, varying from 5 inches to nearly a foot in length, and from 2 to 6 inches in width, obtuse, cordate at the base by a small sinus, rather sparsely feather-veined and sparingly reticulated, the veins rather obscurely anastomosing within the margin, opaque, only the thinner states showing pellucid dots: the petiole 3 to 6 lines long. Cymes several—many-flowered, terminal, or sometimes axillary; the common peduncle from one to two inches long, articulated, trichoto- mous, with the rather slender partial peduncles usually again divided, about an inch long; the ultimate divisions terminated either by soli- tary, or by three sessile, articulated flowers. Tube of the calyx tur- binate, half an inch or less in length; the short lobes 4, nearly equal, rounded, apparently not enlarged in fruit. Petals probably rose-colour. Stamens and style from an inch to an inch and a half long. Ovary two-celled. Ovules numerous. Fruit not collected. Puate 58.—Evegenta (Jamposa) Ricui: a flowering branch, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Vertical section of a flower, enlarged. 2. Transverse section of the ovary. 3. EvGenra (JAMBOSA) QUADRANGULATA, Sp. Nov. E. ramulis ultimis tetragonis, angulis argute marginatis alatisve ; Foliis brevissime ~petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis vel acuminatis basi obtusis supra lucidis chartaceis pellucido-punctatis crebre penninervues ; 512 PHANEROGAMIA. cyma multiflora; pedunculi communi partialibusque brevissimis, Sructiferis incrassatis ; calycis tubo turbinato, limbo quadrifido ; fructu obovoideo-urceolato. Has. Ovolau, Feejee Islands; common in woods. This is said to be a “shrub, with a weak stem, 10 to 15 feet high; the young stems square.” The ultimate branchlets are sharply four- angled, the angles strongly margined, or often winged. Leaves charta- ceous in texture, rather lucid above, glabrous, as is the whole plant, oblong-lanceolate, with a more or less pointed apex and an obtuse base, on a very short petiole (of about 2 lines in length): they are 7 to 9 lines long, 2 or 3 wide, pellucid-punctate by transmitted light, rather closely feather-veined: the veins running into a submarginal vein. There are only fruiting specimens in the collection, or enlarged ovaries from which the petals, stamens, and style have entirely fallen. The cyme is terminal and solitary, many-flowered and apparently dense, very short-peduncled, its primary, secondary, and_ tertiary branches all very short (2 or 3 lines in length) and much thickened. The immature fructiferous calyx is turbinate and somewhat clavate, 8 or 9 lines long, terete, smooth and even, with a short four-cleft limb; the lobes coriaceous, rounded. Ovary two-celled. Ripe fruit obsvoid and urn-shaped, an inch in length, “red,” crowned with the erect calyx-lobes, one-celled, one-seeded. Cotyledons thickened, cor- neous, united. This should be compared with Jambosa pterocaulis of Korthals, which I know only by the brief phrase copied by Walpers, where the leaves are said to be cordate at the base. 4, KuGEnra (JAMBOSA) NEUROCALYX, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 59.) E. ramulis teretibus; foliis brevissime petiolatis elongato-oblongis seu elliptico-lanceolatis obtusissimis basi subcordatis chartaceis crebre penni- nerviis; floribus in capitulum sessile congestis ; calycis tubo cylin- draceo pluricostato, linbo ampliato fructifero crateriformi quadrilobo, Has. Feejee Islands, at Muthuata and Ovolau: «“ planted near houses.” MYRTACE A. 513 The specimens of this remarkable species are past flowering and with immature fruit. Branches terete, glabrous, like the whole plant. Leaves chartaceous in texture, some of them obscurely pellucid-punc- tate, rather lucid above, elongated-oblong or elliptical-lanceolate, 6 to 9 inches long, about 2 inches wide, very obtuse, subcordate at the base, on a very short petiole (of only a line and a half in length), closely feather-veined ; the primary veins confluent into a lateral vein within the margins. lowers 6 to 10, or perhaps more, large, sessile, aggre- gated into a terminal, or sometimes axillary, sessile capitulum. Calyx- tube after anthesis 6 or 7 lines long, or later 8 or 9 lines long, cylin- draceous, obtuse at the base, ribbed with 10 or 12 salient nerves, above dilated into an expanded crateriform limb, which becomes an inch in diameter, is lined with a broad and depressed disk, and cleft into 4 spreading persistent lobes. Petals and stamens not seen. The per- sistent style 2 to 22 inches long. Stigma minute. Ovules numerous in each cell. PLATE 09.—EHUGENIA (JAMBOSA) NEUROCALYX : branches, past flower- ing, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Vertical section of the calyx and ovary. 2. Transverse section of the ovary, enlarged. d. HUGENIA (JAMBOSA) GRACILIPES, Sp. Nov. £. ramulis gracilibus teretibus; foliis subsessilibus lanceolato-oblongis subacuminatis basi parum cordatis chartaceis pellucido-punctatis penninerviis; pedunculis terminalibus filiformibus folia superantibus uni—trifloris ; calycis tubo turbinato basi acuto, lobis 4 cequalibus. Has. Feejee Islands, at Sandalwood Bay and Ovolau. Apparently a shrub, with slender, terete branches, glabrous. Leaves chartaceous or nearly membranaceous in texture, opposite, danceolate- oblong, somewhat acuminate, slightly cordate at the base, subsessile (the petiole when manifest only a line long), 24 to 4% inches long, 12 to 18 lines wide, somewhat lucid above, more or less manifestly pellucid- punctate, closely feather-veined, the veims confluent into an indistinct infra-marginal vein. Peduncles terminal, filiform, exceeding the leaves (2 or 3 inches long), one-flowered, or commonly di-trichotomous, with 129 514 - PHANEROGAMIA. the pedicels an inch or two in length, minutely bracteolate at the articulation with the acute base of the turbinate calyx-tube, which is only 5 lines long after anthesis. Calyx-lobes 4, equal, rounded, barely 2 lines long. Stamens 8 lines long. Style after anthesis an inch and a half long. Ovary two-celled; the cells many-ovuled. Fruit unknown. This is apparently related to Jambosa hypericifolia, DC., from Java; which, however, is said to have large flowers, on peduncles only an inch long and shorter than the leaves; the latter 4 to 7 inches long, and not dotted. 6. EKuGENIA (JAMBOSA) AUSTRALIS, Wendl. Eugenia australis, Wendl.; Link, Enum. Hort. Berol. 2, p. 28; Colla, Hort. Ripul. App. 1, t. 8. EL. myrtifolia, Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2230; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 525. Jambosa australis, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 286. Has. New South Wales. This is mentioned by Blume as apparently making a transition from Jambosa to his Clavimyrtus. § 2. EUGENTA, DC.—Calyx tubo subrotundo, Jfauce ultra ovarium vix aut ne vix producta, limbo 4-5-partito, lobis sepius leviter imbricatis. Petala in anthesin expansa. Testa seminum tenuis.—Flores parvuli. * Oceanice. 7. EUGENIA RARIFLORA, Benth. (Tab. 60.) E, foliis coriaceis ovalibus late ovatisque breviter petiolatis glabris sub- venosis supra nitidis marginibus subrevolutis 3 pedicellis unifloris solitarius vel geminis (nune quaternis quimsve ad apicem ramorum) ramulisque appresse puberulis folio brevioribus 3 flore bibracteolato ; calycis tubo globuloso-obconico sericeo-pubente limbo wmequaliter quadri- partito subequilongo, lobis rotundatis petalis brevioribus; bacca sub- MYRTACES, 515 globosa.— Variat: foliis crasso-coriaceis basi rotundatis (ut in spec. Benth. descr.), seu ovali-orbiculatis basi acutis apice obtusissimis sepius emarginatis, sew tenuoribus ovalibus oblongisve nune obtuse acuminatis. Eugenia rariflora, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 221. Jossinia cotinifolia, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 62; Guill. Zeph. Tait. p. 58, excl. syn. HAs. Feejee Islands (where it was gathered by Hinds and Barclay) : common on the coasts. Upolu, Samoan Islands. Tahiti, Society: Islands. | Shrub 4 to 6 feet high; the young branchlets and the nascent foliage puberulent with an appressed and fine silky pubescence, gla- brate when old. Leaves coriaceous, sometimes thick, oftener rather thin, glabrous, or occasionally with a fine pubescence on the midrib beneath, shining above, paler and dull underneath, oval or broadly ovate, sometimes verging either to obovate or to oblong, either rounded or acute at the base, obtuse, obtusely somewhat pointed or sometimes notched at the apex, rather veiny, the thinner states pellucid-punctate, the thicker with more or less revolute margins, 2 or 3 inches long, and from one to 24 inches wide; the petiole 2 or 3 lines in length. Pedicels one-flowered, solitary or in pairs in the axils of the leaves, or sometimes 4 or 5 together at the summit of the branches, slender, 6 to 14 lines long, puberulent, bibracteolate at the apex, and these articulated with the flower. Bractlets subulate, small. Culyax-tube between glo- bose-obovoid and obconical, silky-pubescent when young; the limb four- parted almost to the ovary; the lobes fully as long as the tube, rotund, strongly imbricated in estivation (two exterior and two interior) unequal, becoming oval or oblong with age. Petals white, oval or oblong, 4 lines long, somewhat exceeding the lobes of the calyx, expanding, deciduous. Stamens very numerous, as long as the petals, uniformly inserted over a broad and flat puberulent disk, free. Style single: stigma entire. Ovary two-celled. Ovules numerous, crowded on axile placents, angled by mutual pressure, amphitropous. Berry subglobose, glabrous, apparently rather dry, crowned by the persistent lobes of the calyx, from half an inch to three-fourths of an inch in diameter, usually two-celled and two-seeded, when it is often some- what didymous in the dried state and broader than long, or by abor- 516 PHANEROGAMIA. tion one-celled and one-seeded. Seed globose, large, filling the cell, with a very thin and membranous testa. Cotyledons very thick and fleshy, conferruminate; the very short radicle hidden. This appears to be a pretty widely diffused, and somewhat variable, Oceanic species, which may have been formerly described under some other name. It has been taken for a Jossinia by Hooker and Arnott, &c., and it accords with Blume’s character of that genus, except that the seed has a very thin testa. If the fruit of the genuine Jossinve of Mauritius, &c., be as it is characterized by Blume (in Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. p. 119), that genus is indeed near to Hugenia, and not to be definitely distinguished by either of the characters relied upon. For the lobes of the calyx are imbricated in estivation in various degrees in numerous American Hugenie, and in some of them the stamens are inserted over a broad disk.—The plate, representing (not particularly well) only one form of this species (that with thick and rounded or emarginate leaves), was not made under my superinten- dence. I have merely added some sections of the fruit. Puate 60, A—EvuGENIA RARIFLORA (mal.). Fig. 1. A flower-bud, magnified. 2. The same, with part of the calyx and disk cut away, and the petals with most of the stamens removed. 3. The ovary, transversely divided, magnified. 4. Fruit, of the natural size. 5. A two-celled, and 6, a one-celled fruit and seed, transversely divided. x * Brasilienses. (HUGENIZ VER. ) 8. EUGENIA UNIFLORA, Linn. Eugenia uniflora, Linn. Spec. Pl. ed. 1, p. 470; St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 2, p. 348. EL. Michelii, Lam, Dict. 3, p. 203; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 263; Blume, Mus. Bot. p. 86. Has. Rio Janeiro, Brazil; common along the shore of the bay. 9. EUGENIA NEMORALIS, DC. ? 1. ¢. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. MYRTACE #&. 517 10. EuGEentA BrAsILiensis, Lam. Eugenia Brasiliensis, Lam. 1. c.; Cambess. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. 2, p. 354, t. 152; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4526. Has. Rio Janeiro: along the shore. 11. EUGENIA ROTUNDIFOLIA, Casaretto ? Eugenia rotundifolia, Casaretto, Stirp. Nov. Bras. Dec. 4, p. 40? Has. Rio Janeiro; with the preceding. (In fruit only.) 12.. EUGENIA XANTHOXYLOIDES, Camb. Eugenia xanthoxyloides, Cambess. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 2, p. 866, ex char. Has. Near Rio Janeiro. (In young fruit.) 13. EUGENIA TENELLA, DC. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil, in the vicinity of Rio Janeiro. 14. EuGEntA SALZMANNI, Benth. Eugenia Salzmanni, Benth. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 319. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. 15. EvuGENIA ARENARIA, Camb. Eugenia arenaria, Cambess. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 2, p. 349? Has. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 180 518 PHANEROGAMIA. There are besides incomplete and indeterminable specimens of two or three more Eugenie in the Brazilian collection. § 3. SYZYGIUM, Gertn., excl. spec. (Syzygium & Acmena, DC., Endl. Syllysium, Meyen & Schauer.) —Calyx tubo turbinato obovato vel clavato, Sauce ultra ovarium modice producta, margine repando-truncato vel subquadrilobo. Petala in calyptram pl. m. coalita, sub anthest dejecta, rariusve expansa sed caduca, interdum abortiva. Seminis testa tenuis. Only a slight artificial character separates Acmena of DeCandolle from Syzygium, and that an inconstant one in certain species, which cast off their petals indifferently either before or at the time of expan- sion. If Acmena be retained as a subgenus, therefore, it were doubt- less better to refer to it, as Wight has done, species which throw off their corolla unexpanded, but which have the elongated calyx- tube. Acmena would thus constitute a group between Clavimyrtus and Syzygium, but passing by continuous gradations into the latter. * Novo-Hollandice ; petalis parvis in anthesin expansis. (AcMENA, DC.) 16. Eveenta (AcMENA) Suita, Powr. Eugenia Smithit, Poir. Dict. Suppl. 8, p. 127. E, elliptica, Smith, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 3, p. 281, non Lam. Metrosideros floribunda, Smith, 1. c. p. 267; Vent. Hort. Malm. t. 75. Acmena floribunda, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 262. Has. Sydney, New South Wales. (In flower.) * * Novo-Zelandice ; floribus forte polygamis, petalis nonnunguam expansis. 17. Eucrenta (Syzycium) Maire, A. Cunn. Eugenia Maire, A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. in Ann. Nat. Hist. 8, p. 115; Hook. f. FI. N. Zeal. p. 71. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. The specimens, in flower only, appear to have sterile ovaries, MYRTACES. 519 although they contain a few ovules. The calyx is nearly as in the foregoing: its margin is obscurely five-toothed. The petals some- times expand and fall separately, but more commonly are thrown off together in anthesis, although slightly if at all coalescent. x * * Sandwicenses; an petalis expansis ? 18. Eugenta (Syzyeium) SANDWICENSIS, Sp. Nov. E. ramulis ultimis tetragonis, angulis argute marginatis ; foliis obovatis oblongisve basi cuneatis apice rotundatis vel obtusis pellucido-punctatis subtus pallidioribus venis tenuibus crebre penninerviis reticulatis ; pedunculis axillaribus folio brevioribus ; cyma trichotoma plurifiora ; pedicellis brevissimis; calyce turbinato, limbo brevissimo quadrilobo staminibus pauciusculis via breviore ; bacca globosa. Var. 2. foltis minoribus nunc obovato-ellipticis aut ovalibus. Has. Oahu, Sandwich Islands; on the mountains behind Hono- lulu: both forms. (Also gathered by Gaudichaud, Macrae, &c.) Island of Kauai: foliage only. The typical form (of which alone the fruit was collected) is said to be a tree, of 20 feet in height; while what I take for merely a small- leaved variety of the same is mentioned, if I rightly identify it, as a low shrub. Branches, as well as the whole plant, glabrous; the leafy branchlets four-sided, with sharply margined angles. Leaves coriaceous, not very thick, obovate or oblong, cuneate at the base, 3 to 4% inches long, or in the variety inclining to obovate-elliptical or oval, and only 14 to 2 inches long, all very obtuse or rounded at the summit, green above, somewhat pale underneath, pellucid-pwnctate, coprously feather-veined with fine veins, connected by reticulated veinlets on the under surface, and within the margins confluent into the usual false vein. Petiole 3 or 4 lines long. Peduncles axillary, solitary, rather slender, angled, shorter than the leaf, bearing a small, once or twice trichotomous cyme, of several or numerous flowers, on very short pedicels. Flower-buds a line and a half long, subclavate or twrbinate ; the limb of the calyx very short, but four-lobed, the sinuses extending, 520 PHANEROGAMIA. however, nearly to the edge of the subcampanulate disk. Petals 4, not over a line long, probably expanding in anthesis, caducous. Stamens rather few, apparently about 20, little longer than the lobes of the calyx, less than a line long, inserted on the edge of the disk: filaments glandular-dotted. Style shorter than the stamens. Ovary two-celled, with 10 or more ovules in each cell. Berry globular, “as large as a cherry,” containing one or two seeds, which, as likewise the embryo, accord with those of Eugenia. This is one of the connecting forms between Eugenia, Acmena and Syzygium; with the habit rather of the latter. The collection from Oahu contains the foliage only of another Myrtaceous plant, probably a Hugenia. x x * * Malaysiane. 19. Evucenta (Syzyeium?) ZEYLANICA. Myrtus Zeylanica, Linn. Spec. Pl. p. 472 (Herm. Hort. Lugd. t. 435). Syzygium Zeylanicum, DO. Prodr. 3, p. 260; Wight & Arn. Prodr. Ind. p. 330; Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. 1, t. 73. Acmena? parviflora, DC. Prodr. 38, p. 462. Has. Singapore. The limb of the calyx is “evidently five-lobed,” as DeCandolle remarks; but the corolla appears to fall off as a lid. It would perhaps fall into Blume’s genus Microjambosa. 20. Eugenia (Syzycrum) BenTHamt. Syzygium nitidum, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 221. Has. Mangsi Islands, in the Sooloo Archipelago. (Also? Singa- pore: foliage only.) There are 8 or 10 ovules in each cell of the ovary. In Mr. Ben- tham’s plant, the cells are said to contain only two or three ovules, MYRTACE A. 521 * * * x * Polynesice. } Flores parvi vel parvuli. 21. Eugenta (SyzYGIuM) INOPHYLLOIDES, Sp. Nov. E. foliis ovalibus oblongisve basi acutis apice subito in acumen obtusum productis coriaceis supra nitidis venis subtransversis tenuibus creber- rime lineato-penninervits reticulatis in venam margint parallelam confluentibus ; cymis parvis terminalibus foliis breviortbus conferti- floris; calycis margine repando-quadridentato. Has. Tutuila, one of the Samoan or Navigators’ Islands; common on a wooded ridge, at the elevation of 500 feet. “A small tree,” in foliage, &c., considerably resembling EF. (Syzy- gium, DC.) inophylla, Roxb. Branchlets slender, slightly angled, gla- brous, as is the whole plant. Leaves oval, oblong or elliptical, 2 or 3 inches long, 15 to 18 lines wide, very abruptly acuminate into a narrow but obtuse apex of 2 or 3 lines in length, acute or abruptly contracted at the base into a petiole of only 2 or 3 lines long, coria- ceous, shining on the upper surface, the lower dull, nervosely and very closely feather-veined with fine and nearly transverse parallel veins, which are likewise more or less reticulated in narrow areole, and just within the margin confluent into a rather conspicuous false vein. Cymes terminal, corymbose, short-peduncled, scarcely well developed in the specimens (which bear only flower-buds), but shorter than the leaves, the divisions all very short; the flowers crowded, short-pedicellate; barely a line and a half long. Calyx turbinate, with a minutely but distinctly repand-four-toothed margin. The inflorescence is too young to ascertain whether the corolla falls off like a lid. Ovules several in each cell. 22. EuGENIA (SyzyGiuM) BRACKENRIDGEI, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 61.) S. ramis validis; foltis oblongo-cuneatis vel obovatis obtusissimis in petiolum attenwatis crasso-coriaceis supra lucidulis creberrime penni- 131 529 PHANEROGAMLIA. nerviis, venis in venam intramarginalem decurrentibus, venulis reti- culatis; cyma terminali sessili fastigiata, divisionibus repitito-tricho- tomis brevibus incrassatis apice glomerulifloris; calycis margie repando-quadrilobo. Has. Feejee Islands: on Ovolau, at the elevation of 1,500 feet; also lower. A tree, the larger form 30 feet high, glabrous throughout; the flowering branches stout, obscurely angled. Leaves varying in size in different specimens, from 2 to 6 inches, or on sterile shoots even 9 inches in length, thick and coriaceous, somewhat shining above, dull and rather paler underneath, punctate, obovate with a cuneate base, oblong-cuneate, or oblong-oblanceolate, very obtuse or even retuse at the apex, contracted at the base into a petiole half an inch long; the midrib stout: from it proceed from 25 to 50 slender but rather con- spicuous straight veins on each side, which are decurrent into a direct intramarginal vein, and numerous interposed veinlets, which are more or less reticulated. Cyme terminal and sessile, many-flowered, dense, flat-topped, repeatedly trichotomous, its ramifications all thickened and angled; the primary and secondary rays about half an inch long; the others much shorter, usually very short, articulated, terminated by several sessile flowers im a cluster. Bracts and bractlets very short, thick, round-ovate, rather persistent. Unexpanded flower-buds (which alone occur on the specimens) a quarter of an inch long, fleshy, glabrous, turbinate. Limb of the calyx repandly jfour-lobed ; the lobes very short and broad indeed, but distinct, rounded, two of them exterior and two interior in exstivation. After anthesis the short calyx-lobes probably become obsolete, as in S. nitidwm and other species. Corolla forming a short umbonate operculum; the petals separable, but evidently falling away in connexion without expand- ing. Stamens very numerous, inflexed in estivation, in the manner of the genus, into the deep throat of the calyx. Style subulate: stigma obtuse. Ovary two-celled, with very thick walls. Ovules numerous (12 or more) in each cell. Fruit unknown. Puate 61, A—Eueenia (Syzycrum) BRACKENRIDGE: branches, of the smaller and the largest-leaved forms, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Flower-bud, with the operculate corolla detached. 2. Vertical section MYRTACE &. 523 ad of the same. 3. Transverse section of the ovary.—The details en- larged. 23. EucEnia (SYZYGIUM) CONFERTIFLORA, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 61.) E. foliis obovatis vel suboblongis retusis basi in petiolum brevem angus- tatis coriaceis pallidis tenwiter penninerviis, venis vix reticulatis im venam intramarginalem confluentibus ; cymis terminalibus et in axillis supremis compositis fastigiatis densifloris folia via superantibus, divisionibus primariis gracilibus via angulatis, ultimis brevibus apice glomerulifloris; floribus parvis; ealycis margine quadrilobo. Has. Ovolau, Feejee Islands. Apparently a shrub or small tree, glabrous, with rather slender and terete, gray branches; the new shoots slightly ferrugineous. Leaves crowded, 14 to 24 inches long, obovate, varying to oblong, but all narrowed at the base into a short petiole, obtuse or mostly retuse at the apex, coriaceous but thin, dull and pale both sides, or the upper at first somewhat lucid, scarcely punctate, rather closely feather- veined, the veins parallel, almost transverse, slender, little reticulated, confluent into a false vein within the margin. Cymes terminal and in the uppermost axils, compound, fastigiate, dense, more or less peduncled, little exceeding the leaves, its principal divisions slender, slightly angled, not over half an inch long, minutely lepidote and rusty; the succes- sive ones shorter; the ultimate ones with the subsessile and small flowers densely clustered at their apex. Bracts very small, ovate, obtuse, None of the flowers are expanded in the specimens. Flower-buds a line and a half long. Calyx turbinate, slightly produced beyond the ovary; the thin margin distinctly four-lobed ; the lobes short and rounded. Corolla convex in the bud, perhaps falling away as a lid; but the petals are readily separable. Ovary two-celled; the cells with about 15 ovules. Fruit unknown. Puate 61, B—Evcenta (SyzyGiuM) CONFERTIFLORA: a branch with flower-buds, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Flower-bud, with the oper- culate corolla detached. 2. Vertical section of the same. 3. Trans- verse section of the ovary.—The details enlarged. 524 PHANEROGAMIA. 24, Evueenta (Syzycium) EFFusA, Sp. Nov. E. foliis obovatis subretusis basi acutis breviter petiolatis coriaceis opacis, venis haud perspicuis; cymis terminalibus decompositis corymbosis diffusis laxe multifloris; pedunculis folia superantibus, primaris et secundariis gracilibus acute tetragonis ; calycis margine repando. Has. Sandalwood Bay, Vanua-levu, Feejee Islands. Probably a small tree (the size not recorded), glabrous throughout, with slender ash-gray branches: the ultimate branchlets somewhat four-angled, very leafy. Leaves obovate, or elliptical-obovate, an inch and a half long, very obtuse, somewhat retuse, all narrowed and acute at the base, short-petioled, coriaceous but not very thick, opaque, dull, punctate; the midrib conspicuous; the veins scarcely visible; a very obscure false vein close to the revolute margin. Cymes terminal, decompound, 3 or 4 inches long, trichotomous, diffusely spreading, loosely many-flowered: peduncles or primary branches of the inflores- cence 1% to 2 inches long, slender, as also their successive spreading divisions, «cutely four-angled; the ultimate pedicels a line or two in length. Bractlets minute, caducous. Flower-buds a line long: most of the specimens are past anthesis. Calyx turbinate; the free margin merely repand, dilated after flowering. Corolla hemispherical in the bud, falling off unopened. Stamens rather short. Ovules 8 to 10 in each cell. Fruit not seen. 25. Eugenia (Syzyeium) Amicorum, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 62.) E. folus oblongo-lanceolatis utrinque subacuminatis subcoriaceis opacis ereberrime ac tenuiter penninervis reticulatis; cymis terminalibus decompositis effusis multifloris folia equantibus ; pedunculis primariis et partialibus gracilibus compressis; floribus pedicellatis; alabastris subglobosis ; calycis margine repando ; fructu depresso-globoso. Has. Tongatabu (in flower). Feejee Islands (in fruit). A tree or shrub (the size not recorded), glabrous throughout, with MYRTACES. 525 slender, terete branches and branchlets. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, subacuminate at both ends, or sometimes obtuse, 3 to 5 inches long, rather coriaceous, usually dull and pale both sides, opaque, scarcely punctate, closely feather-veined, the reticulated veins slender but conspi- cuous, especially underneath, oblique, the intramarginal false vein rather obscure. Petiole 2 to 5 lines long. Cymes terminal, decompound, effusely many-flowered, equalling the leaves, somewhat paniculate; the primary and partial peduncles slender, compressed, about an inch long ; the ultimate and penultimate divisions umbellately fascicled: pedicels one or 2 lines long. Bracts and bractlets very caducous, probably minute. J lower-buds globular, scarcely a line in diameter. Calyx with a repandly four-lobed margin. Petals small, cohering in a lid, which falls off in anthesis. Stamens only a line long. Ovules about 7 in each cell. Fruit a depressed-globose berry, 3 lines in diameter, one-celled, one-seeded; the margin of the calyx truncate, not pro- duced. Seed globose; the thick cotyledons peltately attached to the slender included radicle. This may be the Hugenia? paniculata, mentioned but not charac- terized by Forster (Prodr. p. 90, not of Lam.), so far as can be judged from some notes on an imperfect original specimen, although that has nearly sessile leaves. The Syzygium paniculatum of Gertner, as Mr. Bennett obligingly informs me, is founded neither on Forster's speci- mens, nor on a species from Isle Bourbon, as DeCandolle supposed, but on a widely different plant, of uncertain genus, collected at Botany Bay, by Banks and Solander. PLate 62.—EKueenta (Syzyerum) Amicorum: a flowering branch, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Flower, the operculate corolla detached. 2. Vertical section of a flower-bud. 3. Transverse section of the ovary. 4. Fruit, of the natural size. 5. Transverse section of the same, and of the embryo. 6. The embryo. 7. Same, with the coty- ledons separated.—The analyses magnified. 26. EuGENIA (SyzYGIUM) RUBESCENS, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 63.) E. foliis oblongis sew lanceolato-ellipticis utrinque acuminatis subcoriaceis opacis crebre ac tenuiter penninerviis ; cymis terminalibus paniculato- decompositis patentibus folia multo superantibus ; pedunculis primariis 132 526 PHANEROGAMIA. et partialibus gracilibus teretiusculis; calyce clavato-turbinato rubes- cente, margine tenui repando-subyuadrilobo. Has. Ovolau, Feejee Islands; in woods, at the height of 1,500 feet. Probably a tree (the size not recorded), glabrous throughout, with slender terete branches and branchlets. Leaves oblong or elliptical- lanceolate, more or less acuminate at both ends, about 3 inches long by 12 to 20 lines in width, rather coriaceous, opaque, pale beneath, dull above, slightly punctate, closely feather-veined as in the preceding species, but the slender veins less oblique and reticulated; the intra- marginal false vein inconspicuous. Petiole 3 or 4 lines long. Cyme terminal, decompound, paniculate, spreading, very many-flowered, about 6 inches in length and breadth; the peduncles and their divaricate divisions slender, almost terete; the pedicels slender, one-flowered, or oftener three-flowered at their apex. Bracts and bractlets minute, very caducous. Calyx turbinate-club-shaped (dilated at the summit, the tube tapering down to the articulation at its pedicelliform base), tinged with red or purple, 24 lines long, produced beyond the ovary into a campanulate cup; the thin margin repandly four-lobed ; the lobes very short, at length deciduous. Petals flesh-colour, small, lightly coherent into a lid which falls off without expanding. Stamens flesh- colour, nearly 3 lines long. Ovary two-celled. Ovules 8 or 10 in each cell. Fruit not seen. In the form of the calyx, as well as in foliage and habit, this species bears no slight resemblance to Eugenia Smithii, the Acmena floribunda of DeCandolle, with which it is certainly congeneric, although the petals are lightly coherent and are thrown off without expanding. PLATE 63.—EuGENIA (SYZYGIUM) RUBESCENS: flowering branch, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Flower-bud. 2. Expanded flower, with the corolla, 3, detached. 4. Vertical section of a flower. 5. Transverse section of the ovary.—The details magnified. 27. EKuGENIA (SyZyGium) coRyNocARPA, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 64.) E. folis elliptico-lanceolatis oblongisve subacuminatis basi acutis breviter MYRTACE &. 527 petiolatis fere membranaceis laxe penninervits, venis intra marginem arcuato-anastomosantibus ; cymis paniculatis decompositis folia supe- rantibus ; pedunculis partialibus gracilibus divaricatis ; calyce clavato, limbo subintegro; fructu clavato-fusiformi ; semine oblongo. Has. Feejee, Samoan or Navigators’ (and Society?) Islands. (Probably through some mistake one of the specimens is ticketed, “ Tahiti.”) Apparently a tree (the size not recorded), with slender and spread- ing terete branches, glabrous throughout. Leaves nearly membra- naceous in texture, dull both sides, scarcely paler beneath, elliptical- lanceolate or oblong, more or less acuminate, acute at the base, about 4 inches long and an inch and a half wide, on a short petiole of a line or two in length, somewhat pellucid-punctate, loosely feather-veined ; the veins rather conspicuous, sparingly reticulated underneath, mostly confluent into an undulate false vein a little distance within the margin. Cymes terminal and sometimes axillary, ample, decompound, paniculate, diffuse, 5 to 8 inches in length, peduncled; the slender partial peduncles divaricately spreading, terete, many-flowered; the ultimate divisions 3—5-flowered. Bracts and bractlets minute, cadu- cous. Flowers subsessile on the ultimate ramifications, divergent ; the flower-buds club-shaped, 2 to 3 lines long, including the pedicel- like base. Calyx clavate; the summit produced beyond the ovary and subglobose in the bud, dilated after anthesis; the margin trun- eate, nearly entire, or obscurely repand-four-toothed, the broad teeth at length deciduous. Corolla of 4 rounded small petals, coherent in a lid, which falls off entire in anthesis. Stamens numerous, inserted just within the edge of the calyx, not collected in phalanges, inflexed in westivation, 2 to 3 lines long. Style as long as the stamens: stigma simple. Ovary two-celled, with 8 or 10 ovules in each cell. Frwit fleshy, becoming dry? clavate or spindle-shaped, almost an inch long, 83 or 4 lines wide, one-celled, one-seeded. Seed oblong, with a very thin testa. Cotyledons oblong, fleshy, not very thick, not conferruminate, but sinuously embracing each other, peltately attached near their middle to the slender and straight, included, superior radicle. The fruit as well as the ovary is inodorous and tasteless. This ambiguous plant has the embryo as well as the elongated 528 PHANEROGAMIA. calyx-tube of Caryophyllus, but the other characters are those of Syzygium, although the fruit is more elongated than usual. It is probably a congener of Blume’s three Javan species referred to Caryo- phyllus in DeCandolle’s Prodromus, although the flower-buds are insipid and inodorous: but it cannot be generically separated from the preceding species and its near allies. Pate 64,—EvGENtA (SYZYGIUM) CORYNOCARPA: branches in flower and in fruit, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Vertical section of a flower- bud. 2. A flower, with the corolla separating as a lid. 3. Trans- verse section of the ovary. 4. A fruit. 5. Vertical section of the same, showing the seed, &c. 6. Transverse section of a fruit and seed. 7. Embryo. 8. The same, with the cotyledons separated.— The details magnified. +t Flores majores; limbo calycis magis quadrilobo, lobis estivatione imbricatis demum sepius deciduis. (Transitus ad Microjambosam, Blume.) 28. Kucrnta (Syzye@rum) cLust@ro.iA, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 65.) EL. foliis obovatis seu ovalibus basi cuneatis apice rotundatis nune retusis chartaceis creberrime penninerviis reticulatis supra lucidis ; cymis ter- minalibus decompositis paniculato-corymbosis multifloris ; pedunculis teretibus; alabastris obovoideo-turbinatis carnosis ; calycis margine tenur repando-quadrilobo. Has. Samoan Islands, Tutuila and Savaii: on rocks near the sea. Apparently a tree of considerable size, glabrous throughout, with terete branchlets. Leaves obovate or inclining to oval, with a cuneate base, rounded and often retuse at the apex, sometimes rather apiculate, 4 or 5 inches long, 24 to 8 broad, chartaceous or somewhat coriaceous, green both sides, dull beneath, Zuecid above, pellucid-punctate, conspi- cuously feather-veined with very close and slender somewhat transverse veins, which run almost straight to near the margin, where they unite with a slender intramarginal vein; the veinlets reticulated. Petiole 4 or 5 lines long. Cymes apparently collected in an ample compound corymbose panicle, of 8 or 10 inches in length; the peduncles and their MYRTACE &. 529 ~_ ramifications ¢erefe, spreading, rather stout: pedicels very short. Flowers very numerous ; the buds obovoid-turbinate, thick, 4 lines long, including the pedicelliform base. Calyx very fleshy, produced beyond the ovary; the truncate thin margin repandly somewhat four-lobed ; the lobes short and broad, doubtless deciduous. Corolla rather large, falling off as a lid in anthesis. Stamens very numerous, 5 or 6 lines long. Ovary two-celled; the cells several-ovuled. Fruit not seen. This is certainly a Syzygium, and a well-marked and _ peculiar species, with its lineately-veined leaves not unlike ‘those of a Clusia in appearance. A sterile shoot perhaps of this species was gathered at Tongatabu. Puate 65.—EuGENIA (SYZYGIUM) CLUSLEZFOLIA: a branch, in flower, of the natural size. Fig. 1. A flower-bud, with the corolla becoming detached. 2. Vertical section of a flower. 3. Transverse section of the ovary.—The details magnified. 29. Eugenra (Syzyeium?) TurviLensis, Sp. Nov. E. foliis oblongis seu ellipticis utrinque subobtusis chartaceis crebre penni- nervis, venis intra marginem in venam falsam nune duplicem con- Jluentibus ; cyma terminali pluriflora foliis breviore; alabastris (par- vulis) haud pedicellatis obovatis ; calycis limbo breviter quadrilobo. Has. Tutuila, one of the Navigators’ or Samoan Islands. There is only a miserable specimen in the collection, with unex- panded flowers. Branches terete. Leaves 5 to 7 inches long, 2 or 3 inches wide, chartaceous in texture, glabrous, as is the whole plant, somewhat lucid, oblong or elliptical, obtuse at both ends, or abruptly somewhat contracted at the apex into a very obtuse and short acumi- nation, closely feather-veined ; the veins straight, sparingly reticulated, connected within the margin by a false vein, and often with another less distinct one close to the margin. Petioles 4 or 5 lines long. Cyme terminal, small, rather simple, raised on a peduncle nearly an inch long, much shorter than the leaves. lowers sessile in threes or fives at the extremity of the divergent partial peduncles. /lower- buds obovate, with an acute base, only 3 lines long; the limb of the 133 530 PHANEROGAMIA. calyx rather distinctly four-lobed; the lobes short and broad, imbri- cated in estivation. The corolla apparently falls off without expand- ing. The flowers are small, but the foliage appears like that of a Jambosa. 30. Evgenia (SyzyGium?) SAVAIENSIS, Sp. Nov. E. foliis membranaceis oblongis basi acutis apice acuminatis laxe penni- nerviis, venis intra marginem arcuato-anastomosantibus ; cyinis corym- bosis multifloris; pedunculis partialibus subangulatis, ultimis brevis- simis incrassatis ; alabastris obovato-clavatis (semipollicaribus) ; calycis margine repando-quadrilobo. Has. Savaii, one of the Samoan or Navigators’ Islands. Probably a tree of considerable size; glabrous throughout. Leaves membranaceous, green both sides, dull, 7 to 9 inches long and 3 or 4 wide in the middle, oblong-lanceolate or oblong, conspicuously and acutely acuminate, the base acute or somewhat acuminate, loosely feather-veined ; the veins oblique, somewhat branched, arcuate and anastomosed some distance within the margin, but not forming a dis- tinct intramarginal vein. Petiole an inch or more in length, slender. Cyme corymbose, many-flowered, peduncled, shorter than the leaves, its thickish branches somewhat two-edged ; the ultimate divisions very short, bearing about 3 subsessile flowers. Flower-buds obovate-clavate, fully half an inch long, including the acute base, above 3 lines in diameter. Calyx produced considerably beyond the ovary; the margin repandly Jour-lobed ; the lobes very short and broad, probably deciduous from the fruit. Petals forming a convex lid in the bud, readily detached from the base, and probably falling away together in anthesis; but they are only slightly coherent. Stamens very numerous, two-thirds -of an inch long. Fruit not seen. The specimen of this ambiguous plant is a very imperfect one. Perhaps the petals expand in anthesis. This and the foregoing species have the habit of Jambosa, and should perhaps be referred to Micrqjambosa ; but the lobes of the calyx are not more manifest than in many Syzygia. MYRTACE ZA, 531 31. EuGEnta (SYZYGIUM?) BREVIFOLIA, Sp. Nov. E. foliis parvis ovato-oblongis obtusis basi rotundatis subsessilibus sub- coriaceis punctatis subtus leviter penninerviis; cymis terminalibus parvis; pedunculis ramulisque tetragonis ; bacca (magna) ovoidea. Has. On the mountains of Tutuila, one of the Samoan Islands, at the elevation of 2,500 feet. There is only a single, fruiting branch of this plant in the collec- tion; apparently from a shrub. Branches very leafy, glabrous, as is the whole specimen; the slender branchlets, as well as the short and few cymose peduncles, quadrangular, the angles acute. Leaves small, an inch or less in length, evate-oblong, obtuse, or slightly and obtusely pointed, rounded at the base, subsessile (the petioles only half a line long), coriaceous in texture, dull, pellucid-punctate by transmitted light, lightly feather-veined beneath. Flowers not seen. Mature fruit ovoid, baccate, large for the foliage, half an inch long and almost of that diameter near the base, narrowed at the summit, which is deeply umbilicate; the calyx-teeth probably short, but deciduous: within one-celled, two-seeded. Cotyledons orbiculate, fleshy, peltate. There are in the collection undeterminable sterile branches of several Myrtacece, probably species of Eugenia, from the Samoan, Friendly, Feejee, and Mangsi Islands, and from Luzon. 8. MYRCIA, DC 1. Myrcta exsucca, Mart. Myrcia exsucca, Mart. in DC. Prodr. 3, p. 247; St. Hil. Fl. Bras. 2, p. 316. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. (Foliage only.) 2. MyrcrA PUBESCENS, Mart. 1. c. Has. Brazil, in the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro. 532 PHANEROGAMIA. 3. Myrcta ELuIpticA, Gardn. Myrcia elliptica, Gardn. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 352. Has. Brazil, in the Organ Mountains, near Rio Janeiro. 4. Myrcia spH@RocarPA, DC. 1. c. Has. Rio Janeiro, Brazil: also from the Organ Mountains, appa- rently a variety with broader and very obtuse leaves. 5. MyYRcIA FERRUGINEA, DC. 1. c. Has. Organ Mountains, and in the vicinity of Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 6. Myrcta prunirouia, DC. 1. c. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. (In fruit.) 7. MyRcIA ELLIPTICIFOLIA, Camb. Myrcia ellipticifolia, Cambess. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 2, p. 312. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. 8. Myrcra Pseupo-Min1, DC. 1. ¢. Has. Organ Mountains, or near Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 9. Myrcra rAMULOSA, DC. 1. ¢. Has. Near Rio Janeiro. (In flower only.) MYRTACES, 533 10. Myrcta Ertopus, Mart. Myrcia Eriopus, Mart. in DC. Prodr. 3, p. 255. Has. Organ Mountains, near Rio Janeiro, Brazil. (In fruit.) 11. Myrcta sprcrasiiis, DC. Myrcia spectabilis, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 248; Cambess. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. 2, p. 299. Haz. Organ Mountains, Brazil. (With undeveloped flowers only.) 12. Myrcia Brownrana, Gardn. Myrcia Browniana, Gardn. in Hook. Lond. Sour. Bot. 2, p. 354. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil: in forests. Gardner collected this striking species in flower only. Our speci- mens have only the full-grown fruit. This is globose, nearly two- thirds of an inch in diameter, containing two proportionally large seeds, with a thin and chestnut-coloured testa: the embryo as in the genus. 13. MyRciA SUBSERICEA, Sp. Nov. M. foliis breviter petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis sensim acutissime acumi- nates transverse lineato-multinervatis supra glabris subtus ramulisque pube appressisima argenteo-sericeis nitentibus ; pedunculis petiolum superantibus paucifloris; floribus sessilibus bracteatis ; calyce bracteis- que argenteo-sericets, Has. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. (Foliage, with peduncles, from which the flowers have fallen.) Also gathered by Macrae, with unexpanded flower-buds, and by Pohl (No. 1047). 134 534 PHANEROGAMIA. This plant apparently has been gathered by several collectors, but I do not find it anywhere described. It is remarkable for the fine satin-like and silvery sheen of the lower face of its leaves, as in some Malpighiacew. These are 6 or 7 inches long by 12 to 2 in width, on petioles of 3 lines in length, oblong-lanceolate, acute at the base, and tapering gradually into a slender and very acute point at the apex, chartaceous, pellucid-punctate, transversely and closely nervosely veined (like a Chrysophyllum); the veins confluent into a marginal vein. Both sides are silvery-silky in the nascent foliage; but the upper face is soon glabrous and bright green. Peduncles axillary, half an inch to an inch long, bearing several sessile flowers apparently in a small condensed cyme, the silky buds subtended by silky oblong- lanceolate bracts. Expanded flowers not seen. The obovoid calyx however has a five-cleft limb, the lobes imbricated in exstivation; the throat silky inside. Ovary two-celled, with 2 ovules in each cell. 14. Myrcra rostrata, DC. ? Myrcia rostrata, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 255? Cambess. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. 2, p. 320. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. 15. Myrcta seprartaA, DC? lc. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. There are specimens of two or three more species, probably of this genus, but not in a state for determination. 4, MARLIEREA, &. Hil. 1. MARLIEREA SUAVEOLENS, St. Hil. Marlierea suaveolens, St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 2, p. 874, t. 156. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. MYRTACE &. 535 The specimens, with unexpanded flower-buds, exactly accord with the description and figure above-cited, only the leaves are mostly larger. 2. MARLIEREA EXCORTICATA, Mart. Marlierea excorticata, Mart. Herb. Bras. no. 59, & in Flora, 20, Beibl. p. 88. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. This, which is also Pohl’s No. 1083, has the branchlets glabrous (not ferrugineous), and the leaves are mostly broader, and obtuser (or rounded, instead of tapering) at the base, than in the plant of Martius, of which it appears to be only a marked variety. The peduncle and the branches of the trichotomous cyme are compressed. The flower-buds are unexpanded. 5. LUMA, Nov. Gen. Calyx tubo turbinato vel subgloboso; limbo quadripartito (rarissime quinquepartito), lobis cestivatione wmbricatis. Petala, stamina, ete. Kumyrti. Ovarium triloculare, raro biloculare; placentis in locu- lorum angulo centrali pluriovulatis. Bacca subglobosa, calycis limbo coronata, bi-trilocularis (dissepimentis quandoque evanidis), oligo— pleiosperma. Semina reniformi-rotundata sew lenticularia; testa membranacea a nucleo libera. Embryo cyclico-curvatus: cotyledones sat magne, ovales vel orbiculate, radicula preelonga semicincte vel fere circumdate, aut plane subcarnose radiculee accumbentes, aut foliacece varioque modo contortuplicate.—Frutices vel arbores Chilenses, fra- grantes; foliis coriaceis; pedunculis axillaribus uni—plurifioris ; petalis albis. The species here associated have been variously referred, some of them to Hugenia, others to Myrtus: but they evidently belong to neither, as the full details of Plate 66, elaborated with extreme care and ability by Mr. Sprague, will abundantly show. From Myrtus, 536 PHANEROGAMIA. with which they accord in the long and curved radicle, they are dis- tinguished by the ample cotyledons, and the membranaceous testa of the seed (unless, indeed, Lwma Temu and its immediate allies should prove to have a hard seed-coat): from Eugenia they are still more widely distinguished by the number of the seeds (from 3 to 10 usually maturing), by the elongated radicle coiled partly or nearly round the broad and thin cotyledons; which, although rather fleshy when plane, and strikingly folded and crumpled together in certain species, are not at all united. The cotyledons when contortuplicate much resemble those of Myrcia ; but the ovules are indefinitely nume- rous in each cell. For the genus, thus defined, I have adopted one of the native names of a Myrtaceous tree (Myrtus Luma of Molina), which in all probability belongs to this group, and which has the merit of being both short and euphonious.* * 1. Luma Cuexen. (Tab. 66.) L. foliis ovatis ovali-rotundis seu ovato-oblongis apiculato-acuminatis subcoriaceis concoloribus subtus penninerviis glabris vel glabratis, novellis margine costaque subtus cum ramulis pubescentibus ; pedun- culis folium cequantibus vel superantibus uni—tri-(nune quinque-) floris, jlore intermedio subsessili; bracteolis minutis caducissimis; calycis lobis rotundatis petalisque 4; cotyledonibus planis. * Besides the species comprised in the present collection, or mentioned in the text, the following, which I possess in flower only, probably belong to the genus :— Eugenia planipes, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Mise. 3, p. 323, from Childe and Valdivia; which is allied to Z. Temu. Myrtus multiflora, Juss., DC. Prodr. 8, p. 240; or, at least a plant from Gay’s Chilian collection wrongly named “ Lugenia multiflora, Hook.,”’ which accords with DeCandolle’s character, and is pentamerous! If it belong here it is the only penta- merous species known to me. Eugenia leptospermoides, DO. Prodr. 8, p. 266; or, at least Gay’s plant referred by Barneoud to that species ; which should have been compared with the originals, at hand in two Parisian herbaria, instead of being guessed at. Eugenia Gayana, Barneoud, in Gay, FI. Chil. 2, p. 390, a handsome, small-leaved species. Also, Eugenia Bridgesii, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Misc. 3, p. 322, which I do not possess, evidently belongs to the emu group. Eugenia Cumingii, E. ovata, and E. Selkirkii, and Myrtus? Fernandeziana, Hook, & Arn. 1. ¢. are unknown to me; as also are Myrtus Coquimbensis, and Eugenia mari- ttma of Barneoud, in Gay’s Flora Chilena. MYRTACEZ. 537 Myrtus folio subrotundo vulgd Cheken, Feuill. Obs. 8, p. 45, t. 82. M. Cheken, Spreng. Syst. 2, p. 85, excl. syn. (“ Hugenia Cheken, Molina,” non est. ) Eugenia Chekan & E. ? apiculata, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 276, 278. Myrtus Luma, Molina, Stor. Nat. Chil. p. 178, 8352? haud Gay. Var. a. foliis ovalebus oblongisve utringue acutis; pedunculis plerisque unifloris. Eugenia Cheken, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 56, & Bot. Misc. 8, p. 320; Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 290. Myrtus Luma, Schauer, in Rel. Meyen. p. 332 ;—itaque M. Moline, Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 381. Var. 8. foliis late ovatis rotundisve basi aut acutis aut obtusis vel rotun- datis apice subito cuspidatis; radicula (an semper?) cotyledonibus vix longiore. Myrtus Luma, Spreng. Syst. Veg. 2, p. 484? Eugenia apiculata, Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Misc. 3, p. 821; Gay, Fl. Chil. 1. c. (Var. y. foliis obovato-oblongis plerumque cuspidato-acuminatis. Eugenia affinis, Gillies, in Hook. & Arn. Bot. Misc. 3, p. 321. £. apiculata, var. Hook. f. adn. in Fl. Antare. p. 277.) (Var. 0. foliis ovalibus via cuspidatis ramulisque glaberrimis. Eugenia Gilliesii, Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Mise. 3, p. 820.) Has. Chili, near Valparaiso (var. a.) ; and on a mountain 12 miles in the interior, var. (. A shrub or small tree; the branchlets more or less pubescent, often with rusty hairs. Leaves varying from ovate and roundish-oval to ovate-oblong, sometimes rather obovate, short-petioled, in different forms either acute at both ends or rounded at the base, the apex some- times rounded, but commonly tipped with a sharp cuspidate-acuminate point: they are green both sides, smooth, or glabrate, or with a few hairs, especially on the midrib underneath and on the margins when young, in texture only slightly coriaceous, occasionally thicker, opaque, but somewhat lucid, the midrib salient, the pinnate veins rather 185 538 PHANEROGAMIA. manifest underneath, and confluent into an intramarginal vein: they vary from 5 or 6 to 15 lines in length, and from 3 or 4 to 12 in width. Peduncles equalling or often exceeding the leaves when one- Howered, usually more elongated when ¢three-(rarely five-)/lowered ; in the latter case the main peduncle, an inch or so in length and slender, is flattened (as in the other several-flowered species); the intermediate flower sessile or nearly so; the others on pedicels of 3 to 7 lines in length. Bractlets under the flower minute and very caducous. Flowers nearly as large as those of the Common Myrtle. Calyx almost gla- brous; the tube obovoid-turbinate; the lobes 4, rownded, imbricated in estivation, mostly a little ciliolate, as are the four rounded-obovate, deciduous petals. Stamens very numerous: filaments filiform: anthers oval. Style filiform: stigma simple. Ovary usually three- celled, sometimes two-celled, with the placente in the axis. Ovules numerous in two ranks in each cell, hemitropous, slightly reniform. Berry globose, pulpy, 5 or 6 lines in diameter, apparently purple, crowned with the persistent lobes of the calyx, ripening from 3 or 4 to 9 or even 12 seeds. Seeds 1% to 2 lines in diameter, compressed, orbiculate, often excised at the hilum; the testa membranaceous, chestnut-coloured, smooth, not adnate to the embryo. Radicle very long, cylindrical or somewhat club-shaped, incurved. Cotyledons broadly oval, accumbent to the semiannular radicle, fleshy but rather thin and flat, plane or sometimes slightly curved laterally, not cohe- ring with each other or at all conferruminate, shorter than the radicle. In all the seeds examined of var. 2. the radicle is truncate, as if the extremity were cut off nearly in a line with the summit of the cotyledons, instead of continuing so as to half surround them or more. Taken with the difference in foliage, this would indicate the Eugenia apiculata, Hook. & Arn. as a distinct species; but I suspect that the peculiarity is a casual one. The plants here brought together pretty clearly belong (with the possible exception indicated above) to one somewhat variable species, which is doubtless the Myrtus Cheken of Feuillée, who first made the plant known. Probably it likewise includes the Myrtus Luma of Molina, to which Dr. Hooker’s Eugenia apiculata var. Arnyan [Arrayan ?] would very well correspond, having broadly oval leaves aud one-flowered peduncles. The only question is as to its size, and the nature of the wood: the Luma according to Molina being a tree MYRTACES. 539 frequently of forty feet in height, and its wood much valued for the use of the coach-makers. Gay, indeed, asserts that the true Luma (his Myrtus Luma) is a shrub, with ovate-lanceolate leaves, a native of the south of Chili; but to this, with reason, he cites the synonyme of. Molina with a mark of doubt. I have not seen his specimens of the plant in question. Schauer’s Myrtus Luma, cited above, is from the vicinity of Valparaiso, and must needs belong to our first variety, although with unusually small leaves. Sprengel’s J Luma answers to our var. (. Piate 66, A.—LuMA CHEKEN, var. a.: branches, in flower and in fruit, of the natural size. Fig. 1. An unexpanded flower. 2. The same, expanded. 3. Astamen. 4. Vertical section of the ovary, &c. 5. Transverse section of a three-celled ovary. 6. Similar section of a two-celled ovary. 7. A fruit. 8. Vertical section of the same, showing some of the seeds. 9. A seed. 10. Vertical section of the same and the contained embryo. 11. Transverse section of the same. 12. The embryo detached.—The details variously magnified.—B. A branch of var. @., in fruit, of the natural size. Fig. 13. A seed, magnified. 14. Embryo, from the same, magnified. 2. Luma TEmu. L. foliis ovalibus ellipticisve nune obovatis obtusissimis coriaceis glabris subtus pallidis obsolete penninerviis, novellis ramulisque ferrugineo- puberulis; pedunculis (solitariis ternis quaternisve) folia cequantibus apice umbellatim 3—T-floris, flore intermedio sessili, ceeteris pedicellatis, pedicellis duobus majoribus seepe trifloris; bracteolis subulatis persis- tentibus ; calycis lobis rotundatis demum reflexis petalisque 4. Eugenia Temu, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 56, & in Hook. Bot. Mise. 3, p. 322. E. multiflora, Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Mise. l.¢., ex char. (var. foliis apice subat- tenuatis); Gay, l.c¢.? Has. Chili, near Valparaiso, &c.; common. Of this pretty well-marked species, as of the following, I have seen no matured fruit: but the seeds and embryo will most likely be found 540 PHANEROGAMIA. to accord with the present genus. The leaves are oval or elliptical, sometimes inclining to obovate or rotund, usually very obtuse, short- petioled, coriaceous in texture, dull and very opaque, an inch to an inch and a half in length, 8 to 12 lines wide, whitish and obscurely Feather-veined beneath, glabrous or glabrate at maturity, the young ones, like the branchlets, ferrugineous-pubescent, the pubescence fine and close. Peduncles solitary or even 3 or 4 from the same axil, slender, flattish, as long as the leaves, or sometimes longer, only the depaupe- rate ones one-flowered, commonly 3—7-flowered in a kind of umbel, the central flower sessile, the others on pedicels of 2 to 4 lines long, or the stronger pair again trifid at the apex, forming a 7—-9-flowered cyme. Bracilets at the forking and at the base of each flower subulate, persis- tent. Flowers apparently smaller than in the foregoing species, but of the same structure. Tube of the calyx turbinate, ferrugineous, puberulent; the lobes rounded, reflewed after anthesis. Ovary three- celled; the cells containing numerous ovules. 3. LumMA CRUCKSHANKSII. Eugenia Oruckshanksti, Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Mise. 8, p. 321. Has. Chili, near Valparaiso. Of this species we have in the collection only a fragment, destitute both of good flowers and of fruit. It appears to be nearly allied to the preceding species. The seeds, which are said to have a crusta- ceous testa, and the cotyledons, said to be conferruminate, should be re-examined. 4. LUMA STENOPHYLLA. Eugenia stenophylla, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Misc. 8, p. 822; Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 395. Myrtus Gudilla, Colla, in Mem. Acad. Turin. 87, p. 66, t. 15. Has. Chili; along the banks of the river near Valparaiso. This species, with the allied Z. (Hugenia, Hook. & Arn.) planipes, belongs to the same group as L. Jemu. I have not seen the fruit, which is said by Gay to be a three-celled and few-seeded berry. The MYRTACES. 541 peduncles, occasionally geminate, are either one-flowered, or two- flowered (the intermediate flower wanting), or more commonly three- flowered, as described. Sometimes the inflorescence becomes terminal and somewhat racemose on the branches, by the reduction of the upper leaves to bracts. The conspicuous linear-subulate bractlets are persistent. The leaves occasionally become alternate-— The name imposed by Colla is of the same date as that of Hooker and Arnott. d. Luma optusa. (Tab. 66.) L, foliis ovato-ellipticis vel subrotundis utrinque obtusis coriaceis planis punctatis glabris subtus pallidis uninerviis aveniis, petiolis ramulisque junioribus rufo-pubentibus; pedunculis solitariis wnifloris folium aquantibus ; bracteolis persistentibus oblongis folraceis lobos 4 calycis oblongo-ovales patentes adcequantibus ; cotyledonibus contortuplicatis. Eugenia obtusa, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 266? Myrtus Raran, Colla, in Mem. Acad. Turin. 37, p. 66, ex char. Has. Chili; on hills or in ravines, near Valparaiso. A low shrub, apparently only a foot or two in height; the branches very leafy; the younger branchlets ferrugineous with a close and fine pubescence, of which the distinct petioles (scarcely a line long), peduncle and calyx-tube partake, but even the nascent foliage shows only slight traces of it. The leaves, however, are somewhat ferru- gineous in hue underneath when young: they are thick and coria- ceous, flat (the margins not revolute), glabrous and punctate both sides, green above, pale beneath, where they are one-nerved with a rather conspicuous midrib, but wholly veinless; in shape they are ovate-ellip- tical, varying to roundish or to oblong, very obtuse at both ends, from 3 to 7 lines long, and from 2 to 4 lines broad. Pedunecles solitary, axil- lary, one-flowered, about the length of the leaf, at the apex furnished with two persistent bractlets, which are larger in proportion than in other species, linear-spatulate or oblong, foliaceous, equalling the flower, or at least the 4 spreading, oblong-oval lobes of the calyx. _ Flowers, only seen after the fall of the petals and stamens, apparently twice or thrice the size of those of L. ferruginea. Ovary many- 136 542 PHANEROGAMIA. ovuled. Berry globular, about 3 lines in diameter, crowned with the conspicuous calyx-lobes, three-celled; the cells usually ripening 4 or 5 pretty large and turgid-lenticular seeds. Testa thin and membra- naceous. Radicle long, semiannular. Cotyledons large, orbicular, nearly foliaceous (as in Myrcia), strongly and apparently variously contortuplicate, in a manner best shown by the illustrations given on plate 66. This species seems not to have been noticed by Hooker and Arnott; but it is without much doubt the Myrtus Raran of Colla, described from Bertero’s specimens. Moreover, it accords so well with the cha- racter of DeCandolle’s Hugenia obtusa, that, knowing there is no little confusion between the Peruvian and Chilian specimens of Dombey’s collection, I venture to adopt this specific name, rather than the aboriginal appellation. It belongs to the group that comprises the two following species, both of which probably have thin and contor- tuplicate cotyledons. PLATE 66, D.—LuMA optusa: a fruiting branchlet, of the natural size. Fig. 15. A seed, magnified. 16. Vertical section of the same, showing the contortuplication of the embryo. 17. A less mature embryo detached, magnified. 6. LUMA FERRUGINEA. Eugenia ferruginea, Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Mise. 3, p. 319. Myrtus rufa, Colla, in Mem. Acad. Turin. 37, p. 66. Has. Chili; in ravines, near Valparaiso. A very small-leaved and small-flowered species, well characterized by both authors cited above; who notice that even the midrib of the leaves is not apparent. The fruit in all our specimens has been a nidus for insects; so that I have not seen the seeds. 7. Luma corrE@Fouia. (Tab. 66.) Eugenia correefolia, Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Mise. 8, p. 319. MYRTACES. 543 Has. Chili; on a mountain ridge, about twelve miles south of Val- paraiso. The flowering plant is well described by Hooker and Arnott. The flowers are larger than in any of the foregoing species. The persis- tent bractlets are sometimes connate with the base of the calyx. The berry is obovoid, 5 or 6 lines long, ripening 3 or more seeds. Cotyledons strongly complicate and contortuplicate, thin and _ folia- ceous. Radicle truncate at the end (as in L. Cheken @.), very long, nearly encircling the cotyledons. The character of the embryo is best shown by the analyses given on plate 66. PLATE 66, B—LuUMA CORREMFOLIA. Fig. 18. Vertical section of a fruit (the parts of the flower persistent) and of two contained seeds. 19. Embryo, detached. 20. Transverse section of the same, cutting twice through the radicle.-—Magnified. 6. MYRTUS, Tourn. § 1. EUMYRTUS.—Filamenta indefinita filiformia: anthere didyme medio affixe. Ovarium bi-triloculare, placentis ex anyulo interno loculorum projectis. 1. Myrtus communis, Linn. Has. Madeira. A narrow-leaved form: nearly the variety Lusv- tanica. 2. Myrrus BULLATA, Banks & Soland. Myrtus bullata, Banks & Solander, Ic. & Ms.; A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. in Ann. Nat. Hist. 3, p. 115; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 557; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 70. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. (In fruit.) I do not possess the flowers. The fruit and seeds, which are those of a true Myrtus, are well represented by Hooker, in the plate above cited. 544 PHANEROGAMIA. § 2. LEANTRIA. (Leantria, Soland. ex Forst.)—Filamenta suhdefinita vel pauctus- cula: anthere didyme basi vel medio affixe. Ovarium imperfecte bi-triloculare, placentis inter se liberis.—Frutices vel suffrutices, foliis Vaccinii sew Oxycocci. 3. Myrtus PEDUNCULATA, Hook. /. Myrtus pedunculata, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 629, & Fl. N. Zeal. p. 71. Has. New Zealand. There are in the collection some sterile leafy stems, perhaps be- longing to a state of this species; of which I possess no specimens. 4. Myrrus Nummuuaria, Poir. Myrtus Nummularia, Poir. Dict. 4, p. 407; Gaud. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 5, p. 106, t. 2; DC. Prodr. 8, p. 238; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 276. Haz. Orange Harbour, Fuegia. Very common; creeping over the ground like a Craneberry. The ovary I find to be incompletely three-celled, in the manner of the Quitensian IM phylicoides and M. oxycoccoides of Bentham (and probably the other allied Andine species): at least the dissepiments, if they meet, do not cohere in the axis of the cell, except at the top and bottom. The numerous seeds are less curved than in true Myrtus ; but the embryo is the same. To a third section of the genus* belongs Myrtus Ugni of Molina, * §3. UGNI. (Ugni, Turcz. in Flora, 81, p. 711, excl. char. seminum !\— Filamenta brevia, nune complanata, indefinita, exteriora majora: anthere oblonge, apiculate, introrsum adnate. Ovarium perfecte bi-triloculare; loculis septo spurio e dorso carpellorum orto pl. m. bilocellatis. Embryo Myrti! Myrrus Uant, Molina, DC. ete. Hugeni Ugni, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Mise. 3, p. 318, where, through some mistake, the flowers are said to be quadrifid, and the peduncles shorter than the leaf. To this clearly belongs the plate as well as the description of MYRTACE &. 545 which has short and flattened filaments, bearing adnate anthers, a completely bi-trilocular ovary, and with the cells becoming more or less perfectly bilocellate by the growth of a false partition from the back of each cell to meet the prominent placentx, much as in Rhodo- myrtus (the character of which is somewhat weakened by this) ;—in fact differing from Humyrtus just as true Vacciniwm and the section Vitis-Idea differ from the section Cyanococcus, Gray, Chlor. Bor.-Am. p- 53. Turezaninow (loc. supra cit.), remarking these characters (except that he does not notice the dorsal septum that meets each projecting placenta), has founded on the flowers of this plant his genus Ugni. But his character of the embryo must have been derived from some other plant, or else it is incorrect: for the seed and hippocre- pical embryo in my specimens of Myrtus Ugni, from C. Gay’s Chilian collection, are just as in Myrtus nummularia, &c.; the testa is almost bony and reniform, the radicle is long and slender, and the cotyledons are short, narrow, and semicylindrical, not at all conferruminate. Turezaninow may have had the seed of some species of Luma (vide p. 535): yet in these the radicle is not short, but remarkably long, nor are the cotyledons truly conferruminate, nor the testa hard and crustaceous, in any species that I have examined. { Species dubia. 5. Myrrus? renurroura, Smith. Myrius tenuifolia, Smith, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 3, p. 280; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 241. Has. Near Sydney, New South Wales. This has scarcely been noticed, so far as I am aware, since the time * Feuillée, the figure being doubtless reduced in size. For the leaves are represented of barely 3 lines in length, while in the description they are said to resemble those of the Myrtle of Tarentum, and to be 7 or 8 lines long. A true congener, undoubtedly, is the Myrrus CanpoLii, Barneoud, in Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 382, from the province of Childe; which I possess with undeveloped flowers only. It is pentamerous, and has the same short, oblong or sagittate and apiculate anthers, and short filaments as M. Uyni, the filaments not exceeding the anthers in length in the full-grown flower-buds; but they are not dilated nor flattened. It therefore further invalidates the character on which Turczaninow most relies to distinguish his genus Uynt. 187 546 PHANEROGAMIA. of Smith, who has well described the foliage, &. Our specimen bore only one or two small fruits, not larger than a pepper-corn, containing . 2 or 8 roundish-reniform, not strongly incurved seeds; the embryo as in Myrtus or Rhodomyrtus. Perhaps it might be referred to the latter genus, although the leaves are strictly one-nerved; but, as well as I can ascertain, the ovary appears to have been completely two-celled, and without any evident dorsal partitions. 7 RHODOMYRTUS, DC. Myrtus sect. Roopomyrtus, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 241. Ruopomyrtus, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 220; Wight, Spicil. Nielgh. 1, p. 59, t. 71; Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. p. 76. 1. Ruopomyrtus ToMENTOSA, Wight, 1. ¢. Myrtus tomentosa, Ait.; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 250; Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 522, & Ill. Ind. Bot. 2, t. 97. Has. Singapore. The true internal structure of the ovary was first indicated by Mr. Bentham, in the London Journal of Botany, above-cited. Per- haps the genus may be again reduced to a section of Myrtus, of which it has the embryo. 8. RHODAMNIA, Jack. * Rwopamni, Jack, in Malay. Mise. & Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 1, p. 153; Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. p. 78. Monoxora, Wight, Ill. Ind. Bot. 2, t. 122, & Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. 2. t. 524. 1. RHopAMNIA CINEREA, Jack. 1. c. Monoxora spectabilis, Wight, 1. c.; Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 219, non Rhodam. spectab., Blume ? Myrtus smilacifolia, Wall. Cat. no. 8629. MYRTACE &. 547 Has. Singapore: several forms, including the varieties concolor and laxiflora of Blume. 2. RHODAMNIA TRINERVIA, Blume, 1. c. Myrtus trinervia, Smith, in Trans. Linn. Soe. 3, p. 280. Eugenia? trinervia, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 279. Monoxora rubescens, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 219. Has. Sydney, New South Wales: with a smoother and smaller- leaved variety. 9, NELITRIS, Gerin. 1. NELITRIS FRUTICOSA. (Tab. 60.) N. foliis ovatis sew ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis ; pedunculis axillaribus unifloris folio multum brevioribus; limbo calycis quinquedentato ; Fructu decaspermo. Decaspermum fruticosum, Forst. Char. Gen. p. 74, t. 37. (Deser. in Guill. Zeph. Tait. p. 58.) Psidium Decaspermum, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 252; Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 39. Nelitris Jambosella, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 231, quoad pl. Forst., non Geertn. Jossinia, aff. J. cassinoidi, Guill. Zeph. Tait. l.c.? Has. Tonga Islands: the specimens without flowers or fruit. Feejee Islands: with fruit. Not in the collection from Tahiti (where alone it was gathered by Forster), but perhaps noticed there by Dr. Pickering, as, “Myrtus? A shrub in mountain forests; rare: the fruit red, about the size of a cherry.” No flowers of this plant were collected. The foliage so closely resembles that of the following species as to suggest that the diffe- rence in inflorescence might be merely sexual, were it not that there are fertile specimens of the latter with cymose-paniculate flowers. Nor can it be the N. Jambosella, Geertn., of Ceylon, which has long 548 PHANEROGAMIA. and slender peduncles, equalling the leaves; while in our plant they do not exceed the petiole, and are only 3 or 4 lines in length, as they are described by Forster; with whose detailed description (published by Guillemin) the scanty specimens well accord. The structure of the ovary in Nelitris is explained by Bentham (in Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 220), but it appears not to have been rightly understood by Blume, who, in Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. p. 72, has given a detailed generic character, and described ten species of the Indian Archipelago. Puate 60, D.—NELirris rruTicosaA. Fig. 1. Unripe fruit, with its peduncle and a pair of leaves, of the natural size. 2. Transverse section of the fruit, magnified. 2. Nevirris Viriensis, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 60.) N. foliis ovatis sew ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis basi acutis vel attenwatis glabratis supra lucidis venis obliquis obsolete penninerviis, junioribus ramulisque tenuiter sericeo-pubescentibus; cymis laxifloris foliolosis Solio equilongis ; calycis tubo cano-sericeo, lobis 5 ovatis obtusis ; mase. ovario ubortivo. Var.? 6. jfolus basi obtusis; floribus hermaphroditis. ovario primum guinqueloculari, loculis deinde subbilocellatis. Has. Ovolau and Muthuata, Feejee Islands: “a common shrub in Open grounds.” There are here combined, with some misgiving, male specimens of the plant delineated on Plate 60, B, which have the ovate or ovate- lanceolate leaves more or less tapering to both ends, and a specimen with hermaphrodite flowers (the var. 3.?), the leaves of which are mostly broader and rounded or obtuse at the base. No other difference of any consequence is noticed. The branches are slender; the younger branchlets and nascent foliage are silky with a fine and slender pubes- cence, which disappears with age, except on the midrib beneath or some of the lower surface of the leaves. The latter are 14 to 2 MYRTACES, 549 inches long, opaque, lucid above, obscurely and obliquely feather-veined, on petioles of 2 or 3 lines in length. Flowers in axillary and ter- minal, many-flowered, paniculate, loose cymes, as long as the subtending leaf; the principal branches bracteate with small leaves, which on the slender and silky-pubescent pedicels are reduced to linear or subulate, mostly alternate bractlets. Flower-buds a line and a half in dia- meter. Calyx-twbe in hermaphrodite flowers obovoid, silky-canescent and silvery; the lobes 5, ovate, obtuse, often rather unequal. Petals orbicular, white, somewhat ciliate. Stamens, &c., as in the genus. Flowers of the male specimens destitute of a style and of an ovary (the apex of the pedicel merely clavate-thickened): those of the her- maphrodite plant with a style as long as the stamens, tipped with a depressed-capitate stigma, and with a five-celled ovary ; each cell, at the time of anthesis, showing a projection from its back (in the manner of Vaccinium, § Cyanococcus), which probably soon divides the cavity into two locelli. Ovules 3 or 4 in each proper cell, incurved. Fruit not seen. This needs to be compared, especially the sterile plant here de- scribed, with Blume’s JN. laxiflora of New Guinea. Prate 60, B—NEtirris Vitiensis: a flowering branch of the male plant, of the natural size. Fig. 1. A flower, with the pedicel, bract, bractlets, &e. 2. A bract, detached. 3. Calyx, from which the stamens and petals have fallen. 4. A petal. 5. A stamen.—C. Fig. 6. A flower of the hermaphrodite plant, the petals and stamens removed. 7. A flower-bud of the same; the ovary transversely divided. 8. Vertical section of the ovary.—The details more or less magnified. 10. CAMPOMANESTA, Ruz & Pw. 1. CAMPOMANESIA CERASOIDES. Psidium cerasoides, Cambess. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 2, p. 290. Has. Brazil, near Rio Janeiro. (In fruit.) 138 550 PHANEROGAMIA. ll. PSIDIUM, Linn. 1. Psipium Guasava, Linn. Psidium Guajava, Linn. Spec. ed. 1, p. 470; Raddi, Mem. Pl. Bras. p. 2; Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. p. 71. P. pyriferum & P. pomiferum, Linn. Spec. Pl. ed. 2, et Auct. Has. Eimeo and Tahiti, Society Islands: “recently introduced, but naturalized and spreading rapidly.” Sandwich Islands: intro- duced. The Guaiva was also noticed as largely naturalized around Rio Janeiro. 2. Psiplum PoLYCARPON, Lamb. Psidium polycarpon, Lambert, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 11, p. 231, t. 17; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 235. Has. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. (Most probably no more than a variety of the common Guaiva.) 12, SONNERATIA, Linn. f 1. SoNNERATIA AcIDA, Linn. f. Aubletia caseolaris, Gertn. Fruct. 1, p. 329, t. 78. Has. Luzon, in the vicinity of Manilla. (In fruit.) 13. BACKHOUSIA, Hook. & Harv. Backuovusta, Hook. & Harv. in Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4133. MYRTACE GZ. 551 1. BACKHOUSIA RIPARIA. Backhousia myrtifolia & B. riparia, Hook. & Hary. in Hook. Bot. Mag. 1. ¢. Eugenia riparia, A. Cunn. ined. Has. Hunter’s River, New South Wales. Also specimens pre- sented by Mr. Cunningham. The ripe fruit of this remarkable plant is not yet known. Judging from the ovary, it is probably dry and indehiscent. Our specimens manifestly connect the two species. I adopt, accordingly, the trivial name imposed by Cunningham, the discoverer of the plant, 14. ACICALYPTUS, Nov. Gen. Calyx subuleformis, acute tetragonus, clausus; apice subulato-rostrato, operculiformi, sub anthesi circumscisse deciduo; fauce ultra ovarvum longe producta. Petala 4, in operculum leviter cohcerentia, sub anthest dejecta. Stamina plurima, discreta, margini calycis tubv inserta: filamenta filiformia: anthere biloculares, loculis ovalibus. Stylus filiformis: stigma obtusum. Ovarium biloculare, dissepimento tenur. Ovula in loculis 8-10, anatropa, subcurvata? (Fructus ignotus, ut videter carnosus indehiscens.)—Arbor vel arbuscula; foliis oppositis ovatis penninerviis impunctatis ; floribus cymosis terminalibus. 1. AcicALyprus myRtTorpEs, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 67.) Has. Feejee Islands: on the mountains of Muthuata, at an eleva- tion of 2,000 feet. Apparently a tree (the size not recorded), glabrous throughout; the branchlets corymbose, terete, rather slender, nodose. Leaves opposite, approximate, 14 to 2 inches in length, with a petiole of 4 or 5 lines long, elliptical or ovate, acuminate (the tip rather obtuse), acute at 552 PHANEROGAMIA. the base, subcoriaceous, dull beneath, deep green and shining above, not punctate, copiously feather-veined ; the slender but rather conspi- cuous veins sparingly reticulated, confluent into an undulate intra- marginal false vein. Cymes terminal, trichotomous, compound, corymbose, many-flowered, somewhat exceeding the leaves; its divi- sions slightly angled; the pedicels very short, articulated with the flower. Bracts and bractlets caducous and not seen. Flower-buds half an inch long, 12 to 2 lines wide in the middle, thence tapering moderately to the base, and upwardly narrowed into a sharp and slender beak, the whole between spindle-shaped and awi-shaped, acutely Jour-angled, and below the middle marked with 4 intermediate and less salient angles or nerves, very smooth: the continuous summit, representing the closed limb of the calyx, separates, a little below the base of the beak, by an even circumscissile line, and falls as a lid; but there is no external mark to indicate the separation before anthesis. Petals 4, small, inserted on the margin of the persistent tube of the calyx by a broad base, rounded, hooded, lightly cohering into a lid (in the manner of Syzygium), and falling off together when the calyptra of the calyx is detached. Stamens very numerous, inserted on the very edge of the calyx-tube, inflexed in the manner of the family before anthesis and received into the throat of the calyx, which is as long as the portion adnate to the ovary: filaments filiform, distinct, about 3 lines long: anthers two-celled; the cells oval, fixed by the middle, longitudinally dehiscent. Style filiform, as long as the throat of the calyx: stigma obtuse. Ovary two-celled, with thick and fleshy walls, the dissepiment very thin, probably obliterated in the fruit. Ovules 8 to 10 in each cell, somewhat ascending, anatropous, more or less curved. Fruit not seen: from the texture of the calyx it is pro- bably fleshy and indehiscent. Should this remarkable plant prove to have a fleshy fruit, as is most likely, it will rank next to Calyptranthes, from which the subu- late and quadrangular calyx and the operculate corolla sufficiently distinguish it. If the fruit be capsular, the genus will be distin- guished from Eucalyptus by the two-celled ovary, and the corolla of lightly coherent or separable petals, as well as by the foliage, inflo- rescence, and the form of the calyx. The name, compounded of az, a point or edge, and xaiuzrds, a covering, indicates the affinities and one of the characters of the genus. MYRTACEA, 553 Puate 67.—ACICALYPTUS MYRTOIDES: a flowering branch, of the natural size. Fig. 1. A flower-bud, enlarged. 2. Vertical section of the same. 3. Flower-bud, with the lid detaching. 4. Flower, with the ovary divided transversely.—The details enlarged. 1s. HUCALYPTUS, Ler. 1. Evcatyrrus supunata, A. Cunn. Eucalyptus subulata, A. Cunn.; Schauer, in Walp. Repert. 2, p. 924. E. rostrata, Schlecht. in Linnea, 29, p. 655? non Cav. Has. New South Wales. (Probably given by Mr. Cunningham.) The abrupt beak of the operculum varies from 14 to 3 lines long. 2. EUCALYPTUS MARGINATA, Smith ? Eucalyptus marginata, Smith, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 8, p. 802? Has. Near Sydney, New South Wales. (Imperfect specimens.) 3. HUCALYPTUS ACERVULA, Sieber. Eucalyptus acervula, Sieber, Pl. Exsic. N. Holl. no. 469; DC. Prodr. 8, p. 217. Haz. New South Wales; probably in the vicinity of Sydney. 4, KUCALYPTUS VIRGATA, Steber, 1. c. Has. Hunter’s River, New South Wales. 5. EUCALYPTUS RADIATA, Steber. Eucalyptus radiata, Sieber, 1. c.; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 218, & Mem. Myrt. t. 7. Has. Vicinity of Hunter’s River, New South Wales. 139 554 PHANEROGAMIA. 6. EUCALYPTUS BOTRYOIDES, Smith. Eucalyptus botryoides, Smith, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 3, p. 287. E. platypodos, Cav. Ic. Pl. 4, p. 23, t. 341. E. pallens, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 219? Has. Near Sydney, New South Wales. 7. EUCALYPTUS MINIATA, A. Cunm. Has. Hunter’s River, New South Wales. (Foliage only. 9 fo) ev This accords with a fruiting specimen in the Hookerian herbarium, so named by Allan Cunningham, likewise from Hunter’s River, but it scarcely agrees with the character given by Schauer, in Walp. Repert. 2, p. 925. 8. EUCALYPTUS PANICULATA, Smith ? Eucalyptus paniculata, Smith, in Trans. Linn. Soe. 3, p. 287? Has. Sydney, New South Wales. t Species valde dubia. 9, EUCALYPTUS MULTIFLORA, Rich, in Herb. L.? folus subalternis petiolatis oblongis acuminatis basi acutis cequilateris concoloribus laxe penninerviis venulosis costa venisque primarus subtus prominentibus; cymis paniculatis multifloris ; pedunculis compresso- angulatis ; capsulis subglobosis. Ifa. Near Caldera, Mindanao, one of the Philippine Islands. The specimens consist of a leafy shoot, and of a leafless branch MYRTACE &. 555 with the inflorescence of the previous season, bearing the persistent capsules. The latter show what appears to be the line of circum- scissile dehiscence; otherwise there are no evident grounds for refer- ring the plant to Hucalyptus. The leaves are not phyllodineous, and apparently not vertical: they are unequally alternate, oblong, acumi- nate, or at least acute at both ends, 4 or 5 inches long and 14 or 2 inches wide, on petioles of half an inch in length, equilateral, char- taceous, thickly pellucid-punctate, dull and of the same hue both. sides, loosely feather-veined, the primary veins and the midrib prominent underneath, but impressed above; the veinlets minutely reticulated. Branchlets, especially the fructiferous ones, somewhat angled. The flowers appear to have been in naked, terminal and axillary, panicu- late cymes; the peduncles, &c., compressed-angled, many-flowered ; the pedicels umbellately fascicled in threes and fives, as long as the cap- sules. The latter are globular, 2 lines in diameter, the summit, above the line from which the limb of the calyx has fallen, convex; there four-valved ; within four-celled; each cell containing a large placenta, which has evidently borne numerous seeds. These, however, have all been shed.—I thus record the plant, under the name given by Mr. Rich in the collection, since Blume has published one or two Euca- lypti from the Molluccas and other Malayan Islands, to which this plant may be related. 16. ANGOPHORA, Cav. 1. ANGOPHORA CORDIFOLIA, Cav. Angophora cordifolia, Cav. Ic. Pl. 4, p. 21, t. 388; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 222. Has. Sydney, New South Wales. 2. ANGOPHORA LANCEOLATA, Cav. Angophora lanceolata, Cav. Ic. Pl. 4, p. 22, t. 888; DC. le. Var. @. nispma, A. Cunn.: /foliis lanceolatis sensim acuminatis ; pedun- culis calycibusque setoso-hispidis. 556 PHANEROGAMIA. Var. y. ANGUSTIFOLIA : foliis linearibus ; pedunculis calycibusque glabris. Has. New South Wales, Hunter's River: in fruit. Var. @. Wool- ongong and near Sydney. Var. y. Newington: in flower. The specimens of var. a. (except that the leaves are chiefly oppo- site) exactly accord with the figure of Cavanilles, which also repre- sents the plant with mature fruit. Those of var. @. with similar lanceolate-acuminate leaves, have the inflorescence and calyx somewhat hoary with a fine pubescence, and sparsely setose with reddish, appa- rently glandular bristles, which are however deciduous when the fruit is mature. The var. y. differs in its narrower, nearly linear leaves (3 or 4 inches long and 3 to 5 lines wide, acuminate at both ends), and in having no bristles and scarcely any pubescence on the inflorescence and calyx ;—in this respect agreeing with the character of A. lanceo- lata. The species is apparently polymorphous, and includes DeCan- dolle’s A, intermedia also. A remarkable form of it occurs in a collec- tion made at Moreton Bay, by Mrs. Mallard, kindly communicated by my excellent friend, N. B. Ward, Esq., of London. On the same individual, some of the lower leaves are lanceolate, gradually acumi- nate, and with a subsessile cordate-auriculate base; the rest are petioled, most of them lanceolate, but some are elliptical-oblong, as A, intermedia is characterized, like which the peduncles are more or less setose-hispid. The venation of the leaves, the flowers, &c., accord with the present species, not with A. cordifolia. 17. SYNCARPIA, TZenore. 1. SYNCARPIA LAURIFOLIA, Zenore. Syncarpia laurifolia, Tenore, Ind. Sem. Hort. Neopol. 1839, & in Mem. Soc, Moden, 22 (1840), p. 7, t. 1. Metrosideros glomeruliflora, Smith, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 8, p. 268; DC. Prodr. 3; p» 225, Tristania allens, A. Cunn.; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 210. Kampizia albens, Nees, Diss. in Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 18, Suppl. 1, t. 1, 2. Has. New South Wales, near Sydney and Cook’s River. “'Tur- pentine-tree” of the Colonists. MYRTACE ZA. 557 18.5 METROSIDEROS, Rumph., R. Br. * Novo-Zelandice et Aucklandice. 1. MrrtrosipEeros Lucipa, Menzies. Metrosideros lucida, Menzies, in Herb. Hook.; Smith, in Rees, Cycl.; A. Rich. FI. N. Zel. p. 8383; A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. in Ann. Nat. Hist. 3, p. 114; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 12, & Fl. N. Zeal. p. 67. M. umbellata, Cav. Ic. Pl. 4, p. 20, t. 8387; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 225, excl. patria. Agalmanthus umbellatus, Hombr. & Jacquin. Voy. Astrol. & Zel. Bot. t. 1. Melaleuca lucida, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 88. Has. Lord Auckland Islands: where it is the principal timber tree. 2. METROSIDEROS FLORIDA, Smith. Metrosideros florida, Smith, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 3, p. 269; DC. l.¢c.; A. Cunn. 1. c.; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 66, t. 15. Melaleuca florida, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 37. Leptospermum scandens, Forst. Char. Gen. t. 36. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 3. METROSIDEROS RoBUSTA, A. Cunn. Metrosideros robusta, A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. 1. c.; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 68, t. 17. M. florida, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4471, non Smith. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 4, METROSIDEROS TOMENTOSA, A. Rich. Metrosideros tomentosa, A. Rich. Fl. N. Zel. p. 336, t. 37; A. Cunn. 1. ¢.; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4488; Hook. f. 1. ¢. Has. Bay of Islands, Tippona, &c., New Zealand. (In fruit: the ordinary, and a glabrate form.) 140 558 PHANEROGAMIA. 5. METROSIDEROS SCANDENS, Banks & Solander. Metrosideros scandens, Banks & Soland. MS. & Ic. ined.; Geertn. Fruct. 1, p. 172, t. 34, f. 10; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 69. M. perforata, A. Rich. Fl. N. Zel. p. 334. M. buxifolia, A. Cunn. 1. c. p. 111; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 4515. Melaleuca perforata, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. 37. Leptospermum perforatum, Forst. Char. Gen. p. 72. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 6. METROSIDEROS HYPERICIFOLIA, A. Cunn. Metrosideros hypericifolia, A. Cunn. 1. c.; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 68, t. 16. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. x «x Polynesicee (Taitensis et Vitiensis). 7. MerTROSIDEROS COLLINA. (Tab. 68.) Leptospermum collinum, J. R. Forst. Char. Gen. Ins. Austr. p. 72, t. 88, f. mp. Melaleuca cestuosa, G. Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 38. Var. a. VILLOSA: ramulis cum inflorescentia foliisque junioribus (ovatis ovalibus seu ellipticis) tomentoso-villosis. Melaleuca villosa, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 342. Metrosideros spectabilis, Geertn. Fruct. 1, p. 172, t. 84, f. 9? M. villosa, Smith, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 3, p. 268; DO. Prodr. 3, p. 224; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 63; Guill. Zeph. Tait. p. 57. Var. @. GLABERRIMA: ramulis foliis calycibusque glabris; pedunculis nune puberulis. Metrosideros villosa, var. glaberrima, Bertero, ex Guill. 1. ¢. M. diffusa, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 63? non Smith. MYRTACES. 559 Var. y. VITIENSIS; ramulis folusque ellipticis oblongisve glabris; in- Hlorescentia calycibusque plus minus cano-sericeis; floribus nunc sub- pedicellatis. (Tab. 68.) Has. Var. a. and @. Tahiti and Eimeo, Society Islands; common on ridges. y. Feejee Islands; Ovolau, Muthuata, and Sandalwood Bay; at the elevation of from 100 to 2,000 feet.—A WMetrosideros, mentioned by Dr. Pickering, as perhaps that of the Feejees but not that of Tahiti, was noticed on the mountains of Tutuila, one of the Samoan Islands, at an elevation of 2,000 feet; where it forms “a spreading tree, 30 feet high, with the trunk a foot in diameter; the leaves smooth; the flowers scarlet, but not very showy.” There are no specimens of it in the collection. The M. villosa of Smith, with the young leaves, branchlets, and espe- cially the inflorescence canescent with a villous-tomentose down, passes so completely into glabrate and truly glabrous forms that it becomes advisable to restore the earliest specific name, that of the elder Forster. One of the intermediate varieties is doubtless the JL diffusa of Hooker and Arnott, not of Smith; the latter being a New Zealand species. The leaves vary from ovate or oval to elliptical, or even ovate- lanceolate, either rounded at both ends or acutish, or the base occa- sionally subcordate; the copious pinnated veins manifest on both sides but slender, minutely reticulated. Petioles 12 to nearly 3 lines long. Cymes sometimes axillary towards the summit of the branches, usually terminal and in pairs, as described by Smith, but often soli- tary or else three together at the summit. lowers sessile or nearly so, in threes or fives, at the summit of the partial peduncles; which distinguishes the plant from the Sandwich Island species. Stamens red. Ovary three-celled, enclosed in the tube of the calyx, to which its lower half is adnate. The mature capsule projects one-half beyond the crateriform calyx (the lobes of which are tardily deci- duous), to which barely its base remains adherent, and not very firmly. From the above I am unable specifically to distinguish the speci- mens from the Feejee Islands; var. y. They mostly have rather narrower, elliptical or oblong, or even lanceolate-elliptical leaves, more or less narrowed at both ends, in some specimens, however, as broad as in the ordinary Tahitian forms, rarely inclining to obovate, all of 560 PHANEROGAMIA. them entirely glabrous, as are the branchlets. The inflorescence, how- ever, and the calyx are densely silky-canescent or silky-pubescent ; and the flowers are slightly pedicellate, especially the central ones of each cluster. Stamens red. Fruit not seen. PLATE 68.—METROSIDEROS COLLINA, var. y. VITIENSIS: a branch of the natural size. Fig. 1. Vertical section of a flower. 2. Flower, with the petals and stamens detached. 38. Transverse section of the ovary. 4. Ovules.—The details variously magnified. x * * Sandwicenses. 8. METROSIDEROS LuTEA, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 69.) M. foltis ovalr-ellipticis utrinque scepius rotundatis modice petiolatis tenurter venosis subtus junioribus preesertim canescenti-tomentulosis ; calycibus cum inflorescentia cano-tomentosis ; floribus subsessilibus vel brevissime pedicellatis ; petalis staminibusque luteis. Has. Hawaii, Sandwich Islands; in the vicinity of Hilo. Apparently a tree of considerable size; the branchlets nearly terete, the younger ones only hoary with a fine pubescence. Leaves oval, or broadly elliptical, rarely verging to ovate, rounded at both ends, often retuse, sometimes slightly subcordate, coriaceous, 1+ to 23 inches long, glabrous or early glabrate above, hoary with a minute canescent tomentum underneath, which is very tardily deciduous, closely feather- veined; the veins slender but perspicuous, reticulated, the basal ones produced into an intramarginal false vein. Letiole rather conspicuous, 2% to 4 lines long. Cymes small, solitary or in pairs at the apex of the branches, not exceeding the leaves, very short-peduncled. Bracts caducous. lowers subsessile or very short-pedicelled (the pedicel less than a line, or rarely a line and a half long, oftener scarcely any), usually in threes at the apex of the partial peduncles. Calyx densely canescent-tomentose, as also the inflorescence, about 2% lines long, cam- panulate-turbinate, five-lobed; the lobes very obtuse. tals tomen- tulose externally, “yellow, as well as the stamens,’ apparently pale. Filaments and style nearly an inch long. Ovary nearly as in I. MYRTACES. 561 polymorpha; the free summit tomentulose. Mature capsule not seen. This appears to be distinguished from all other Hawaiian species by its yellow and subsessile flowers; in the latter character as well as in aspect approaching the Tahitian I. collina. Should these charac- ters prove inconstant, it will add another to the numerous and wide variations of I. polymorpha. PLATE 69, B.—METROSIDEROS LUTEA: a flowering branch, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Flower vertically divided through the ovary. 2. Calyx and pistil, divided transversely, showing the cells of the ovary. 3. Ovules.—The analyses magnified. 9. Merrosiperos rugosa, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 69.) M. ramulis quadrangulatis ; foliis orbiculatis brevissime petiolatis bullato- rugosis penninervis, venis validis in pagina inferiort scepius ferru- gineo-tomentosa prominentibus ; inflorescentia calycibusque tomentosis ; Hloribus subsessilibus rubris. Has. Oahu, Sandwich Islands; on the mountains behind Honolulu. (Also gathered by Gaudichaud, in the voyage of the Bonite.) Apparently a small tree or shrub, with quadrangular branchlets ; only the ultimate ones tomentose. Leaves orbicular, about an inch in diameter, thick and coriaceous, strikingly bullate-rugose above, where the strong pinnate veins are impressed, while wnderneath they are very prominent, as well as the thick costa; the upper surface is minutely pubescent when young, but soon glabrate; the lower tomentose with a thick and close, nearly persistent, tawny or ferrugineous wool: petioles very short, but manifest, a line or a line and a half in length. Cymes small, solitary or in pairs at the summit of the branches; the pedun- cles and their divisions short and stout, whitish-tomentose, the whole subtended by rather conspicuous and coriaceous bud-scales, which are somewhat persistent after the evolution of the cyme. Bractlets as long as the calyx, oval, tomentose, somewhat ferrugineous, soon deciduous. Pedicels very short or scarcely any. Flowers about as large as in M/. 141 562 PHANEROGAMIA. polymorpha. Calyx very tomentose externally with whitish wool, tur- binate, five-lobed. Petals and stamens deep red; the former a little pubescent externally. Ovary deeply immersed in the bottom of the calyx, three-celled, its summit only free. Fruit unknown. This is surely distinct from JZ polymorpha, however polymorphous that may be. The stout veins of the leaves, so salient underneath, the bullate upper surface, and the rusty or ochre-coloured wool of the lower surface, along with the subsessile flowers, at once dis- tinguish it. Few specimens were gathered. Those of Gaudichaud’'s collection are, I believe, destitute both of flowers and fruit. PLATE 69, A.—METROSIDEROS RUGOSA: a branch, in flower, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Vertical section of a flower, enlarged. 2. Ovules, magnified.—The analyses magnified. ° 10. METROSIDEROS POLYMORPHA, Gaud. Metrosideros polymorpha, Gaud. Bot. Voy. Freyc. p. 99, & 482, t. 108, 109; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 82; Schauer, in Rel. Meyen. p. 331. Var. a. foliis subrotundo-ellipticis vel orbiculatis basi cordatis brevissime petiolatis tomento tenut canescentibus, ramulorum confertissimis vel umbricatis scepe sessilibus ; cymis thyrsoideis multifloris calycibusque (parvults) means. Var. @. foltis crasso-coriaceis orbiculatis seu rotundo-ellipticis basi cor- datis vel retusis breviter petiolatis supra mox glabris subtus cum inflorescentia calycibusque (majusculis) tomento crasso cano vel fulvo lanosissimis.— Ludit, foliis demum glabratis. Var. y. folits crasso-coriaceis subrotundis vel ovato-ellipticis basi subcor- datis retusisve breviter petiolatis utringue cum inflorescentia calycibus- que (parvulis) glabris. Var. 6. jfoliis coriaceis glabris modice petiolatis modo ovalibus modo anguste oblongis basi acutis vel obtusis; cymis laxijloris calycibusque (majusculis) tomento denso villoso incanis. MYRTACES. 563 Var. «. foliis ovalibus lato-ellipticis oblongisve basi rotundatis obtusis vel acutiusculis modice petiolatis glabris ; inflorescentia calycibusque pube tenui canescenti-puberulis demum glabratis. Var. ¢. foliis tenuiter coriaceis anguste oblongis seu lanceolatis acutius- . . ’ . s y . . . . culis basi in petiolum breviusculum vel longiusculum attenuatis glabris ; cymis multifloris calycibusque (parvulis) glabris vel puberulis, Has. Sandwich Islands; abundant; gathered by all collectors from Nelson, in Cook’s third voyage, and Menzies, to the present time. Var. a. Oahu, in the mountains behind Honolulu. . Hawaii; both near the coast and on Mouna Loa, &c., to the elevation of 8,000 or 9,000 feet. Maui, at the crater of Haleakala. Mountains of Kauai: some forms connecting this with succeeding varieties. y. Mouna Loa, Hawaii, at an elevation of 8,000 feet. 8. Hawaii, on Mouna Kea, and in the district of Puna. A form allied to it from the mountains of Kauai. ¢. Oahu, in the mountains behind Honolulu and Waianae. Hawaii, near the coast, in the districts of Waimea and Puna. ¢. Oahu, in the mountains behind Honolulu, &c. Although furnished with a fuller suite of specimens, probably, than ever have been brought together before, I am equally unable with preceding botanists to distinguish any of these extremely varied forms into separate species. The first and the last, as different as two species could well be conceived to be, are yet connected by a series of intermediate states, of which the more prominent are characterized above as varieties. Var. a. one extreme form, is remarkable for its small, rownded-cordate and subsessile, or very short-petioled leaves, crowded or even imbricated on the branchlets, from an inch to half an inch in length, finely canescent-tomentose or cinereous underneath, early glabrate above, coriaceous, but seldom very thick: the cymes incline to be thyrsoid and prolonged; the flowers rather small; the calyx and peduncles densely white-tomentose. This passes into var. @. (which includes Gaudichaud’s tab. 108), with very thick, rounded leaves (an inch to an inch and a half long), mostly heart-shaped at the base, and more distinctly petioled ; the upper surface at first pubescent, but soon glabrous; the lower very densely woolly-tomentose, as well as the crowded cymes and larger calyxes. The wool inclines to rub off from the older leaves. With this is connected an early glabrate state, 564 PHANEROGAMIA. passing into others with oval or elliptical leaves (sometimes 2 inches long) from Kauai. Var. y. is a glabrous, or perhaps early glabrate state of 3.; the specimens with young fruit only. Var. 6. has thinner and glabrous leaves, either oval or oblong, often acute at the base, rather conspicuously petioled ; but the loose 2 CYMES, calyx, &e., are very densely villous-tomentose. Var. e. embraces a variety of specimens, with glabrous and distinctly jpetioled leaves varying from broadly oval to narrowly oblong, either thick or thinnish; the inflorescence and calyx minutely canescent or pubescent, but early glabrate. This passes insensibly into var. ¢. the smoothest and most slender form, with the narrowest and thinnest leaves (narrowly oblong and lanceolate, acutish, with the base tapering into a petiole of about 3 lines long); the cymes are loose, and the flowers as small as in var. a.—All have red and pedicelled flowers; the pedicels 12 to 2 lines long. The veins of the leaves are slender, more or less reticulated, sometimes with a pair or two of stronger ascending ones from the base. Rarely the limb of the calyx is six-lobed; the lobes very obtuse. The upper half of the three-celled ovary is free from the tube of the calyx. The globular capsule, which projects somewhat beyond the calyx, becomes nearly free from the tube which encircles it.—This species, in some of its forms at least, becomes a large tree, the Ohea of the Hawaians. In the collection from Tahiti, there is a single imperfect specimen of what appears to be the J. polymorpha, var. ., having pedicelled flowers and lanceolate leaves, glabrous throughout. Whether truly of this species must be left for future investigators to determine. 11. Metrosmperos Macropus, Hook. Gd Arn. (Tab. 70.) M. glabra; foliis longe petiolatis ; petiolo lamina ovata seu ovato-oblonga paullo vel dimidio breviore; cyma confertijlora; floribus (rubellis ?) pedicellatis; bracteis bracteolisque ovatis et ovato-lanceolatis magnis involucrantibus deciduis ; capsula calycis tubo fere inclusa ad medium usque libera. Metrosideros Macropus, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 83. Haz. Oahu, Sandwich Islands; on the mountains behind Honolulu. (Also gathered by Macrae, Lay & Collie, Gaudichaud, and Seemann.) MYRTACE &. 565 A tree, probably of considerable size, glabrous throughout; the branchlets somewhat angled. Leaves ovate or ovate-oblong, sometimes rhomboid-ovate, coriaceous, rather dull, acutish, either rounded, obtuse, or acute at the base, obscurely punctate, copiously feather-veined ; the veins oblique, very slender but rather conspicuous, equally so on both sides, sparsely branched, connected by minute reticulations, terminating in an inframarginal vein: petioles elongated, sometimes almost as long as the blade, commonly half or one-third its length. Cymes terminal, usually geminate, subsessile, many-flowered, crowded, evolved from a large scaly bud, the scales of which remain persistent for some time, as ovate or oblong pointed bracts, of a coriaceo-char- taceous texture, half an inch long; the pedicels (13 to 2, or in fruit 3 lines long) subtended by similar but smaller ovate-lanceolate bractlets, which are early deciduous, as in the other species. Flowers rather larger than in the largest-flowered forms of I. polymorpha; the calyx nearly similar, glabrous or barely puberulent. Petals and stamens apparently pale or flesh-colour. Ovary three-celled, the glabrous summit free barely to the middle. Capsule nearly included in the turbinate tube of the calyx (of which the spreading lobes are persis- tent), free to the middle, adnate below, three-valved, many-seeded. Seeds fusiform-subulate, not much pointed. The characters of this species would appear to be amply sufficient : but forms may occur between it and I. polymorpha var. «. The flowering specimen figured is from the collection of Mr. Seemann. Puate 70, B—MeEtrosiperos Macropus: branches in flower and fruit. Fig. 1. Vertical section of a flower. 2. Ovary, transversely divided. 3. Capsule, dehiscent in the calyx. 4. Seeds. 5. Embryo. —The details magnified. 19. KUNZEA, Reichenbd. 1. Kunzea corirouia, Reichenb. Kunzea corifolia, Reichenb. Consp. Reg. Veg. p. 175; Schauer, in Pl. Preiss. 1, p. 124. Metrosideros corifolia, Vent. Hort. Malm. t. 46; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 225. 142 566 PHANEROGAMIA. Has. In the neighbourhood of Sydney, New South Wales. 2. KunzEa ScHAUERI, Lehm. Kunzea Schaueri, Lehm. Pl. Preiss. 1, p. 124. Metrosideros capitata, Smith, in Trans. Linn. Soe. 3, p. 273; DC. 1.c. Melaleuca eriocephala, Sieber, Pl. N. Holl. Exsic. no. 322. Has. New South Wales; with the foregoing species. 20. CALLISTEMON, R. Br. 1. CALLISTEMON PINIFOLIUM, DC. Callistemon pinifolium, DC. Prodr. 8, p. 223; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3980. Has. Hunter’s River, New South Wales. (In fruit.) 2. CALLISTEMON LANCEOLATUM, DC. 1. c. Has. New South Wales; probably from near Sydney. 21. MELALEUCA, Linn. 1. MELALEUCA STYPHELIOIDES, Smith. Melaleuca styphelioides, Smith, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 3, p. 275; DC. Prodr. 8, p. 212. Has. New South Wales: probably from the vicinity of Sydney. 2. MELALEUCA FERREA, A. Cunn., ined. Has. New South Wales; the locality not recorded. Probably MYRTACEZ. 567 given, as were some other specimens, by A. Cunningham, as it accords with specimens of his M ferrea, “the Iron-wood of Moreton Bay,” in the Hookerian Herbarium. The species resembles I. gemistifolia, Smith; but the leaves are only one-nerved and obscurely punctate. 3. MeLateuca Frasert, Hook. ? Melaleuca Fraseri, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3210? Has. Hunter’s River, New South Wales. 4, MELALEUCA Noposa, Smith, l. c. Has. Hunter's River, New South Wales. 5. MELALEUCA ERUBESCENS, Otto ? Melaleuca erubescens, Otto, ex DC. Prodr. 3, p. 214? Haz. New South Wales; where it has also been gathered by Fraser and Cunningham. Probably a variety of M. erubescens, with more filiform and coarsely dotted leaves. 6. MELALEUCA THYMIFOLIA, Smith. Melaleuca thymifolia, Smith, Exot. Bot. 1, t. 836; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 214. Has. Hunter's River and near Sydney, New South Wales. 7. MELALEUCA LINARIFOLIA, Simith, l. c. Has. New South Wales. (The specimens gathered by A. Cun- ningham.) 568 PHANEROGAMIA. 8. MELALEUCA SQUARROSA, Smith, 1. c. Melaleuca squarrosa, Smith, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 6, p. 300; Labill. Pl. N. Holl. 2, t. 169; DC. l.c. M. myrtifolia, Vent. Hort. Malm. t. 47. Has. In the vicinity of Sydney, New South Wales. 22. TRISTANIA, R&R. Br. 1. TRISTANIA NERIIFOLIA, R. Br. Tristania nertifolia, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. 4, p. 417; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 210. Has. Newington, New South Wales. The leaves are sometimes alternate, and the peduncles three-five- flowered. 2. TRISTANIA LAURINA, R. Br. 1. c. Tristania laurina, R. Br. 1. c.; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 210. Has. Newington, New South Wales. 23. FABRICIA, Gertn. 1. FABRICIA MYRTIFOLIA, Geertn. Fabricia myrtifolia, Geertn. Fruct. 1, p. 175, t. 85; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1304. Has. Hunter's River, New South Wales. (In fruit.) MYRTACE SZ. 569 24. LEPTOSPERMUM, Forse. 1. LEPTOSPERMUM ERICOIDES, A. Rich. Leptospermum ericoides, A. Rich. Fl. N. Zel. p. 388; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 70. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 2. LEPTOSPERMUM SCOPARIUM, Porst. Leptospermum scoparium, Forst. Char. Gen. p. 72, t. 836; Smith, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 8, p. 262; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 227; A. Rich. l.c.; Hook. f. lc. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. Near Sydney, New South Wales. (Several varieties.) 3. LEPTOSPERMUM LANIGERUM, Ait. Leptospermum lanigerum, Ait. Hort. Kew. 2, p. 156; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1192; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 227. Has. Sydney, New South Wales. (A form with glabrate leaves.) 4, LEPTOSPERMUM MYRTIFOLIUM, Sieber. Leptospermum myrtifolium, Sieber, Pl. N. Holl. Exsic. no. 314; DC. lc. p. 228. Has. Near Sydney, New South Wales. 5. LEPTOSPERMUM FLAVESCENS, Smith ? Leptospermum flavescens, Smith, in Trans. Linn. Soe. 3, p. 262? DC. 1.c.? Has. Hunter’s River, New South Wales. (An imperfect fragment.) 143 570 PHANEROGAMIA. 6. LEPTOSPERMUM JUNIPERINUM, Smith, 1. c. Has. Vicinity of Sydney and Hunter's River, New South Wales. 7. LEPTOSPERMUM ARACHNOIDEUM, Smith. 1. c. Has. New South Wales; in the vicinity of Sydney. 25. BASCKIA, Linn. 1. Ba&cKIA LINIFOLIA, Rudge. Beckia linifolia, Rudge, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 8, p. 297, t. 12; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 229. Has. Sydney, New South Wales. 2. B&CKIA LEPTOCAULIS, Hook. Beckia leptocaulis, Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 298. Has. New South Wales: probably near Sydney. This is intermediate in character between Beckia and Schidio- myrtus, which, as well as Harmogia and Euryomyrtus, will probably be restored to Beckia. 26. SCHIDIOMYRTUS. Schauer. 1. SCHIDIOMYRTUS DIOSMAFOLIA, Schauer. Schidiomyrtus diosmezfolia, Schauer, in Linnza, 17, p. 237, & Walp. Repert. 2, p. 920. Beckia diosmifolia, Rudge, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 8, p. 298, t. 18; DOC. lc. MYRTACE AZ, 5 Has. New South Wales; in the neighbourhood of Sydney. 2. SCHIDIOMYRTUS CRENULATA, Schauer, 1. ¢. Beckia crenulata, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 230. Jungia imbricata, Geertn. Fruct. 1, p. 175, t. 35. Has. In the neighbourhood of Sydney, New South Wales. 27. HURYOMYRTUS, Schauer. 1. Evryomyrtus pirrusa, Schauer, 1. c. Beckia diffusa, Sieber, in DC. Prodr. 3, p. 230. B. afinis & B. prostrata, Hook. f. Ic. Pl. t. 284, ex Schauer. Has. Hunter’s River, New South Wales. 28. HARMOGIA, Schauer. 1. HARMOGIA DENSIFOLIA, Schauer. Harmogia densifolia, Schauer, in Linnea, 17, p. 238; Walp. Repert. 5, p. 735. Beckia densifolia, Smith, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 3, p, 260; DC. l.c. Has. Newington, New South Wales. 29. DARWINIA, Rudge. 1. DARWINIA FASCICULARIS, Rudge. Darwinia fascicularis, Rudge, in Trans. Linn. Soc. 11, p. 299, t. 22; Schauer, Myrt. Xerocarp. in Act. Nat. Cur. 19, Suppl. 2, p. 188, t. 2. Has. Sydney, New South Wales, 572 PHANEROGAMIA. 2. DARWINIA TAXIFOLIA, A. Cunn. Darwinia taxifolia, A. Cunn. in Field. Mem. N. 8. Wales, p. 152. D. laxifolia, Schauer, Myrt..Xerocarp. 1. c. p. 190. Has. Near Sydney, New South Wales. The name is written laxifolia by Schauer, who opines that this was the word intended, and that it became taxifolia by a typographical error. 30. CALYCOTHRIX (male Caryrrix), Labill. 1. CALYCOTHRIX SCABRA, DC. Calythrix scabra, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 208, & Mem. Myrt. t. 1. Calycothrix scabra, Schauer, Myrt. Xerocarp. 1. ¢. p. 248. Has. Near Sydney, New South Wales. 2. CALYCOTHRIX GLABRA, A. Br. Calythrix glabra, R. Br. in Bot. Reg. t. 409; DC. 1. ¢. Calytria tetragona, Labill. Pl. N. Holl. 2, p. 8, t. 146 (mala), fide Schauer. Calycothrix Billardiert, Schauer, Myrt. Xerocarp. 1. c. Has. Near Sydney, New South Wales. Schauer drops the original trivial name, on account of its inappro- priateness: but, in that case, the name imposed by Brown and adopted by DeCandolle should be continued. Orv. MELASTOMACE &. Susorpn. lL MEMECYLE &. 1 MEMECYLON, Linn. 1. Memecyton VITIENSE, Sp. Nov. M. ramulis subteretibus ; foliis uninerviis aveniis oblongis obtusis scepiusve in acumen obtusum vel retusum productis basi in petiolum brevius- culum attenuatis siccatis subtus flavidis; pedunculis solitariis brevis- simis plurifloris; pedicellis nudis fructu globoso seu ovoideo levi dimidio brevioribus. Var.? @. foliis latioribus nunc ovalibus apice rotundatis subtus haud Jlavescentibus. Has. Feejee Islands: Muthuata and Ovolau, at the elevation of 1,000 to 1,500 feet. The specimens are all in fruit only: they are said to belong to a shrub, of 8 or 10 feet in height. Branchlets nearly terete. Leaves oblong, 14 to 2% inches long, from 7 lines to an inch wide, usually tapering more or less to both ends, the apex into a short and obtuse or retuse acumination, the base acutely narrowed into a petiole of 2 or 3 lines in length, sometimes the apex is directly obtuse; the texture coriaceous; the midrib prominent; the veins obsolete, or a few trans- verse ones barely perceptible; the colour above fuscous, beneath yel- lowish.. Peduncles solitary in the axils of the leaves, rarely in pairs, very short (a line or two, rarely 3 lines long), nearly terete, evidently several-flowered; the pedicels ebracteolate, 14 or 2 lines long in fruit, in 144 574 PHANEROGAMIA. a simple fascicle or cymule. Fruit globose, or in the narrowest-leaved specimens ovoid (but these probably less mature), not at all depressed, apparently dry, smooth and even, 4 lines in diameter; the minute limb of the calyx apparently truncate. Cotyledons apparently foliaceous and much contortuplicate. The var.? 3. may not improbably belong to another species, which cannot be characterized without better materials. The leaves are larger and broader, sometimes oval and rounded at the apex, mostly oblong, not drying yellowish underneath, or scarcely so. They closely resemble those of J. edule, of which it may, perhaps, prove a variety; but the more simple and shorter fruiting inflorescence occurs in the axils of the leaves of the season. Several species of Memecylon from Cuming’s collection were charac- terized by Presl, in his Epimeliz Botanicse, which bears the date of 1849, but seems not to have been published until much later. This publication appears to have been known to Blume, who, late in 1851, published characters of many additional species, in his Museum Botanicum Lugduno-Batavum. In the Annales des Sciences Natu- relles for 1852 (in a part not published, however, until 1853), Naudin has elaborated the species contained in the herbarium of the Paris Museum, without being aware either of Presl’s or of Blume’s publica- tions. There is a great confusion of names in consequence. 2. Mrmrcyron CALpERENSE, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 71.) M. ramulis teretiusculis; foliis brevissime petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis sensim acuminatis bast rotundatis vel obtusis penninerviis, venis infra marginem arcuato-conjunctis; pedunculis plerumque binis vel ternis e nodis ramorum jam foliis denudatorum ortis subangulatis 3-5-radi- atis umbellato-multifloris; pedicellis flore eequilongis; calycis limbo truncato wtegerrimo, fauce lamellis 8 septulata. Has. Near Caldera, Mindanao; one of the Philippine Islands. Branches slender; the branchlets nearly terete, or obscurely angled. Leaves very short- petidled (the petioles only a line and a half in length), oblong-lanceolate, gradually acuminate into a slender point, 4 MELASTOMACES. 575 to 6 inches long, 14 to 22 inches wide, rounded, or often somewhat contracted, but obtuse at the base, membranaceo-chartaceous in texture, dull, a little paler underneath, pinnately-veined from a rather promi- nent midrib, the considerably manifest veins arcuately confluent within the margin into a sinuous false vein. Inflorescence in the specimens all below the foliage of the season, from nodes the leaves of which have fallen. Peduncles mostly 2 or 3 together, somewhat angular, half an inch long, or rarely shorter, dividing into 3 to 5 rays, each bearing a many-flowered umbel, or the stronger ones proliferous. Pedicels about the length of the flower-bud, half a line long, after anthesis becoming a line or more in length, not bracteolate. Calyx turbinate, with a truncate and entire border, within furnished with 8 very salient radiating lamelle, forming as many deep cells in which the inflexed anthers lie before anthesis, and with as many intermediate, slightly salient ribs, to the summit of which the stamens are attached. Corolla small, perhaps caducous before expansion; the petals 4, very broad. Anthers oblong, on short filaments, the cells nearly straight and parallel, the connective produced below into a thickish, but flat, oblong-lanceolate, acutish appendage, which exceeds the cells in length, and in the bud is superior, almost equalling the unexpanded petals. Style filiform: stigma terminal, minute. Ovary one-celled, with a slight trace of several parietal projections. Ovules 12, sometimes 8, oblique, scarcely reniform, on stout funiculi. Fruit not seen. I cannot identify this with any of the numerous Malayan species which have recently been published. It appears to be allied to J. paniculatum of Jack, and MZ. acuminatissimum of Blume. Particularly conspicuous in this species are the radiating lamellee within the calyx, well indicated by Loureiro in the character of Scutula, but not men- tioned by DeCandolle, who seems in other respects to have misappre- hended Loureiro’s description. Piate 71.—Mermecyton CALDERENSE: a branch, in flower, of the natural size. Fig. 1. A flower-bud. 2. Vertical section of the same. 3. A petal from the bud. 4, 5, 6. Anterior, posterior, and lateral views of a stamen, in the inverted position it occupies in the bud. 7. A flower, after the corolla and stamens have fallen. 8. Vertical section of the same. 9. An ovule from the same. 10. Transverse section of an ovary and its 12 ovules——The details magnified. 576 PHANEROGAMIA. Susorn Il MELASTOME &. (MELASTOMES, AsTRONIED, & KiBEssie&, Naudin.*) 2, ASTRONIA, Blume. AsTrRonIA, Blume, Bijdr. p. 1080, Rumphia, 1, p. 20, t. 6, 7, & Mus. Bot. Lugd. p- 9; Naudin, in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, 18, p. 257. 1, ASTRONIA FRATERNA, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 72.) A, glaberrima; foliis longe petiolatis oblongis acuminatis basi acutis manifeste triplinerviis (proetermisso utroque nervo tenui submargi- nalt); eymis corymbosis ; pedicellis gracilibus; calycis (fructiferi) limbo persistente aperto quinquedentato ; ovario quinqueloculari ; pla- centis ex uma columella ortis. Has. Society Islands: on mountain ridges of Tahiti and Eimeo. Except the Melustoma Tuitense, this is the only Melastomaceous plant in the collection made at the Society Islands, or mentioned in Dr. Pickering’s manuscript notes. It was naturally taken for the Melastoma glabra of Forster (the Astronia Forsteri, Naudin), with which indeed, if truly distinct, it must have been confounded. That species, however (of which I have seen original specimens in the British Museum, and possess recent ones gathered by Mr. Bidwill), has a calyx the limb of which is perfectly closed, and separates in anthesis by a transverse circumscission, in the form of a calyptra. In all the present specimens (which unfortunately are only fructi- ferous ones) the whole limb of the calyx is persistent, open, and rather “eeply divided into 5 (or rarely 6), pretty regular, broad and rounded * M. Naudin’s primary divisions of the order are neatly characterized ; but the first three are too closely related, and connected by too many known eresaaitiona to entitle them to the rank of mibordets MELASTOMACEA, 577 teeth or lobes. Whether this distinction is a constant one further observation must determine. I should scarcely venture to rely upon it, were it not strengthened by a difference in the venation of the leaves; which, in A. Forsteri are rather obscurely three-nerved, the lateral nerves near the margin and inconspicuous; while ours are manifestly triple-ribbed from just above the base, the lateral ribs almost as strong as the middle one, and at some distance within the margin, which moreover is provided with a slender and inconspicuous nerve. The shrub is said to be about 5 feet high. The leaves have a yellowish tinge when dry, especially underneath; they are oblong, abruptly acuminate, from 12 to 33 inches long, more or less acute at the base, on slender petioles of 8 to 12 lines long, glabrous, as is the whole plant, minutely dotted underneath, apparently of a chartaceous texture. Cymes corymbose, terminal, many-flowered; the bracts all deciduous. Fructiferous pedicels slender, about 3 lines long. Tube of the fructiferous calyx globular, and crowned with the conspicuous limb, together 22 lines long, smooth. Ovary five-celled. Placentee inserted at the very base of the columella, oblong, scarcely dilated upwards, ovuliferous throughout. Style, &., not seen. Capsule, as in other species, not properly dehiscent, but the dry epicarp decays or falls away in fragments, and the thin endocarp splits into numerous pieces, leaving a frame of 10 or more, simple or forked, at length stellately spreading nerves, surrounding the placente and columella. Puate 72, A.—ASTRONIA FRATERNA: & branchlet. Fig. 1. Fructi- ferous calyx, enlarged. 2. Vertical section of the same. 2. AstrontA PickErinen, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 72.) A, glabra; foliis longe petiolatis ovalibus oblongisve utrinque subacutis nunc basi obtusis 3-5-nerviis; cyma corymbosa composita laxiflora ; pedicellis gracilibus; alabastris subglobosis; calycis limbo clauso demum aperto ultra ovarium longiuscule producto, margine in den- tibus brevissimis 9-20 irregulariter jfisso; antherarum connectivo deorsum gibberoso; ovario quinqueloculari; placentis e fundo loeu- lorum ortis. | Var. a. SAmoEnsis: foliis siccatis viridulis, inflorescentia ramulisque novellis ferrugineo-puberulis. 145 578 PHANEROGAMIA Var. @. VitiENSIS: foliis in sicco flavescentibus ; inflorescentia glabriore ; pedicellis paullo brevioribus. Has. Samoan or Navigators’ Islands (var. «.); in the mountains of Tutuila. (§. Feejee Islands; on Ovolau, at an elevation of about 1,000 feet. As well as can be judged from the incomplete specimens, these two forms appear to belong to the same species. The Samoan plant has the leaves greenish when dry, without any trace of yellow; and the inflorescence shows a minute and scurfy, ferrugineous pubescence, which is soon deciduous; its pedicels are 2 or 3 lines long. The Feejee specimen has a yellowish hue in the foliage; and the inflores- cence (in fruit) shows scarcely a trace of the ferrugineous scurf. Otherwise no difference is discernible: but we have no flowers or buds of the latter, to compare with the unexpanded flower-buds of the former. The floral characters given, therefore, belong only to the Samoan plant.—A shrub or small tree, the var. @. said to be 20 feet high; the branches terete and nodose. Leaves glabrous, oval or oblong, acutish at both ends, or the base often obtuse, or even rounded, char- taceous in texture, dull, 4 or 5 inches long, 14 to 24 wide, three-ribbed from the base, besides an intramarginal nerve on each side, which is often so conspicuous as to make the leaves /ive-ribbed ; the ribs con- nected by rather prominent, transverse veins, from which proceed less evident reticulated veinlets. Petioles elongated (from 12 to 18 lines long), slender. Cyme compound, corymbose, loosely many-flowered, terminal, trichotomous; its branches angular, nodose. Bracts cadu- cous. Ledicels slender. Flower-buds globular, or obovoid-globose ; those by nomeans full grown 2 lines in diameter, closed, the fleshy calyx showing no trace of lobes. But in specimens past anthesis the calyx is found to be open, and campanulate in form, produced con- spicuously beyond the ovary, with the truncate margin irregularly cleft into 9 to 20 short teeth. Petals 5, short and broad in the bud, convolute in estivation, said to be “ white, and as long as the calyx,” in Dr. Pickering’s notes. Stamens 10; the filaments very short in the undeveloped flower-buds: anthers dolabriform, notched at the base, where the salient connective is produced into a strong gibbosity. Style in the bud columnar, as long as the calyx, terminated with the depressed-capitate and entire stigma of the genus: after anthesis it becomes much exserted, filiform, and half an inch long. Ovary jfive- MELASTOMACE S. 579 celled; the cells at first depressed ; the placente borne at the very base of the cells at a little distance from the axis, directed obliquely upwards and outwards, flattened, dilated upwards, notched at the summit, covered with innumerable linear-oblong ovules, which are marked with a conspicuous brown rhaphe. Seeds not seen, nor mature fruit; the immature fruit 3 lines in diameter. But there are vestiges of old fruit, like that of the foregoing species; showing that the pod, at first fleshy, at length dry, is apparently irregularly rup- tured; the epicarp at length falling away, and leaving a fibrous framework of numerous persistent nerves, within which is the. thin lacerated lining of the cells, and the persistent thickened placente. Puiate 72, B.—AsrroniA PIcKERINGII: a branch of the var. 3. past flowering, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Vertical section of a flower- bud of var. a. 2, 3. Stamens from the same. 4. Calyx and style of var. a., after flowering. 5. Vertical section of the same. 6. Trans- verse section of the ovary. 7. A placenta, detached. 8. Ovules.— The details enlarged. 3. ASTRONIA CONFERTIFLORA, Sp. Nov. A, foliis longe petiolatis ovalibus obtusis basi rotundatis 3—5-nerviis, costis subtus ramulisque junioribus cum cyma composita corymbosa conferti- flora rufo-pubescentibus ; floribus in ramulis ultimis capitato-congestis subsessilibus; calyce glandulis rufis consperso, limbo ultra ovarium breviter producto, margine irregulariter 8-10-crenato; ovario tri- quadriloculart; placentis e fundo loculorum ortis. Has. Feejee Islands: in the Sandal-wood district of Vanua levu ; on the banks of streams. We have this in fruit only. If rightly identified with a plant recorded in Dr. Pickering’s notes, it is a shrub, 8 feet high. Branch- lets stout, terete, nodose, glabrate; the ultimate ones somewhat quad- rangular, and when young clothed with a thick and scurfy reddish- brown pubescence, which soon disappears. Leaves oval, obtuse at both ends, or more rounded at the base, 4 to 6 inches long, 22 to 33 wide, chartaceous, rather bright green, glabrous, except the three principal ribs, which when young are ferrugineous-pubescent underneath ; these 580 PHANEROGAMIA. spring from the base of the blade, or rarely from just within it; there are a pair of more slender, somewhat wavy, intramarginal nerves, which if counted make the leaf five-ribbed: the petioles about an inch and a half long. Oyme terminal, ample, corymbose, compound, repeatedly trichotomous; the divisions stout, somewhat quadrangular, Serrugineous-pubescent ; the ultimate peduncles bearing numerous, capt- tate-crowded, sessile or nearly sessile flowers, forming together a very compact inflorescence. Bracts caducous. Flower-buds, petals, sta- mens and style not seen; the specimen being wholly in the fruiting state. Fruiting calyx globular, rather depressed, and open at the top, little produced beyond the flat summit of the ovary, the truncate margin minutely and irregularly crenate-dentate into 8 or 10 rounded teeth ; the surface sprinkled with reddish-brown, glandular dots. Capsule depressed-globose, about 2 lines in diameter, three- or four-celled, with a dilated clavate-semilunar strictly basilar placenta in each cell; the thin epicarp breaking away irregularly, the thin endocarp splitting longitudinally into 6 or 8 valves and falling away, leaving 6 or 8 strong persistent nerves, surrounding the dilated placentae. Seeds innumerable, thickly covering the placente, subclavate, or dolabri- form, angled by mutual pressure, with a brown lateral rhaphe. Compared with an authentic but imperfect specimen of A. macro- phylla, Blume, and with Naudin’s description, this species is well marked by its very obtuse leaves, its dense and corymbose cyme, with sessile and congested flowers, the many-toothed edge of the calyx, the 3—4-celled ovary, and the thickish, angled (not acicular) seeds. ‘The leaves, moreover, are not distinctly triplinerved, as in that species. 4, Astronia? suBcoRDATA, Sp. Nov. A.? foliis longe petiolatis ovalibus vel subovatis breviter acuminatis obtusisve basi cordatis glubratis triplinerviis ; petiolis ramulisque junioribus cum cyma corymbosa ferrugineo-hirtis demum glabratis. Has. Upolu, one of the Samoan or Navigators’ Islands: in the mountains near Apia. The specimens, apparently of a tree or large shrub, have shed the MELASTOMACE 4S. 581 flowers and fruit from the inflorescence; but the plant is probably a congener of the foregoing species. The branches are very stout, terete, nodose; the younger parts hirsute with a dense and coarse ferrugineous pubescence, as are the elongated petioles (2 or 3 inches long); and the nascent foliage is ferrugineous with a similar, but shorter pubescence. Leaves oval, sometimes inclining to ovate, glabrate, chartaceous, from 5 to 8 inches long and 3 to 5 inches broad, either obtuse or slightly acuminate, cordate at the base, but not strongly so, triple-ribbed from near the base, and with one or two pairs of sinuous intramarginal nerves, transversely veined, and with evident coarsely reticulated veinlets. Cyme corymbose, trichotomous, compound, scarcely exceeding the petioles; the ramifications ferrugineous-hirsute, angled, evidently many-flowered. Some rufous-hirsute foliage of another Melastomaceous plant, per- haps of this genus, occurs in the Samoan collection, from the moun- tains of Upolu. Also, under the name of Melastoma? cereacea, Dr. Pickering, in his notes, mentions a shrub, from the mountains of Tutuila, occuring at the elevation of about 2,000 feet, with broad, five-ribbed and smooth leaves, a smooth and five-cleft calyx, and with white, wax-like petals: this is probably an Astronia; but I do not find indications of any corresponding specimens in the collection. There are some indeterminable fragments of other species from the Feejee Islands. 3. ASTRONIDIUM, Nov. Gen. Flores tetrameri. Calycis tubus hemisphericus, nudus ; limbus repando- quadridentatus seu incequaliter pluri-(6-8)-denticulatus. Petala 4. Stamina 8, equalia: filamenta complanata, subulata, brevia: anthere oblongo-lineares, antice rima duplicit longitudinuli dehiscentes ; con- nectivo dorsali carnoso angusto bast calcarato. Stylus filiformis: stigma minutum, simplicissimum. Ovarium omnino adnatum, tri- quadriloculare: placente e fundo loculorum exorte, superne dilatate, compresscee. Capsula globosa. Semina numerosissima.— Arbuscula glabra, micrantha, microcarpa, facie Astroniz. The plant in question differs from Astronia, it would seem gene- 146 582 PHANEROGAMIA. rically, in its tetramerous flowers, calcarate anthers, and minute stigma. 1. ASTRONIDIUM PARVIFLORUM, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 72.) Haz. Ovolau and Ambau, Feejee Islands: along the banks of streams. A small tree, about 20 feet high, glabrous, or the nascent parts minutely ferrugineous-pubescent. Branches terete; the ultimate branchlets somewhat angled. Leaves oblong or elliptical, opposite, obtuse or acutish at both ends, or the uppermost slightly and bluntly acuminate, 3 or 4 inches long, from an inch to 2 inches wide, char- taceous in texture, drying of a fuscous hue, smooth, three-ribbed, and with a pair of submarginal nerves; the ribs connected by transverse veins, which are rather conspicuous underneath, and reticulated with minute veinlets. Petioles from half an inch to an inch long. Cyme terminal, decompound, paniculate-corymbose, trichotomous; the rami- fications compressed-angular, subtended by small foliaceous bracts, which are early deciduous; the ultimate ramifications 3—7-flowered at the summit. Flowers smail (a line and a half long), very nume- rous, crowded, on pedicels of a line or less in length. Calyx nal:ed, between hemispherical and campanulate; the free portion or limb almost as long as the proper tube, the margin repandly four-toothed (the teeth broad and obtuse), or irregularly 6—8-toothed, nearly in the manner of Astronia confertiflora, &c. Petals 4, small (white ?), con- volute in sstivation, probably caducous. Stamens 8, equal and similar, inserted on the calyx at its junction with the summit of the ovary: filaments flattened and dilated, subulate, the apex inflexed in eestivation in the manner of the order, about the length of the limb of the calyx: anthers oblong-linear, as long as the filament; the con- nective narrow, but fleshy, produced downwardly into a basal spur of half the length of the filament; its anterior face occupied by the two narrowly linear and opposite anther-cells, which are extended and curved a little round the obtuse apex, each dehiscent by a lon- gitudinal line from top to bottom. Style filiform, terminated by a small and simple (not in the least capitellate or dilated) stigma. Ovary 3-4-celled, depressed-globose, entirely adnate to the tube of the calyx. Placentee rising from the very base of the cells, wholly distinct MELASTOMACES?. 583 from the axis, dilated and flattened upwards, broadly wedge-shaped, emarginate at the summit, thickly covered with minute oblong ovules. Capsule gibbose, slightly depressed, 14 to 2 lines in diameter, smooth, with rather thin walls, 83—4-celled; the dehiscence not known. Seeds exceedingly numerous, fillmg the cells, oval or obovate, angled by mutual pressure, with a thin and lax testa. Embryo not seen. Piate 72, C—ASTRONIDIUM PARVIFLORUM: a flowering branch, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Portion of the inflorescence and fruit, of the natural size. 2. Two flower-buds, and a central flower past anthesis, the petals and stamens fallen. 5. A petal. 4, 5. Stamens, from a flower-bud. 6. Vertical section of the calyx and ovary, after flowering. 7. Placenta, viewed posteriorly. 8. A fruit, vertically divided. 9. Transverse section of a fruit. 10. A seed—The analyses magnified. ' 4. PLEIOCHITON, Naudhn, Mss. Flores pentamert, involucrati. Involucrum generale tri-quadriphyllum, singuli floris bi-triphyllum. Calycis tubus turbinatus; dentes 5 duplicati; exteriores subulati, cum interioribus brevioribus membra- naceis obtusissimis inferne connati. Petala 5, ovata, acuta. Stamina 10, equalia, aut via non cequalia: antheree lineari-subulate, apice subrecurvee, poro unico tenuissimo aperte ; connectivo non producto nec appendiculato. Stylus filiformis: stigma acutum. Ovariwm ovoideum, liberum, apice verticillo setarum coronatum, quadri—quin- queloculare. Placente axiles. Ovula subglobosa innumera.—TLrutex ? vel arbor fere glabra; ramis validis ad nodos setoso-hispidis ; folivs ovalibus crasse coriaceis ; inflorescentia terminali ; floribus cum bracteas Soliaceis involucrantibus capitato-congestis. 1. Pretocurron crassiroiia, Naudin, Mss. (Tab. 73.) Has. In the Organ Mountains, Brazil (according to the tickets which accompany the specimen). | A nearly glabrous shrub or tree; with terete stout branches, bristly- hispid at the nodes; the ultimate branchlets obscurely angular, 584 PHANEROGAMIA. sparsely hispid when young, soon glabrate. Leaves oval, nearly obtuse, rounded and sometimes emarginate at the base, entire, thick and coriaceous in texture, perhaps somewhat fleshy in the living plant, dull, about 3 inches long and 2 inches wide, strongly three- ribbed, and with a pair of less conspicuous nerves near the margin; the ribs prominent underneath and at first furnished with a few scattered hispid hairs; the veins immersed and obscure: petioles stout, from 2 to 4 lines in length. Peduncles terminating the branches, about 6 or 9 lines long, sparsely hispid when young, usually once or twice trichotomous, the divisions subtended with ovate or oblong, leaf-like, closely sessile bracts; each partial peduncle (4 to 9 lines long) terminated with a several-flowered capitate glomerule, or a cluster of 3 sessile glomerules, composed of thickish and foliaceous mvolucral and involucellate bracts, subtending and enclosing the sessile flowers. Bracts of the involucre 3 or 4, broadly oval, very obtuse, shightly tinged with purple; of the involucel 2, or sometimes 3, similar to those of the common involucre, but narrower and some- what carinate below the middle, as long as or longer than the flower they embrace. Calyx 3 lines long, glabrous; the tube turbinate, some- what five-angled, lightly ten-nerved; the limb five-cleft; the teeth double; the exterior subulate from a broad base, thick, very acute, nearly a line and a half long, at first setose-pointed, and often fur- nished with a stout bristle in the intervening sinuses or near their margin: the interior teeth membranaceous, considerably shorter, very obtuse, connate with the exterior to above the middle. Petals 5, ovate, acute, exceeding the outer calyx-lobes, purple? Stamens 10, equal and similar, or very nearly so: filaments filiform, naked, as long as the anthers: the latter linear-subulate, with the apex a little recurved, opening by a minute terminal pore: the connective wholly destitute of any appendage or protuberance. Style filiform, as long as the stamens: stigma acute, punctiform. Ovary ovoid, free from the calyx, except the very base, glabrous and naked, but with a crown of several (8 or 10) strong bristles surrounding the base of the style, 4—5-celled; with as many placente projecting from the axis. Ovules very numerous, minute, roundish, amphitropous or campylotropous? Fruit not seen. I am indebted to M. Naudin of Paris, the distinguished recent monographer of this order, for the investigation and name of this remarkable plant, which appears so unlike any known American Melastomacea, as to suggest the doubt whether the specimen may not MELASTOMACES&. 585 have found its way into the Brazilian collection through some mis- chance. Its aspect, indeed, is more like that of some Oriental or Oceanic species; but I find no record that can apply to it in Dr. Pickering’s MS. notes of the insular collections. M. Naudin considers the plant to be the type of a new genus, of his tribe Miconiales, if truly American, to stand near Clidemia (from which it does not widely differ in its floral characters) ; or to be appended to the subtribe Dissocheetee, in case it should prove to be of Oceanic origin. The name alludes to the congested and multibracteate or involucrate inflorescence, which forms a striking character in the plant. PiateE 73,—PLEIOCHITON CRASSIFOLIA: a flowering branch, of the natural size. Fig. 1. A general involucre, displayed. 2. Involucel and the enclosed flower-bud. 3. An unopened flower. 4. Vertical section of the same. 95. A petal. 6. Anterior, and 7, posterior view of a stamen. 8. Pistil, detached. 9. Transverse section of a five- celled, and 10, of a four-celled ovary. 11. An ovule.—The details variously magnified. 9. HENRIETTEA, DC. 1. HenrRiETTEA succosa, DC. Henriettea succosa, DC. Prodr. 8, p. 104; Naudin, in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, 18, p. 104. H., Brasiliensis, Casaretto, Noy. Stirp. Bras. p. 85; Walp. Repert. 5, p. 716. Has. Organ Mountains, near Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 6. LEANDRA, Raddi. 1. Leanpra vILLosa, DC. Has. Rio Janeiro, and in the Organ Mountains, Brazil. 2. LEANDRA? ANGUSTIFOLIA, DC. Leandra? angustifolia, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 154; Naudin, l.c. p 90. 147 586 PHANEROGAMIA. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil; in the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro. There is only a poor specimen, with one or two very young flower- buds, which furnish little towards completing Naudin’s description. There are 6 triangular and acuminate small petals, and 12 stamens, the connective thickened or gibbous at the base posteriorly. Only the hexamerous flowers exclude it from Clidemia, as restricted by Naudin. 7 CLIDEMIA, Don, Naudin. 1. Cripem1A Nranea, DC. Clidemia? Nianga, DC. Prodr. 8, p. 163; Gardn. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 344. C. stenopetala & C. longibarbis, DC. 1. ¢.? Has. Brazil, near Rio. Janeiro: Organ Mountains; a later state, the flowers or fruits fallen, and with thinner leaves. 2. CLIDEMIA BOTRYOPHORA, Naudin. Clidemia botryophora, Naudin, in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 8, 17, p. 350, Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. 3. CLIDEMIA LEPTOSTACHYA, Gardner. Clidemia leptostachya, Gardner, in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 1, p. 172. C. salicifolia, Naudin, in Ann. Sci. Nat. 1. c. p. 864, ex char. Has. Brazil; in the vicinity of Rio Janeiro. This is nearly allied to C. amygdaloides (a common plant on the Corcovado, where Gardner gathered both species), as Gardner remarks, and most probably is no more than a narrow-leaved variety of it. MELASTOMACE®. 587 4, CLIDEMIA ALTHMOIDES, Nawdin. Clidemia althceoides, Naudin, in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 8, 17, p. 563? Has. Brazil; in the Organ Mountains, near Rio Janeiro. An imperfect specimen; with the leaves more tomentose under- neath, and the fruit larger than C. altheoides is described : otherwise it accords too well to be separated. A withered remaining petal is lanceolate and very acute. The soft and hirsute, dense, rufous pubescence of the branchlets is reflexed. The flowers are conspi- cuously pedicelled; else the plant might, perhaps, have been referred to C. retropila, DC. 5, CLIDEMIA MARGINATA, DC. Clidemia marginata, DC. Prodr. 8, p. 156; Naudin, l.c. p. 362. Has. Near Rio Janeiro, Brazil: and a smoother form from the Organ Mountains. 6. CLIDEMIA CONFERTIFLORA, DC. /. c. Has. Near Rio Janeiro, Brazil: in forests. 7. CLIDEMIA SCANDENS, Garduer. Clidemia scandens, Gardner, in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 34. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. (Perhaps the C. Epibaterium, DC.) 8. CLIDEMIA DISPAR, Gardner, /. c. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. 588 PHANEROGAMIA. This is well characterized by Gardner; but the name is not well chosen, since the leaves of each pair, although sometimes very unequal, are not rarely of about the same size. The flowers are much congested on the branches of the thyrsus, and densely hirsute externally. Calyx-teeth short and triangular, rather blunt; the throat - 10-ribbed inside. Petals oblong-ovate, or at first broadly ovate, pointed. The narrowed apex of the three-celled ovary is free. The species needs to be compared with C. Carassana, DC. 9. CLIDEMIA DASYTRICHA, Sp. Nov. C. foliis ovalibus seu ovato-oblongis acuminatis basi obtusis subdenticu- latis quinquenerviis supra glabratis subtus pube simplici brevi indutis, costis cum petiolis brevibus ramulisque subtetragonis setis debilibus patentibus visdem hispidulis creberrime vestitis; panicula terminali ; jloribus in ramulis patentibus glomerato-congestis ; calyce hispidulo, dentibus subulatis recurvis ; petalis lanceolatis acuminatissimis. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. We have only a rather imperfect specimen of this apparently well- marked and undescribed species, which belongs to Naudin’s section Kuchdemia. The stem is probably shrubby or frutescent. The somewhat quadrangular ultimate branches, like the short petioles (4 to 6 lines long) and the principal ribs of the leaves underneath, are thickly clothed, at least when young, with fulvous, rather coarse and long, but weak and spreading hairs, which are themselves minutely hispid or barbed for their whole length. This pubescence becomes matted and somewhat furfuraceous, and probably is detached when old. Leaves ample, from 5 to 7 inches long, equal or unequal in the pairs, oval or ovate-oblong, acuminate, minutely denticulate, obtuse at the base, membranaceous in texture, green and early glabrate above, or minutely setulose-scabrous, and with some simple, short, and stiff bristles persistent on the ribs, softly pubescent with short and simple crisped hairs underneath, five-ribbed ; the lateral ribs near the margin and weaker, the three stronger ones often originating just above the base: the transverse veins very numerous, and connected by similar veinlets. Panicle terminal, shorter than the leaves, furfuraceous- MELASTOMACE GE. 589 tomentose; its branches spreading, the ultimate divisions terminated by small and dense glomerules of sessile or subsessile flowers. Calya scarcely a line in diameter, hispid with short and spreading hairs, campanulate; the 5 teeth subulate and recurved, furnished with short and rounded, adnate, internal appendages. Petals 5, lanceolate and very sharply acuminate, small. Anthers 10, oblong. Ovary three- celled, hispid at the base of the style. Fruit not seen. 10. CLIDEMIA CHATOCALYX, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 74.) C. ramulis gracillimis teretibus, gunioribus pube stellata furfuraceo- puberulis; foliis (cujusque jugi seepe incequalibus) longe petiolatis membranacers ovatis seu lanceolato-ovatis acuminatis subcordatis quin- guenervis glabris setoso-ciliatis; paniculis terminalibus paucifloris laxis; pedunculis pedicellisque setoso-hispidis ; calyce setosissimo, dentibus aristeformibus tubo campanulato longioribus basi cum appen- dicibus internis lanceolatis parvis coalitis; petalis subulato-acumina- tissimis ; ovario troloculart. Has. Brazil; in the Organ Mountains. Stem herbaceous? Branchlets slender, terete, diffuse; the older glabrate; the younger ones clothed with a minute and furfuraceous stellular pubescence. Leaves (of the same pair often unequal, sometimes equal), long-petioled (the slender petioles about an inch long, puberu- lent like the branchlets), thin and membranaceous, ovate or lanceolate, ovate, acuminate, subcordate with a narrow sinus, about 2 inches long, green both sides, glabrous or nearly so, except the 6 ribs, which are puberulent underneath and often hispid-bearded next their origin ; the innermost arising a little above the base; the margin entire, ciliate with long and spreading bristles. Punicle terminal, or becoming lateral by innovation, small, short-peduncled, loose, few-flowered; the slender and spreading peduncles and pedicels strongly hispid with long and spreading bristles, and stellately puberulent. Bracts linear, setose-ciliate. Calyx strongly setose-hispid; the twbe campanulate or somewhat hemispherical, a line and a half long; its truncate margin bearing 5 awn-shaped teeth, of 2 (or in fruit 3) lines long, spreading, sparsely setose, each with a small and fragile internal appendage semi- y > g 148 590 PHANEROGAMIA. adnate to its base. Petals 5, narrow, subulate-acuminate, rather shorter than the calyx-teeth. Anthers linear-oblong, narrowed upwards. Style filiform, elongated: stigma minute, simple. Ovary three-celled. Fruit dry, globular, setose, 2 lines in diameter, three-celled; the par- titions very thin. Seeds very numerous, obovoid, angled, with a smooth testa, marked on one side by a broad and dark brown rhaphe. PLATE 74.—CLIDEMIA CHHTOCALYX: a branch, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Vertical section of a flower. 2. A petal. 38. A stamen. 4. Fruit (with the persistent calyx-lobes), divided transversely. 5. A seed.—The details variously magnified. 11. CLIDEMIA OocARPA, Sp. Nov. C. ramulis compresso-angulatis glabris; foliis ovali-oblongis utringue acuminatis in petiolum brevem attenuatis serrulatis guintupli-septupli- nervous supra glabellis subtus hirtellis; panicula terminali multiflora glabrata; floribus cymulosis subsessilibus; calyce urceolato parce hirtello, dentibus subulatis tubo paullo brevioribus, appendicibus obso- letis; petalis oblongis acuminatis; fructu ovoideo triloculari. Has. Brazil; in the Organ Mountains. There is only an imperfect, fruiting specimen, with one or two withered petals and stamens remaining to certify the genus. The species is apparently a new one. The branch is rather stout, appa- rently herbaceous, and, as well as the young branchlets, glabrous, com- pressed-angled. Leaves ample, 4 to 6 inches long and 2 or 8 wide, rather membranaceous, oval-oblong, acuminate at both ends, tapering at the base into a very short petiole, serrulate, strigose when young but soon nearly glabrate above, minutely hirsute beneath with a simple pubescence; the ribs 5 to 7, springing in pairs along the narrowed base, the uppermost pair more remote and stronger; the transverse veins and veinlets very numerous and conspicuous underneath. Panicle terminal, becoming alar by innovation, open, sessile; its branches glabrous, except a few small bristles; the flowers cymulose, almost sessile, at least the central ones. Bractlets setaceous, minute. Calyx urceolate, sparsely and minutely hispid; the 5 teeth subulate, 14 MELASTOMACES®. 591 to 2 lines long, rather shorter than the tube, at least after anthesis, spreading; the internal appendages obsolete. The withered petals oblong, sharply acummate. Anthers oblong, narrowed upwards, opening by a terminal pore, inappendiculate. Fruit (immature) 3 lines long, ovoid, contracted between the apex and the persistent calyx-teeth, three-celled, very many-seeded. 12. Cuipem1A BRACKENRIDGEI, Sp. Nov. C. ramulis gracilibus subangulatis petiolisque minutim lanulosis ; foliis (cujusque jugt imeequalibus) oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis basi acu- tiusculis integerrumis trinerviis membranaceis glabris; panicula ter- minali pauciflora laxa; floribus pedicellatis; calyce fulvo-pubente, dentibus triangulatis inappendiculatis tubo brevioribus ; petalis e basi lata subulato-acuminatis ; ovario triloculari. Has. Brazil; in the Organ Mountains. Of this also we have only a single small specimen; a slender branch, which is somewhat angled, and the upper part, as well as the petioles, inflorescence, &c., clothed with a fine lanulose pubescence, which falls off with age. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, or narrowly oblong, conspi- cuously acuminate, rather acute at the base, entire, not ciliate, glabrous, except the 3 ribs, which are minutely puberulent underneath, veiny, and with an obscure submarginal nerve, membranaceous, pale beneath. The two of each pair are unequal, one of them 4 or 5, the other 12 to 24 inches long. Panicle terminal, small and simple, loosely few- flowered; the flowers pedicelled. Calyx fulvous-pubescent, 12 lines long; the 5 triangular teeth shorter than the somewhat turbinate tube, and shorter than the triangular-subulate and sharply acuminate petals ; the internal appendages wanting. Anthers oblong, narrowed upwards, opening by a terminal pore. Ovary three-celled. Fruit not seen. 13. CiipEemMIA (OXYMERIS) PULCHRA. Oxymeris pulchra, Chamisso, fide spec. ex Herb. Berol. Has. Brazil; in the Organ Mountains. 592, PHANEROGAMIA. The imperfect specimen, without petals or stamens, accords very well with a fruiting one from Sellow’s collection, distributed from the Royal Berlin herbarium, under the name of “ Oxymeris pulchra, Cham.;” a species which I find nowhere published. Our specimen has the ribs of the leaves more bearded underneath, and similar bristly hairs occur on the petioles, and sparingly on the branchlets. It is related to C. alpestris, Gardn., but distinct. Perhaps it may not be distinct from Oxymeris ciliata of Martius; which, it may be remarked, cannot bear the name of Clidemia Marti, given it by Naudin (in Ann. Sci. Nat. p. 375), since he has already a C. Mar- tirana in the same volume, p. 340. 14. CuipemrA (OxyMerISs) PickEertncu, Sp. Nov. C. glaberrima, herbacea? diffuse ramosa; ramulis gracilibus angulatis ; folits membranaceis ovalibus sew obovatis utringue acuminatis petio- latis integerrimis longe supra basim triplinervis et nervo utrinque marginali donatis; panicula terminali parva laxiflora; alabastris acuminatis; calyce turbinato, dentibus brevissimis callosis; petalis e basi lata subulato-acuminatissimis ; antheris obtusissimis. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. A slender flowering branch, of an apparently herbaceous and diffuse plant, entirely glabrous, except some minute resinous-like atoms on the angular branchlets and other new parts. Leaves membranaceous, obovate or oval, 2 or 3 inches long, abruptly and conspicuously acwm- nate, tapering at the base into a petiole of 5 to 10 lines in length, dull, paler beneath, very entire, triplinerved above the base a considerable distance, and with a slender submarginal nerve on each side; the transverse veins not prominent: the leaves of each pair somewhat unequal. Panicle terminal, small and simple, with slender spreading branches, loosely-flowered ; usually three flowers at the extremity, the middle one subsessile, the lateral short-peduncled. Bracts minute, subulate. Flower-buds 2% lines long, fusiform, much acwminate. Calyx turbinate, rather oblong, slightly puberulent, the truncate margin furnished with 5 very short callous teeth, apparently destitute of internal appendages. Petals subulately long-acuminate from a broad MELASTOMACES. 593 base, white, a line and a half long: at their insertion within are two or three slender setz to each, as long as the subulate filaments. Anthers narrowly oblong, not narrowed upwards, very obtuse. Style slender: stigma minute. Ovary three-celled, many-ovuled. Fruit not seen. This species is doubtless allied to Naudin’s Clidemia acutiflora, also from the Organ Mountains; but on comparison it was seen to be distinct. There remains an imperfect fruiting specimen, also gathered in the Organ Mountains, with a five-celled ovary and aristiform calyx-teeth, probably of this genus; but I cannot determine, nor venture to cha- racterize it. 8 STAPHIDIUM, Naudin. 1. STAPHIDIUM BISERRATUM, Naudin. Staphidium biserratum, Naudin, in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, 17, p. 305. Clidemia biserrata, bullosa, umbonata, & forte spicata, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 158. Has. Vicinity of Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 2. SraPHIpDIUM PAUCIFLORUM, Naudin, l. c. Clidemia pauciflora & C. crenata, DC. Prodr. 8, p. 157. Has. Brazil; with the preceding species. 9. MICONIA, Ruiz & Pav., Naudin. Miconta, CREMANIUM, DipLocHITA, CHAINOPLEURA, JUCUNDA, GRAFFENRIEDA, DecarPHE, ANGuSTINEA, Harricia, & GLOSSOCENTRUM, Auctorum, fide Naudin, 1. c. 149 594 - PHANEROGA MIA. 1. Miconta (Jucunpa) sTAMINEA, DC. Melastoma staminea, Desv. in Lam. Dict. 4, p. 53. Miconia staminea, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 187; Naudin, in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, 16, p. 123. Graffenrieda jucunda, Mart. & Zuce. Nov. Gen. & Spec. 3, t. 276, forma angustifolia. Jucunda Lhotskyana & J. Martiana, Cham. in Linnea, 9, p. 456. Has. Brazil, near Rio Janeiro, and in the Organ Mountains. 2. MIconrIA BRUNNEA, DC. Miconia brunnea, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 184; Naudin, 1. c. p. 200. Has. Brazil, near Rio Janeiro; or in the Organ Mountains. 3. MIconraA CINERASCENS, Miquel ? Miconia cinerascens, Miquel, in Linnea, 22, p. 543 ? Has. Brazil; in the Organ Mountains. The plant before me belongs to Eumiconia, Paniculares § 1, a, of Naudin’s arrangement. It is apparently the same as no. 1296 of Pohl’s collection, communicated by the Vienna herbarium to that of Hooker. Except that the pubescence is at first of a rusty or ferru- gineous hue, and the calyx is scarcely costate, it accords so well with Miquel’s character of M. cinerascens that it would not be proper to establish a new species upon it. 4. MicontIa DIvVARIcATA, Gardner. Miconia divaricata, Gardner, in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 345. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. The branches of the panicle are scarcely divergent in these speci- mens. MELASTOMACES®. 595 5. MIcoNnIA FASCICULATA, Gardner. Miconia fasciculata, Gardner, in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 1, p. 538. Has. Brazil; near Rio Janeiro, probably on the Corcovado, and Organ Mountains. 6. MICONIA DEPAUPERATA, Gardner. Miconia depauperata, Gardner, in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 346. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. (Foliage only; which accords with that of Gardner’s plant.) 7. MicontA SELLOWIANA, Naudin. Miconia (Amblyarrhena) Sellowiana, Naudin, in Ann. Sci. Nat. 1. c. p. 206. Cremanium Sellowianum, Cham. in Herb. Berol. Has. Rio Janeiro and Organ Mountains, Brazil. 8. MiconrA PALUDOSA, Naudin, U. c. Cremanium paludosum, Gardner, in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 347. Has. Brazil; in the Organ Mountains. 9. MiconrA PRASINA, DC. Miconia prasina, DC. Prodr. 8, p. 188; Naudin, in Ann. Sci. Nat. 1c. p. 172. M. attenuata, afinis, & sepiaria, DC. 1. ¢. fide Naudin. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. 596 PHANEROGAMIA. 10. MicontA (CHANANTHERA) CHAINOPLEUROIDES, Naudin, 1. c. Cremanium chenopleuroides, Gardner, in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 349. Miconia late-crenata, Naudin, in Ann. Sci. Nat. 1. ¢. p. 239, ex char. (excl. syn. DC. 7) Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. (The inflorescence mostly in a diseased state.) A few other specimens, probably of this genus, occur in the collec- tion, in a state too imperfect for determination. 10. HUBERIA, DC 1. Huerta ovaAuiroiia, DC. Huberia ovalifolia, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 167; Naudin, in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, 15, p. 336, & 16, t. 25, f. 1. HT. resinosa, Presl, Symb. Bot. 1, p. 58, t. 37. Has. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. ll. BERTOLONIA, Raddi. 1. BERTOLONIA NYMPHZAFOLIA, DC. Bertolonia nympheefolia, Raddi, Pl. Brasil. Add.; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 113; Naudin, in Ann. Sci. Nat. ].c. p. 318. Rhexia nympheifolia, Kunth. in Bonpl. Rhex. t. 53. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. (In fruit.) 2. BertotoniA Leuzeana, DC. 1. ¢. Rhexia Leuzeana, Bonpl. Rhex. p. 144, t. 54, 55. Has. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. (A state with rounder leaves.) MELASTOMACEA. 597 12, ANPLECTRUM.+ APLECTRUM, Blume, in Flora, 1831, p. 502, & Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. p. 37; Naudin, in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, 15, p. 3038, t. 15; non Nutt. (1818). 1. ANPLECTRUM? OVALIFOLIUM, Sp. Nov. A, fere glaberrimum; foliis late ovalibus sew ovato-rotundis breviter acuminatis petiolates submembranaceis tripli-quintuplinerviis ; cymis pulverulento-puberulis folio brevioribus; calycis dentibus brevissimis callosis, denticulis externis nullis; petalis ovatis acutis; antheris 8 homomorphis. Aplectrum ? ovalifolium, Naudin, in scheda. Has. Feejee Islands; at Sandal-wood Bay, Vanua-levu. Shrub, or small tree, glabrous, except a very minute pulverulent pubescence on the nascent parts; the branches terete, nodose. Leaves nearly membranaceous, about 2 inches long, or one of each pair smaller, conspicuously petioled (the petiole half an inch long), broadly oval or rounded-ovate, short-acuminate, rounded but not cordate at the base, dull, paler beneath, very entire, triple-ribbed from near the base, and with a pair of lateral, nearly basal nerves, which approach the margin. Petioles unconnected by a transverse membrane. Cyme terminal and in the upper axils, small, minutely puberulent, sometimes paniculate, shorter than the leaves, several-flowered. Bracts linear. Flower-buds a line or a line and a half in length, short-pedicelled. Calyx turbinate; the limb with 4 very short and obtuse callous teeth, and destitute of exterior appendages. Petals 4, ovate and acute in the bud. Stamens 8: anthers received in estivation into as many narrow canals left between the calyx and the wall of the ovary, oblong, with * A slight change in the privative may render Blume’s name, Aplectrum, sufficiently different from the earlier Aplectrun of Nuttall, which is apparently a good genus, of Orchidaceee, allied to Corallorhiza. 150 598 PHANEROGAMIA. the connective produced posteriorly into a short and thick tubercle, almost spur-like, apparently all similar and equally polliniferous; but they have been examined only in young buds. Style filiform, short: stigma minute, punctiform. Ovary four-celled, with thick and multiovulate placente, affixed to the middle of the columella. Fruit not seen. M. Naudin, who has obligingly examined the incomplete specimens of the collection, inclines to refer the plant to Blume’s genus Aplec- trum; notwithstanding that the anthers are probably all similar and perfect, and the calyx is not adnate to the whole surface of the ovary. 13. MEDINILLA, Gaud. 1. MEDINILLA HETEROPHYLLA, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 75.) M. alte scandens; ramis teretibus ad nodos scepius radiciferis; foliis cwjusque jugi valde disparibus quintuplinerviis, majore ovato seu ovato- oblongo subcordato subacuminato, petiolo ejus folium alterum cordato- rotundum adeequante vel superante; racemis paniculatis elongatis ; bracteis verticillatis bracteolisque obovatis magnis petaloideis albis ; Jloribus tetrameris; calycis limbo fere integerrimo; antheris basi bre- viter tricalcaratis. Has. Feejee Islands; in forests of Ovolau. Stem shrubby, thick, climbing over tall trees; the branches terete, slender, commonly rooting copiously at the nodes, nearly glabrous, as is the whole plant. Leaves exceedingly unequal and dissimilar, one of each pair usually almost abortive; the larger one ovate or ovate-oblong, subcordate, acute or slightly acuminate, quintuple-ribbed or almost five- ribbed, besides an obscure pair of intramarginal nerves, from 23 to 4% inches long, and with its slender petiole half an inch to an inch long: the smaller leaf is rounded-cordate, short-petioled or subsessile, either acutish, obtuse, or emarginate, 3—5-ribbed, from 3 to 9 lines in diameter, shorter than or barely equalling the petiole of the larger MELASTOMACES®. 599 leaf. In consistence the leaves appear to have been a little fleshy, but thin. The inflorescence is developed from the leafless nodes of older branches, in the form of an ample panicle, composed of drooping elongated racemes, which attain the length of a foot or more; their closely approximate nodes each adorned with a pair, or more com- monly a whorl of 3 or 4 obovate and petaloid (white) bracts. These are sessile, and persistent for some time after flowering on the nodose rhachis, half an inch long, about the length of the pedicels; which are not articulated in the middle. Flower subtended by a pair or whorl of bractlets resembling the bracts, but smaller and rounder, about the length of the calyx and embracing it. Calyx nearly 3 lines long, tinged with violet-colour, urceolate, the tube somewhat quadrangular; the dinb membranaceous, with a truncate, entire, at length repandly sinuate or obscurely four-lobed margin, externally marked with 4 small callosities. Petals 4, nearly 3 lines long, obovate-cuneiform, somewhat insequilateral, retuse, and with a minute glandular tip, rose-colour. Stamens 8, equal: filaments slender: anthers subulate, rose-coloured, minutely three-spurred at the base; that is, the connec- tive bearing 2 (yellow) assurgent spur-like processes anteriorly, and one posteriorly, which is similar but decurved. Style filiform ; stizma minute, punctiform. Ovary wholly adherent to the calyx- tube, surmounted by a cup-shaped membranous disk, which surrounds the base of the style, four-celled; the thick axile placents: covered with innumerable ovules. Berry globular-ovoid, a quarter of an inch in diameter, many-seeded, purple? Seeds semi-obovoid, with the inner face concave, or helmet-shaped; the rhaphe large and project- ing. Embryo somewhat oblique. A striking and very distinct species, remarkable as well for its long racemes, conspicuously adorned with white bracts, as for the great inequality of the leaves. Its inflorescence would seem to resemble that of Dactyliota, Blume; a genus which perhaps should be reunited to Medinilla. Puate 75.—MeEpINILLA HETEROPHYLLA: a branch, of the natural size. Fig. 1. A flower, with its bractlets. 2. Vertical section of an unexpanded flower. 3. Calyx. 4. A petal. 5,6. Stamens. 7. A fruit. 8. Transverse section of the same. 9, 10. Seeds. 11. Ver- tical section of a seed.—The details magnified. 600 PHANEROGAMIA. 2. MEDINILLA RHODOCHL&NA, Sp. Nov. M. subscandens; ramulis teretibus hine wide radicantibus ; foliis cujus- que jug incequalibus homomorphis ovato-oblongis acuminatis quintu- plinerviis basi scepe obliquis acutis vel obtusis petiolatis puberulis ; racemis axillaribus ; bracteis bracteolisque dilatatis rubris. Has. Feejee Islands; on the mountains of Ovolau, at the altitude of 2,000 feet. “ Of this the collection comprises only one or two very incomplete, fruiting specimens, with the vestiges of the inflorescence and bracts ; which appear to belong to a species mentioned in Dr. Pickering’s notes (in connexion with the foregoing), as a “half-climbing plant, with a weak stem, 20 or 30 feet long; and with red bracts.” The branchlets are terete, thickened at the nodes, some of which bear rootlets, their young summits ferrugineous-pubescent. Leaves of each pur unequal in size, but otherwise nearly similar, the larger 3 or 4, the sma.ler one or 2 inches long, ovate-oblong with an acute and often oblique, sometimes obtuse base, the apex usually acuminate, qguintuple- ribbed, puberulent, especially beneath, with rusty scurf, thickish in texture; the sparse transverse veins rather conspicuous. Petioles 4 to 8 lines long. Racemes axillary, perhaps paniculate, apparently shorter than the leaves. Bracts and bractlets opposite or ternate, apparently oval or rounded and longer than the pedicels, petaloid, “ved.” Berry many-seeded. Seeds somewhat helmet-shaped, exca- vated on the ventral face; the smooth testa minutely punctate. 14. DISSOCH ATA, Blume. 1. Dissocuata Cumineu, Naudin ? Dissocheta Cumingii, Naudin, in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 8, 15, p. 75? Has. Luzon; in the mountains, near Bafios. (Without flowers or fruit.) MELASTOMACEA. 601 15. SPENNERA, Mart. 1. SPENNERA PALUDOSA, Mart., DC. Has. Rio Janeiro and Organ Mountains, Brazil: very common. 16. TETRAMERIS, Naudin. 1. TETRAMERIS MArtiAnA, Naudin. Tetramerts Martiana, Naudin, in Ann. Sci. Nat. 1. ¢. 14, p. 121. Arthostemma Martiustanum, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 187. Has. Brazil; in the Organ Mountains. 17. MELASTOMA, Burm. 1. Mexastoma Tartense, DC. Melastoma Taitense, DC. Prodr. 8, p. 144; Guill. Zeph. Tait. p. 60; Naudin, in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 3, 18, p. 275. M. Malabathrica, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 33, & descr. in Guill. Zeph. Tait. 1. c. Has. Tahiti, Society Islands; on dry ridges. “ Flowers white ;” as is also said to be the case by Forster. 2. Metastoma ViTIENSE, Naudin, l. ¢. Has. Feejee Islands; Malolo, Ovolau, &c.; both near the coast and on mountains. Samoan Islands; Savaii and Tutuila. The Feejee specimens are mostly smaller-leaved than those charac- | 151 602 PHANEROGAMIA. terized by Naudin: the Samoan form is intermediate, as to the calyx, &c., between the former and IM. Taitense; to which both are probably to be referred as mere varieties. 3. MELASTOMA POLYANTHUM, Blume ? Has. Ovolau, Feejee Islands, near the coast. The specimen is insufficient for determination. The leaves are strigose above, but softly appressed-pubescent underneath. The calyx-teeth are narrow, acute, and as long as the tube. 4. MELASTOMA FASCICULARE, Naudin ? 1. ¢. Haz. Luzon, Philippine Islands, near Manilla. (Specimen too imperfect for satisfactory determination.) 5. MELASTOMA ADPRESSUM, Wail. Cat. Melastoma longifoliwm, Naudin, in Ann. Sci. Nat. 1. ¢. p. 298, ex char. Has. Singapore; near the town. 18. PLEROMA, Don. PLEROMA, Don, in Mem. Wern. Soe. 4, p. 293; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 151, excl. spp. prior.; Benth. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 1, p. 171, & 2, p. 288 (1840); Gardner, in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 8348; Lindl. Lastanpra, DC. Prodr. 8, p. 127; Mart. & Zuce. Nov. Gen. & Spec. 3, p. 98; Naudin, in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 8, 18, p. 127. It is a pity that Naudin, in his excellent elaboration of Melasto- macece, should have employed the name of Lasiandra for this genus; since that of Pleroma has not ouly the absolute priority in publi- cation, but was also adopted for the genus by Bentham (ten years MELASTOMACEA. 603 before Naudin’s papers appeared), on the occasion of his showing the identity of the two genera; and in this he has been followed by Gardner, Lindley, &c. Irrespective of the rule of priority even, Don’s name is the more appropriate; since, being nearly unmeaning, it is unobjectionable; while that of Lasiandra is descriptive of only a portion of the species. 1. PLERoMA FontTANESIANUM, Gardner. Pleroma Fontanesianum, Gardner, in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 1, p. 171. Lasiandra Fontanesiana, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 180; Naudin, 1. c. p. 150. Rhexia Fontanesti & Rk. Langsdorfiana, Bonpl. Rhex. t. 51 & 56. Has. Rio Janeiro, and in the Organ Mountains, Brazil. 2. PLEROMA ARGENTEUM. Lasiandra argentea, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 181; Naudin, 1. c. p. 148. Has. Near Rio Janeiro, and in the Organ Mountains, Brazil. 3. PLEROMA ADENOSTEMON. Lasiandra adenostemon, DC. Prodr. 8, p. 180; Naudin, l.c. p. 189. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. 4, PLEROMA SPOLIATUM. Lasiandra spoliata (& L. phalacrostemon), Naudin, in Ann. Sci. Nat. 1. ¢. p. 137. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. 5. PLERoMA GAUDICHAUDIANUM. Lasiandra Gaudichaudiana, DO. Prodr. 3, p. 127; Naudin, lc. p. 136, Has. Near Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 604 PHANEROGAMIA. 6. PLreromA KuNnTHIANUM, Gardner, var. Pleroma Kunthianum, Gardner, in Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 851; Paxt. Mag. Bot. t. 125. Lasiandra Kunthiana, DC. Prodr. 38, p. 128? Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. 7. PLEROMA GRACILE. Rhexia gracilis, Kunth, in Bonpl. Rhex. t. 52. ° Cheetogastra gracilis & C. fraterna, DO. Prodr. 3, p. 183. Lasiandra gracilis, Naudin, in Ann. Sci. Nat. 1. c. p. 128. Has. Organ Mountains, and near Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 19. RHYNCHANTHERA, DO. 1. RHYNCHANTHERA SCHRANKIANA, DC. Rhynchanthera Schrankiana (cum R. dichotoma & pentanthera), DC. Prodr. 8, Naudin, |. c. 12, p. 214. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. There remains in the collection the undeterminable foliage of several Melastomacee from the Philippine Islands, of one from the Samoan, and one from the Feejee Islands. Orv. LYTHRACE . 1. PEMPHIS, Porst. 1. PEMPHIS ACIDULA, Forst. Pemphis acidula, Forst. Char. Gen. t. 834; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 89. Lythrum Pemphis, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 249; Forst. Prodr. p. 86; Lam. Ill. t. 408. Has. Sooloo Islands; Wake Island, Raraka, Bellinghausen, and small coral islands generally. 2. AMMANNIA, Lina. 1. AMMANNIA LATIFOLIA, Linn. Ammannia latifolia, Linn. Spec. Pl. ed. 1, p. 119; Lam. Il. t. 77; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1, p. 480. Has. Peru; in the bed of the river at Callao. 3. LYTHRUM, Linn. 1. Lyturum Sauicaria, Linn. Has. Woolongong, New South Wales. Indigenous? 152 606 PHANEROGAMIA. 2. LytHrum Hyssopiroiia, Linn. Has. New South Wales, near Sydney. Chili, near Valparaiso. Introduced from Europe ? 3. LytHruM MARITIMUM, HZ. B. K. Has. Peru: in the river-bed at Callao and Lima. Sandwich Islands; on the coast of Oahu, near Honolulu, and Hawai, in the district of Waimea. 4. CUPHEA, Jacg. 1. Cupnza Batsamona, Cham. & Schlecht. Cuphea Balsamona, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnea, 2, p. 368. Has. Brazil, near Rio Janeiro, and in the Organ Mountains. (With a hispid variety.) 2. CUPHEA INGRATA, Cham. & Schlecht. 1. c. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. (The var. C. Bonariensis, Gillies.) 3. CUPHEA LIGUSTRINA, Cham. & Schlecht. 1. c. Has. Brazil; with the preceding. 4. CUPHEA FLAVA, Spreng., DC. Has. Vicinity of Rio Janeiro, Brazil. Orn. RHIZOPHORACEH &. Susorpvp. l. LEGNOTIDE &. 1 GYNOTROCHES, Blume. GynorrocuEs, Blume, Bijdr. p. 218, & Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. p. 126. . DryYpropeTALUM, Arn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. 1, p. 872. 1. GYNOTROCHES RETICULATA, Sp. Nov. G. ramulis novellis stipulisque pube minutissima cinereis ; foliis oblongis acumine brevi obtusissimo terminatis utrinque reticulatis, venis promi- nulis scabriusculis; pedicellis petiolum adcequantibus ; stigmate bre- vissime tri-quadriradiato. Has. Singapore. This is the same as No. 8457 of Wallich’s Catalogue, from Penang and Singapore, and is perhaps not specifically distinct from G. Drypto- petalum, Blume (Dryptopetalum corvaceum, Arn.), of which I have only an imperfect specimen from Griflith’s Malacca collection for comparison. But in our plant the young branches, stipules, &ec., are minutely cinereous-puberulent ; the oblong leaves have a shorter and very blunt acwmination, are more reticulated on both sides, duller, and with the prominent veins and veinlets scabrous to the touch; the pedicels (about 3 lines long, very numerous in a dense fascicle) as long as the petiole. The style, moreover, is terminated by a depressed slightly four-lobed, or sometimes three-lobed stigma; the lobes extremely 608 PHANEROGAMIA. short and obtuse. The petals are wanting in the specimen. Persis- tent stamens 8: filaments subulate-filiform. Ovary, &c., apparently as in Blume’s figure of G. axillaris. 2 HAPLOPETALON, Nov. Gen. Calyx profunde quadrifidus; lobis triangulatis cestivatione valvatis. Petala 4, obovata, calyce inserta, fere exwnguiculata, integerrima, carinata, cestivatione involuta, decidua. Stamina 16-20, brevissima, uniserialia, margint disci perigynt tenuis inserta: anthere ovales, introrse, biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes, filamentis subulatis cequilonge. Stylus brevis, apice quadrifidus, raro quinquesidus ; lobis linearibus demum patentibus apice stigmatosis. Ovarium depressum, culycis tubo (mediante disci) semiadnatum, uniloculare. Ovula 8, raro 10, anatropa, e columna centrali geminatim appensa. Frutex Vitiensis; foliis Carallise; stipulis interpetiolaribus caducis; pedi- cellis in awillis laxe fasciculatis. 1. Haptoprtaton Ricuu, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 76.) Has. Feejee Islands: at Sandalwood Bay, Vanua-levu. Shrub (or small tree, the height not recorded) glabrous, except the young shoots; which are hirsute with a fine, rusty, deciduous pubes- cence. Leaves opposite, chartaceo-coriaceous, somewhat shining, oblong or obovate-elliptical, obscurely serrulate above the middle, obtusely acuminate or obtuse, tapering at the base into a petiole (of 4 to 6 lines in length), pinnately-veined and irregularly reticulated, very obscurely pellucid-punctate, from 22 to 5 inches long, and one or 2 inches wide. Stipules interpetiolar, like those of the family, con- volute in vernation, fuscous, half an inch long, caducous. Flowers in simple and sessile axillary fascicles, which are at first enclosed by an involucre of two or three fuscous, early caducous scales. Pedicels lax, 7-10 in a cluster, about 2 lines long, not articulated in the middle. Flower-buds naked, a line or a line and a half in diameter, globose—four-angled. Calyx deeply four-cleft; the lobes thickish, RHIZOPHORACE &. 609 broadly triangular, minutely pubescent at the very tip, otherwise vlabrous, valvate in estivation. Petals 4, involute in estivation, obovate, or somewhat cuneate, scarcely if at all unguiculate, retuse at the apex, thickish in texture, entire, carinate, and externally pubescent on the keel, not longer than the lobes of the calyx, and inserted in their sinuses under the thin edge of the perigynous disk, deciduous. Stamens 16 to 20, shorter than the petals, wniserial, inserted on the thin and slightly free margin of the perigynous disk that lines the tube of the calyx, so as to appear somewhat monadelphous: jilaments very short, subulate, inflexed in eestivation; the alternate ones a little shorter than the others: anthers oval, somewhat didymous, fixed near their base, «trorse, two-celled, the cells longitudinally dehiscent. Style short, as long as the stamens, somewhat four-grooved, four-clef/t or rarely five-cleft at the apex; the lobes linear, flattish, obtuse, cruciately spreading in anthesis, stigmatose and a little thickened at the apex. Ovary depressed, its free summit pubescent, four-rayed, entirely desti- tute of any epigynous disk or ring, the lower part adnate to the flat- tened base of the calyx (when fructified probably becoming wholly or nearly superior), one-celled, apparently without even a trace of rudimentary partitions. Ovules 8, or rarely 10, anatropous, radiately attached in pairs to a central columella which reaches to the base of the style; their rhaphes opposite, at length becoming pendulous. Fruit not seen. This plant, of which the fruit is still a desideratum, is manifestly related to Gynotroches and Cassipourea, and still more to Carallia, one species of which has a half free ovary, and two have merely crenu- late petals. The tetramerous flowers, with short stamens, of more than twice the number of the perfectly entire and fleshy petals, along with the difference in the inflorescence, may, with our present know- ledge, be held to constitute a sufficient generic distinction. The name which I have chosen, in reference to its entire petals, indicates an obvious difference between it and all its allies. A memorandum attached to the specimens had apprised me that Mr. Rich, the Botanist of the Expedition, regarding this as a new genus, had assigned to it the name of Agatea, in compliment to the late Mr. Agate, the Botanical draughtsman of the Expedition. A former but too hasty examination having led me to refer this plant to an old genus of Legnotidee (which must be my apology for the 15 610 PHANEROGAMIA. seeming neglect of a manuscript name), I dedicated a genus of Vio- lace (p. 89) to the memory of Mr. Agate, which unfortunately is already published. This is the less to be regretted, however, since the present genus is not so strongly marked in its characters as is desirable for this purpose, and it may not improbably be merged in Carallia. Prate 76.—HaptoreraAton Ricui: a flowering branch, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Stipules. 2. Diagram of the flower. 3. A flower-bud. 4. Vertical section of the same. 5. An expanded flower. 6. Vertical section of the same. 7. Stamens, with a portion of the disk. 8. A pair of ovules—The details variously magnified. 3. CROSSOSTYLIS, Furst. Calyx profunde quadrifidus, quadrangularis; lobis triangulatis cesti- vatione valvatis. Petula 4, calyce inserta, ligulata, unguiculata, apice truncato tri-quinquedentata, carinata, cestivatione involuta, decidua. Stamina fertilia circiter 20, margini libera disci perigyni inserta : jilamenta elongata, subulato-filiformia, basi dilatata subconnata intus glandula subglobosa instructa: anther: ovoidece, introrse, biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Filamenta sterilia circ. 20, fertilibus alterna, wsdem dimidio breviora, subulato-linearia, villosissima. Stylus filiformis, elongatus, apice radiato-12-fidus ; lobis filiformibus apice stigmatosis in phalanges 4 basi plus minus coadunatis. Ova- rium depressum, calycis tubo semiadnatum, vertice libero demum™ton- vecum 12-radiatum, 12-loculare. Ovula in loculis gemina, anatropa, e columna centrali appensa. (Bacca hemispherica, multistriata, supera, untlocularis, polysperma, ex Forst.)—Arbuscula glabra; foliis oppo- sitis obovatis integerrimis vel subserrulatis; stipulis interpetiolaribus caducis; pedunculis axillaribus brevibus apice bi-trifloris rariusve quadrifloris ; floribus pedicellatis. 1, CROSSOSTYLIS BIFLORA, Forst. (Tab. 77.) Crossostylis biflora, Forst. Char. Gen. p. 87, t. 44, Prodr. p. 49, & Ms. ed. in Guill. Zeph. Tait. p. 60. RHIZOPHORACE &. 611 Haz. Mountains of Tutuila, one of the Samoan or Navigators’ Islands. A small tree, glabrous throughout, with stout, terete, nodose branches. Leaves opposite, obovate, 4 to 7 inches long, and 2 or 3 wide, obtuse or slightly acuminate, cuneate or contracted at the base into a petiole about half an inch in length, loosely feather-veined, and with the veinlets reticulated, chartaceous in texture, somewhat shining, of the same hue both sides, very thickly and obscurely pellucid-punctate by transmitted light. Stipules iterpetiolar, con- volute, fuscous, caducous, resembling those of the Legnotidece gene- rally. Peduncles axillary, solitary, shorter than the petioles (3 or 4 lines long), naked, bearing 2 or 3, rarely 4, one-flowered (or occa- sionally three-flowered) pedicels articulated with their apex and of about the same length, subtended by small caducous bracts? Flower 4 or 5 lines long when developed, nodding. Calyx quadrangular, fleshy, deeply four-cleft; the very short tube somewhat turbinate, the broadly triangular lobes valvate in estivation, glabrous, persistent. Petals 4, inserted on the throat of the calyx just within the sinuses, longer than its lobes, oblong or at length ligulate, tapering gradually into a claw, 3 lines long, minutely and softly pubescent externally, except the thin margins, glabrous inside, carinate (“ white,” Forster), truncate at the apex, where it is erosely three—ive-toothed, with the teeth subulate and unequal, the middle one usually longer and setaceous, in cestivation involute or almost conduplicate. Stamens usually 20, inserted on the slightly free margin of a fleshy perigynous disk which lines the tube of the calyx: filaments slender, as long as the petals, filiform from a subulate and dilated base, where they are slightly concreted into a ring, along with as many alternate sterile fila- ments; the latter subulate-linear, flat, and somewhat petaloid, nearly naked below, above very hirsute-villous, especially on the inner face, nearly as long as the calyx-lobes, about half the length of the antheri- ferous filaments, which are glabrous, and each furnished with a large and conspicuous, glabrous, globular gland at tts base inside. Anthers ovoid, introrse, two-celled, the cells opening longitudinally. Style slender, as long as the stamens, jiliform, minutely striate; the apex abruptly cut into a radiated fringe of mostly 12 short and filiform lobes, stigmatose at their apex, and more or less manifestly collected or at the base united into 4 phalanges, but by no means to the extent 612 PHANEROGAMIA. represented in Forster's rude figures. Ovary strongly depressed, its lower part adnate to the broad base of the calya:-tube, the free summit at first flat, radiately 12-striate, after anthesis becoming convex, 12-celled within, the thin dissepiments apparently evanescent after anthesis. Ovules 2 in each cell, collaterally inserted on a central axis or column, anatropous, at first horizontal, and with the upward growth of the ovary after anthesis becoming pendulous. Fruit not seen in the collection. According to Forster it is a hemispherical, many-striate, superior, one-celled berry, containing several globular seeds, Our collectors did not meet with Crossostylis at the Society Islands, nor indeed has it been detected since the time of Forster. It appears, indeed, from the habitat, cited in Guillemin’s Zephyritis Taitensis, that Forster did not collect it on Tahiti; but on the out- lying island of Razatea. Our specimens (unfortunately incomplete ones, with only some very young flower-buds and a few detached flowers) all came from Tutuila, one of the Navigators’ Islands: but they appear to belong to Forster's species, judging from the detailed description reproduced by Guillemin, above-cited, and from the speci- men of Lambert’s herbarium, now in that of the British Museum, which, however, consists of the foliage alone. But the toothed apex of the petals is not mentioned by Forster. Crossostylis has always been one of the “genera incertz sedis.” As such it was placed at the end of his Genera Plantarum by Jussieu, who, however, with prophetic insight arranged it next to Cassipourea ! and conjectured their affinity with the Salicariee. DeCandolle ap- pended it, with much doubt, to the Myrtacew, in which he was fol- lowed by Endlicher. I am not aware that any later conjecture has been hazarded in respect to it; except that Dr. Pickering, in his manu- script memoranda, queries whether it may not rather belong to the Philadelphiew. It is now abundantly evident, however, that we have in Crossostylis an accession to that small group of genera which Mr. Brown* long ago sagaciously appended to the Rhizophoree, and noted as indicating a passage on the one hand to Salicarvece, on the other to Cunoniacee ; and which, adopting the name of Legnotidee from Bart- ling,t Dr. Blume has recently proposed as a separate natural order.t{ * Obs. Bot. Congo, p. 18. + Ordines Naturales Plantarum, p. 318. { Museum Botanicum Lugduno-Batavum, p. 126.—Apparently without valid reasons ; RHIZOPHORACES. 613 Even the tendency to have lobed, toothed, or setigerous petals, which so generally prevails in Lhizophoracee, is indicated in the summit of the petals of Crossostylis. It should be mentioned that the evident resemblance of Crossostylis to the preceding genus had not escaped the notice of Mr. Rich, who, however, was not aware of the relationship of either with the Rhizophoracee. Piate 77.—CROsSOSTYLIS BIFLORA: foliage and inflorescence, with very young flower-buds. Fig. 1. Young flower-bud, enlarged. 2. Flower, of the natural size. 3. The same, enlarged. 4. Vertical section of the same. 95. Interior, and 6, exterior view of a petal, much enlarged. 7. Stamens, with the glands and sterile filaments. 8. Ovary, &e. 9. Transverse section of the ovary. 10. Pistil, after anthesis, the calyx, &c., cut away. 11. Ovary of the same, partly cut away, to show the ovules. 12. Pistil, the ovary vertically di- vided.—The details magnified. Susorv. Ll. RHIZOPHORE &. 4, RHIZOPHORA, Linn. 1. RaizopHoraA Manate, Linn. Rhizophora Mangle, Linn.; Jacq. Stirp. Amer. p. 141, t. 89; Geertn. Fruct. 1, t. 45; Lam. Ill. t. 396; DO. Prodr. 8, p. 32; Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. p. 132. Candela Americana, etc., Catesh. Car. 2, p. 63, t. 63. Has. Brazil; in salt marshes, near Rio Janeiro. (MMangrove.) 2. RuizoPpHORA MUCRONATA, Lam. Rhizophora mucronata, Lam. Dict. 6, p. 189, & Ill. t. 396, f. 2; DC. 1l.c.; Wight, Ill. Ind. Bot. p. 209, & Ic. t. 238. R. Candelaria, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 32 (ex parte) ; Wight & Arn. Prodr. 1, p. 310. for the peculiar economy of the germination of the embryo of the Mangroves is a special, maritime, not an ordinal character, and one which in other cases (as in Aroi- dece) belongs to families which generally have albuminous seeds, as Mr. Brown has re- marked. 154 614 PHANEROGAMIA. Has. Feejee, Tonga, and Samoan or Navigators’ Islands: in lagoons, &c. A specimen is also ticketed, “Tahiti,” perhaps erro- neously: as there is no mention of a Mangrove in Dr. Pickering’s memoranda of the plants found at the Society Islands:.—The mucro of the leaf is not always present. 5 BRUGUIERA, Lam. 1. Bruguiera Rumpuu, Blume. Bruguiera Rumphii, Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. p. 188, ex char. B. gymnorhiza, Lam. et Auct. ex parte. Mangium celsum, Rumph. Amb. 8, t. 68, ex Blume. Has. Feejee, Tonga, and Samoan Islands: in lagoons, &c., along with Mangroves. The specimens plainly belong to Blume’s B. Rumphit; but whether they are sufficiently distinct from B. gymnorhiza is not so evident. The fruit is said to be eaten at the Feejee Islands. Or. COMBRETACE &. 1 LUMNITZERA, Willd. 1. LuMNITZERA COccINEA, Wight & Arn. Iumnitzera coccinea, Wight & Arn. Prodr. Fl. Ind. Or. p. 316, adn. L. purpurea, Presl, Repert. Bot. 1, p. 155. Laguncularia purpurea (in tab. coccinea), Gaud. Bot. Voy. Freye. p. 481, t. 4. Pyrranthus littoreus, Jack, Malay. Misc. 2, p. 57; Wall. Cat. no. 4018. Has. Feejee Islands; Rewa, Sandalwood Bay, &c.: on the coast among Mangroves. Also Tonga Islands. 2 LAGUNCULARIA, Gerin. 1. LAGUNCULARIA RACEMOSA, Geertn. Has. Brazil: in salt marshes near Rio Janeiro. 38. TERMINALIA, Linn. 1. TeRMINALIA CATAPPA, Linn. Has. Mangsi Islands, in the Sooloo Sea. Samoan Islands. Fee- jee and Tonga Islands (principally the var. subcordata); planted near dwellings. 616 PHANEROGAMIA. 2. TrrminatiA Motuccana, Lam. Terminalia Moluccana, Lam. Dict. 1, p. 349? Blume, Bijdr. p. 643; DC. Prodr. 3, p- 11; Presl, Rel. Henk. 2, p. 21. Has. Ovolau and Oneata, Feejee Islands. (In fruit.) This has entirely glabrous and short-petioled, roundish-obovate leaves, and very turgid fruit; which in one specimen is obtusely angled, in the other, ovoid-globose and not at all angled. 3. TERMINALIA GLABRATA, Forst. ? Terminalia glabrata, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 74, & Ms. deser. in Guill. Zeph. Tait. p. 61? Has. Feejee Islands. (Without fruit.) Perhaps not distinct from the preceding. Forster’s characters of the drupe may have been taken from the immature fruit. From “a small island in the Sooloo Sea” is an imperfect fruiting specimen of a species allied to the above, the immature drupes oblong-ovoid, terete, acute at both ends. 4. TERMINALIA Rica, Sp. Nov. T. foliis lanceolato-ellipticis acuminatis basi acutis eglandulosis glabratis ; spicis floribusque sericeo-tomentosis; fructw valde immaturo elliptico compresso. Has. Samoan or Navigators’ Islands: on the coast of Upolu. This, I presume, cannot be Forster’s 7: glabrata (the leaves of which are said to be sometimes ovate-lanceolate, sometimes obovate) ; since the common peduncle, rhachis, and flowers are silky-tomentose, VOCHYSIACES. 617 instead of glabrous. Leaves lanceolate-elliptical, 24 to 34 inches long, abruptly acuminate, acute at the base, glandless, glabrate, when young sparingly and minutely pubescent, especially on the midrib under- neath, chartaceous in texture, entire, or repand-undulate, prominently feather-veined, somewhat lucid above: petioles 7 to 9 lines long, glandless. Flowers sessile. The very immature frwit elliptical, com- pressed, apiculate, canescent, half an inch long. Orv. VOCHYSIACE &. 1 VOCHYSIA, Juss. 1. Vocuysta TucANORUM, Mart. & Zuce. Vochysia tucanorum, Mart. & Zuce. Nov. Gen. & Spec. Bras. 1, p. 142, t. 85. Has. Brazil, near Rio Janeiro; common on the Corcovado. This is the V. emarginata of Pohl; but scarcely of Poiret, whose plant is described as having merely opposite leaves, according to Vahl only two inches in length. 156 Orv. ONAGRACE A. Susorn. L @NOTHERE &. 1 JUSSIAA, Linn. 1. Jussr#a Peruviana, Linn. Has. Peru; abundant in wet grounds from Callao to Yanga. Flowers in the specimens tetramerous: hence it is J. macrocarpa, H. B. K., a species already reduced to J. Peruviana by Bentham, in Bot. Sulph. p. 92. 2. JUSSLHA PILOSA, H. B.A. Jussicea pilosa, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Spec. 6, p. 101, t. 532; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 53. Has. Brazil; in the Organ Mountains: also near Rio Janeiro: a smoother form. 3. JUSSIMA REPENS, Linn. Has. Callao and Lima, Peru. Valparaiso, Chili. In water. 4. JUSSLE@A ERECTA, Linn. Has. Brazil; in the vicinity of Rio Janeiro. ONAGRACEG. 619 5. JUSSIMA LONGIFOLIA, DO, Jussicea longifolia, DC. Pl. Rar. Hort. Genev. 1, p. 12, t. 4, & Prodr. 3, p. 56. Has. Brazil; in the vicinity of Rio Janeiro. 6. JusstmA ocToFILA, DC. Jussiea octofila, DC. Prodr. 8, p. 57; Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. p. 92. Has. Peru, near Lima. Also at Callao: a nearly glabrous variety. The latter variety, in a still more glabrate form, likewise occurs in the Sandwich Islands, at Oahu (but apparently is not in our ‘ collection); and Walpers, in Rel. Meyen. p. 326, has referred it to J. octonervia, Lam.; but the ovary tapers at the base into a slender pedicel, and is usually bracteolate. Probably the two species may be united. 2. LUDWIGIA, Linn. 1. Lupwicta JUSSLEOIDES, Lam. Has. Caldera, Mindanao, one of the Philippine Islands. 3. GNOTHERA, Linn. 1. GHNOTHERA MOLLISSIMA, Linn. (nothera mollissima, Linn. (Dill. Hlth. t. 219, f. 286); DC. Prodr. 3, p. 48. Has. Rio Negro, North Patagonia: on sand-hills. 620 PHANEROGAMIA. 2. CENOTHERA ODORATA, Jacq. Enothera odorata, Jacq. Ic. Rar. 3, t. 456; Bot. Mag. t. 2403 ; Hook. Exot. Fl. t. 183. . stricta, Ledeb.; Spach, Monogr. Onogr. p. 23; Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 333. Has. Chili; between Valparaiso and Santiago. Peru, near Lima. 3. CENOTHERA ALBICANS, Lam. Gnothera albicans, Lam. Dict. 4, p. 552, & Ill. Gen. t. 270, f. 2; Spach, 1. e. CE. nocturna, Jacq. Ie. Rar. 3, t. 455, ex Spach. GH. prostrata, Ruiz & Pay. Fl. Peruv. & Chil. t. 315, ex Spach. Has. Peru; on hills not far from Lima (a procumbent form with deeply toothed leaves); and Batfios. 4, CHNOTHERA MULTICAULIS, Ruiz & Pav. Gnothera multicaulis, Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Peruy. & Chil. 8, p. 80, t. 817; DC. Prodr. 3, p. Ol. Has. Obrajillo, Andes of Peru. 5, CENOTHERA ACAULIS, Ouv. Has. Chili, near Valparaiso. (With the caulescent state: (i. grandiflora, Ruiz & Pav.) 6. GinorHEerA (GopETIA) TENUIFOLIA, Cav. Enothera tenuifolia, Cav. Ic. 4, p. 67, t. 397; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 48. Godetia tenuifolia, Spach, Monogr. Onogr. p. 70. Has. Chili; between Valparaiso and Santiago. ONAGRACE &. 621 4. MONTINIA, Linn. 1. Montinia Acris, Linn. Has. Cape of Good Hope, near Cape Town. (With ripe fruit only.) 5. EPILOBIUM, Linn. 1. Eprtosium pArvirLorum, Schreb. Has. Madeira; on the southern coast. 2. EPILOBIUM TETRAGONUM, Linn. Has. Madeira, west of Funchal. Orange Harbour, Fuegia: the var. Antarcticum, Hook. f. Andes of Chili (2. pedicellare, Presl?). Andes of Peru, between Bafios and Culnai: along water-courses ; nearly L. Bonplandianum, H. B. K. For an enlarged view of the varying forms and world-wide dis- tribution of this species, see Dr. Hooker's remarks in the Flora Antarctica, p. 270. 3. EPILoBIUM NIVALE, Meyen. Epilobium nivale, Meyen, Riese, 1, p. 815; Walp. Rel. Meyen. p. 327. Has. High Andes of Peru, at Casa Cancha, &c.: procumbent in broad tufts, in the clefts of rocks. This accords with the character of FE. nivale, which, however, Meyen collected on the high Andes of Chili. It is suffruticulose, and 156 622 PHANEROGAMIA. more leafy than #. alpinum; the fleshy leaves when dry of a dark colour; and the flowers are pedicellate. 4, EPILOBIUM NUMMULARI&FOLIUM, A. Cunn. Epilobium nummulariefolium, A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. in Ann. Nat. Hist. 3, p. 31; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 57. E. pedunculare & E. nerteroides, A. Cunn. |. c. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 5. EPpmLOBIUM MICROPHYLLUM, A. Rich. Epilobium microphyllum, A. Rich. Fl. N. Zel. p. 325, t. 36; A. Cunn. l.c.; Hook. f. 1. ¢. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 6. EPILopiuM ALSINOIDES, A. Cunn. Epilobium alsinoides, thymifolium, & atriplictfolium, A. Cunn. |. ¢. ex Hook. f. 1. ¢. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand :—the form called £. atriplicr- folium by Cunningham. 7. EPILOBIUM GLABELLUM, Forst. Epilobium glabellum, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 27; A. Rich. 1. c.; Hook. f. 1. ¢. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 8. HPILOBIUM PUBENS, A. Rich. Epilobium pubens, A. Rich. Fl. N. Zel. p. 329, t. 86, f. 1; A. Cunn. 1. ¢.; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 58. ONAGRACEA. 623 Has. In the neighbourhood of the Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 9, EPILOBIUM PALLIDIFLORUM, Solander, Epilobium pallidiflorum, Solander, ex A. Cunn. l.c. p. 34; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p- 59. E. micranthum, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 297. 4 Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 10. Eprtoprum suncEum, Solander. Epilobium junceum, Solander, in Forst. Prodr. p. 90; A. Cunn. l.c.; Hook. f. 1. ¢. E. cinereum, A. Rich. Fl. N. Zel. p. 820; A. Cunn. 1. . E. incanum, hirtigerum, & virgatum, A. Cunn. 1. ¢. fide Hook. f. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. Hunter’s River, New South Wales. 11. Erriosrum BILLARDIERIANUM, Seringe. Epilobium Billardierianum, Seringe, in DC. Prodr. 3, p. 41. E. Billardiert, Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 61. Has. Hunter’s River, New South Wales. 6. FUCHSIA, Plumer. 1. FucHSIA INTEGRIFOLIA, Camb. Fuchsia integrifolia, Cambess. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 2, p. 273 ; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3948. Has. Brazil, in the Organ Mountains. 624 PHANEROGAMIA. 2. FUCHSIA AFFINIS, Camb. 1. ¢. Has. With the preceding; of which it is probably only a variety. 3. FUCHSIA COCCINEA, Ait., var. MACROSTEMA. Has. Chili: in ravines above Valparaiso:—the var. macrostema, Hook. f. (Specimens of the typical form of this well-known Fuchsia were gathered at Madeira, from a cultivated plant.) 4, Fucusia LycioweEs, Andr. Fuchsia lycioides, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 120; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1024. F’. rosea, Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Peruy. & Chil. 8, p. 88. Has, Chili: on dry hills above Valparaiso. 5. Fucusra excorticata, Linn. f. Fuchsia excorticata, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 217; Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 957; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 89; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 56. Skinnera excorticata, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 27. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. (Without either flowers or fruit.) Susorn, Il. HALORAGES. 7% HALORAGIS, Forst. Hatoraais, Forst. Char. Gen. t. 31; R. Br. in Flinders’ Voy. App. p. 550; Endl. Atakt. t. 15, & Gen. Pl. no. 6133; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 63. CercopiA, Murr. in Comn. Geett. 8, t. 1; Gertn. Fruct. 1, p. 164, t. 82, & Auct. Gonrtocarpus, Kenig, in Ann. Bot. 1, p. 546, & Auct. Gonocarpus, Thunb. Fl. Japon. p. 5, t. 15; Geertn. Fruct. t. 225. ONAGRACE &. 625 1. HaAoracis ALATA, Jacq. Haloragis alata, Jacq. Ic. Rar. 1, t. 69; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 62. H. Tetragonia, LW’ Her. Stirp. Nov. 1, p. 82. H. Cercodia, Ait. Hort. Kew. 2, p. 37. Cercodea erecta, Murr. 1. c.; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 67; A. Rich. Fl. N. Zel. p. 324. C. erecta & C. alternifolia, A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. in Ann. Nat. Hist. 3, p. 29. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. This species is also found at Juan Fernandez; and has therefore a geographical range which is surpassed only by H. micrantha. 2. HALoRAGIS SERRA, Brongn. Haloragis Serra, Brongn. in Bot. Voy. Duperr. t. 699, sine deser. Has. New South Wales; on Hunter’s River. Our specimen, although too young to show the fruit, well accords with Brongniart’s figure above-cited (of which no character is yet published); but the teeth of the leaves are still sharper and longer. 3. HALORAGIS TEUCROIDES. Goniocarpus teucrotdes, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 66. Haloragis elata, Hook. f. in Lond. Jour. Bot. 6, p. 475? non A. Cunn. Has. New South Wales; in the vicinity of “Sydney and Cook’s River. 4. HALORAGIS TETRAGYNA, Hook. f. 58; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 66. Gonocarpus tetragyna, Labill. Pl. N. Holl. p. t. N. Zeal. p. 62. 39, Haloragis (Goniocarpus) tetragyna, Hook. f. Fl. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. Sydney, New South Wales. 157 626 PHANEROGAMIA. 5. HALORAGIS DEPRESSA, Walp. Haloragis depressa, Walp. Repert. 2, p. 99; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 63. Goniocarpus depressus, A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. in Ann. Nat. Hist. 3, p. 30. G. serpyllifolia, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 290. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 6. HALORAGIS MICRANTHA, /. Br. Haloragis micrantha, R. Br. 1. ¢.; Sieb. & Zuce. Fam. Nat. Fl. Jap. (in Abhand. Acad. Monac.), 1, p. 25. Gonocarpus micranthus, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 69, t. 15. Gontocarpus micranthus, Koenig, Ann. Bot. 1, p. 546, t. 12, f.5; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 66. G. microcarpus, Thibaud, ex DC. 1. ¢. fide char. G. citriodorus, A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. in Ann. Nat. Hist. 1. ¢. Haloragis tenella, Brongu. Bot. Voy. Duperr. t. 68 (sine deser.); Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 63 (non Goniocarpus tenellus, DC.). Has. New South Wales, near Sydney and Hunter's River. Dr. Hooker has identified his New Zealand H. tenella with the Australian plant figured under that name (not Goniocarpus tenellus,* as Hooker inadvertently cites it), but not yet described, by Brong- niart, and has also detected it on the Khassya Mountains of Eastern India. Iam enabled, by the possession of a Japanese specimen, still further to extend this enormous range, and to pronounce it the same as Thunberg’s Gonocarpus micranthus. Between the Australian and the Japanese plants I cannot find the slightest difference. 7. HALORAGIS ELATA, A. Cun. Haloragis elata, A. Cunn. ex Fenzl, in Enum. Pl. Hugel. p. 45, adn. Has. New South Wales; on Hunter’s River. * Goniocarpus tenellus, DC. Prodr. I. c. is a very different species, and probably only a variety of H. tetragyna. ONAGRACES. 627 8. HALORAGIS PINNATIFIDA, Sp. Nov. H. caule erecto angulato foliisque pinnatipartitis hirtello-scabridis, seg- mentis 5-7 angusto-linearibus mucronatis; floribus spicatis folioso- bracteatis polygamo-monoicis, foeminis apetalis; ovario subgloboso scabro. Has. New South Wales; on Hunter’s River. Stem erect, a foot high, sparingly branched, angled; the angles minutely scabrous with a very short bristly pubescence, otherwise gla- brous. Leaves opposite and alternate, 12 to 2 inches, or the rameal half an inch long, all pinnately parted into 5 or 7 narrowly linear seg- ments, which are a quarter or half an inch, sometimes even an inch long, mucronate-pointed, scabrous, especially the edges, with a minute hispidity ; the lower pair near the base; the terminal segment usually longer than the others; all about the width of the rhachis (about half aline). Flowers in terminal, lax, and somewhat interrupted spvkes, the lower ones conspicuously /oliose-bracteate (the bracts resembling the cauline leaves, but reduced in size), polygamo-moneecious, sub- sessile, or the female flowers very short-pedicelled. Male flowers 2 lines long. Petals 4, oblong, complicate-cucullate, twice the length of the lanceolate-triangular lobes of the calyx; the keel not appendaged, minutely hispid-scabrous. Stamens 8. Barren stigmas 4, oblong- conical, naked. Female flowers smaller than the male and apetalous, occasionally with stamens: the 4 stigmas large, sessile, densely penicillate-hispid, as long as the calyx-lobes. Ovary after anthesis subglobose, scabrous, even, not ribbed, four-celled. Mature fruit not seen. This needs to be compared with Lindley’s Haloragis aspera, which is known only by a brief character; and it is apparently still more closely related to H. heterophylla, Brongn. That, however, is well distinguished from the present species by the hood-like petals with a hispid-fimbriate keel, and the pedicellate stigmas, as well as by the foliage. 628 PHANEROGAMIA. 9, HALoraGis FILirormis, Sp. Nov. H. scabro-hirtella; caulibus e basi ramosis strictis gracillimis; foliis jiliformibus, inferioribus oppositis digitato-tri—quinquesectis, superio- ribus floralibusque alternis inequaliter trifidis vel integerrimis ; flori- bus laxe spicatis monoicis, masculis octandris, foemineis apetalis ? ovario subgloboso scabro. Has. New South Wales; in the vicinity of Hunter’s River. Stems branched from the base, strict, very slender, terete, and ob- scurely angled, from a span to near a foot high, very leafy, the younger parts especially minutely scabrous-hispid. Leaves filiform, scabrous-hispid like the stems; the lower opposite, half or three-quarters of an inch in length, including the undivided base or petiole, which is rather shorter than the 3 to 5 digitate segments; the upper gra- dually becoming smaller and alternate, and passing into bracts, variously trifid, sometimes with the terminal lobe longer, or mostly entire. Spike very slender, loosely flowered. Flowers barely a line long, subsessile, monecious: barren ones octandrous ; the 4 petals oval, complicate-carinate, minutely hispid on the back, barely twice the length of the triangular-lanceolate lobes of the calyx; the stigmas rudimentary: female flowers apparently apetalous, with 4 thick and sessile hispid stigmas. Ovary subglobose, scabrous, even, four-celled. Mature fruit not seen. This is abundantly distinct from any species known to me; and evidently is not the Goniocarpus trifidus of Nees, which is dicecious and tetrandrous, and with the lower leaves verticillate, &c. 8 MYRIOPHYLLUM, VJaiil. 1. MyrioPHYLLUM PROSERPINACOIDES, Gillies. Myriophyllum proserpinacoides, Gillies, in Hook. Bot. Misc. 3, p. 313. Has. Chili; near Valparaiso. ONAGRACE &. 629 2. MyYRIOPHYLLUM VERRUCOsUM, Lindl. Myriophyllum verrucosum, Lindl. in Mitch. Jour. Trop. Austral. p. 884. Has. Hunter's River, New South Wales. (Submersed stems only, without flowers or fruit.) 9 GUNNERA, Linn. 1. GunnERA CHILENsIS, Lam. Gunnera Chilensis, Lam. Dict. 8, p. 61, & Ill. Gen. t. 801, f. 1; Bennett, Pl. Jav. Rar. p. 75; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 273; Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 368. G. scabra, Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Peruy. & Chil. 1, p. 29, t. 44. Panke, Feuill. Obs. 2, p. 741, t. 30. Has. Chili, near Valparaiso; in valleys along the coast. Without doubt Dr. Hooker has rightly interpreted Mr. Brown’s views (to which Mr. Bennett, in his article on Gunnera, above-cited, gave no clue), in referring this genus to the Haloragee. His former oversight in respect to the embryo is corrected in FI. N. Zeal. p. 65: the exception mentioned, that the leaves are alternate in Gunnera, may likewise be omitted, since they are alternate in Proserpinaca, Meionectes, and in some species of Haloragis and Myriophyllum. 2. GUNNERA PETALOIDEA, Gaud. (Tab. 78, 79.) G. hermaphrodita; foliis reniformi-rotundatis obsolete lobatis margine subdentatis reticulato-rugosis subtus petiolisque hispidulis ; spicis sub- sessilibus elongatis bracteis angustissime linearibus subtensis in rhachin prelongam confertis ; petalis cucullatis. Var. 8. Kauarnse: fere glabra; bracteis brevibus. 158 630 PHANEROGAMIA. Has. Sandwich Islands. (Hawaii? Gaudichaud.) a. Maui: on the mountains of the western division of the island, growing on the face of high mural precipices. (In flower and with young fruit.) @. Kauai. (Foliage and mature fruit.) Plant apparently as large and conspicuous in its foliage as G. Ohi- lensis, and with much more elongated and lax inflorescence. Leaves rounded-reniform, 14 or 2 feet in diameter when full grown, obscurely lobed, and with a more or less toothed margin, pedately ribbed, very veiny and reticulated, the reticulations usually more or less bullate or rugose, glabrous above, except some minute hairs on the ribs and veins, beneath hirsute, especially on the veins and ribs, as is the stout petiole ; in the specimen from Kauai, var. 3., nearly glabrous through- out. The petiole in both forms is roughened with some sparse and inconspicuous muricate points, of which traces are also observed on the principal ribs. Inflorescence (with the short scapoid peduncle) at least 2 or 3 feet long; the spikes crowded, but lax and spreading, subsessile, 3 to 6 inches long; the main rhachis hirsute, in var. £2. glabrate or glabrous. Bracts narrowly linear, 6 to 9 lines long and barely a line wide; in var. @. apparently ovate or oblong, and only 3 or 4 lines long. Flowers sessile, crowded, and somewhat glomerate on the rhachis of the spikes, not bracteolate, glabrous. Tube of the calyx adnate, globular; the lobes 2, anterior and posterior, persistent, broadly ovate-triangular, thick, the thin edge denticulate at the broad or truncate apex. tals 2, cucullate, enclosing the stamens before anthesis, broadly obovate or cuneate, retuse, obscurely glandular on the back, thickish in texture, alternate with the lobes of the calyx, twice or thrice their length, epigynous, tardily deciduous. Stamens 2, epigynous, opposite the petals: filaments very short: anthers large, almost a line long, two-celled, emarginate at each end, some- what didymous, fixed by the base, introrse, the cells opening longi- tudinally. Pollen four-lobed, or of 4 united grains. Stigmas 2, oppo- site the stamens, and nearly twice their length, linear-subulate, hispid, slightly united at the base. Ovary one-celled, with a single anatropous ovule, suspended from the summit of the cell. Drupes ovoid-globose, apparently red or purple, 13 or 2 lines long, tipped with the short and incurved lobes of the calyx, the tube of which forms the fleshy sarcocarp: putamen small in proportion, acheniform, lenticular, and somewhat quadrangular or trigonous, smooth, crusta- ONAGRACE AZ. 631 ceous. Seed conformed to the putamen; the testa very thin and delicate. Embryo minute, near the hilar extremity of the fleshy and oily albumen, cordate, the radicle superior. The smooth variety, of which we have only a full-grown leaf and mature fruit, requires farther investigation ; but it will probably prove to be only a form of Gaudichaud’s G. petaloidea. I am unable to com- pare the species with the G. bracteata, from Juan Fernandez. PLATE 78.—GUNNERA PETALOIDEA. Fig. 1. A young leaf. 2. A full-grown leaf. 3. Summit of the inflorescence, in flower. 4. A small portion of the inflorescence, in fruit— All of the natural size. Pratt 79, A.—Fig. 1. Diagram of a flower. 2. A flower, viewed anteriorly. 3. The same, with the petals and stamens removed, and the ovary vertically divided. 4. A petal. 5. A stamen. 6. Pollen. 7. Transverse section of a drupe. 8. Vertical section of a drupe, seed, &c., showing the embryo in place. 9. Putamen, detached. 10. Embryo, detached.—Variously magnified. 3. GuNNERA (MisanpraA) MAGELianica, Lam. Gunnera Magellanica, Lam. Dict. 3, p. 61, & Ill. Gen. t. 801, f. 2; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 274. G. Falklandica, Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 489. Misandra Magellanica, Commerson, in Juss. Gen. p. 405; Gaud. Bot. Freyc. Voy. p. 502. Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia; common. Various forms were collected, both in flower and in fruit, either hairy or almost glabrous; the scapes varying from 3 lines to as many inches in length; the petioles from half an inch to 10 inches long; the blade of the leaves from 8 lines to 4% inches in diameter. 4, GUNNERA (Misanpra) LopaTA, Hook. f. (Tab. 79.) Gunnera (Misandra) lobata, Hook. f. Fl. Antarc. p. 279. Dysemone lobata, Banks & Solander, Ic. & Ms. in Herb. Banks. 632 PHANEROGAMIA. Has. Fuegia; on mountains at Orange Harbour: somewhat rare. A small and slender plant; the sterile stems creeping and rooting, glabrous, squamose; the flowering ones shorter and thicker root- stocks; dicecious: the female plant apparently smaller than the males. Petioles 3 to 15 lines long, strigosely hirsute with erect reddish hairs. Leaves orbicular or round-reniform, 3 to 9 lines in diameter, 5--7-lobed, or on sterile shoots crenately 9-15-lobed, sub- coriaceous, glabrous, sometimes ciliate, the lobes roundish, entire. Stipular scales ferrugineous. Spikes simple, few-flowered; the male raised on a slender scape of 6 to 18 lines in length; the female short and subsessile. Male flowers 8 to 12, crowded, or at length sparse, obscurely pedicellate or nearly sessile on the rhachis, not bracteate. Calyx of 2 filiform-linear glabrous sepals, placed anterior and poste- rior, much smaller than the naked anthers, which they at no period enclose, glandular at the tip. Petals none. Stamens 2, alternate with the sepals: anthers broadly oval, somewhat didymous, two- celled, nearly a line long, twice the length of their filaments, turgid, mucronulate, opening longitudinally along the margins. Female flowers 8 or 10, capitate, ebracteate, sessile. Tube of the calyx sub- globose, adnate to the ovary; the lobes 2, short and obtuse, oval, often unequal, sometimes lateral as respects the axis of inflorescence, persistent. Petals wanting. Stigmas 2, subulate, elongated, 2 or 3 lines in length, purple, hispid, alternate with the lobes of the calyx, slightly united at the base. Ovary one-celled. Ovule anatropous, suspended. Fruit not seen. (The fruit excepted, our specimens enable me to complete the characters of this rare species of an inte- resting genus.) PLATE 79, B—GUNNERA LOBATA: male and female plants, and a sterile shoot, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Portion of the male inflo- rescence, magnified. 2. Female inflorescence, magnified. 3. Flower, from the same, more magnified; the ovary divided transversely. 4. Flower, with the ovary vertically divided. Orv. LOASACE A. 1 MENTZELILA, Linn. 1. MentzetA SCABRA, H. B.K. Mentzelia scabra, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Spec. 6, p. 120; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 343. M. aspera, Hook. Bot. Misc. 2, p. 220, non Linn. Has. Peru; between Caballeros and Obrajillo. The stamens are about 75 in number; five of them with dilated filaments. 2. LOASA, Adans. 1. LoASaA INCANA, Graham. Loasa incana, Graham, in Hdinb. Phil. Jour. 1830; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3048, & Bot. Misc. 2, p. 220. L. atriplicifolia, Pres], Symb. Bot. 1, p. 61, t. 39. Haz. Peru; common from Yaso to Bajios. 9, LOASA GRANDIFLORA, Lam. Loasa grandiflora, Lam. Dict. 8, p. 580; Juss. in Ann. Mus. 5, p. 26, t. 4, f. 2. Has. Andes of Peru, at Batis. 159 634 PHANEROGAMIA. 3. LoaAsSA ALDUNATEA, Gay. Loasa Aldunatea, Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 442. Has. Chili; probably in the Andes, above Santiago. (The ticket lost.) 4, LOASA HETEROPHYLLA, Hook. & Arn. Loasa heterophylla, Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Misc. 8, p. 328; Gay, 1. c. Has. Chili, near Valparaiso. 5. LOASA PINNATIFIDA, Gillies. Loasa pinnatifida, Gillies, ex Arn. in Edinb. Jour. Geogr. Sci. 1, p. 275; Hook. & Arn. l.c. Has. Andes of Chili, above Santiago, near the snow-line. d& CAILOPHORA, Presi. 1. CAIOPHORA CORONATA, Hook. & Arn. Catophora coronata, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Misc. 8, p. 327; Gay, Fl. Chil. 2, p. 487. C. absinthiifolia, Presl, Rel. Heenk. 2, p. 274. Loasa coronata, Gillies, ex Arn. in Edinb. Jour. Geogr. Sci. 1, p. 273 (1831). Has. Andes of Chili, above Santiago. 2. CAIOPHORA CARDUIFOLIA, Presi, 1. c. Has. Andes of Peru, near Bafios, &. (Also collected by Mat- thews, M’Lean, &c.) MALESHERBIACES. 635 3. CAIOPHORA CONTORTA, Presi, 1. ¢. Loasa contorta, Lam. Dict. 3, p. 579, & Ill. Gen. t. 426; Juss. in Ann. Mus. 5, t. 3, f. 1; DC. Prodr. 8, p. 340; Hook. Bot. Misc. 2, p. 220. Has. Andes of Peru, near Obrajillo, &c. Or. MALESHERBIACE/. 1 MALESHERBIA, Ruz & Pa. 1. MALESHERBIA THYRSIFLORA, Ruiz & Pav. Malesherbia thyrsiflora, Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Peruv. & Chil. 3, t. 254; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 338 ; Hook. Bot. Misc. 2, p. 220. Gynopleura tubulosa, Cav. Ic. Pl. 4, p. 72, t. 375. Has. Peru; from Yaso to Obrajillo. Orv. TURNERACE &. 1. TURNERA, Plumier. | 1. TURNERA CUNEIFORMIS, Juss. Turnera cunetformis, Juss. in Poir. Dict. 8, p. 142; DO. Prodr. 3, p. 346; Cambess. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 2, p. 218. | Has. Brazil; very common around Rio Janeiro. (Scarcely dis- tinct from 7. ulmifolia.) 2. TURNERA SALICIFOLIA, Camb. Turnera salictfolia, Cambess. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 2, p. 227. Has. Brazil: in the vicinity of Rio Janeiro; not uncommon in forests. Orvp. PASSIFLORACE. 1. PASSIFLORA, Linn. 1. PASsIFLORA (TETRAPATHZA) TETRANDRA, Banks & Soland. Passijlora tetrandra, Banks & Soland. Ic. ined.; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 323; Hook. f. FI. N. Zeal. p. 73. Tetrapathea australis, Raoul, Pl. N. Zel. p. 27, t. 27. Has. Waia-ruru Bay, New Zealand. (In fruit.) 2. PASSIFLORA LITTORALIS, H. B. Kt. Passiflora littoralis, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Spec. 2, p. 188; Hook. Bot. Mise. 2, p. 219. Has. Peru, at Callao and Lima. The glands of the petiole are sessile or nearly so, as noted by Hooker. 3. PASSIFLORA ALBIDA, Jer. Passiflora albida, Ker, Bot. Reg. t. 667; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 328. Has. Brazil, near Rio Janeiro. 160 638 PHANEROGAMIA. 4, PASSIFLORA ELLIPTICA, Gardn. Passiflora elliptica, Gardn. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 1, p. 1738. Has. Brazil; on the Corcovado, near Rio Janeiro. 5, PASSIFLORA PILIGERA, Gardn. 1. e. Passiflora bilobata, Velloz. Fl. Flum. 9, t. 78, fide Gardn. Has. Brazil, near Rio Janeiro. 6. PASSIFLORA FaTIDA, Linn. Passiflora fetida, Linn.; Cav. Diss. 10, t. 289; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2619. P. hibiscifolia, Lam. Dict. 5, p. 89; DC. Prodr. 8, p. 331. Has. Peru; on the coast, near Callao. Singapore: doubtless introduced from America. There is also in the collection the foliage of a species of Pussijlora, to me unknown, gathered near Baiios, Luzon, and on an island in the Sooloo Sea. 2, DISEMMA, Labill. 1. DisemMA HERBERTIANA, DC. Disemma Herbertiana, DC. Prodr. 3, p. 332. Passiftora Herbertiana, Ker. Bot. Reg. t. 737. Has. New South Wales: probably from the vicinity of Sydney. PASSIFLORACES. 639 38. TACSONTA, Juss. 1. TACSONIA TRIFOLIATA, Juss. Tacsonia trifoliata, Juss. in Ann. Mus. 6, p. 893; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 334; Hook. Bot. Misc. 2, p. 219. Passiflora trifoliata, Cay. Ic. Pl. 5, p. 16, t. 427. Has. Andes of Peru; between Obrajillo and Culnai; also near Banos. A species with showy red flowers. Both DeCandolle and Hooker, above cited, have omitted all reference to the figure of Cavanilles. 2. TACSONIA PEDUNCULARIS, Juss. l. c. Passiflora peduncularis, Cav. Ic. Pl. 5, p. 15, t. 426. Has. Andes of Peru, near Bajios. (Also gathered by Matthews, M’Lean, &c.) There is likewise some foliage (without flowers or fruit) of a third species, from the same district, with small and trisected leaves; which I cannot identify. It is apparently allied to a Tacsonia in the Peruvian collection of Matthews, of which the characters are sub- joined.* * TACSONIA GRACILENS (Sp. Nov.): glabra; caule gracili; stipulis setacets ; foliis parvis tripartitis trisectisve, segmentis (6-12 lin. longis) oblongis obtusis penninervirs obsolete serrulatis, serraturis subglandulosis, petiolo versus apicem uni—-triglandulosis ; involucro e bracteis 8 linearibus parvis discretis ; floribus (pollicaribus) solitar its ; Fructu ovali.—Huanuco, Andes of Peru, Matthews: no. 915, in herb. Hook.—The single flower did not permit me to determine if it presented the structure of the section Diste- phana. Orv PAPAYACE &. 1 CARICA, Linn. 1. Carica Papaya, Linn. Has. Tahiti; on Point Venus. Cultivated in the Society, as also in the Samoan, Tonga, Feejee, and Sandwich Islands; where the fruit of the Papau is a favourite esculent. 2. CARICA CANDICANS, Sp. Nov. C. caule parce ramoso; foliis ovatis subcordatis integris nunc repandis vel angulato-dentatis e basi trinerviis subtus adpresse cano-tomentosis. Has. Peru: in ravines of the Amancaes Mountains, between Lima and Obrajillo. “Trunk a foot in diameter, 6 to 10 feet high, with a few coarse branches: leaves entire, white-tomentose beneath.” — Pickering, Ms. This is very different from any Carica published or known in the herbaria I have consulted; unless it should prove to be a state of C. pyriformis, Willd. (but not of Hook. & Arn. and Gay), founded on the Papaya ramosa, etc. of Feuillée, which he found in a garden at Lima; but which has palmately nine-parted leaves, and there is no mention of pubescence or wool on their lower surface. The leaves of our plant are ovate or ovate-rotund, with a usually slight subcordate base, and an obtuse or pointed apex, the margin entire or merely repand, or in a single and oblong leaf sinwately-dentate into 3 or 4 CUCURBITACEA. 641 coarse teeth on each side; the base three-ribbed, sometimes with an additional pair of basal veins; the ribs branching into coarse veins and reticulated veinlets. The younger leaves, of recent branches, are only 13 or 2 inches long; the largest gathered is 9 inches long; and this equally retains on its lower surface the soft and fine, appressed, whitish tomentum, which, however, may be rubbed off; the upper surface glabrous. The male inflorescence consists of small and crowded many-flowered cymes, on peduncles of an inch or two in length: the pedicels scarcely any. Calyx minute, seven-toothed, or sometimes five-toothed. Corolla salver-shaped; the tube half an inch in length; the oblong-linear lobes 3 lines long, varying from 5 to 7 in number. Stamens twice as many as the lobes of the corolla, distinct: anthers linear-oblong; those alternate with the lobes on filaments of about their own length; those opposite them subsessile. Pistil rudimentary. Female flowers not gathered. But there is a loose fructified ovary, an inch and a half long, ovoid, pointed, and with a narrowed base. Oro. CUCURBITACE A. 1 MELOTHRIA, Linn. 1. MetoruriA FLUMINENSIS, Gardn. Melothria Fluminensis, Gardn. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 173. Has. Brazil; common around Rio Janeiro. 2. MeLoruriA SAMOENSIS, Sp. Nov. M. glabra; foliis deltoideo-cordatis acuminatis repandis denticulatis ; floribus dioicis 2 in axillis solitariis ; pedunculis filiformibus elongatis ; 161 642 PHANEROGAMIA. corolle lobis integerrimis; calycis tubo ultra ovarium fusiforme pro- ducto; bacca oblonga. - Has. Samoan or Navigators’ Islands; common on Tutuila and Upolu. Stem slender, glabrous, as is the whole plant, angled, creeping. Leaves deltoid-cordate, sometimes with the broad sinus rounded, some- times approaching to deltoid-hastate, from 2 to 84 inches long, and 2 or 3 inches broad at the base, acuminate, membranaceous, nearly smooth, the margins denticulate, towards the base often repand, or obscurely angulate-toothed. Petioles about an inch long. Tendrils simple. Flowers apparently dicecious (at least the two sexes occupy different branches), “white,” solitary in the axils of the leaves, on jiliform peduncles, of which the fertile are an inch or more, the sterile 2 or 3 inches in length. Calyx of the male flowers campanulate, with 5 setaceous teeth at the sinuses of the five-parted corolla; the divisions of which are oblong, or two of them lanceolate, 2 or 3 lines long, perfectly entire, and glabrous. Stamens 3, shorter than the petals: filaments short, inserted on the tube of the calyx, distinct : anthers two-celled; the cells straight or nearly so, borne on the margin of the dilated, subcuneate-oval, membranaceous connective, the truncate summit of which is slightly and very obtusely apiculate : one of the three stamens has a narrower, barely oblong connective, but is otherwise similar. A short, obscurely three-lobed gland takes the place of the style. Calyx of the female flowers 6 or 7 lines long, including the ovary (which is 3 or 4 lines long); the tube produced beyond the fusiform ovary into a short and slender beak, which is abruptly dilated into a cylindraceous-campanulate throat; the lobes very minute. Corolla as in the male flower. Style as long as the calyx: stigma dilated, three-lobed. Berry oblong, nearly an inch in length, not pointed, many-seeded. Seeds flat, smooth, about 2 lines long. 2, KARIVIA, Arn. Karryia, Arn. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 3, p. 275; Wight, Ic. Pl. 2, t. 502. CUCURBITACESR 643 1. Karivia Samoensis, Sp. Nov. K. dioica, glabra; cirrhis simplicibus; foliis cordatis acuminatis denti- culatis modice petiolatis; floribus masculis umbellatis vel corymbosis e pedunculo brevissimo, foemineis solitariis ternisve, pedunculo bacca ovoidea polysperma breviore; seminibus leevibus compressis. Var. @. VITIENSIS: j/oliis supra scabridis; pedunculis fructiferis brevis- sums. Has. Samoan Islands; on Manua and Upolu. Var.? 8. Ovolau, Feejee Islands. A slender, extensively climbing, apparently diwcious, glabrous vine, not unlike A. umbellata, Arn., in habit, not glaucescent. Tendrils simple, Leaves cordate, with rounded lobes and a deep sinus, more or less acuminate, denticulate, sometimes a little repand-toothed, membra- naceous, smooth both sides, from 2 to 4 inches long, rather conspi- cuously petioled: the petiole of the larger leaves an inch or two in length and exceeding the sinus; those of the smaller upper leaves only half an inch long, and scarcely equalling the sinus. Flowers axillary: only the sterile ones occur in the specimens, and very sparingly. Male flowers in small wmbels or corymbs; the common peduncle short or wanting; the pedicels 2 or 3 lines long. Calyx hemispherical or slightly campanulate, with 5 short and subulate teeth. Petals 5, ovate, acute, inserted by a broad base on the summit of the calyx-tube, scarcely exceeding its lobes. Stamens 3, distinct, inserted in the base of the calyx, included: anthers linear- oblong, somewhat sagittate, longer than the filaments, two-celled, similar, or perhaps one of them a little narrower than the others: the cells straight, linear, more or less pubescent at the junction with the narrow connective inside. A short, three-lobed gland takes the place of the gynecium. Female flowers not seen. Berry ovoid, resembling that of a Melothria, half an inch long, on a peduncle or 4 or 5, or sometimes only 2 lines long, many-seeded. Seeds closely packed in 3 vertical rows, ovate, compressed, apparently flat, smooth and even, whitish, with an abrupt but not margined edge. 644 PHANEROGAMIA. A very imperfect fruiting specimen, from the Feejee Islands, appa- rently belongs to this species; although the leaves are somewhat sca- brous above, and the fructiferous peduncles very short. There are female specimens apparently of Kurivia umbellata in the collection, ticketed “Bay of Islands:”’ but there is probably some mistake about the habitat, as neither Cunningham, Raoul, nor Hooker have noticed the plant in New Zealand. 3. LUFFA, Cav. 1. Lurra insuLarum, Sp. Nov. L. caule sulcato glabro; foliis rotundis quinquelobatis vel quinquangu- latis sinu profundo cordatis margine denticulatis seu repando-dentatis ; racemis masculis elongatis; staminibus discretis ; calycis lobis fl. foem. subtus glanduliferis ; fructu oblongo levi haud sulcato bipollicari. Has. Samoan or Navigators’ Islands; on Savaii and Upolu: climb- ing trees. Tongatabu, Friendly Islands. Muthuata, Feejee Islands. This appears to be a truly indigenous and undescribed species, with rounder and less dentate leaves than L. fetida and L. acutangula, and a very small and even fruit. It is perhaps dicecious. Stem and branches glabrous, sometimes scabrous, strongly grooved. Leaves rotund, sometimes inclining to reniform, 3 to 5 inches in diameter, deeply cordate with a narrow or closed sinus, five-angled, or sometimes rather deeply jive-lobed, scabrous both sides, or sometimes almost smooth ; the lobes or angles rounded, or the terminal one occasionally acuminate and a little prolonged, denticulate, or barely repand-toothed. Tendrils two-cleft, or sometimes three-cleft. Male racemes elongated (a span to a foot long, including the peduncle). Pedicels shorter than the calyx; the lobes of which are ovate-lanceolate and gland- less; the petals (“ yellow,” according to Dr. Pickering’s notes, but seeming to have been white) obovate, entire, an inch or more in length. Stamens 5, distinct: filaments short: anthers sinuous-con- torted, with remote convolutions. Female flowers solitary in the CUCURBITACEAE, 645 axils, short peduncled: the lanceolate-acuminate calyx-lobes under- neath beset with large glands. Fruit oblong, obtuse at both ends, smooth, not grooved nor ribbed, only 2 inches long, with a thin and yellowish rind when dry, sparing fibrose-reticulated within. Seeds oval, compressed, but tumid, brown, with a nearly smooth surface; the edge very slightly margined. | 4. TRICHOSANTHES, Linn. Arn. 1. TricHosaNTHES (INVOLUCRARIA) QUINQUANGULATA, Sp. Nov. T. glabra; folis (magnis) cordato-rotundis sinu profundo angulato- quinquelobis, lobis acuminatis subintegerrimis; cirrhis quinquefidis ; Hloribus masculis racemosis ; bracteis foliaceis magnis obovatis dentatis pedicello gracili brevioribus ; calycis segmentis lineari-lanceolatis pin- natrfido-lacimiatis petala late cuneata longe fimbriata subequantibus. Has. Mangsi Islands, in the Sooloo Sea. Apparently an extensively climbing vine; with an angled stem, smooth and glabrous, or nearly so, as is the whole plant. Leaves ample, 7 to 9 inches in diameter, thin and membranaceous, three- ribbed from the base, the lateral ribs forked, subrotund, cordate with a deep and narrow sinus, angularly five-lobed ; the lobes broadly trian- gular, 12 to 2, or the terminal one 3 inches long, acuminate, nearly entire, barely repand, or the basal lobes usually with a few coarse teeth posteriorly. Tendrils five-cleft, or four-cleft. Male peduncle axillary, longer than the petiole, strongly angled, bearing a many- flowered raceme; the flowers subtended, and as it were involucrated, with large, obovate, glandless, more or less toothed, foliaceous bracts, of half an inch or an inch in length, but shorter than the slender pedicels of the developed flowers, which are from an inch to an inch and a half in length. Tube of the (male) calyx clavate-turbinate, half an inch long; its 5 segments linear-lanceolate, almost an inch in length, remotely pinnatifid-laciniate, nearly the length of the apparently white, broadly cuneate petals. These are retuse, with a central apiculation, the broad summit on each side laciniated into a copious, long, and 162 646 PHANEROGAMIA. delicate fringe. Filaments 3, short: anthers united into a cylindrical mass. Female flowers and fruit not seen. This is evidently a congener of 7. palmata, Roxb., and of 7. tricus- pidata, Lour.; from which the leaves and the long pedicels distin- guish it. I cannot identify it with any described species. 5 MOMORDICA, Linn. 1. Momorpica CHARAntTIA, Linn. Has. Luzon; at Banos, Laguna, &. Point Venus, Tahiti: doubt- less recently introduced. 2. Momorpica SENEGALENSIS, Lam. Momordica Senegalensis, Lam. Dict. 4, p. 239; DC. Prodr. 8, p. 311. Has. St. Jago, Cape de Verde Islands. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 6 CUCUMIS, Linn. 1. CucuMIS PUBESCENS, Willd. Cucumis pubescens, Willd. Spec. Pl. 4, p. 614; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 301; Wight & Arn. Prodr. Fl. Ind. Or. 1, p. 342. Var.? 8. fructu subgloboso mox glabrato (via pollicari). Var.? y. fructu glaberrimo ovali (sesquipollicari). Cucumis bicirrha, Forst. Mss. ex Guill. Zeph. Tait. p. 56? Has. St. Jago, Cape de Verde Islands: in wild and rocky situa- CUCURBITACE€Z. 647 tions. (Without fruit.) Var.? 3. Feejee Islands; on Muthuata, &c. Var.? y. Tahiti and Matia, Society Islands; and Tongatabu. I find nothing to distinguish the specimens of the South Sea Islands from C. pubescens, except the smooth fruit; which, in the form collected at the Feejee Islands still shows traces of the pubes- cence that clothes the ovary: the fruit appears to be globular and scarcely an inch in diameter. In the Tahitian form, the fruit is larger, oval, fully an inch and a half long, smooth and even, with no trace of pubescence. ‘The short lobes of the leaves are only minutely denticulate. This would seem to be Forster’s Cucumis bicirrha (of which no specimens are known to be extant); but the tendrils are all simple. 7 CYCLANTHERA, Schrad. 1. CycLANTHERA MatrHewsil, Arn. C. subglabra; caule gracillimo; foliis pedatim quinquepartitis sew tri- partitis segmentis lateralibus subbilobis, intermedio productiore, omnt- bus oblongis margine repandis ; cirrhis bifidis ; racemo masculo gracili sumplicissimo; pedunculo floris foeminet fructu oblique ovato oligo- spermo dimidio breviore. Cyclanthera Matthewsii, Arn. in Hook. Jour. Bot. 3, p. 280, absque char. Has. Peru, in the vicinity of Obrajillo. A very slender plant, glabrous, or nearly so: with pedately five- parted leaves, or sometimes only three-parted, with the lateral divisions slightly two-lobed or nearly entire; the segments oblong, obtuse or slightly pointed, about an inch long, with vepand or obscurely crenu- late margins; the middle one longer than the others. TZendrils two- cleft, elongated. Male flowers in a simple and slender raceme, about the length of the leaves; the flowers barely a line in diameter, on pedicels half a line long, which are not clustered. Female flowers solitary in the same axils with the male flowers, on a peduncle of only a line and a half long. Fruit obliquely ovate, 5 or 6 lines long, 648 PHANEROGAMIA. thickly beset with soft and barbless prickles, about five-sceded. Seeds coarsely tuberculate. 8. SICYOS, Linn. § 1. EUSICYOS.—Fructus compressus vel turgidus, haud angulatus, setis retrorsum scabris armatus, rariusve inermis; pericarpio tenui. Antheroe 8-5, sinuose, capt- tato-connate. 1. Sicyos AUSTRALIS, Endl. Sicyos australis, Endl. Prodr. Fl. Norf. p. 67. S. angulatus, Forgt. Prodr. Ins. Austr. p. 68; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 72, non Linn. S. Fretensis, Hook. f. in Lond. Jour. Bot. 6, p. 478. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. New South Wales: probably near Sydney. Both the male flowers and the fruit are less than half the size of those of S. angulatus, being no larger than in S. parviflorus; which, however, has a different foliage. 2. SICYOS LA&VIS, Sp. Nov. S. glaber ; foliis cordatis brevissime petiolatis vix lobatis ; racemo masculo sumplict brevi; fructu ovato glaberrimo inermi. Has. Andes of Peru, in the vicinity of Obrajillo. Only a single and small specimen of this plant occurs in the collec- tion, with male flowers and with immature fruit. The stem is slender, almost filiform, glabrous, as is the whole plant, except a slight hairiness on the younger foliage. Leaves cordate with a deep sinus, which exceeds the comparatively very short petiole, so that in the specimen they appear somewhat as if clasping; they are 13 to 2 inches long (the petiole 2 or 3 lines long), ovate in outline, cuspidate- acuminate, nearly entire, or slightly five-lobed or angulate-toothed, CUCURBITACES®. 649 denticulate, thin and membranaceous, sparsely roughened on both sides with small papille. Flowers moncecious; both kinds often pro- duced from the same axils. Male raceme simple, short and rather few- flowered, with the peduncle scarcely equalling the leaves; the flowers only 2 lines in diameter, of the same structure as in 8. parviflorus: the united filaments forming a filiform column nearly as long as the corolla. Anthers apparently only 3, connate into a sinuous mass. Fertile peduncle 2 lines long, probably bearing a number of female flowers in a head, as there are 3 or 4 fructified ovaries or young fruits: these are ovate, very glabrous, wholly unarmed and naked, pointed but not beaked, somewhat compressed, 2 or 3 lines long. Ovule and the half-grown seed solitary from the summit of the single cell. §2. SICYOCARYA.—Fructus ovato-pyramidatus vel oblongus, 4—-6-angulatus (raris- sime trigueter), tnermis, pl. m. rostratus; pericarpio incrassato. Anthere 2-5, sinuosce, bast connate ; connectivo anyusto. Not being disposed to found a genus upon the form and texture of the fruit, I characterize the following Hawaiian species under a dis- tinct section or subgenus of Sicyos. One of them, S. pachycarpus, has already been published: but its mature fruit was not known. The second has the same habit as well as structure. The third, S. cucu- merinus, would never by itself be taken for a Sicyos; yet it appears to be a strict congener of the two others. Sicyos triqueter of Mogino & Sesse, known to DeCandolle only by a drawing, appears also to belong to this group. The filaments, as in true Sicyos, are perfectly united to the summit; the cells of the anthers, which are only slightly sinuous, are separated by a somewhat dilated and plane, although narrow connective; indicating that the anomalous S. mon- tanus, of Poeppig and Endlicher, should perhaps be retained as a third section, rather than excluded to form the type of a new Sicyoid genus.* The fruit of the latter is said to be obtusely pentagonal, but it is not so delineated in the plate. * §3. SICYOPSIS.—Fructus obovatus, turgidus, inermis, hirsutus, infra apicem obtusissimum dentibus calycinis subulatis deflexis coronatus; “ pericarpio baccato.”’ Columna staminum extremo apice trifida. Antheree 8 libere, seu 5 triadelphee; connec- tivo dilatato plano utringue emarginato, S. monranus, Popp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. & Spee. 2, p. 53, t. 172. 163 650 PHANEROGAMIA. 3. Sicyos (Stcyocarya) pacHycaRPuS. (Tab. 80.) S. foliis cordato-rotundis angulato-sublobatis denticulatis subtus papilloso- scabridis seu novellis hispidulis; paniculis masculis subsimplicibus ; Fructu ovato-pyramidato 5—-6-quetro glabrato, uniore tenurter rostrato. Sicyos pachycarpus, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 83. Has. Oahu, Sandwich Islands; on the Kaala Mountains, in the district of Waianae. (Also found by Lay & Collie, Gaudichaud, &c.) Maui; on the mountains in the western part of that island. An herbaceous vine (the root unknown), with much the habit of S. angulatus. Stems slender, strongly angled, nearly glabrous or gla- brate, sometimes at first beset with slender and glandular-tipped hairs. Leaves thin and membranaceous, 3 to 5 inches in diameter, rounded and cordate-angled, sometimes inclining to reniform and very obscurely lobed, more commonly angularly jive-lobed (or seven-lobed ?) ; the lobes very short and triangular, and the sinuses very broad, the terminal lobe largest; the margin barely denticulate; the upper sur- face glabrous, or sparsely papillose-scabrous; the lower sometimes hispid-pubescent when young, soon glabrate, or more or less papillose- scabrous. Petioles one or 2 inches long, glabrate or glandular-pubes- cent. Tendrils 2—3-cleft. Flowers of both kinds usually from the same axils; the male flowers small (the buds only a line in diameter), in racemose, rather small, and stmple panicles, on peduncles of one to 3 inches long, which, with the short pedicels, are glandular-pubescent. Our specimens, however, do not well exhibit the male inflorescence. Perianth, as in the genus, accrescent after expanding, becoming nearly 3 lines in diameter, at length rotate, five-cleft to the middle, with 5 minute and subulate calyx-teeth at the sinuses; the lobes of the corolla triangular-ovate, sparingly pubescent externally. Anthers 5, or sometimes only 4 or 3, collected in a head at the summit of the slender column formed of the united filaments, distinct but sessile, oblong, two-celled, the cells parallel and margining a narrow (or at first roundish) connective, or else one of them one-celled, sinuous, but only moderately so, and capable of being straightened when soaked. Female flowers numerous in a capitulum, terminating a short peduncle CUCURBITACE SA. 651 of a line or two in length, or in fruit becoming 3 to 6 lines long. Perianth pubescent; the tube produced beyond the fusiform-ovate ovary into a narrow neck or short beak, the dilated-limb like that of the male flowers but smaller. Stigmas 3, clavate-capitate, subsessile. Ovary one-celled, with a single suspended ovule. Fruit ovate-pyra- midal, several usually ripening in the head, closely sessile on the summit of the short common peduncle, 5 to 7 lines long, when young puberulent, at length glabrate, wholly unarmed and smooth, five-six- angled, the angles salient and sharp, pointed with a slender beak of 2 or 3 lines in length, which usually withers away before maturity : in the dry state the fruit appears nut-like, the pericarp being thick and hard, nearly crustaceous, one-celled, one-seeded. Seed obovate, turgid; the testa roughened, thick and coriaceous. Embryo amygda- loid: the cotyledons thicker than in 8. angulatus. Radicle short, superior. PLATE 80.—Sicyos (SICYOCARYA) PACHYCARPUS: with flowers and fruit, of the natural size. Fig. 1. A male flower-bud. 2. Androecium. 3. Lateral view of one of the anthers. 4. An anther spread out, to show the connective. 5. A female flower. 6. A fruit, of the natural size. 7. A longitudinal section of the same. 8. A transverse section of the same. 9. A seed. 10. Vertical section of the same.—The details magnified, except Figs. 6-8. 4. Sicyos (SIcYOCARYA) MACROPHYLLUS, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 81.) S. folits magnis cordato-rotundis tri—quinquelobatis argute denticulatis subtus puberulis; paniculis masculis umbellato-compositis longe pedun- culatis, pedicellis filiformibus; fructu ovato 5~-6-angulato glabrato rostrato. Has. Hawaii, Sandwich Islands; in the forests of Mouna Kea, towards their upper margin. An herbaceous vine, probably tall-climbing; the strongly angled stems, like the petioles, &., somewhat pubescent, or glabrate. Leaves rounded-cordate, 3-5-lobed, either slightly or deeply, in the latter case with acute sinuses, large, 7 to 10 inches in diameter, membranaceous, 652 PHANEROGAMIA. glabrous or nearly so above, rather softly puberulent underneath, the short and fine pubescence at length nearly deciduous, not papillose- scabrous, the margin coarsely and sharply denticulate with mucroni- form callous-tipped teeth. Petioles 3 inches long. Tendrils three- cleft. Male and female inflorescence usually from the same axils. Male panicles wmbellate (4 or 5 together) at the summit of a deeply grooved long and slender peduncle (of 5 or 7 inches in length), glan- dular-puberulent, as well as the exterior of the flower-buds: the fili- Jorm pedicels often fascicled, 4 or 5 lines long. Perianth with a turbi- nate tube, five-cleft above the middle, or at length the accrescent and triangular-ovate lobes of the corolla longer than the tube, greenish- white, becoming 5 lines in diameter when expanded; the calyx-teeth short and subulate. Androecium as in the foregoing species, except that the anthers (either 3 or 5) are themselves more or less syngene- siously united, often somewhat twisted. Fertile flowers not seen. Fruit ovate, 5-6b-angled, nearly glabrous, wholly unarmed, in an immature state conspicuously beaked, in size and character closely resembling that of the preceding species. The fruits are clustered on the summit of a peduncle which is 2 inches in length. Perhaps intermediate states will occur between this and S. pachy- carpus. Our specimens of the two are not sufficiently complete to remove all doubt. But this would seem to differ specifically in the foliage and inflorescence, notwithstanding the similarity of the fruit. PLATE 81.—Sicyos (SICYOCARYA) MACROPHYLLUS: portion of branches, of the natural size. Fig. 1. A male flower-bud. 2. A male flower. 3. Andreecium. 4. Transverse section of the same. 5. Young fruit, of the natural size. 6. Vertical section of the same.—The details magnified, except Figs. 5 and 6. 5. Sroyos (SicyocARYA) CUCUMERINUS, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 82.) S. glaber; foliis late cordatis integris denticulatis ; paniculis masculis breviter pedunculatis sepe trifidis racemosis ; fructu oblongo 5-6-angu- lato glaberrimo., Var. 2. foliis triangulari-cordatis promisse acuminatis. CUCURBITACES. 653 Var. y. foliis pedatilobis, nempe fere tripartitis, segmentis lateralibus plus minus bilobis. Has. Hawaii, Sandwich Islands; in the upper part of the forests of Mouna Kea. The three specimens (none of them very perfect), apparently from different stations, but in the same belt of mountain forest, differ in their foliage. In that assumed as the typical form, the leaves are broadly cordate, with a deep and narrow sinus, occasionally almost reniform, mostly acuminate, wndivided, and showing scarcely any tendency to become lobed, 32 to 64 inches in diameter, glabrous, as are the angled stems and even the inflorescence, membranaceous, but not very thin; the margin sharply denticulate with mucroniform callous-pointed teeth. The var. 3. presents a triangular-cordate leaf, 5 inches long and 3 wide at the base, where it somewhat inclines to have lateral lobes, the apex long-acwminate: the petiole somewhat pubescent. The var. y. exhibits smaller leaves, pedately lobed, being all three-parted, with narrow sinuses, the lateral divisions more or less two-lobed. The male inflorescence, in the best developed specimens, consists of 3 compound and lax racemose panicles, on an axillary short pedunele (of an inch or two in length): pedicels filiform, 2 or 3 lines long, glabrous. Perianth of the male flowers glabrous, five-cleft to the middle, with minute calyx-teeth at the sinuses externally, when expanded nearly rotate and 3 lines in diameter. Anthers 6 or 6, somewhat twisted, nearly as in S. pachycarpus. Perianth of the fertile flowers not seen. Female inflorescence at the summit of a peduncle from the same axil with the male panicle, and sometimes 2 inches long. The fructified ovaries about 3 together, oblong, pointed with a tapering beak, glabrous, one-celled, with a single suspended ovule. Fruit oblong, nearly an inch in length, 4 or 5 lines in dia- meter, apparently somewhat fleshy and drupaceous when fresh, 5—6- angled, but less sharply so than in the preceding species, smooth and glabrous, the thick pericarp in the dry state coriaceo-crustaceous, one- celled, one-seeded, not beaked. Seed with a smooth and rather thin testa: cotyledons oblong, thickish. PLATE 82.—Sicyos (SIcyocARYA) CUCUMERINUS: portions of the three forms. Fig. 1. Flower-bud, from the var. @. 2. Flower, from 164 654 PHANEROGAMIA. the same. 3. Androecium. 4. Vertical section of a fructified ovary. —These variously magnified. 5. Transverse, and 6, longitudinal section of the fruit from var. a., of the natural size. 7. The seed. 8. Embryo. There are several undeterminable specimens in the collection. One of them, consisting of foliage only, from the mountains of Tahiti, probably belongs to one of the four still undescribed species of Cucur- bita of Solander, enumerated by Forster at the end of his Prodromus. Two others, from Luzon, are apparently species of Bryonia, but too imperfect for determination. Lagenaria vulgaris was found in cultivation at all the larger Pacific Islands. Cucurbita Aurantia? the “ Arroro” of the Tahitians, is said to grow in mountain woods at Tahiti. Probably it is one of the species enumerated by Solander. There are no specimens in the collection. Orv BEGONIACE &. 1. BEGONIA, Linn. x Brasilienses. 1. BEGONIA LUXURIANS, Scheidw. Begonia luxurians, Scheidw. in Dietr. & Ott. Allgem. Gartenz. 1848, p. 181; Walp. Ann. Bot. 2, p. 651. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil: where it was also collected by Gardner (No. 607), and by Pohl. The late Dr. Gardner says of this species: “This is one of the most handsome of the genus I have yet met with. It grows in rather wet places in the virgin forests, and reaches sometimes to the height of fourteen or fifteen feet. April, 1837.”—Gardn. in herb. Hook. Only BEGONIACE &. 655 the male plant is known. If rightly referred to the B. luxurians, briefly characterized by Scheidweiler, it is a smoother form of that species, the leaves, &c., not being hispid. Some of the numerous leaflets, moreover, are bisected or trisected. The (male) flowers are small, and crowded in a compound corymbose panicle, which is very long-peduncled. 2. BEGONIA VITIFOLIA, Schote. Begonia vitifolia, Schott, in Spreng. Syst. Veg. Cur. Post. p. 407; Walp. Repert. 2, p. 210, excl. syn. Hook. B. truncata, Velloz. Fl. Flum. 10, p. 47. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil; where it was also gathered by Gardner. 3. BEGONIA RAMENTACEA, Facton. Begonia ramentacea, Paxton, Mag. Bot. 11, p. 73, cum ic. Has. Near Rio Janeiro. A large and coarse species, apparently not uncommon near Rio Janeiro, where it was gathered by Pohl, and by Gardner (No. 608). I refer our plant to this species from the appropriateness of the name to the ramentaceous petioles; the work in which B. ramentacea is figured not being within my reach. 4. BEGONIA VAGINANS, Velloz. Begonia vaginans, Velloz. Fl. Flum. 10, t. 37; Walp. Repert. 2, p. 217. Has. Near Rio Janeiro. 5, BEGONIA CASTANEEFOLIA, Dietr. & Otto. Begonia castaneerfolia, Dietr. & Otto, Allgem. Gartenz. 4, p. 356; Walp. Repert. 1. c. B. patens, Griseb. in Herb. Hook. 656 PHANEROGAMIA. Has. Near Rio Janeiro. (Evidently allied to B. confertiflora, of Gardner). 6. BecontA HooKERIANa, Gardn. Begonia Hookeriana, Gardn. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 4, p. 135. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. 7. BEGONIA RETICULATA, Gardn. l. ec. Has. Brazil; near Rio Janeiro. (Foliage, without flowers or fruit.) 8. BEGONIA CoccINEA, Hook. Begonia coccinea, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3990; Walp. Repert. 2, p. 214. Has. Near Rio Janeiro, or in the Organ Mountains, Brazil. 9. BecontaA Fiscuert, Dietr. & Otto. Begonia Fischeri, Dietr. & Otto, Allgem. Gartenz. 4, p. 8354; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3532 ; Walp. Repert. 1. c. Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. (The same as Gardner’s No. 5590, and Pohl’s No. 1824.) 10. Breconta HASTATA, Velloz. Begonia hastata, Velloz. Fl. Flum. 10, t. 54? Has. Organ Mountains, near Rio Janeiro. (A very imperfect specimen.) BEGONIACES. 657 11. BrGonta EREcTA, Velloz. Begonia erecta, Velloz. Fl. Flum. 10, t. 43? Has. Organ Mountains, Brazil. This might be the B. bidentata of Raddi, in Spreng. Syst. Veg.; but the two wings of the fruit, although broad and equal, are not bidentate. 12. Beconta vittosa, Lindl. Begonia villosa, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1252; Walp. Repert. 2, p. 214. Has. Rio Janeiro. There are indeterminable specimens of two more species in the Brazilian collection. x x Peruviane (Tuberose). 13. BEGONIA OCTOPETALA, L’ Her. Begonia octopetala, L’ Her. Stirp. Nov. p. 101; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3559. Haz. Amancaes Mountains, near Lima. (Without flowers or fruit.) 14. BEGoNIA GERANIIFOLIA, Hook. Begonia gerantifolia, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 8387; Walp. Repert. 2, p. 208. Has. Amancaes Mountains, near Lima. The stems, a span or more in height, spring from a round tuber, and are often terminated with flowers while the leaves are still 165 658 PHANEROGAMIA. unfolding. The broadly triangular capsules bear three upwardly di- lated wings, one of which is longer than the others, but narrow, and ascending. x x * Philippenses. 15. BEGONIA REPENS, Blume. Begonia repens, Blume, Enum. Pl. Jav. 1, p. 95; Walp. Repert. 2, p. 208. Has. Luzon; on mountains in the vicinity of Bajios. 16. Brconra Cuminer, Sp. Nov. B. erecta, perennis? glabrata; foliis dimidiato-cordatis vel semisagittatis acuminatis grosse dentutis margine denticulatis ; fructu subcequaliter trialato, alis completis. Has. Majaijai Mountains, Luzon. A very imperfect fruiting specimen, which on comparison proved to belong to the same species as No. 1897 of Cuming’s Philippine collection, which so far as I can determine is undescribed. The plant is probably erect, from a perennial root: it is glabrate; but the young parts, especially the petioles and the veins of the leaves beneath, are more or less ferrugineous-hirsute. Leaves long-petioled, elongated, half-cordate or half-sagittate, with the basal portion rounded, above tapering into a slender acumination, unequally and coarsely-toothed around the whole outer margin and above the middle of the other edge, also denticulate, 5 or 6 inches long, an inch or two in width, paler beneath, punctate. Capsule elliptical, 7 or 8 lines long, very smooth, almost equally three-winged ; the wings complete from the base to the apex, even, 2 or 3 lines broad. 17. Breconta aQuata, Sp. Nov. B. repens? glaberrima; ramis gracilibus; foliis fere ceequilateris ovato- oblongis acuminatis parce dentatis basi obtusis trinervatis breviter CACTACEA. 659 petiolatis tenwibus ; stipulis lanceolatis petiolum adequantibus 3 pedun- culis brevibus axillaribus uni—paucifloris ; fructu equaliter trialato, alis completis. Has. Luzon; on mountains near Bafios. Stems slender, occasionally throwing out rootlets at the nodes, therefore probably creeping; the branches and whole plant glabrous. Leaves nearly equal-sided, small (an inch or more in length), thin, ovate-oblong, coarsely and sharply toothed above the middle, acuminate, sparingly feather-veined, pale, rounded or obtuse at the base, where they are three-nerved or indistinctly five-nerved. Stipules lanceolate, pointed, scarious, deciduous, 3 lines long, as long as the petiole. Peduncles axillary, very short, forked, the filiform divisions or pedicels shorter than the leaves, one—three-flowered. Divisions of the perianth 2, rounded, barely 2 lines long. Capsule orbicular in outline, equally three-winged ; the wings complete from the base to the apex, even, a line and a half wide. Orv. CACTACE &. 1. MAMILLARIA, Haw. 1. MAMILLARIA FLAVESCENS, DC. “M. caulibus pluribus ovato-cylindraceis e radice crassa ; aculeis setacers rectis brunneis; floribus verticalibus (ultrapollicaribus) flavis ; sepalis lineari-oblongis obtusis patulis reflexisve circa 20; petalis fere 20 ovato-oblongis subobtusis ; stigmatibus 9 radiatis.” Engel. Ms. Mamillaria flavescens, DO. Prodr. 8, p. 459; Pfeiff. Enum. p. 10? M. prolifera, Haw. Synop. p. 177, ex Salm-Dyck. Has. Near Lima, Peru. 660 PHANEROGAMIA. There are no specimens in the collection; but there is a good drawing, made from the living plant by the late Mr. Agate; from which Dr. Engelmann has drawn up the characters given above, and the subjoined description and remarks.— Stems several from the same very thick root, or proliferous at the base, 23 to 3 inches high, an inch and a half or less in diameter, ovotd-cylindrical ; the setaceous straight prickles half an inch in length, brown. Flowers upright from the summit of the stems, 14 lines long, 9 lines in diameter; the spreading sepals about 20 in number, linear-oblong, obtuse, yellowish : petals about the same number, ovate-oblong, obtusish, yellow. Style half an inch long: stigmas 9, radiate. “M. flavescens is one of the very few species coming from tropical South America. The descriptions which I find in different works agree tolerably well with our plant; though the stems are said to be proliferous towards the summit, the spines are generally lighter- coloured, and the yellow flowers appear in a ring around the top.” 2, CEREUS, Aaw. 1. Cereus CHILENSIS, Colla, var. poLyconus, Salm-Dyck. Cereus Chilensis, Colla, Pl. Hort. Ripul. App. 2, p. 842; Pfeiff. Enum. p. 86; Salm- Dyck, Cact. Hort. Dyck. p. 44 & 199. Has. Chili; common from near Valparaiso to the Cordilleras, according to Dr. Pickering’s memoranda. A drawing only in the collection. “This species evidently belongs to the section Velutini of Prince Salm.: stout and erect Cerei, with broad and interrupted ribs, very narrow grooves, and covered with a more or less velvety epidermis ;— all natives of Chili and adjacent countries. This appears to have 13 or 14 ribs [14 or 15, Pickering], more than any species of this sec- tion, with the exception of the above-named form, which has 15. The tubercles of the ribs are 9 lines long, 6 lines wide, and bear towards their upper end a whitish areola, of 3 lines in diameter, CACTACE SA. 661 armed with 12 to 16 stout, almost conical, straight spines, the 3 to 5 inner ones the stoutest, 4 to 6 or 6 to 8 lines long. The grooves between the ribs are very narrow, acute and not deep. Of no species of this section do the flowers appear to be known. The following description of the flower figured by Mr. Agate, therefore, supplies a desideratum.—Flowers 5 inches long, sessile above the areole, and in the transverse incision between the tubercles; the tube curved upwards, over 3 inches long, gradually enlarging above; the limb 2 inches in diameter; ovary subglobose, horizontal, 9 or 10 lines long, densely imbricated with nearly a hundred sepaloid scales; sepals about 100, imbricated on the tube, the lower triangular, the upper successively becoming larger and lanceolate, greenish, with the apex somewhat reddish; about 15 of the uppermost ovate-lanceolate, acute, tipped with light reddish-brown; petals 15 to 18, ovate, mucronate, 4 or 5 lines wide, white.” Engelmann, Ms. There are no specimens of Cactacee in the collection, except an imperfect sterile branchlet of some Opuntia from Rio Negro, North Patagonia, which is undeterminable. In his manuscript list, Dr. Pickering enumerates twelve species as having been noticed at Rio Janeiro; viz. one Melocactus, five Cerei, one Epiphyllum, one Opuntia, a Pereskia, and three species of Rhipsalis. At Rio Negro, three Opuntice, a Cereus, and a doubtful Mamillaria. In Chili, besides the Cereus Chilensis, two Hchinocacti and an Opuntia are mentioned. In the tropical region of Peru, from Lima to the Cordilleras, a Melocactus, four or five Cerei, and as many Opuntia are noted; and three or four others are mentioned as growing in the western Cordillera region, from Obrajillo to Culnai. Among these, one of doubtful genus : having a slender and upright trunk, 8 or 10 feet high, with spreading branches at the summit, distant clusters of long spines, and large, dry, and stony seeds. A second species resembling the last, but lower (8 inches high) and less woolly, with smaller fruit, is mentioned as occurring in the pampas or pasture region of the Cordilleras, two and a half learues above Culnai. 166 Orv GROSSULACE &. 1. RIBES, Linn. 1. Riggs MAacEeLuanicum, Poir. Ribes Magellanicum, Poir. Suppl. 2, p. 856; Hook. f. Fl. Antarc. p. 269. Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia; in woods near the coast. “A tall shrub, with black fruit,” which is said by Dr. Hooker to have a very agreeable flavour. A species of the same group with R. mgrum and R. Hudsonianum of the northern regions. 2. RIBES GLANDULOSUM, Ruiz & Pav. Ribes glandulosum, Ruiz & Pay. Fl. Per. & Chil. t. 233, f. 6; DC. Prodr. 3, p. 481. Has. Chili; south of Valparaiso: also on the lower Cordilleras. 3. Rises punctatum, Ruiz & Pav. l. c. Has. Chili; near Valparaiso. (Foliage only.) 4, RIBES ALBIFLORUM, Ruiz & Pav. l.e. Has. Andes of Peru, above Baiios. (In fruit.) Dr. Pickering mentions two other Peruvian species, one found neat Obrajillo, the other at Culnai: but there are no specimens of them. Orv SAXIFRAGACE A 1 ESCALLONIA, Mutis. 1. ESCALLONIA SERRATA, Smith. Escallonia serrata, Smith, Ic. Pl. Ined. t. 31; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 3; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 540; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 279. Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia; where it is a very abundant shrub. * Mr. Brown, in indicating the Cunoniacece and Escalloniew as separate orders (in Flinders, Voy., and in Frankl. Narr.), remarked, that they were to be distinguished from Saxifragec by their habit, rather than by any important characters of fructifica- tion: and the remark still holds true. M. Alphonse DeCandolle (in Monogr. Cam- panul. p. 91, 1830), after seeking in vain for any floral characters whatever, proposed to consider them as tribes of Saxifragacec ;—a view which was adopted in the Prodromus, by his father, and also by Endlicher, the latter merely raising four of the tribes of De- Candolle to the rank of orders, and appending Bauera to the Cunoniee, as Brown had suggested. In the Flora of North America (1840), another suborder was added for Philadelphus, a genus which, although usually associated with two real Hydrangea- ceous genera (Decwmaria and Deutzia), was generally considered to be the type of a distinct order, and placed in the vicinity of Myrtacew. I am not aware that this view has been followed by any botanist, except Dr. Hooker, who in his Flora Antarctica (1847), under Cornidia, distinctly refers Philadelphus to the “class Saxifragee.”’ There is nothing to distinguish Philadelphus from the Hydrangiee except the convolute gstivation of the petals, which, although peculiar, is surely not of subordinal conse- quence. Whatever value might have been assigned to it, as separating Philadelphus from the Saxifragacee, is now reduced to insignificance by the convolute-imbricated gstivation of the petals of Jamesia, Torr. & Gray (vide Pl. Fendl. p. 55), their imbri- cated estivation in Fendlera, Engelm. & Gray (Pl. Wright. 1, p. 77, & 2, p. 64), and the almost free ovary in Carpenteria, Torr. Pl. Fremont. p. 12, t. 7, which in other respects scarcely differs from Philadelphus itself. It would seem, therefore, that the order Saxifragacee should embrace five tribes, nearly as adopted by DeCandolle, ‘characterized solely by their organs of vegetation, namely :—the Escalloniee ; woody plants, with alternate, simple leaves, destitute of stipules ; the Cunoniew, with opposite 664 PHANEROGAMIA. 2. HSCALLONIA RUBRA, Pers. Escallonia rubra, Pers. Ench. 1, p. 234; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2890; DO. Ll. c. Stereoxylon rubrum, Ruiz & Pay. Fl. Per. & Chil. 3, t. 236. Has. Chili; in ravines above Valparaiso. 3. ESCALLONIA ILLINITA, Presi. Eiscallonia illinita, Presl, Rel. Heenk. 2, p. 49, t. 59; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Misc. 35 p. 343; Lindl. Bot. Beg. t. 1900; Remy, in Gay, Fl. Chil. 3, p. 60. Li. Mertensiana, Ruprecht, in sched. ex Herb. Acad. Petrop. Has. Chili; near Valparaiso, and on the first Cordilleras above Santiago. (Both a. and @. Hook. & Arn. 1. c.) 4, ESCALLONIA REVOLUTA, Pers. Escallonia revoluta, Pers. 1.c.; DO. l.c.; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Mise. 3, p. 341; Remy, in Gay, Fl. Chil. 8, p. 55. L. affinis, Ruprecht, 1. c. (var. parvifolia minus hirsuta). Stereoxylon revolutum, Ruiz & Pav. 1. ¢. Has. Chili; near Valparaiso: with some sterile branches of the (simple or compound) leaves and interpetiolar stipules; the Baueree, with opposite and compound, sessile, exstipulate leaves; the Hydrangiee, with opposite and simple, exstipulate leaves; and the Samxifragee; herbs, with alternate or opposite, simple or compound leaves, rarely with manifest stipules. More or less united and distinct styles, and a partly or wholly free or adnate calyx occur in each of these tribes. Moreover Cardiandra, Sieb. & Zuce., a strictly Hydrangeaceous genus, has alternate leaves. Dr. Lindley indeed takes a different view, which, however, will probably be reconsidered. He not only gives to all these groups (except Bauerew, to which he inad- vertently attributes whorled leaves and porous anthers) the rank of distinct orders, but even excludes from his Saxifragal alliance (singularly characterized as having little or no albumen in the seeds!) the Escalloniee and Philadelphece, retaining moreover in the latter Deutzia, although it exactly accords with his diagnosis of Hydrangeacee and Decumaria, which is more closely related to Schizophragma,—a genus retained by him in Hydran- geacee, along with Broussaisia, notwithstanding their consolidated styles, as also is Curdiandra, in spite of its alternate leaves, SAXIFRAGACEA, 665 small-leaved and less pubescent form, which is the EF affinis of Ruprecht. 5. EScALLONIA ARGUTA, Presi. Escallonia arguta, Presl. Rel. Henk. 2, p. 48, t. 58; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Mise. 1. c. E. leucantha, Remy, in Gay, Fl. Chil. 3, p. 53? Has. Chili; between Valparaiso and Santiago, and on the middle Cordilleras. 6. ESCALLONIA PULVERULENTA, Pers. Escallonia pulverulenta, Pers. 1. c.; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 5; Hook. & Arn. 1. ¢. Stereoxylum pulverulentum, Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Per. & Chil. 3, p. 15, t. 237. Has. Chili; near Valparaiso, and Cordilleras, near Casa Blanca. Some specimens approach the £. Berteriana, DC.; which (with £. resiniflua, Walp.) probably is only a glabrate and often resiniferous form of this species, with the leaves mostly acute at the base. It has the same very short styles. 2 CARPODETUS, Pst. 1. CARPODETUS SERRATUS, Forst. Carpodetus serratus, Forst. Char. Gen. t. 17, & Prodr. p. 48; A. Rich. Fl. N. Zel. p- 8366; A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. in Ann. Nat. Hist. 8, p. 247; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 564; Fenzl, in Regensbh. Denkschr. 3, p. 155, t. 1; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 78. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand; on the banks of streams. (In fruit.) The details of this plant are well illustrated by Fenzl. Carpodetus, long viewed as an anomalous genus, has of late been referred to the Escalloniee by Lindley, Endlicher, and Dr. Hooker, apparently with good reason. 167 666 PHANEROGAMIA. 38 QUINTINIA, Alps. DC. 1. QUINTINIA SERRATA, A. Cunn. Quintinia serrata, A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. in Ann. Nat. Hist. 2, p. 256; Hook. Ie. Pl. t. 558; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 78. Has. New Zealand: in dry woods at the Bay of Islands. (In fruit.) 4. CALLICOMA, Andr. 1. CALLICOMA SERRATIFOLIA, Andr. Callicoma serratifolia, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 566 ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 1811; DC. Prodr. Has. New South Wales; in the neighbourhood of Sydney. 9 CERATOPETALUM, Smith. 1. CERATOPETALUM GUMMIFERUM, Smith. Ceratopetalum gummiferum, Smith, N. Holl. 1, p. 9, t. 3; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 18. Haz. New South Wales, near Sydney. 6. SPIRHANTHEMUM, Nov. Gen. Flores polygamo-dioici vel hermaphroditi. Calyx quadri-quinquefidus, estivatione valvatus, persistens. Corolla nulla. Stamina & vel 10, aimee basi calycis inserta, fere hypogyna: filamenta filiform ia, fl. mase. exserta, hermaphrodito-fert. calyce haud longiora: anthere didyme, SAXIFRAGACES. 667 biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Squamule disci hypogynce fi. masc. 4 vel 5, subcoalite, apice dentate; fl. fert. 8 vel 10, stami- nibus alternee, sepe emarginate, Ovaria maris nulla 3; fl. foem. 4 vel 5, discreta, libera, calycis lobis alterna, ovoideo-fusiformia, in stylos attenuata: stigmata terminalia subcapitata. Ovula gemina collateralia, vel solitaria, pendula, subanatropa. Folliculi 4-5, com- presst, cartilaginet vel coriacet, intus longitudinaliter dehiscentes, mono-dispermt. Semina oblonga, compressa; testa membranacea aut superne aut utringue alato-producta. Embryo subcylindricus, albu- mine carnoso parum brevior; cotyledonibus oblongis planiusculis radicula cylindrica supera subdimidio brevioribus.— Frutices vel arbuscule Polynesice; foliis oppositis sew verticillatis simplicibus ; stipulis interpetiolaribus deciduis; floribus parvis paniculatis; pedi- cellis articulatis. This curious genus, founded on two species, one from the Samoan, the other from the Feejee Islands, would appear to have more resem- blance to Aphanopetalum, Endl., than to any other. It is remarkably distinguished from all known Cunoniaceous genera by its wholly separate pistils, of the same number as the sepals. Although very different in habit and in foliage, it accordingly exhibits the floral characters of Crassulaceew,—an order which was already difficult enough to be distinguished from Saaifragacee, on account of the syncarpous ovaries of Diamorpha and Penthorum.* In this respect it also imitates Rosaceew (from which the opposite leaves and albumi- nous seeds exclude it); the pistils simulating those of a Spirca, as closely as the foliage and inflorescence of the species of the Saxifra- geous genus Aséi/be simulate the Spirwa Aruncus. The generic name alludes to this resemblance, 1. SprR#ANTHEMUM SAMOENSE, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 83.) S. ramis pubescentibus; foliis oppositis ovalibus subacuminatis basi rotundatis serrulatis insigniter penninerviis; paniculis folia exceden- tibus; folliculis dispermis; seminibus utrinque appendiculatis. * Tt has even similar hypogynous scales, the want of which in Sax//ragacee is sug- gested by Lindley (Vegetable Kingdom, p. 344) apparently as a reason for not admit- ing the Crassulacee into the Saxifragal alliance. 668 PHANEROGAMIA. Has. Samoan or Navigators’ Islands (Tutuila?): on mountains at the elevation of 2,500 feet. A shrub or tree; with nodose, hirsutely pubescent branches. Leaves opposite, oval, or elliptical, simple, membranaceous or chartaceous in texture, 24 to 5 inches long, from one to 3 inches wide, on hairy petioles from half an inch to an inch and a half in length, rownded at the base, somewhat pointed or acute at the apex, sevrulate with sharp teeth, prominently pinnately veined with 9 to 11 pairs of veins, gla- brate, except the midrib and veins underneath. Stipules inter- petiolar, oblong, obtuse, entire, membranaceous, sparsely hairy outside, half an inch long, caducous. Flowers polygamo-dicecious, very small, greenish, in ample, compound and loose, pubescent panicles usually exceeding the leaves. These arise from the upper axils, or are some- times terminal. Peduncles longer than the petioles. Principal bracts lanceolate or linear, opposite, or rarely quaternate, deciduous. Pedicels crowded, sometimes fascicled, a line or two in length, articu- lated in the middle. Flower-buds a line long. Calyx more or less pubescent outside, either four-cleft or five-cleft, or rarely even six- cleft; the segments ovate-triangular, valvate in estivation. Corolla none. Stamens twice as many as the segments of the calyx, and inserted upon its very base, almost or entirely hypogynous, distinct : filaments filiform, glabrous, in the sterile flowers twice the length of the calyx, in the fertile flowers rather shorter than the calyx, persis- tent: anthers didymous, two-celled; the cells opening lengthwise. Glands of the disk hypozynous and scale-like; in the sterile flowers as many as the lobes of the calyx, oblong, toothed at the apex, more or less coalescent in the centre of the flower; in the fertile flowers as many as the stamens and alternate with them, nearly half the length of the ovaries, cuneate-oblong, flat, truncate at the apex and usually emarginate. Gynecium abortive or entirely wanting in the sterile flowers; in the fertile consisting of as many perfectly distinct and free pistils as there are lobes to the calyx. Ovaries ovoid-fusiform, pubescent, alternate with the calyx-lobes, tapering into a short persis- tent style, which is tipped with an obtuse somewhat capitate stigma. Ovules 2, collateral, pendulous from near the middle of the ventral suture, almost anatropous: the chalazal extremity considerably ex- tended or appendaged. Follicles two-seeded, not seen mature, when unripe twice the length of the persistent calyx, silky-pubescent, some- SAXIFRAGACESR. 669 what compressed. Seeds pendulous, compressed, appendaged at both ends; the thin testa of the micropylar extremity being extended into a thin and obtuse wing; the lower or chalazal end produced into a subulate appendage of equal or greater length. Kmbryo not seen. PLATE 83, A.—SPIRHANTHEMUM SAMOENSE: a branch, with fertile flowers, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Portion of male inflorescence, of the natural size. 2. Male flower. 3. Vertical section of the same. 4. One of the glands of the disk, separated. 5. Fertile flower. 6. The same, with a part of the calyx cut away. 7. Vertical section of a fertile flower, showing the ovules, &. 8. An ovule detached. 9. A fertilized ovule. 10. An unripe seed.—The details magnified. 2. SPIRAANTHEMUM VitrensE, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 83.) S. glabrum; foliis oppositis et verticillatis obovato-ellipticis oblongisve obtusis basi attenuatis integerrimis puucivenosis paniculas eaceden- tibus ; folliculis monospermis ; semine superne alato. Has. Feejee Islands; at Sandalwood Bay, Vanua-levu; and Mu- thuata, at an elevation of 1,500 feet. Shrub or small tree (the size not recorded), glabrous, or the slender branchlets and intlorescence obscurely puberulent when young. Sti- pules not seen, probably small and very caducous. Leaves opposite and often verticillate in threes or fours, or even in fives, about 2 inches in length, obovate-elliptical, oblong, or oval, thin, but of a coria- ceous texture, dull, obtuse, entire, contracted at the base into a petiole of 3 to 6 lines in length, sparingly pinnately veined ; the veins only 4 or 0 pairs, connected by minute reticulated veinlets. Flowers minute, humerous, in rather small and cymose, axillary panicles, which are shorter than the leaves. Peduncles longer than the petioles. Bracts small, deciduous. Pedicels crowded, often fascicled, less than a line long, articulated at the base. Only one kind of flowers seen, which appear to be hermaphrodite. Flower-buds barely half a line in dia- meter, globose. Calyx glabrous, deeply cleft or parted into 4, 5, or rarely 6 triangular-ovate segments, valvate in estivation. Corolla none. Stamens twice as many as the segments of the calyx, inserted 168 670 PHANEROGAMIA. into its very base, nearly hypogynous, distinct: filaments filiform, about the length of the calyx: anthers didymous, incumbent, two- celled, destitute of a connective; the cells opening lengthwise. Pol- len-grains globose, simple, not very abundant. Glands of the disk hypogynous, as many as the stamens and alternate with them, scale- like, cuneate or oblong, fleshy, truncate or emarginate, sometimes slightly united? Pistils as many as the segments of the calyx and alternate with them, sparingly hairy, ovoid, entirely free and sepa- rate, tapering into a persistent style, which is tipped by a capitate- truncate stigma. Ovule solitary, affixed to the ventral suture near the middle, pendulous, between amphitropous and anatropous. Folli- cles one-seeded, almost glabrous, thrice the length of the persistent calyx, compressed, semiovate, sometimes slightly lunate, pointed by the style, coriaceo-cartilaginous in texture, a line and a half long, de- hiscent down the ventral suture, from which a filiform edge often separates. Seed winged at the apex (the micropylar end), filling the cell, oblong, compressed, the thin and membranaceous testa not reticu- lated, below conformed to the oval nucleus, not at all produced at the base or chalaza, above extended into the thin and obscurely reticu- lated wing. Embryo straight, in the axis of rather copious fleshy albumen, occupying the greater part of its length, somewhat eylin- drical, but the oblong cotyledons a little broader and flattened, and about half the length of the superior radicle. PLATE 83, B.—Sprramanturmum VitrENsE: a branch, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Diagram of the flower. 2. Flower. 3. Vertical section of the same. 4. Portion of the stamens and interposed glands of the disk, 5. Fruit, with the persistent calyx. 6. A follicle detached. 7. Vertical section of a follicle. 8. A dehiscent follicle. 9. A seed. 10. Vertical section of a seed. 11. Embryo detached.—The details magnified. 7. WEINMANNIA, Linn. WEINMANNIA, Linn.; Juss.; H. B. K.; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 79. LerosPermuM, Don, in Edinb. New Phil. Jour. 9, p. 85 & 91; Endl. Gen. p- 818. AcKAMA, A. Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Hist, 2, p. 358; Endl. 1. . ARNOLDIA, Blume, Bijdr. p. 868; DC.; Endl. 1. ¢.; Hassk. Pl. Jay. Rar. p. 825. SAXIFRAGACEZ. 671 * Novo-Zelandice. 1. WEINMANNIA SyLvicoLa, Banks & Soland. Weinmannia sylvicola, Banks & Soland. ined.; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 79. W. sylvicola, fuschioides, & hetulina, A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. in Ann. Nat. Hist. 2, p. 822. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. The three forms, considered as species by Cunningham, occur in the collection. There are no specimens absolutely referable to W. racemosa, Linn. f.: but several approach it so closely as to render it probable, as Dr. Hooker suggests, that all belong to one species; which in that case should bear the last-mentioned name.—Dr. Hooker has shown that the character of Don’s genus Leiospermum rests on an erroneous observation, so far as respects the New Zealand species. I may extend the remark to the species from the Society Islands, and also to the Ackama. roscfolia. 2. WEINMANNIA (ACKAMA) ROS&FOLIA. (Tab. 84.) W. arborea; ramulis petiolisque velutino-pubescentibus ; foliolis 3-8-jugis cum impart ellipticis argute serratis; paniculis decompositis paten- tibus; floribus subsessilibus minimis pentameris; petalis lineari-spa- thulatis calycem vix superantibus ; capsula ovata turgida hirta ; semi- nibus ovoideis undique crinitis. Ackama rosefolia, A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. in Ann. Nat. Hist. 2, p. 8358; Hook f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 79, Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. Tree 30 or 40 feet high; the young branchlets, petioles, &c., cine- reous or fulvous with a soft velvety pubescence. Stipules interpetiolar, ovate, caducous. Petioles with the elongated rhachis from 2 to 10 inches long, terete. Leaflets 3 to 8 pairs and an odd one, elliptical or oblong, from one to 2% inches in length, or the lower smaller and 672 PHANEROGAMIA. roundish, sharply serrate, subsessile, nearly membranaceous in texture, pinnately veined, pubescent when young, at length glabrate, except the midrib and veins underneath. Flowers minute (two-thirds of a line across), sessile on the slender ramifications of the ample, com- pound or decompound spreading panicles, which are axillary, or else terminate short axillary branchlets. Calyx glabrous, five-parted; the lobes triangular-ovate (valvate in estivation, according to Dr. Hooker), persistent. Petals 5, linear-spatulate, scarcely exceeding the calyz, deciduous. Stamens 10, inserted into the base of the calyx outside of the deeply ten-lobed disk, alternate with its lobes: filaments fili- form, exserted; those opposite the petals longer than the others: anthers didymous, two-celled, opening longitudinally. Ovary free, densely hirsute, two-celled, many-ovuled: styles 2, distinct, filiform : stigmas minute, terminal. Ovules in several series, amphitropous. Capsule ovate, turgid, free, subtended at the base by the small and persistent calyx (which is now raised on an extremely short pedicel), hairy, 2 or 2% lines long, two-celled, septicidal, the valves pointed by the persistent styles, at length two-cleft above. Seeds numerous or several in each cell, nearly half a line long, turgid-ovoid, slightly apiculate at each end, hemitropous, the short rhaphe slender: testa membranaceous, not reticulated, conformed to the nucleus, rather sparsely beset all over with very long and lax hairs. Embryo nearly the length of the sparing albumen: radicle cylindraceous: cotyledons broadly oval, thickish, about the length of the radicle. Our specimens bear ripe fruit only, with an abundance of well- formed seeds, apparently in better condition than any previously examined. They are not “smooth and rostrate,”’ as stated by End- licher, although there is a minute apiculation at each end, nor are the perfect ones “extremely minute, and with a lax reticulated testa,” as described by Dr. Hooker. Abortive seeds often occur to which this description will nearly apply, but the matured ones are not very small, the testa is conformed to the nucleus, not at all reticulated, and beset with very long hairs, like those of Weinmannia generally. Dr. Hooker remarks that Ackama is hardly distinct from Weinmunnia, except in the form of the petals. He assigns, however, another cha- racter, namely a valvate calyx, and perhaps correctly: the few flowers that I possess are too far advanced to verify the point. But even if it be so, this character, along with the narrow petals and the panicu- SAXIFRAGACEA. 673 late inflorescence, will hardly serve to distinguish it as more than a subgenus of Weinmannia. Prats 84.—WEINMANNIA (ACKAMA) ROSAFOLIA: a branch, in fruit, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Flowers (a portion of the inflorescence), from a specimen gathered by Cunningham, of twice the natural size. 2. Two flowers, from the same, magnified. 3. Vertical section of a flower. 4. A petal. 5. Stamens. 6. Transverse section of the ovary. 7. Ovules. 8. Capsule and persistent calyx. 9. Transverse section of a capsule. 10. Capsule, dehiscent. 11. A seed. 12. Ver- tical section of the same. 13. Transverse section of a seed through the cotyledons. 14. Embryo.—The details variously magnified. * * Polynesice. 3. WEINMANNIA PARVIFLORA, Forst. (Tab. 85.) W. arborescens ; ramulis pedunculisque pubescentibus ; foliis simplicibus ovatis oblongisve glabris calloso-serratis; racemis ternis vel subpluribus paniculatis; floribus parvis tetrameris; glandulis disci 8 lineari- oblongis calyce vix brevioribus ; stylis brevissimis ; capsula fere glabra ; seminibus oblongis utringue comosis.—Variat; foliis crasso-coriaceis ovatis seu ellipticis breviter vel brevissime petiolatis; et foliis tenuio- ribus oblongis vel elongato-oblongis grosse sinuato-dentatis utrinque acutis vel acuminatis modice petiolatis. Weinmannia parviflora, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 29; Willd. Spec. Pl. 2, p. 438. Leiospermum parvifloruwm, Don, in Edinb. Phil. Jour. 1. ¢.; Guill. Zeph. Tait. p. 55. Has. Tahiti: on mountain ridges. (Elizabeth Island, Cuming.) A shrub or small tree; the young branches and inflorescence pubes- cent or cinereous-hirsute. Leaves all simple, on petioles of from 14 to 3 lines long, ovate or oblong, from an inch to 2 or 3 inches long, serrate with callous and incurved teeth, which are sometimes acute, sometimes very obtuse and separated by large sinuate sinuses, gla- brous, or the midrib at first pubescent underneath, thick and coria- ceous, or sometimes rather thin, in the more elongated forms mostly 169 674 PHANEROGAMIA. acute or pointed at both ends. Stipules rather persistent, oval, as long as the petioles. Rucemes terminal in threes, or several and pant- cled, erect, from one to 3 inches long. Pedicels crowded or fascicled, a line and a half long; the minute bracts deciduous. J lowers small, a line and a half long, including the exserted stamens, tetramerous. Lobes of the calyx ovate, half the length of the elliptical petals, in fruit deciduous. Glands of the disk 8, alternating with the stamens, erect, linear-oblong, fleshy, truncate, little shorter than the calyz. Ovary ovoid, obtuse, strigose-puberulent, abruptly tipped with the very short styles. Capsule nearly glabrous, ovoid, obtuse, not 2 lines long, septicidal, few-seeded. Seeds oblong, anatropous; the thin testa not reticulated, conformed to the nucleus in the manner of the genus, appendaged with a loose tuft of hairs at each end. The characters given by Forster and by Willdenow differ conside- rably, but each accords with different specimens in our collection; the species being almost as polymorphous in foliage as is the allied W. syl- vicola of New Zealand. Don assigned the habitat of New Zealand to this species; and his description is not a good one: but the original specimen before him was from Tahiti, and is only in flower. If he had ripe seeds to examine, the tufts of hairs could hardly escape notice. PLATE 85, A.—WEINMANNIA PARVIFLORA. Fig. 1. A flower. 2. Vertical section of the same. 3. A capsule with the persistent styles. 4, Aseed. 5. Vertical section of the same.—Magnified. 4. WEINMANNIA AFFINIS, Sp. Nov. W. glabra; foliis simplicibus oblongis seu ovalibus calloso-serratis basi in petiolum brevem contractis rarissime bifoliolatis, foliolis in petiolo superne marginato sessilibus; racemis geminis ternisve corymboso- paniculatis ; “floribus roseis ;” calyce deciduo; stylis capsula ovoidea glabella dimidio brevioribus ; seminibus ovalibus utrinque comosis. Var. 2. foliis trifoliolatis ; foliolis basi attenuatis plerumque petiolulatis. Has. Feejee Islands: on the mountains of Ovolau, at the altitude of 1,200 feet. (Samoan Islands ?) SAXIFRAGACESR. 675 A shrub or small tree, glabrous, except a fine microscopic pubes- cence on the rhachis of the inflorescence and the pedicels. Leaves mostly simple, oblong, from 12% to 4 inches long, an inch or more in width, sometimes elliptical or oval, rather coriaceous, usually punctate with brown dots underneath, perfectly glabrous, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, obtusely callose-serrate, abruptly narrowed into a short margined petiole (of 3 to 5 lines in length), apparently not lucid. In one instance the petiole, becoming two-thirds of an inch in length and broadly margined above, bears a pair of sessile leaflets, otherwise resembling the leaves, articulated with its summit. In var. @., of which there is only an imperfect specimen, all the leaflets are in threes and more or less petiolulate. Stipules deciduous, only seen on a shoot of var. @., where they are oblong-ovate. “Flowers rose-colour,” according to Dr. Pickering’s memoranda, if rightly identified, but all the specimens are in fruit. Macemes terminal and from the upper axils, usually an pairs or threes on a flattened common peduncle, and accumulated so as to form a kind of corymb, 2 or 3 inches long in fruit, very dense; the pedicels crowded or fascicled, only a line long. Calyx deciduous from the fruit, four-parted. Capsule ovoid, obtuse, 12 to 2 lines long, minutely puberulent under a lens, but glabrous to the naked eye, two-valved, few-seeded, twice the length of the short styles. Seeds oval, glabrous, except the conspicuous tu/t of long hairs at each end. This species (of which the flowers are still a desideratum) is allied on the one hand to W. parviflora, which has still shorter styles and more pubescence; on the other to the New Zealand species, which have elongated styles and (at least W. sylvicola) the perfect seeds hairy all over, though most so at the extremities—There is a mise- rable fruiting specimen, ticketed as from the Samoan Islands (perhaps by some transposition), which I am uncertain whether to refer to the present species, or to W. parviflora. Its styles, however, are rather longer than in the plant of Tahiti. 5. Weinmannia Rica, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 85.) W. arborescens; ramulis junioribus petiolis costisque subtus pube brevi velutinis cinereisve; foliolis uni-quadrijugis cum impari oblongis 676 PHANEROGAMIA. acuminatis subserratis glabris; stipulis orbiculatis integerrimis ; ra- cemis geminis vel ternis confertis; floribus tetrameris parvis ; petalis obovatis calyce persistente duplo longioribus; stylis gracilibus cap- sula di-tetrasperma paullo brevioribus; seminibus oblongis utrinque comosis. Has. Feejee Islands: on mountains at Sandalwood Bay, Vanua- levu, at the altitude of 2,000 feet. An arborescent species; the younger branches, petioles, and midrib of the leaflets underneath clothed with a soft and jine, cinereous-velvety pubescence, which is to a good degree persistent. Leaves all pinnate. Leaflets from 3 to 9 on the same branch oblong or elliptical, on sterile shoots verging to oblong-lanceolate, serrate with small teeth, acuminate, glabrous (except the midrib), inconspicuously veiny, lucid above, not punctate, acute or pointed at the base, sessile or slightly petiolulate, 14 to 2% inches long. Petiole terete, not margined. Stipules orbi- cular, entire, half an inch in diameter, tardily deciduous. Inflores- cence minutely pubescent. The specimens all] in fruit, but with some vestiges of the floral organs remaining. LRacemes in pairs or threes from the uppermost axils, and terminal, numerous and crowded so as to appear paniculate-corymbose, very densely-flowered, 2 or 3 inches long in fruit; the pedicels barely a line long. Calyx glabrous, four- parted, persistent in fruit. Petals obovate, twice the length of the calyx, about a quarter of a line long, white. Glands of the disk 8, oblong- linear, alternate with the stamens. Ovary minutely pubescent, two- celled: ovules 2 to 6 (usually 4) in each cell, anatropous. Capsule ovoid-fusiform, minutely pubescent under a lens, barely a line and a half in length; the slender styles fully a line long. Seeds solitary or often in pairs in each cell, oblong, anatropous, marked with a slender complete, rhaphe, comose at each end: the testa otherwise glabrous or nearly so at maturity, not reticulated. Embryo clavate-cylindrical, nearly as long as the albumen. Cotyledons thick, oblong, shorter than the radicle. This species is closely related to Weinmannia Arnoldia, viz., the Arnoldia pinnata of Blume (of which I possess a flowering specimen), and perhaps scarcely less so to W. Blumet (Arnoldia heterophylla, Blume). Hasskarl, in his Pl. Jav. Rariores, p. 324, has justly re- SAXIFRAGACESA. 677 marked that the ovules in Arnoldia are not solitary, but several in each cell. The seeds are not described, but they will doubtless accord, as A. pinnata does in all other respects, with Weinmannia. Perhaps that species and the present, in which the seeds are abortive in many specimens, are polygamo-dicecious, in the manner of Astilbe, &c. Piate 85, B—Weinmannia Ricu: branchlets, of the natural size. Fig. 1. A flower; the ovary already fructified. 2. A petal. 3. Vertical section of fig. 1. 4. Calyx, with the glands of the disk. 5. Dehiscent capsule. 6. Transverse section of the capsule, before dehiscence. 7. A half-grown seed. 8. A mature seed. 9. Ver- tical section of the same. 10. Embryo.—The details variously mag- nified. 6. WEINMANNIA SPIRAOIDES, Sp. Noy. W. arborea, hirto-pubescens ; foliolis bijugis cum impari oblongo-lanceo- latis seu elliptico-oblongis grosse serratis utrinque acutis; stipulis orbi- culatis serratis. Has. Feejee Islands; on Ovolau, at the altitude of 500 feet. “A small tree;” of which only a sterile branch was collected. This, as well as the petioles and costa beneath, is hirsute-pubescent. Leaves all pinnately quinquefoliolate, somewhat resembling those of Spirea sorbifolia, membranaceous. Leaflets oblong-lanceolate, acute at both ends, subsessile, an inch or an inch and a half in length, or the terminal larger, oblong-elliptical and petiolulate, all sharply and coarsely serrate, pubescent when young, the upper surface glabrate. Stipules orbicular, serrate, 4 or 5 lines broad, rather persistent. 7. WEINMANNIA SAMOENSIS, Sp. Nov. W. fruticosa; ramulis petiolisque hirto-pubescentibus ; foliolis uni—tri- jugis cum impart lanceolatis acuminatis obsolete serratis glabris ; racemis scepissime ternis; calyce quadripartito deciduo; capsula glabra stylis brevissimis apiculata ; seminibus utringue comosis. 170 678 PHANEROGAMIA. Has. Samoan or Navigators’ Islands; on the mountains of Tutuila, at the altitude of 2,500 feet. The specimens only bear mature and dehiscent fruit. They are said to belong to a shrub, of 6 or 10 feet in height. The slender branchlets and petioles are hirsute-pubescent, as are the main peduncles, and there are traces of a slight hairiness on the midrib of the leaflets underneath. The stipules have fallen. Leaves all pinnately com- pound, and 5—7-foliolate or sometimes trifoliolate; the rhachis terete below, but somewhat margined between the upper pairs of leaflets. Leaflets lanceolate, 2 or 3 inches long, 5 to 9 lines wide, more or less acuminate, obsoletely serrate, sessile, or the terminal one somewhat petiolulate, glabrous, dotted underneath, chartaceous in texture, rather dull. Peduncles terminal, short, usually bearing the virgate racemes in threes, sometimes in fives. These in fruit are 2 or 3 inches long, slender but dense, and spreading, puberulent. Pedicels crowded and fascicled, a line long. The vestiges of the flower show a four-parted calyx, deciduous from the fruit, and 8 slender glands of the disk. Petals and stamens not seen. Capsule glabrous or nearly so, ovoid, a line and a half long, apiculate with 2 very short styles (of barely half a line in length), septicidal; the valves at length falling away from the persistent axis, which is dilated above into a thin lanceolate appendage. Seeds oblong, several in each cell, comose at each end. 8. GEISSOILS, Labill. Char. auctus. Calyx profunde quadripartitus, demum decidwus, esti- vatione valvatus. Corolla nulla. Stamina 10-15 (vel 16 2), Gast disci hypogynt inserta: filamenta filiformia, elongata: anthere didymee, biloculares, loculis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus. Ovarium liberum, conoideo-oblongum, biloculare: ovula plurima, biseriata, in placentis bipartitis sursum imbricata, anatropa. Styli 2, filiformes, bast connatt, decidui: stigmata simplicia terminalia. Capsula lineari-oblonga, coriacea, bilocularis, ab apice septicide bivalvis. Semina indefinita, complanata, adscendentia, imbricata; testa mem- branacea reticulata sursum alata. Embryo in axi albuminis carnosi rectus, eusdem fere longitudine ; cotyledonibus ovalibus subfoliaceis ; SAXIFRAGACE ZS. 679 radicula infera.—Arbores Polynesice ; trunco crasso; stipulis inter- petiolaribus ; foliis digitatis tri-quinquefoliolatis ; floribus purpureis ; racemis laterulibus. Getssors, Labill. Sert. Austro-Cal. p. 50, t. 50; Endl. Gen. p. 819. 1, GEISSOIS TERNATA, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 86.) G. foliis trifoliolatis ; ovario glabro; staminibus scepissime 14 vel 15. Has. Feejee Islands; common on the mountains of Muthuata and Ovolau, between the altitudes of 500 and 2,000 feet. “Tree 30 or 40 feet high, with a trunk of 2 feet in diameter;” the branches terete, nodose; the branchlets petioles, &c., minutely silky- puberulent when young. Leuves trifoliolate, opposite, on petioles from half an inch to an inch long. Leaflets oblong or obovate-elliptical, obtuse, acutish, or a little pointed at both ends, entire, glabrous, char- taceous in texture in the dried specimens, from 2 to 5 inches long, pinnately veined: the partial petioles 3 to 5 lines in length. Stipules interpetiolar, canescently hirsute in the bud, in this state apparently not costate, caducous, all the developed ones having disappeared. Racemes lateral, solitary from the axils above the scars whence the leaves of the previous season have fallen, or even from older wood, spreading, many-flowered. Pedicels 2 or 3 lines long, scattered, subtended by small and subulate caducous bractlets. Flower-buds nearly 3 lines long, ovoid, glabrous. Calyx four-parted nearly to the base; the segments triangular-oblong, acutish, thickish, valvate in eestivation, spreading in anthesis, purplish-red, somewhat pubescent inside, tardily deciduous. Corolla none. Stamens 14 or 15 in most specimens examined, sometimes 12, or perhaps fewer, inserted at the base of a thickened and entire gynobasic disk just at its junction with the base or origin of the calyx, therefore obscurely perigynous : filaments filiform, thickish towards the base, half an inch long, thrice the length of the calyx, deep red, deciduous: anthers didymous, fixed by the middle, incumbent, two-celled, destitute of a manifest connective; the cells opening longitudinally. Grains of pollen glo- bose, simple. Ovary free, conoidal-oblong, glabrous, terete, two- 680 PHANEROGAMIA. celled; the axile placentze occupying the whole length of the cell, two-lobed; the divergent lobes each bearing a dense row of ascending, anatropous, compressed, and upwardly winged ovules. Styles 2, filiform, equalling the filaments and of the same colour, somewhat united at the base, deciduous: stigmas terminal, simple, obtuse or subcapitate. Capsule linear-oblong, often curved, an inch or less in length, terete, or obscurely compressed contrary to the dissepiment, two-grooved, not ribbed, minutely apiculate, two-celled, septicidally two-valved from the apex ; the valves coriaceous, at length separating from the bipartible placenta. Seeds numerous in each cell, 2 lines long, flat, oblong, upwardly imbricated; the testa membranaceous, reticulated-cellular, loose, extended especially above into a broad wing much larger than the nucleus, which is oblique, as respects the axis of the wing. Embryo nearly the length of the fleshy albumen, and occupying its axis. Cotyledons oval, flat, nearly foliaceous, longer than the inferior radicle. This is evidently a very close congener of Geissois racemosa, Labill., and it may prove to be no more than a form of that species. But the leaves are all trifoliolate; the flowers are brightly coloured and showy; the ovary glabrous; the capsule is not compressed nor ribbed as in Labillardiere’s figure ; and the stamens, in all the flowers I have examined, are more than ten, the number assigned by Labillardiere to the New Caledonian species. Ten is an anomalous number for a flower with a tetraphyllous calyx, and requires confirmation. In a coloured drawing of the present species, made from the recent plant by the late Mr. Agate, the equally anomalous number of nine stamens is given to each flower, but I have found none with less than twelve in the dried specimens. The seeds show no traces of the gummy matter mentioned by Labillardiere—The genus is rightly placed by Endlicher next to Belangera. PLATE 86.—GEISSOIS TERNATA: in flower and fruit, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Transverse section of a flower-bud. 2. Expanded flower. 3. Anthers. 4. Pistil and disk. 5. Vertical section of the same. 6. Anovule. 7. Transverse section of a capsule. 8. Dehis- cent capsule. 9. A seed. 10. The same, with the nucleus divided to show the embryo. 11. Transverse section through the embryo.— The details variously magnified. SAXIFRAGACEA. 681 9 BELANGERA, Cam. 1. BELANGERA SPECIOSA, Oamb. Belangera speciosa, Cambess. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 2, p. 206, t. 117; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 11. Polystemon pentaphyllus, Don, in Edinb. New Phil. Jour. 9, p. 95. Lamanonia ternata, Velloz. Fl. Flum. 5, t. 104. Has. Brazil; not uncommon near Rio Janeiro, and on the Organ Mountains. 10. BAUERA, Kenn. 1. BAUERA RUBIOIDES, Andr. Bauera rubioides, Andr. Bot. Rep. t. 198; Vent. Hort. Malm. t. 96; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 18. B. rubicfolia, Salisb. in Ann. Bot. 1, p. 514, t. 10. Has. New South Wales, near Sydney. 2. BAUERA MICROPHYLLA, Sieber. Bauera microphylla, Sieber, P]. Exsic. N. Holl. no. 286; Seringe, in DC. 1. ¢. Has. With the preceding species. 1l. BROUSSAISIA, Gaud. Char. emend. et auct. Flores polygamo-dicici. Mas.—Calyx bres, liber, quinquepartitus, lobis triangulatis. sew ovato-lanceolatis. Petala 171 682 PHANEROGAMIA. 5, imo calyci inserta, eodem majore, oblonga, cestivatione valvata, acumine tnfleco, decidua. Stamina 10, cum petalis inserta: fila- menta crassa subulata: anther ovate, biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Pistillum fere floris foeminei nisi stigma imperfectum, ovula abortiva. Foem.—Calyx tubo ovoideo cum ovario connato, limbo quinquedentato supero vel semisupero, persistente. Petala parva, squamejformia, persistentia. Stamina nulla? Ovarium ovoideum, quingueloculare: placentce crassce, e loculorum angulo centrali (ubi via coalite) porrecte, bipartite, multiovulate. Stylus brevis vel sub- nullus: stigma crassum, radiato-quinquelobum. Fructus baccatus, pleiospermus. Semina horizontalia, oblonga, anatropa; testa mem- branacea parce striato-reticulata nucleo conformi. Embryo in awi albuminis carnost cylindricus, eodem dimidio brevior; cotyledonibus brevissumis.—Arbuscule Sandwicenses ; ramis validis; foliis oppositis seu verticillatis exstipulatis oblongis calloso-serratis, petiolis basi incras- satis; cymis terminalibus sessilibus multifloris. Brovssalsia, Gaud. Bot. Voy. Freyc. p. 479, t. 69 (pl. mase. tantum); DC. Prodr. 4, p. 17. The materials in the present collection fortunately enable me nearly to complete the characters of this interesting Hydrangeaceous genus, and to demonstrate its real relationship to Adamia of Java and Nepaul; which appeared very doubtful while Broussaisia was supposed to have hypogynous stamens as well as a free ovary. But what Gaudichaud, and subsequently Hooker and Arnott (the only botanists who have hitherto examined Broussaisia) took for herma- phrodite flowers are in fact male flowers; the ovary, although seem- ingly well-formed, containing only abortive ovules. Figure 7 of Gaudichaud’s plate, above-cited, does indeed represent a great number of apparently good ovules in each cell; but his character, “ovula 1 vel 6 (constanter 62) in quolibet loculo,’” shows that in the flowers he examined, as in our own, the ovules were for the most part rudimen- tary. Those few even that are somewhat developed are doubtless infertile. Moreover, the stamens and petals are perigynous, the base of the calyx being adnate to the very base of the ovary. The actual female flowers, indeed, are still desiderata: but we possess very young fruit still bearing apparently all the organs of the flower (unless there were stamens which have fallen away, leaving no SAXIFRAGACES®. 683 trace), and with the calyx adnate nearly to the summit of the ovary, as in the other genera of this tribe.* There is something in the foliage, and in the strigose pubescence of the young parts in Broussaisia that reminds one of Sauranja and Draytonia (p. 206): the placentz and the seeds are much alike, and the former abound in both with acicular raphides. The stamens and petals of Draytonia, moreover, are slightly perigynous. Although the Saurajee are doubtless not to be approximated to the Hydrangiee on such grounds, yet they appear to be quite as much related to them as to the Dilleniacee, or even to Clethra. 1. Broussatsia ARGUTA, Gaud. (Tab. 87.) B. foliis oppositis obovato-oblongis ; dentibus calycis fructifert oblongis superis stylo manifesto fere vel paullo brevioribus. Broussaisia arguta, Gaud. l.c. (& Bot. Voy. Bonite, t. 9, f. 11, 127); DC. l.c.; Hook, & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 84. Has. Sandwich Islands; Oahu; common on the mountains behind Honolulu. A large shrub, or small tree, with stout branches marked with very large leaf-scars, when young hirsute, as is the inflorescence, with strigose hairs, at length glabrate; the pith large. Leaves opposite, obovate-oblong, 4 to 6 inches long, usually pointed with a slight acumi- nation, closely serrate with fine and incurved callous teeth, tapering at the base into the petiole, nearly coriaceous, thickly feather-veined from the stout midrib, and the veins connected by a multitude of transverse veinlets, glabrous above, the midrib and veins beneath strigosely hirsute, especially when young. Petiole 6 to 18 lines long, hirsute when young, stout, margined, channeled above, remarkably * Just as this manuscript was about to pass into the printer’s hands, Gaudichaud’s plate of Broussaisia pellucida, tab, 8, in the Atlas of the Voyage de la Bonite, fell under my notice ;—showing that this botanist had ascertained the real characters of Broussaisia, on his second visit to the Sandwich Islands. No letterpress of the phane- rogamic botany of this work has been published, so far as I am aware, up to the time of M. Gaudichaud’s recent death. 684. PHANEROGAMIA. dilated and tumid at the insertion, the scar left by its fall 3 lines or more in diameter. Stipules none. Leaf-buds naked. Inflorescence terminal, forming a nearly sessile and crowded compound cyme, its lower primary divisions subtended by rather large foliaceous bracts, the larger about an inch in length, and resembling the leaves, but mostly sessile. Pedicels from one to 3 lines long. Bractlets minute and caducous. Flowers polygamo-dicecious. Male flowers.—Flower- buds between 2 and 3 lines in diameter, globular. Calyx five-parted; its divisions triangular or triangular-lanceolate, acute, equal, distant in estivation in the full-grown flower-bud, much smaller than the petals, and about half their length. Petals 5, distinct, ovate or oblong, thickish, glabrous or nearly so, apparently greenish-white, about 3 lines long and widely spreading when expanded, inserted by a broad base into the base of the calyx, valvate in estivation, and with a conspicuous inflexed acumination. Stamens 10, inserted with the petals, nearly equal: filaments about the length of the corolla, subulate, rather stout, dilated at the base, distinct: anthers ovate or subcordate, two-celled, fixed by the base, somewhat introrse; the cells opening longitudinally. Pollen-grains simple, globular, smooth. Ovary ovoid or globose-ovate, free from the calyx except its very base, contracted at the apex into a very short and thick style, which is terminated by a depressed, undivided, apparently imperfect stigma; within five-celled; the thick and spongy placente meeting but scarcely coalescing in the centre, and bearing on their posterior faces numerous minute rudiments of ovules, a few of which are more or less deve- loped, but apparently sterile. Female flowers seen only in a fructified state. Calyx-tube ovoid, connate with the ovary nearly or quite to its summit; the limb divided into 5 oblong superior teeth of about a line in length and persistent. Within and alternating with these teeth are 5 shorter, but otherwise nearly similar, thickish, equally persistent, scale-like lobes, which evidently answer to the petals: whether they were more developed in anthesis is doubtful: they seem to be complete. No vestiges of stamens or marks of their insertion are to be found. Style conspicuous, in the fruit somewhat exceeding the calyx-teeth, a line and a half long, columnar, terminated by a large, obtusely and radiately five-lobed stigma. Fruit fleshy or baccate, glabrous, smooth, globular, 3 lines in diameter (its colour not re- corded), conspicuously pointed with the persistent style and stigma, and crowned with the teeth of the calyx and the alternate petals or SAXIFRAGACEA. 685 their vestiges, inferior, only its pointed apex free from the calyx; the pericarp five-celled, although imperfectly so, as the retroflexed pla- centz are scarcely if at all united in the axis at any stage: dissepi- ments thin: cells alternate with the lobes of the calyx. Placentee large, fleshy, two-parted, strongly reflexed into the cells, which they almost fill (the seeds thus brought into contact with the pericarp), their tissue replete with acicular rhaphides. The pericarp is lined with a favose layer of tissue composed of elongated-linear and some- what separable cells, giving it a striated appearance :* this also con- tains an abundance of rhaphides. Seeds very numerous, horizontal, a quarter of a line long, brownish, oblong, anatropous; the testa membranaceous, coarsely striate-reticulated (the areole linear and longitudinal), thin, conformed to the nucleus; the rhaphe inconspi- cuous. Embryo cylindrical, next the hilum, half the length of the seed, in the axis of fleshy albumen: cotyledons very small. PLate 87.—BRoOUSSAISIA ARGUTA: a branch of the male plant, in flower, and of the female plant, in fruit. Fig. 1. A male flower-bud. 2. Transverse section of the same. 3. An expanded male flower. 4. Vertical section of the same. 5. A fructified female flower. 6. Vertical section of the same. 7. A fruit, with the parts of the flower persistent. 8. Transverse section of the same. 9. Portion of the pericarp, placenta, &c., more magnified. 10. A seed, detached. 11. Vertical section of the same. 12. Embryo.—The details variously magnified. 2. BROUSSAISIA PELLUCIDA, Gaud. B. foliis ternato-verticillatis oblongo-lanceolatis oblongisve elongatis ; den- tibus calycis fructiferi brevissimis semisuperis ; stylo brevissimo conico seu nullo, Broussaisia pellucida, Gaud. Bot. Voy. Bonite, t. 9 (excel. fig. 11, 12), sine deser. Has. Hawaii, Sandwich Islands, in the district of Puna; probably in woods, * This structure is the same as Hydrangea, Schizophragma, Decumaria, Philadel- phus, ke. Vid. Torrey & Gray, Flora of North America, 1, p. 593. 172 686 PHANEROGAMIA. The Hawatian plant is merely mentioned in Dr. Pickering’s notes, as if identical with that of Oahu. The only Hawaiian specimen in the collection,—a fertile one with half-grown fruit,—differs from those of Oahu, however, in having elongated-oblong leaves (6 to 8 inches in length), all of them verticillate in threes. The fructiferous cyme is more open; the ovoid ovary 1s free at its summit; the calyx being adnate only to a little above the middle, its inconspicuous limb there divided into 5, triangular and obtuse, appressed, very short teeth, which are hardly discernible without a lens. Within and alternate with these are as many similar teeth, of equal length, which repre- sent the petals. Of stamens no vestiges are perceived. There is properly no style; but the tapering apex of the fructified ovary is contracted a little below the stigma; the latter accords with the pre- ceding species, as do the placentze, &. Unless, therefore, Broussaisia arguta is more variable than could be inferred without evidence, the specimen before us must belong to a second species.—A recent com- parison of our specimen with Gaudichaud’s plate, cited above, leaves no doubt that it belongs to his Broussaisia pellucida, although the plant figured by him has longer and narrower, and (judging from the name) apparently much thinner leaves than ours, probably from growing in deep shade. Further observation must determine whether the characters assigned are constant, so as to specifically distinguish the plant from B. arguta. This certainly cannot be the case if Gaudi- chaud’s figures 11 & 12, representing the fruit with a columnar style, really belong to his B. pellucida. The young fruit in our specimen answers to that of his figure B. 12. CHRYSOSPLENIUM, Tourn. 1. CHRYSOSPLENIUM MACRANTHUM, Hook. Chrysosplenium macranthum, Hook. in Lond. Jour. Bot. 1, p. 458, t. 16; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 281. Hydrocotyle glechomoides, A. Rich, Mon. Hydrocot. t. 58, f. 17 (DC. Prodr. 4, p. 70)? Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia; common on the coast. A tender, herbaceous plant, a foot high: the leaves apparently all SAXIFRAGACES. 687 opposite.—This striking species is well illustrated by Sir William Hooker. Although so lately published, it was gathered long ago by Banks and Solander (and figured, under the name of @. elevatum, according to Dr. Hooker), and probably also by Commerson. For, on having my attention called to the point by a note of Dr. Pickering’s, I think it is without much doubt the Hydrocotyle glechomoides of Achille Richard, although this author’s account does not altogether agree with the plant. 13. SAXIFRAGA, Linn. 1. Saxirraca MaGELLanica, Poir. Sazxifraga Magellanica, Poir. Dict. 6, p. 686; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 25; Sternb. Rev. Sax. t. 11, f. 1. S. exarata, var. Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 280. Haz. Orange Harbour, Fuegia; on the tops of mountains. The collection comprises all three varieties of this Saxifrage; which Dr. Hooker unites with the northern S. exarata, 2. SAXIFRAGA BICUSPIDATA, Hook. /. Saxifraga bicuspidata, Hook. f. Fl. Antarct. p. 281, t. 97. Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia; on the tops of mountains; of rare occurrence. 3. SAXIFRAGA PERUVIANA, Sternb. Saxifraga Peruviana, Sternb. Rev. Sax. p. 55, t. 22; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 33. S. Bonplandii, Don, Monogr. Sax. in Linn. Trans. 13, p. 481. NS. stellata, Pav.; Don. 1. c. p. 480. Has. High Andes of Peru; on rocks, above Casa Cancha, Alpa- marca, &c. | 688 PHANEROGAMIA. 14. DONATIA, Forst. 1. DoNATIA FASCICULARIS, Forst. Donatia fascicularis, Forst. Char. Gen. p. 10, t. 5; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 281. D. Magellanica, Lam. Ill. Gen. 1, p. 217, t. 51; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 53; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 16. Polycarpon Magellanicum, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 115; Forst. in Comm. Gott. 9, p. 23, t. 3. Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia; common, forming broad and de- pressed, dense patches. Orv. CRASSULACE &. 1. TILLAA, Mich. 1. TILLHA VERTICILLARIS, DC. Tillcea verticillaris, DC. Prodr. 8, p. 882; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 75. T. muscosa ? Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 11; A. Rich. Fl. N. Zel. p. 322. Has. New South Wales, near Sydney and Hunter’s River. Also Lord Auckland Islands (unless the specimens were misplaced). 2. TILLMA CONNATA, Ruiz & Pav. Tillea connata, Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Per. & Chil. 1, p. 70, t. 106. Has. Andes of Peru; common on walls, &., at and above Obrajillo. “ Plant an inch or two in height.” The small specimen apparently CRASSULACEA. 689 belongs to an erect plant; with ovate-oblong, obtuse and’ pointless leaves; the floral ones as long as the fructiferous pedicels; which however do not exceed the calyx in length. So that the Species is probably distinct from 7. rubescens, H.B.K. Petals shorter than the ovate and somewhat pointed sepals. Carpels two-seeded. 3. TILL@A (BULLIARDA) MoscHata, DC. Crassula moschata, Forst. in Comm. Geett. 9, p. 26. Bulliarda Magellanica, DC. in Bull. Philomath. no. 49. B. moschata, D’Urv. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Par. 4, p. 618; Gaud. Bot. Freye. Voy. p. 138; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 15 & 278. Tillea moschata, DC. Prodr. 8, p. 882; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 535 > Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 79. Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia; on rocks along the coast. Lord Auckland Islands. 2. TETRAPHYLE, Eckl. & Zeyh. 1. TETRAPHYLE muscosA, Eckl. & Zeyh. Tetraphyle muscosa, Hckl. & Zeyh. Enum. Pl. Afr. Austr. p. 294. Crassula muscosa, Linn. Spec. Pl. ed. 2, p. 405, fide Eckl. & Zeyh. Has. Cape of Good Hope, near Cape Town. 3. CRASSULA, Linn., Haw. 1. CRASSULA TETRAGONA, Linn. Has. Cape of Good Hope, in the immediate vicinity of Cape Town. 2. CRASSULA SCABRA, Linn. Has. Cape of Good Hope, in the vicinity of Cape Town. 178 690 PHANEROGAMIA. 3. CRASSULA SQUAMULOSA, Willd. Has. Cape of Good Hope; with the preceding species. 4, CRASSULA PELLUCIDA, Linn. Has. Cape of Good Hope, in the immediate vicinity of Cape Town. 5. CRASSULA CILIATA, Linn. Has. Cape of Good Hope, near Cape Town. 4, ROCHEA, DGC. 1. RocHEA opoRATISsIMA, DC. Has. Cape of Good Hope, in the immediate vicinity of Cape Town. 5 KALANCHOE, Adans. 1. KALANCHOE BRASILIENSIS, Camb. Kalanchoe Brasiliensis, Cambess. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 2, p. 196. Has. Rio Janeiro; common on rocks along the shore of the bay. 6 BRYOPHYLLUM, Salisb. 1. BryopHyLLuM CALYcINUM, Salisb. Has. Philippine Islands, in the vicinity of Bajios, Luzon. CRASSULACESA. 69] 7. UMBILICUS, Da 1. Umsinicus Penputinus, DC. Has. Madeira; on the summit of Pico Ruivo. 8. SEDUM, Linn. 1. SEepuM NupUM, Ait. Has. Madeira; along the coast east of Funchal. 2. SepuM PERUVIANUM, Sp. Nov. S. glabrum, pumilum; caulibus adscendentibus ; foltis sessilibus ovatis oblongisve planis ; cyma pauciflora subracemiformi ; petalis (ut videtur albis) ovatis acuminatis. Has. Andes of Peru, from Obrajillo to Culnai; on rocks. The specimens in the collection are extremely meagre and imper- fect. There is also one from the same region in the Hookerian her- barium, gathered probably by Matthews or M’Lean. The root is most likely annual. Stems ascending, low (3 or 4 inches high), fleshy, glabrous, as is the whole plant. Cauline leaves sessile, scattered, ovate or oblong, plane, but very fleshy, small. Flowers few, racemose- cymose; the terminal one sessile, the others short-pedicelled. Sepals 5, ovate-lanceolate, somewhat carinate. Petals ovate or broadly oval- obovate, acuminate, nearly 8 lines long, one-third longer than the calyx, carinate, one-nerved, scarious-persistent, apparently white. Stamens 10. Carpels ovate, many-seeded. Orv. UMBELLIFER &. 1 HYDROCOTYLE, Tourn. 1. HyprocotyLe interruPtTA, Mul. Has. Sandwich Islands: Oahu; in marshes, near Honolulu. Hawaii, in the district of Waimea. This was also collected in Beechey’s voyage. It accords in all respects with the plant of the United States: but the fruit, although not emarginate, is by no means subattenuate at the base. I have seen no specimens from the Pacific coast of North America: an allied Species, more nearly related to Z vulgaris however, is found in Cali- fornia and Western Mexico. 2. HyprocotyLe mopesta, Cham. & Schlecht. Has. Peru, near Callao. A monstrous state; the umbels foliose- proliferous. 3. HyprocoryLe Bonariensis, Lam. Has. Brazil, near Rio Janeiro. Callao, Peru. The many-flowered form: H. multiflora, Ruiz & Pav. 4. HYDROCOTYLE QUINQUELOBA, Ruiz & Pav. Has. Brazil; in the Organ Mountains. UMBELLIFERZ. 693 5. HYDROCOTYLE LEUCOCEPHALA, Cham. & Schlecht. Has. Brazil, near Rio Janeiro. Also, Savaii, one of the Samoan Islands. 6. HyprocoryLe LAXIFLORA, DO. Has. New South Wales; in the neighbourhood of Hunter’s River. 7. Hyprocoryie Asratica, Linn. Has. Luzon, near Manilla. Hunter's River, New South Wales. Ovolau, Feejee Islands; around houses. Tongatabu. Savaii, one of the Samoan Islands; “only seen around houses.” Bay of Islands, New Zealand (the ordinary plant, and a diminutive state, with the leaves only 4 or 5 lines in diameter). Brazil, near Rio Janeiro. 8. HypROCOTYLE RANUNCULOIDES, Linn. f. Has. Chili, near Valparaiso. Without flowers or fruit. Appa- rently also the HZ. batrachwides, DC. 9. HypROCOTYLE PLEBEIA, 2. Br. Has. New South Wales; in the vicinity of Hunter’s River. 10. HyprocoTyLe Hirta, 2. Br. Has. New South Wales, near Sydney. 11. HyprocotyLe ELONGATA, A. Cunn. Hydrocotyle loader A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal.; Hock. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 84. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 174 694 PHANEROGAMIA. 12. HypRocoTYLE MICROPHYLLA, A. Cunn. I. c. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 13. HyprocoryLE PEDUNCULARIS, FR. Br. Has. New South Wales, near Sydney. (The var. y. Hook. f.) 2, DIDISCUS, DC. 1. Dipiscus ALBIrLorus, DC. Has. New South Wales; near Sydney, and on Hunter’s River. 3 TRACHYMENE, Rudge. 1. TRACHYMENE OVALIS, DC. Haz. New South Wales, near Sydney: also (a variety with the stem almost glabrous) on Cook’s River. 2. TRACHYMENE MYRTIFOLIA, Sieber. Has. New South Wales; with the preceding species, which pro- bably is only a variety of this. 3. TRACHYMENE LANCEOLATA, Rudge. Trachymene lanceolata, Rudge, in Linn. Trans. 10, p. 300; DC. 1. ¢.; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3334. Azorella lanceolata, Labill. Fl. N. Holl. 1, p. 74, t. 99. UMBELLIFERA. 695 Has. New South Wales; in the vicinity of Sydney and New- ington. 4, ‘TRACHYMENE LINEARIS, Spreng. Trachymene linearis, Spreng. ; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 78. Azorella linearifolia, Cay. Ic. Pl. 5, p. 485. Has. New South Wales; in the vicinity of Sydney. 5. 'TRACHYMENE ERICOIDES, Sieber. Has. Sydney, Newington, and Hunter’s River, New South Wales. The stems are mostly puberulent, and the leaves often puberulent- scabrous. The species apparently includes both Z subvelutina and f, tenuis, of DeCandolle. 4, ASTROTRICHE, DGC. 1. ASTROTRICHE LATIFOLIA, Benth. Astrotriche latifolia, Benth. Pl. Hugel. p. 55. Has. New South Wales; probably from the neighbourhood of Sydney or Hunter's River. 5 XANTHOSIA, Rudge. 1. XantHosiA PiLosa, Rudge. Aanthosia pilosa, Rudge, in Linn. Trans. 5, p. 861; Benth. Pl. Hugel. p. 55. X. hirsuta, DC. Prodr. 4, p. 74. Has. New South Wales; near Sydney and Woolongong: one form 696 PHANEROGAMIA. in foliage approaching Leucolena pannosa, Benth. 1.c.; the other remarkably barbate-villous. 2. XANTHOSIA MONTANA, Sieber, in DC. 1. c. Has. New South Wales; in the neighbourhood of Sydney. 3. XANTHOSIA TRIDENTATA, DC. 1. ¢. Has. Near Sydney, New South Wales. 6 BOWLESIA, Ruiz & Pav. 1. BowLesta TROPAOLIFOLIA, Gillies. Bowlesia tropeolifolia, Gillies, in Hook. Bot. Mise. 1, p. 325; Gay, FI. Chil. 3, p. 75. Has. Chili; on the Cordilleras above Santiago. Near B. tenera.* 2. BowLEsta LoBATA, Ruiz & Pav. Bowlesia lobata, Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Per. & Chil. t. 251; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 75. B. acutangula, Benth. Pl. Hartw. p. 186. Has. Andes of Peru, near Obrajillo. (Lobes of the leaves acutish. } 3. BowLEsiA PALMATA, Ruiz & Pav. l.c. Var. B. fructu nune nudato parce stelligero, nunc setis glochidatis his- pido ! * Elsneria crategifolia, Walp. in Rel. Meyen. p. 846, t. 7, appears to be the Bow- lesia dichotoma, Popp., to which B. multiradiata, Colla, and B. elata, Clos, may also belong. UMBELLIFERSZ. 697 Has. Andes of Peru, in the neighbourhood of Obrajillo. This appears to be the B. palmata of Ruiz and Pavon. In one specimen the fruit is mostly glabrate, when young sparingly beset with sessile stellate tufts of short hairs: occasionally one or more of these tufts are raised on a short pedicel or bristle; while in another, otherwise similar specimen the fruits are rather copiously beset with such glochidiate bristles, often of considerable length. From the forks of the stem, there is occasionally produced an abnormal fusiform body, appearing like a diseased fruit, either subsessile or long-pedun- cled, 4 or 5 lines long, and armed all over with long glochidiate bristles. . 7. AZORELLA, Lam. AZORELLA, Lam. IIl. Gen. t. 484, f. 1; Cav. Ic. t. 482, f. 2; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 77. Botax, Commers.; Juss. Gen. p. 226; DC. Prodr. 2, p. 78; Spreng. Umb. p. Fracosa, Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Peruv. & Chil. Prodr. p. 43. Cuamitis, Banks & Soland. ined.; Geertn. Fruct. 1, p. 94, t. 22. Pecropuytum, H. B. K. Noy. Gen. & Spec. 5, p. 28, t. 425. Pozoa, subgen. Scutzertema, Hook. Fl. Antare. p. 15, t. 11, & Fl. N. Zeal. p. 89, t. 18. oo ew It appears to me that Sprengel was quite right in uniting Bolax and Azorellu, both names probably imposed by Commerson, but the latter first published. The types of the two genera were also viewed as one (Chamitis) by Banks and Solander, as also by Cavanilles. Their habit is the same: A. Selago, indeed, closely resembles Bolax glebaria; and the difference in their fruit is perhaps not greater than between some species of -Azorella proper. Moreover, an Andine Chilian species (A. madreporica), having the thickened margins of the mericarps more or less recurved, often as much so as in some fruits of Bolax glebaria, manifestly combines the two genera. The entire absence of teeth to the. calyx will barely distinguish Pectophytum, H. B.K., as a section of this genus; the limb being obsolete in Bolax. Dr. Hooker has fully noticed the similarity of the fruit of his Pozoa, subgen. Schizeilema to Azorella, and has until lately retained A. Ranun- culus in this genus: in finally excluding it, and referring it, along 175 698 PHANEROGAMIA. with two kindred species, to Pozoa, he has been guided principally by habit; yet in this these plants do not widely differ from some Peru- vian Fragose. Moreover if Pozoa itself may not be distinguished by its striking crateriform gamophyllous involucre, and its monoecious flowers, it may also fall into Azorella. § 1. SCHIZEILEMA. (Pozoa, subgen. Schizeilema, Hook. f. 1. ¢.) 1. AzorELLA Ranuncutvus, D' Urv. Azorella Ranunculus, D’Urv. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Par. 4, p. 614; Gaud. Bot. Voy. Freye. p. 186; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 77; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 285, t. 98. Pozoa (Schizeilema) Ranunculus, Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 85, adn. Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia. The mature fruit is more didymous than in Dr. Hooker’s otherwise perfect figure. The other species of the group are A. reniformis, of the Auckland and Campbell Islands, and A. trifoliolata, Hook. f. (in tab. supra cit.), of New Zealand. In habit they much resemble Hydro- cotyle. §2. CHAMITIS. (Chamitis, Banks & Soland. excl. spee., Gaertn. Azorella, Lam., DC.) 2. AZORELLA FILAMENTOSA, Lam. Azorella filamentosa, Lam. Dict. 1, p. 344, & Ill. Gen. t. 189; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 77; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 451; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 283. Chamitis inteyrifolia (Banks & Soland.) Geertn. Fruct. 1, p. 94, t. 22. Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia; on the mountains. 3. AZORELLA LYCOPODIOIDES, Gaud. Azorella lycopodioides, Gaud. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 5, p. 105, t.3; DO. l.c.; Hook f. Fl. Antare. p. 284. Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia; on the tops of mountains. UMBELLIFERSE. 699 4. AzorELLa SELAGO, Hook. f. Azorella Selago, Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 284, t. 99. Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia; on the tops of mountains. 5. AZORELLA MONANTHOS, Clos? Azorella monanthos, Clos, in Gay, Fl. Chil. 8, p. 79? Haz. On the Andes of Chili, above Santiago. (Without flowers or fruit.) 6. AZORELLA APODA, Sp. Nov. A. dense ceespitosa; foliis arctissime imbricatis basi vaginantibus apice subspatulato crassis triangulato-subulatis pungenti-mucronulatis glabris, floralibus basi filamentosis; wumbella bi-quadriflora sessili; floribus Fructibusque subsessilibus folia haud superantibus ; calyce glaberrimo, dentibus brevissimis obtusis; mericarpiis utriculosis dorso subcom- pressis. Has. Andes of Chili, above Santiago, not far from the snow-line. The plant forms very compact tufts, from an inch to 3 inches high ; the stems (2 or 3 lines thick) covered with very densely imbricated leaves, with appressed sheathing bases; their upper and slightly dilated portion, or limb, triangular-subulate, or oblong, 12 or 2 lines in length, glabrous, very thick, mostly obtuse, but pungently mucronulate ; those next the flowers filamentose at the base inside. Involucre of 2 to 4 small and scarious leaves, their dilated bases somewhat united and filamentose. Umbel sessile even in fruit, of 2 to 4 rather large flowers; the pedicels very short, not so long as the ovary, so that the flowers are not protruded beyond the leaves, but barely equal them in length. Calyax-tube wholly glabrous, utricular; the 5 teeth very short and obtuse, persistent. Petals oblong, plane. Stylopodium large. 700 PHANEROGAMIA. Styles elongated. Only one flower of each umbel usually fructifies. Fruit not exceeding the leaves at the summit of the shoot, turgid, globular, but dorsally somewhat compressed, 2 lines long, wtricular (as in A. Gilliesit), the entirely loose and membranaceous epicarp smooth and free from ribs or markings: on detaching the membrane, how- ever, the five filiform ribs are seen on the body of the compressed meri- carp, three on the back and one on each margin. Vittee none. This can hardly be any state of Azorella ceespitosa of Cavanilles, which is described and figured as having, at least in the fruiting state, a conspicuously exserted peduncle and slender pedicels, as well as squarrose-spreading leaves. It is much more like the Antarctic plant, however, as described by Dr. Hooker under this name; but that is said to have the calyx-tube hairy; and Dr. Hooker would scarcely fail to mention the utricular character, which is manifest even in the im- mature fruit. Moreover the leaves of our plant are appressed, rather than spreading. § 3. BOLAX. (Bolax, Commerson, DC., Hook. f.) 7. AZORELLA MADREPORICA, Clos. A. caulibus multicipitibus in ceespitem densum depressum coherentibus ; petiolis densissime imbricatis appressis oblongis planis aut truncatis aut superioribus lamina brevissima tripartita intus filamentoso-barbata donatis, in ramis sterilibus petiolis nunc elongatis patentibus lamina bis trifida majoribus ; umbella subsessili 2-5-flora ; involucro 4— d-phyllo scarioso pedicellis cequilongo; floribus fructibusque ultra folia vix exsertis ; calyce glubro, dentibus oblongis persistentibus ; fructu quad- rilobo, mericarpiis obovato-orbiculatis plano-compressis marginibus merassatis pl. m. recurvis inde dorso concavis. Azorella madreporica, Clos, in Gay, Fl. Chil. 3, p. 79. Has. Chili; on the high Andes, above Santiago, near the snow-line. Plant growing in extremely dense and depressed tufts, consisting of numerous compactly matted stems, an inch or two in length, from a UMBELLIFERS. 701 thick and perpendicular root, clothed with dilated and appressed, densely imbricated petioles. Many of these are destitute of lamina: towards the summit of the stems, however, they usually bear a very small and three-parted lamina, which is bearded inside, at least when young, either sparsely or copiously, with long and filamentous bristles ; its segments ovate and entire. From the summit of some of these stems, when sterile, arise more or less open shoots, bearing spreading leaves with longer and narrower petioles, terminated by a lamina of one or two lines in diameter, its three lobes again three-cleft. Uimbel subsessile and included among the leaves at the summit of the fertile stems, 2—5-flowered; the flowers and fruits on short pedicels, but raised only slightly above the level of the dense mass of leaves. Involucre of 4 or 5 small and scarious lanceolate leaflets, unequal, scarcely if at all united at the base, about the length of the pedicels. Calyx glabrous; the teeth oblong, persistent. Fruit four-lobed; the mericarps obovate-orbicular, or oval, a line and a half long, nearly plano-compressed, except that the broad and thickened margins are not unfrequently more or less recurved, so as to render the mericarp con- cave on the back and leave wide sinuses at the commissures. The substance of the pericarp is thick and corky, destitute of vitte, with no utricular epicarp, the 5 slender ribs usually evident. Not unfre- quently the fruit has three mericarps; each of just the form of those of Bolax glebaria, except that they are more compressed. The plant exudes a resin as copiously as the Balsam Bog and Laretia. Azorella bolacina, Clos, 1. ¢., of which I have not the fruit, is appa- rently nearly allied to the present species. Its leaves are sometimes entire. May not such a state be the A. ceespitosa of Cavanilles ? - §&, AZORELLA GLEBARIA. Bolax glebaria, Commerson, in Juss. Gen. p. 266; Gaud. in Ann. Sci. Nat. 5, p. 104, t. 8, f. 2, & Bot. Freye. Voy. p. 186; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 78; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 492; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 285. B. yummifera & B. complicata, Spreng. Prodr. Umb. p. 9. Hydrocotyle gunmifera, Lam. Dict. 8, p. 156. Azorella tricuspidata, Lam. Ul. Gen. t. 189, f. 2. A. ccespitosa, Vahl, Symb. 3, p. 48; Willd. Spec. Pl. 1, p. 1865, ex parte, non Cav. Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia; common. (Both the entire and the trifid-leaved forms.) 176 702 PHANEROGAMIA. The habit and mode of growth, as well as the synonymy of the remarkable Balsam-bog are fully elucidated by Dr. Hovker. The fruit is well figured by Sir William Hooker. §4. PECTOPHYTUM. (Pectophytum, H. B. K., DC.) 9. AZORELLA DIAPENSIOIDES, Sp. Nov. A. dense ceespitosa, nana, glabra; foliis imbricatis confertissimis, lamina patente oblonga integerrima petiolo dilatato basi amplexicauli breviore ; umbella 3-T-flora sessili inter folia summa; involucro scarioso 6—9- jido ; floribus brevissime pedicellatis ; fructibus dorso subcompressis. Has. On the crest of the Andes of Peru, near Casa Cancha and Alpamarea. (High Andes of Peru, M’Lean, in herb. Hooker.) A dwarf and depressed, densely tufted species, with somewhat the mode of growth and foliage of Diapensia Lapponica, but on a smaller scale, an inch or two in height, glabrous throughout, except a very few long hairs at the base of the leaves. Leaves imbricated, dense; the scale-like petiolar portion triangular-dilated, 3 to 5 lines long, ap- pressed and sheathing at the base, narrowed upwards, then a little dilated into an oblong and entire, spreading lamina, of a thick and firm texture, 12 or 2 lines long, sometimes becoming linear, obtuse, somewhat mucronate. Umbel sessile in the crown of upper leaves, by which it is exceeded in length, both in flower and fruit. Involucre scarious, 6—9-cleft, usually unequally so; the segments oblong, obtuse, not ciliate. Flowers 3 to 7, on very short pedicels, apparently all perfect. Limb of the calyx obsolete and truncate. Petals apparently greenish-white, oblong, plane. Fruit barely a line and a half long, globular, but moderately dorsally compressed, not utricular ; the meri- carps obscurely five-ribbed. In Dr. Pickering’s notes, a species allied to this is mentioned, from the same district, with the leaves entire, lanceolate and densely tomentose above. Two other species, thought to be A. (Fragosa) multifida, and A. (Fragosa) cladorhiza, are said to be common at Baiios, and from Casa Cancha to Culnai. But no corresponding speci- mens are found in the collection. UMB ELLIFER AZ. 703 8. MULINUM, Bes. 1. Mutinum protirerum, Pers. Mulinum protiferum, Pers. Ench. 1, p. 309; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 79; Hook. Bot. Mise. 1, p. 827. Selinum proliferum, Cav. Ic. Pl. 5, p. 58, t. 486, f. 1. Has. Rio Negro, North Patagonia: common on the plains. The specimens are in fruit, the umbels not proliferous, most of them shorter than the leaves, which are larger and their slender divisions longer than in the figure of Cavanilles. 2. Muxinum spinosum, Pers. Mulinum spinosum, Pers. Ench. 1, p. 8309; DC. Hook. Bot. Mise. 1, p. 327. Selinum spinosum, Cav. Ic. Pl. 5, p. 59, t. 487, f. 1. Has. Andes of Chili, above Santiago. (In fruit.) 3. Muinum cunEATUM, Hook. & Arn. Mulinum cuneatum, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 26, & Bot. Mise. 3, p. 347. Fragosa spinosa, Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Per. & Chil. 8, p. 27; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 76. Has. Chili; on the highlands above Valparaiso. (Without flowers or fruit, the latter still unknown.) 4, Muinum vticinum, Gill. & Hook. Mulinum ulicinum, Gillies & Hook. Bot. Misc. 1, p. 328, t. 64, & 3, p. 347. M. Echinus, Presl, in DC. Prodr. 3, p. 79? Has. Andes of Chili, near the snow-line. (A doubtful specimen.) 704 PHANEROGAMIA. 9 LARETIA, Gil. & Hook. 1. LARETIA ACAULIS, Gill. & Hook. Laretia acaulis, Gillies & Hook. in Bot. Misc. 1, p. 829, t. 65; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Mise. 3, p. 847; Gay, Fl. Chil. 8, p. 106. Selinum acaule, Cay. Ic. Pl. 5, p. 59, t. 487, f. 2. Has. High Andes of Chili, above Santiago, near the snow-line. The specimens have ripe fruit, which very well accords with Hooker's figure, except that the ribs are not so salient. The plant forms dense tufts, “in the manner of Diapensia,” and exudes a copious resin. 10. ASTERISCIUM, Cham. & Schlecht. 1. Asteriscium CHILENSE, Cham. & Schlecht. Asieriscium Chilense, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnea, 1, p. 254, t. 5, f. 1; Hook. Bot. Misc. 1, p. 332, t. 67; Gay, Fl. Chil. 3, p. 100. A. Chilense & A. Peppigiti, DC. Prodr. 4, p. 82. Has. Chili: in maritime sands; also on hills, in the neighbourhood of Valparaiso. 11. ACTINOTUS, Labitl. 1. Actinotus Hetrantut, Labill. Actinotus Helianthi, Labill. Pl. N. Holl. 1, p. 67, t. 92; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 83. Eriocalia major, Smith, Exot. Bot. 2, p. 37, t. 78. Has. Sydney and Hunter’s River, New South Wales. UMBELLIFERA, 705 2. AcTINoTUS minor, DC. 1. ¢. Eriocalia minor, Smith, Exot. Bot. p. 88, t. 79. Has. New South Wales; in the neighbourhood of Sydney. 12, SANICULA, Tourn. 1. SanicuLa Sanpwicensis, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 88.) S. foliis ambitu rotundatis profunde palmati-3-5—partitis, segmentis bi-trifidis incisisque, lobis oblongis vel fol. superiorum lanceolatis argute inciso-serratis, serraturis aristulatis; wmbellis tri-quinque- radiatis scepe proliferis ; floribus masculis breviter pedicellatis. Has, Sandwich Islands: Hawaii, on Mouna Loa, at the elevation of 8,000 feet: East Maui; on the mountains. Root perpendicular, fusiform, 6 to 10 inches long. Stem a foot or two in height, angular, glabrous, as is the whole plant. Leaves rotund in circumscription, about 2 inches in diameter, palmately 3-5- parted and almost divided; the cuneate segments 2—3-cleft and incised or laciniate, sometimes five-cleft; the lobes oblong or of the upper leaves lanceolate or oblong-linear, more or less incised, very sharply and incisely serrate, with aristulate teeth. Petioles scarious-dilated and clasping at the base; the uppermost and rameal leaves sessile, and passing into the two-leaved involucres. Uinbels of 3 to 5 rays, which are longer than the involucels, and frequently proliferous. Umbellets 22 lines in diameter, exceeding the oblong-lanceolate and entire divi- sions of the involucel, globular, densely many-flowered. Flowers yellow, the male flowers short-pedicelled and exterior; the female flowers sessile; their filiform styles exserted and recurved. Fruit (of which little occurs on the specimens) ovate, 2 lines long, echinate throughout with long and stout hooked prickles. This interesting addition to the very few Umbellifere of the Sand- 177 706 PHANEROGAMIA. wich Islands has not been found, so far as I know, by any other collectors. It is allied to S. Menziesti, of Oregon and California; but its leaves are much more dissected and of a firmer texture. PLATE 88.—SANICULA SANDWICENSIS: of the natural size. Fig. 1. A sterile flower. 2. Petal, from the same. 3. Stamen. 4. Vertical section of a fertile flower. 5. Fruit. 6. Vertical section of a meri« carp and seed. 7. Embryo.—The details magnified. 13. ERYNGIUM, Tourn. 1. Eryneium coronatum, Hook. & Arn. Eryngium coronatum, Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Misc. 8, p. 350. Has. Rio Negro, North Patagonia: procumbent, on the river-banks. 2. ERYNGIUM EBRACTEATUM, Lam. Has. Rio Negro, North Patagonia; with the preceding species. 3. ERYNGIUM PANICULATUM, Cav. Has. Chili (the var. Chilense, DC.): a common and conspicuous plant around Valparaiso. 14. APIUM, Linn., Hofim. 1. APIUM AUSTRALE, Petit-Thouars. Apium australe, Petit-Thouars, Fl. Trist. d’ Acunh. p. 43; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 86. A. prostratum, Labill. Pl. N. Holl. 1, p. 76, t. 103; Vent. Hort. Malm. t. 81. A. Chilense, Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Mise. 8, p. 353. A. graveolens, DO. quoad pl. Antarc.; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 287. UMBELLIFERGS. 707 Has. Rio Negro, North Patagonia. Orange Harbour, Fuegia; abundant on the coast. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. Also (the var. 3., Hook. f.) Hunter’s River, New South Wales. Different as the specimens of the var. 8. (the Petroselinwm pros- tratum, DC.) appear to be from the var. a. (which represents in the southern hemisphere the Celery of Northern Europe), Dr. Hooker states that he has seen the two growing from the same stem, in Tas- mania. Dr. Hooker speaks of its excellence both as a salad and a pot-herb in the Antarctic regions. Our naturalists do not refer to its qualities or use. The fruiting specimens all have very thick ribs to the fruit, which is larger than in A. graveolens. No other positive distinction has been noted. 2. APIUM GRAVEOLENS, Linn. Has. Rio Janeiro, Brazil; among rocks on the shore. Doubtless escaped from cultivation. 156. PETROSELINUM, Aofin. 1. PETROSELINUM PEREGRINUM, Lag. Petroselinum peregrinum, Lag.; Koch, Umb. p. 128; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 102. Has. Madeira; on rocks at Corral. 16. HELOSCIADIUM, Koch, 1. HELoscraDIUM LEPTOPHYLLUM, DC. Has. Brazil, near Rio Janeiro. Peru, around Obrajillo. New South Wales, near Sydney and Hunter’s River; where probably it is not indigenous. 708 PHANEROGAMIA. 2. HELOSCIADIUM LACINIATUM, DC. Has. Andes of Peru, above Obrajillo. Depauperate specimens, too near the preceding species; but the cauline leaves are all long-petioled, and the lobes less slender. 3. HELOSCIADIUM RANUNCULIFOLIUM, DC. Helosciadium ranunculifolium, DO. Prodr. 4, p. 105? Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Mise. 3, p. 854. A. lateriflorum, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 26, non Koch. Has. Chili: in high ravines, above Valparaiso. 17. AMMI, Tourn. 1. Ammi masus, Linn. Has. Madeira; on the coast east of Funchal. 2. Amoi Visnaca, Lam. Has. Around Valparaiso, Chili. Doubtless introduced from Europe. 18. BUPLEURUM, Journ. 1. BupLevrum sauictrouium, Solander. Haz, Madeira; on the coast, near Funchal. UMBELLIFERA. 709 19. LICHTENSTEINIA, Cham. & Schlecht. 1. LICHTENSTEINIA LACERA, Cham. & Schlecht. Lichtensteinia lacera, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnea, 1, p. 894; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 135. Has. Cape of Good Hope, in the vicinity of Cape Town. 2. LICHTENSTEINIA PYRETHRIFOLIA, Cham. & Schlecht. 1. c.? Has. Cape of Good Hope, near Cape Town. (In fruit.) 20. FG@NICULUM, Adans. 1. F@NICULUM VULGARE, Geertn. Has. Madeira; on the coast, near Funchal. (Fennel.) 21. LIGUSTICUM, Linn. 1. Ligusticum Pansin, Bert. in DC. Has. Chili, near Valparaiso. (With immature fruit.) 22, ANISOTOME, Hook.f 1. ANISOTOME LATIFOLIA, Hook. /f. Anisotome latifolia, Hook. f. Fl. Antarc. p. 16, t. 8. 178 710 PHANEROGAMITA. Has. Lord Auckland Islands. This most striking and characteristic Umbelliferous plant (of which only the foliage occurs in our collection) is admirably illustrated by Dr. Hooker. 2. ANISOTOME ROSHFOLIA, Hook. Anisotome (Eustylis) rosefolia, Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 90. Angelica ? rosefolia, Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 581. Has. New Zealand; at Waia-ruru Bay. (As a genus, the name of Eustylis is preoccupied in Iridec.) 23. CRITHMUM, Zourn. 1, CritHMUM MARITIMUM, Linn. Has. Madeira; on the coast, near San Vicente. 24. PEUCEDANUM, Linn. 1. PEUCEDANUM CAPILLACEUM, Thunb. Peucedanum capillaceum, Thunb. FI. Cap. p. 257; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 178. Haz. Cape of Good Hope, near Cape Town. (With immature fruit.) 25. BUBON, Linn. 1. Buson Gatpanum, Linn. Has. Cape of Good Hope, in the immediate vicinity of Cape Town. UMBELLIFERAE. 711 26. DAUCUS, Tourn. 1. Daucus Carota, Linn. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. (Probably strayed from culti- vation, and not naturalized. It is not mentioned by Dr. Hooker.) 2. Daucus pusiLius, Micha. Daucus pusillus, Michx. Fl. Bor.-Am. 1, p. 164; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Amer. 1, p- 636. Has. Rio Negro, North Patagonia; on sand-hills. Hawaii, Sand- wich Islands; on the bullock plains of Mouna Kea, and in the district of Waimea: probably introduced with cattle. The specimens are all of the large and scabrous-hirsute form which occurs in California (the var. scaber, Torr. & Gray, l.c.); the stout stems a foot or two in height, the many-rayed and dense umber scarcely exceeding the involucre. It belongs to the section Carota, and is surely distinct from the following. 3. Daucus BRACHIATUS, Sieber. Daucus brachiatus, Sieber, Pl. Exsic. N. Holl. no. 115; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 214; Benth. Pl. Hugel. p. 56; Bunge, in Pl. Preiss. 1, p. 295; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 91. D. montanus, Willd. in Schult. Syst. Veg. 6, p. 482. D. australis, Pepp.; DC. 1. ¢. D. Montevidensis & D. toriloides, DC. 1. ¢. Scandix glochidiata, Labill. Pl. N. Holl. 1, p. 75, t. 102. Has. Peru, around Obrajillo. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. Sydney and Hunter's River, New South Wales. With Bentham and Bunge, I cannot distinguish the Australian from the South American plant. The latter extends north to Mexico. 112 PHANEROGAMIA. 27. TORILIS, Adans. 1. ToriLis Noposa, Geertn. Has. Island of St. Helena. Doubtless introduced from Europe. 283. OREOMYRRHIS, Endl. 1. OREOMYRRHIS ANDICOLA, Endl. Oreomyrrhis andicola, Endl.; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 288, t. 101. Jaldasia andicola, Lagasca, in DC. Mem. Umb. t. 2, & Prodr. 4, p. 229. CU. cherophylloides, Lag. Ameen. Nat. p.99. (C. chwrophyllea, Lag. in DC. 1. ¢.) Myrrhis andicola, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Spec. 5, p. 18, t. 419. Azorella daucoides, D’Urv. in Mem. Soe. Linn. Par. 4, p. 613; DC. 1. c. p. 77. Has. High Andes of Peru; at Casa Cancha and Culnai. The specimen belongs to a pubescent form of the species, like that of Mr. M’Lean gathered in the same region, and has the leaflets of the involucel entire, as in Humboldt’s and Dr. Hooker's plants. Similar specimens in other collections, however, have the leaflets of the involucre incised or sparingly lobed, and therefore doubtless belong to Caldasia cherophylloides of Lagasca, which cannot be specifically distinct. The fruit in all is ovate-oblong or nearly ovate. 2. OREOMYRRHIS LASIOPETALA. O. undique canescenti-pubescens ; involucellorum foliolis multifidis flores superantibus; petalis extus pubescenti-hirsutis; fructibus oblongis cinereo-tomentosis pedicello longioribus. Caldusia lasiopetala, Lagasea, in DC. Prodr. 4, p. 229. Has, Andes of Peru, at Bajios. UMBELLIFERA. 713 This resembles the preceding species, and may possibly pass into it: but it is more cinereous or canescently pubescent throughout; the leaflets of the involucel are dissected, either pinnately parted or pal- mately trisected, with the segments pinnatifid and incised, exceeding the rays when in flower, although not equalling the mature, oblong, cinereous-tomentose fruit. The latter is 24 or almost 3 lines long, and commonly twice as long as the pedicels. The flowering stems or peduncles are thick and fistulous at the base. Petals hirsute-pubescent externally. 29. OSMORHIZA, Raf 1. OsmoruizA Curtensis, Hook. & Arn. Osmorhiza Chilensis, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 26, & Bot. Mise. 3, p. 855; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 288. O. Berterti, DO. Prodr. 4, p. 232; Gay, FI. Chil. 3, p. 143. Cherophyllum Chilense, Poir. Dict. 5, p. 105. Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia. (Much resembling the 0. brevi- stylis of North America, except that it has neither involucre nor involucel.) 30. HERMAS, Linn. 1. Hermas vittosa, Thunb. Has. Cape of Good Hope, in the vicinity of Cape Town. There is an Umbelliferous plant of large size, apparently resembling an Angelica or Pustinaca, growing on the mountains of Kauai, one of the Sandwich Islands. Only a leaf (pinnate, with 7 large ovate | leaflets) and the inflorescence of the preceding year, from which all, the fruit has fallen, were collected. The carpophore is 4 lines long. 179 Orv ARALIACE &. 1. CUSSONIA, Thunb. 1. CUSSONIA THYRSIFLORA, Thunb. Cussonia thyrsiflora, Thunb. in Act. Nov. Ups. 8, p. 212, t. 12; Jacq. Eclog. t. 61. Has. Cape of Good Hope, in the vicinity of Cape Town. 2 STILBOCARPA, Hook.f 1. SrmtpocaRPa POLARIS, Hook. f. Aralia polaris, Hombr. & Jacquinot, Bot. Phaner. Voy. Pol. Sud. t. 2, sine descr. ; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 95, & in Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 747. Stillocarpa polaris, Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 95, sub Aralia. Has. Lord Auckland Islands; collected by Dr. Holmes. (Foliage only.) Dr. Hooker, who has admirably described this most striking Ant- arctic plant, recognises it as “certainly of a different genus from Aralia proper,” but hesitates fully to separate it before the order shall have undergone the revision which it so greatly needs. He doubts whether the petals are really valvate in xstivation,—a doubt which may be readily solved, since in specimens with flower-buds, collected and kindly furnished by himself, they are seen to be decidedly imbri- cated. This character, added to the acetabuliform fruit, and the Styles fewer than the petals, must surely exclude the plant from Aralia, however that genus be limited. ARALIACES. 715 8. ARA LIA, Zinn. The genuine Aralie (from which Dimorphanthus, Miquel, does not differ) are all more or less monceciously polygamous; the sterile flowers having the pistil imperfect, and their abortive short styles united. The styles of the fertile flowers are also united at the base in A. racemosa, Linn., of which A. edulis, Sieb. & Zuce., the Dimor- phanthus edulis of Miquel, is a strict congener; as D. elatus, Miquel, seems to be of Aralia spinosa. The A. racemosa has traces of stipules, or stipular appendages, at the base of the petiole, which are not found in the other North American species. § 1. SCHABFFLERA, Forst.—Arborescens ; foliis manifeste stipulatis diyitatis ; umbel- lulis composito-racemosis ; stylis 5-10. 1. ARALIA SCHAFFLERA, Spreng. Aralia Schefflera, Spreng. Pug. Pl. 1, p. 28; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 258; A. Rich. Fl. N. Zel. p. 283; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 95, t. 22. Schefilera digitata, Forst. Char. Gen. t. 23; Lam. Ill. Gen. t. 221. Has. New Zealand; abundant at the Bay of Islands. The styles appear to me to be perfectly distinct (although slightly elevated on a broad stylopodium), and so, indeed, they are repre- sented in Dr. Hooker’s excellent figure-—To Schefflera probably belongs Aralia Quinduense, H. B. K., having stipules, which furnish its leading character, but do not exist in Aralia proper, except as mere vestiges in one or two species. As to the styles, they are reduced to five in the following truly allied species. 2. Arata Vittensis, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 89.) A. arborescens, inermis, glabra; foliis stipulatis longe petiolatis digitats ; foliolis 7-9 longe petiolulatis cuneato-oblongis subito acuminatis sub- 716 PHANEROGAMIA. serratis, lateralibus parvis; umbellis confertis pedunculatis in race- mum compositum magnum paniculeformem digestis; stylis pyre- nisque 5. Has. Ovolau, Feejee Islands; at the elevation of 1,000 feet above the sea. A small tree, “20 feet high,” wnarmed, glabrous, or the nascent parts cinereous-pubescent. Leaves alternate, digitately 7—-9-foliolate. Petioles 4 inches or more in length; the base slightly connected with a pair of pretty large, oblong-triangular, acute, clasping, membra- naceous stipules. Leaflets cuneate-oblong, or cuneate-obovate, some- times inclining to elliptical, abruptly acuminate, obscurely serrate, membranaceous, 3 or 4 inches long and on partial petioles of about an inch long, or the lateral ones much smaller. Inflorescence axillary, compound-racemose ; the 8—10-flowered wmbels (on peduncles of 3 or 4 lines long) crowded on the whole length of the elongated primary divisions, forming a large and extremely many-flowered spreading panicle. Bracts small, deciduous. Ultimate pedicels a line and a half long. Only the fruit is known; which is a /five-celled drupe, strongly five-angled when dry, only a line and a half in diameter, marked near the summit by the truncate edge of the calyx, crowned with 5 short and wholly distinct divergent styles (their stigmas ter- minal): pyrenze coriaceous. Seed suspended. Embryo small, next the hilum. Puate 89.—ARaALIA (Sco@rrtera) VITIENSIS : branch, in fruit, of the natural size. Fig. 1. A fruit, enlarged. 2. A transverse, and 3, a vertical section of the same. 4. PANAX, Linn. 1. Panax Fruticosum, Linn. Has. Philippine Islands; near Baiios, Luzon. Also Samoan and Feejee Islands: introduced, and planted around houses. (Foliage only.) ARALIACE S. "17 2. PANAX SAMBUCIFOLIUM, Sieber. Panazx sambucifolium, Sieber, Pl. Exsic. N. Holl. 2, no. 256; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 255. Has. New South Wales; probably gathered in the neighbourhood of Sydney. 3. Panax SAMOENSE, Sp. Nov. P. fruticosum, inerme, glabrum ; foliis simpliciter imparipinnatis ; folio- lis 11-195 ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis basi rotundatis vel subcordatis membranaceis integerrimis ; umbellis bis terve compositis corymbosis ; stylis 2; fructibus plano-compressis. Has. Samoan or Navigators’ Islands; on Savaii and Tutuila. This is said to form a shrub, from 6 to 12 feet in height, and is glabrous and unarmed. The alternate leaves are apparently all semply pinnate; the stout petiole and rhachis a foot or two in length. Leaflets 11 to 15, ovate-lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, entire, rounded or obscurely cordate at the base, 5 to 8 inches long, on foot- stalks of half an inch long, membranaceous, sparingly feather-veined. Inflorescence terminal, ample, corymbosely umbellate-compound, or decompound; the ultimate umbelets 10-20-flowered; the pedicels filiform. Flowers dicecious; the male flowers destitute of styles. Fertile flowers with 2 short styles. Fruit flat, apparently even when ripe, 4 lines in diameter, orbicular, slightly emarginate at both ends, perhaps nearly dry. 4, PANAX ARBOREUM, Jorst. Panax arboreum, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 75; A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. in Aun. Nat. Hist. 2, p. 213; Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2,p. 421, t. 11; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 94. Has. New Zealand; at the Bay of Islands. 180 718 PHANEROGAMIA. 5. PANAX SIMPLEX, Forst. Panax simplex, Forst. 1.¢.; A. Rich. Fl. N. Zel. p. 280, t. 31; Hook. f. l.c. & FI. Antare. p. 19, t. 12. Has. Lord Auckland Islands. Some of the leaves are strictly opposite, especially the last of each years growth.—This and the foregoing species are perhaps to be associated with the following, which, for the present, I have referred to Hedera. 5. HEDERA, Tourn., Linn. To Hedera rather than to Aralia, as the genera are at present cha- racterized, I should refer the following, along with some other species with more or less united short styles, which surely are not real con- geners of the original, North American Aralie. The Hawaiian species, varying as they do from di-trigynous to pentagynous, unless excluded, would wholly confound the already arbitrary limits between Aralia and Panazx. * Novo-Zelandice (foliis raro oppositis). 1. HEDERA CRASSIFOLIA. Aralia crassifolia, Banks & Soland.; A. Gunn. Bot. N. Zeal. in Ann. Nat. Hist. 2, p. 214; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 588, 584; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p- 96. Xylophylla longifolia, Banks & Soland. Mss. & Ic. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. A small tree, with extremely polymorphous, simple or trifoliolate, rigid foliage. The united styles are well represented in Sir William Hooker’s figure. ARALIACES. 719 2. HrEpERA LESSont. Panax? Lessoni, DC. Prodr. 4, p. 253. Cussonia Tessonii, A. Rich. Fl. N. Zel. p. 285, t. 32; A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. 1. e. Aralia Lessoni, Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 96. Has. Tippona, New Zealand. The short styles are united nearly or quite to the summit; the five stigmas at length radiate-spreading. * x Sandwicenses (foliis plerisque oppositis). 3. HeperA Gaupicuaupr. (Tab. 90.) H. arborescens; foluis plerisque oppositis quinquefoliolatis passim tri- Joliolatis longe petiolulatis ovalibus sew ellipticis cartilagineo-serratis serrulatisve ; umbellulis in paniculam thyrsiformem confertis ; stigma- tibus pyrenisque 3-5, Aralia trigyna, Gaud. Bot. Freyc. Voy. p. 474, t. 98. Panax? Gaudichaudi, DC. Prodr. 4, p. 253; Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 84, Var. @. foliolis sepius 3 subovatis vix denticulatis seu integerrims, Panax? ovatum, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 84. Has. Sandwich Islands: Hawaii; in forests, at the base of Mouna Loa and Mouna Kea: Oahu; on the Kaala Mountains. (First col- lected by Menzies.) Var. 3. Oahu, and the western part of Maui. An arborescent or shrubby species, glabrous, unarmed, branched. Leaves opposite in all the specimens, exstipulate, digitate. Leaflets 5, or occasionally 3, oval or elliptical, obtuse or rounded at both ends, 2 to 32 lines long, chartaceous or coriaceous, not thickened, rather sparsely serrate or serrulate with incurved cartilagineous teeth, thickly feather-veined, reticulated, the lateral ones smaller, all on partial 720 PHANEROGAMIA. footstalks of 6 to 15 lines long. Common petiole 2 or 3 inches long. Peduncle terminal, short; bearing an inflorescence shorter than the leaves, consisting of a large number of small and short-peduncled, several-flowered umbels, crowded in a thyrsoid panicle. Bracts and bractlets caducous. Pedicels about a line and a half long, dilated into a 3—5-angled or toothed small calyculus at the articulation with the flower. Flower-buds 2 lines long, glabrous: the flowers poly- gamous, or mostly hermaphrodite. Calyx with an obpyramidal three-angled or occasionally 4—5-angled tube; the limb truncate, very short, repand. Petals 5, ovate-triangular, valvate in estivation, expanding in anthesis, early deciduous. Stamens 5, not longer than the petals: anthers two-celled, incumbent. Ovary three-celled or four-celled by abortion (the cells more or less unsymmetrical), rarely two-celled, more commonly five-celled, with a solitary anatropous ovule suspended from the summit of each cell. Style in the sterile flowers abortive, in the hermaphrodite flowers none, besides the short and conical stylopodium, bearing 3, 4, or often 5 (sometimes 2?) oblong, at first connivent, in fruit divergent, introrse stigmas. Drupe as large as a small pea, fleshy, 3—5-angled in the dried state, contain- ing, 3, 4, or 5 pyrene, of a coriaceous texture. Albumen corneous- fleshy. Hmbryo minute, next the hilum, cordate. The var. @., which is undoubtedly the Punax? ovatum of Hooker and Arnott (who had seen only foliage), is evidently a state of the species with only three leaflets, which are usually subovate and barely denticulate or entire. Piate 90.—HEDERA GAUDICHAUDI: var. a., in flower, and var. @., in fruit, of the natural size. Fig. 1. An unexpanded flower, with its calyculus and pedicel. 2. Vertical section of an expanded flower. 3. Flower (the petals and stamens fallen), with 3 stigmas. 4. Transverse section of the same. 5. Transverse section of a nearly symmetrically three-celled ovary. 6. A drupe. 7. Transverse sec- tion of the same. 8. A pyrena. 9. Vertical section of the same, showing the minute embryo. 10. Embryo, detached—The details variously magnified. 4, HEDERA PLATYPHYLLA. (Tab. 91.) f. fruticosa ; foliis plerisque oppositis trifoliolatis longissime petiolulatis ARALIACE SR. 721 transversim rhomboideo-dilatatis latioribus quam longis subito acumi- natis miegerrimis, margine incrassuto; umbellulis laxe cymoso-panicu- latis; stigmatibus cum ovarii loculis 22-5. Panax? platyphyllum, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 84. Has. Oahu; on the mountains behind Honolulu, at the elevation of 2,000 feet. (Also gathered by Gaudichaud, in the Voyage of the Bonite.) A shrub, glabrous throughout, unarmed. Leaves opposite in all the specimens, on slender petioles of 3 or 4 inches in length, exstipulate, digitately ¢trifoliolate. Leaflets transversely dilated, somewhat rhom- boidal, from an inch to 2 inches long, but 14 to nearly 3 inches wide, abruptly acwminate or apiculate, rarely emarginate or retuse, entire, the margin thickened, chartaceous or slightly coriaceous in texture, somewhat lucid, of the same hue both sides, copiously feather-veined ; the veins slender, parallel and straight, connected by minute reticu- lated veinlets: the partial footstalks very long, about 2 inches in length. Umbels few-flowered, in a simple or trichotomous and loose cymose panicle, which is shorter than the leaves. Pedicels one or 2 lines long, bearing a small calyculus at the articulation with the flower. Flowers nearly 3 lines long; those of the specimens herma- phrodite. Calyx-tube obconical; the short limb repand-truncate, denticulate. Petals 5, triangular-ovate, valvate in sestivation, a line and a half long, expanding in anthesis, early deciduous. Stamens 6, as in the preceding species. Ovary jive-celled, or sometimes four- celled, in our specimens. Styles none. Stigmas sessile on a short stylopodium, 2, according to Hooker & Arnott, but in our specimens always 4 or 5. Ovule with the rhaphe internal, as in the family. Fruit not seen. * Prats 91.—Hepera PLATYPHYLLA: a branch, in flower, of the natural size. Fig. 1. An unexpanded flower, with its small calyculus. 2. A vertical section of an opening flower. 3, 4. Stamens. 5. An ovule. 6. Transverse section of a four-celled ovary. 7. Similar transverse section of a five-celled ovary.—The details variously mag- nified. 181 722 PHANEROGAMIA. 6. PARATROPIA, Blume, DC. 1. PARATROPIA SAMOENSIS, Sp. Novy. P. arborescens? foliis longe petiolatis digitatis; foliolis 5-T membra- naceis oblongis seu cuneato-oblongis utringue acuminatis argute mucro- nato-serrulatis glabris, lateralibus parvis; panicula composita ; umbel- lulis racemosis paucifloris; staminibus 9d. Has. Upolu, one of the Samoan or Navigators’ Islands. The imperfect flowering specimen belongs apparently to an unarmed and arborescent plant. Leaves alternate, digitately 5—T-foliolate. Sti- pules none. tioles elongated, 6 to 9 inches long, somewhat pubes- cent when young. Leaflets oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or cuneate- oblong, acuminate at both ends, on short partial footstalks, sharply and mucronately serrulate with appressed teeth, very thin and membra- naceous, glabrous, except a few hairs on the midrib and veins when young, the middle ones 5 or 6 inches long, the lateral ones succes- sively smaller. fanicle compound, termimal, shorter than the leaves, somewhat pubescent. Flowers minute; the flower-buds scarcely half a line in diameter, 5 to 8 together in small wimbels, which are racemose on the branches of the inflorescence. Calyx truncate. Petals 5, apparently expanding in anthesis. Stamens 5. Stigmas 4 or 5, very short, scarcely emerging from the centre of the convex or conical disk. Fruit unknown. 2. PARATROPIA? MULTIJUGA, Sp. Nov. P. arborea? glabra; foliis impari-pinnatis multijugis, rhachi nodosa bipedal et ultra; foliolis elliptico-oblongis integerrimis breviter petio- lulatis bast subcordatis sinu clauso; racemo composito longissimo ; umbeltulis paucifloris ; staminibus 5. Has. Feejee Islands; at Sandalwood-Bay, Vanua levu. ARALIACEZ. 723 The specimen consists of a detached leaf and a compound raceme (with the flower-buds not full-grown) of an apparently arborescent plant, which is doubtless a congener of Paratropia nodosa, DC., but is at once distinguished by the entire leaflets. The leaves are glabrous, very large, the terete nodose rhachis 2 feet long or more, and the petiole 6 or 8 inches long, pinnate. Leaflets elliptical-oblong, 9 pairs with an edd one, slightly coriaceous, about 6 inches long, green both sides, entire, short-petiolulate, the base slightly cordate, with the sinus closed. Inflorescence as long as the leaf, compound-racemose, the primary divisions bracteate, bearing a large number of small and few- flowered umbels on short and bracteate peduncles. Flowers minute, pentandrous. Stigmas sessile. There is in the collection some indeterminable digitate foliage of what is probably an undescribed Paratropia, from Ovolau, Feejee Islands, and of another from Luzon. 7. REYNOLDSIA, Nov. Gen. Flores polygami. Calyx basi nudus; tubo cum ovario connato; limbo brevissimo integerrimo vel subrepando. FPetala 8-10, epigyna, val- vata, apice in calyptre formam coalita, sub anthesi dejecta. Stamina 8-10, cum petalis inserta, iisdem alterna: filamenta brevia: anthere lineares. Ovarium inferum, 8-18-loculare: stylus nullus vel sub- nullus: stigma indivisum, 8-18-radiatum. Ovula in loculis solitaria, suspensa, anatropa. Drupa baccata, globosa, 8-18-pyrena ; pyrenis cartilagineis. Embryo in apice albuminis dense carnosi minutus ; radicula supera cylindrica —Arbores insularum Pacifici, glabre, inermes, exstipulate; foliis simpliciter pinnatis scepissime triyugis cum impari, foliolis subdentatis ; umbellis racemisve compositis paniculatis laxifloris. Whether certain species referred by Blume and DeCandolle to Sciodaphyllum, on account of their calyptraeform corolla, really belong to the present genus, I have not the means to determine. But the perfectly consolidated stigmas, the larger number of pyrenx, the lax and open inflorescence, and the pinnate leaves, taken together forbid 724 PHANEROGAMIA. the combination of the two species here described with the American Sciodaphylla. From Brassaia, Endl., they are excluded by the want of an involucel at the base of the calyx, and by the wholly inferior ovary, as well as by the pinnate and exstipulate leaves——I dedicate the genus to J. N. Reynolds, Esq., who merits this commemoration for the unflagging zeal with which he urged upon our Government the project of the South Sea Exploring Expedition, and also for having made, under trying circumstances, an interesting collection of dried plants in Southern Chili, many years ago. 1. Reynotpsta SANDWIcENSIS, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 92.) fi. foliolis subcordatis; corolla clausa oblonga; stigmate 8-10-radiato ; drupa 8—10-pyrena. Has. Sandwich Islands: in a ravine near Waianae, Oahu. “Tree 30 feet high,” glabrous, or the nascent parts slightly pubes- cent. Stipules none. Leaves alternate, simply pinnate, mostly of 7 leaflets. Petiole slender, angled, dilated at the insertion. Leaflets subcordate, broadly ovate, or somewhat deltoid, either obtuse, acutish, or somewhat acuminate, sparingly toothed especially towards the base, thin, pinnately veined, 14 to 2 inches long; the partial foot- stalks 6 or 9 lines in length. Inflorescence terminal or lateral, form- ing an open compound or decompound panicle; the pedicels (3 to 5 lines long) racemose along its divisions, as well as umbellate at their extremity. Bracts minute, caducous. Sterile and fertile flowers intermixed in the same inflorescence, and apparently similar, except that the stigma is imperfect or nearly obliterated in the sterile flowers. Calyx naked (not involucellate at the base); the tube tur- binate or obconical, wholly adnate to the ovary; the limb very short, truncate and entire, or slightly undulate. Corolla in the bud oblong, or cylindraceous, epigynous, 3 lines in length, somewhat angular, composed of usually 10 linear petals, which are valvate in estivation, and with their inflexed tips more strongly coalescent, separating from the insertion in anthesis, and falling away together as a calyptra. Stamens as many as the petals and alternate with them, epigynous, deciduous: filaments subulate, short: anthers linear, longer than the "ARALIACEAR - 725 filaments, fixed near the middle, incumbent, two-celled; the cells opening longitudinally. Style none. Stylopodium in the sterile flowers small or obsolete; in the fertile conical, and terminated by the undivided, depressed, somewhat 8-10-rayed stigma. Ovary 8-10- celled, wholly inferior, in the sterile flowers more or less inane; the fertile with a solitary anatropous ovule suspended from the summit of each cell; the rhaphe ventral. Fruit a globose drupe, of 8 or 10 pyrene in a pulpy sarcocarp, 3 or 4 lines in diameter, tipped with the conical stylopodium and persistent stigma. Pyrene compressed, smooth, of a firm or cartilagineous texture, filled by the seed. Testa very thin. Hmbryo minute at the apex of the dense fleshy albumen: radicle superior, cylindrical, twice the length of the oval thickened cotyledons.—The leaves in the specimen collected are all young and evidently developed at the same time as the flowers: they probably enlarge and acquire a firmer texture. PLATE 92.—REYNOLDSIA SANDWICENSIS: a branch, of the natural size. Fig. 1. An unexpanded flower. 2. Same, with the corolla detached, taking with it the stamens. 3. Vertical section of an unexpanded flower. 4,5. Stamens. 6. Ovule. 7. Transverse sec- tion of a ten-celled ovary. 8. A mature drupe. 9. Transverse sec- tion of the same. 10. Vertical section of a drupe, showing the embryo in one seed. 11. Embryo, detached.—The details variously magnified. 2. REYNOLDSIA PLEIOSPERMA, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 93.) R. foliolis ovatis seu lanceolato-oblongis; corolla clausa conica vel ovoidea; stigmate 15-18-radiato; drupa 15-18-pyrena. Has. Forests in the interior of Savaii, one of the Samoan or Navi- gators’ Islands. Our materials consist of two imperfect specimens, here associated ; but they may hereafter prove to be distinct: one, with broadly ovate leaflets and portions of a compound umbel with flower-buds, which are apparently all sterile; the other, with oblong or lanceolate-oblong leaflets, and with mature fruit only. The size of the tree or shrub 182 726 PHANEROGAMIA. not ascertained. Leaflets 7, or sometimes 5, glabrous, as is the whole plant, 2 to 4 or 5 inches long, rounded or oblique at the base, taper- ing to an acute or acuminate apex, usually beset with 3 or 4 salient and callous or glandular-tipped teeth on each margin; the partial footstalks 2 to 5 lines long. Stipules none. Flowers apparently sub- dicecious, in compound and panicled umbels, which in the fertile plant, at least, are racemose-proliferous. Pedicels of the sterile flowers 8 or 9 lines long; of the fruit 3 to 5 lines long. Calyx naked at the base, with a short and truncate, obscurely repand - border. Corolla in the bud conical or ovoid, 2 lines long, falling off without expanding; the 8 or 10 valvate petals cohering with each other, especially at the inflexed tips. Stamens 8 to 10, as in the fore- going species, except that the anthers are only linear-oblong. Cells of the sterile ovary numerous, empty: sterile stigma obscurely many- rayed, crowning the very short stylopodium. Fertile flowers not seen. Fruit a wholly inferior, depressed-globose, baccate drupe, of the size of a pea, abruptly pointed by a very short style or narrow stylo- podium, which bears a depressed, and 15-18-radiate stigma ; the cartila- gineous and smooth pyrene 15 to 18, or sometimes perhaps even 20 in number. Seed suspended. Embryo minute, at the apex of the hard fleshy albumen: radicle superior. PLATE 93.—REYNOLDSIA PLEIOSPERMA: foliage, portion of inflores- cence, unexpanded sterile flowers, and also fruit from a different speci- men, of the natural size. Fig. 1. A flower-bud, the corolla detached as a calyptra, taking with it the stamens. 2. A separate petal, inside view. 3,4. Stamens. 5. Vertical section of a sterile pistil. 6. A drupe. 7. Transverse section of the same. 8. A drupe, verti- cally divided.—The details variously magnified. 8. GASTONTA, Commers. 1. GastonrA? Oanvensis, Sp. Nov. G.? folus pinnato-5-9-foliolatis; foliolis carnosis oblongis seu ovalibus obtusis integerrimis ; umbellis compositis cymosis ; petalis 53 stamt- nibus 10; ovario sterili quadri-quinqueloculari. ARALIACES 7927 Has. Oahu, Sandwich Islands; on the mountains behind Honolulu, at the elevation of 2,000 feet. The collection contains only a single specimen of this evidently arborescent plant, with staminate but sterile flowers only. Until additional materials are obtained, it may be provisionally appended to Gastonia, merely because it accords with the Mauritian species in having twice as many stamens as petals, and also pinnate leayes.— Branches stout, marked with very large leaf-scars. Leaves pinnately 5—9-foliolate, glabrous, as is the whole plant. Stipules none. Leaflets . fleshy and thick, 2 to 34 inches long, oblong or oval, inclining to obo- vate, obtuse, closely but inconspicuously feather-veined, mostly acute at the base, on a short partial footstalk. Umbels compound, cymose, crowded at the summit of a compressed-angled common peduncle. Bracts, if any, caducous. Calyx-tube (of the sterile flowers) clavate, 4—5-angled; the limb very short, truncate, repand. Petals 5, trian- gular-lanceolate, valvate in eestivation, expanding in anthesis, but caducous. Stamens 10: filaments subulate, short: anthers two- celled, oblong, opening longitudinally. « Sterile ovary 4—5-celled, inane, crowned with a very short stylopodium and an abortive entire stigma. Fertile flowers and fruit not seen. The collection of M. Gaudichaud, made at Oahu in the Voyage of the Bonite, contains some pinnately compound foliage of another Araliaceous tree, probably a congener of the above, but hardly of the same species. 9. TETRAPLASANDRA, Nov. Gen. Flores polygami? Calyx tubo hemispheerico cum ovarto connato ; limbo brevissimo truncato vie denticulato. Petala 7-8, epigyna, valvata, leviter calyptratim cohcerentia, caduca. Stamina cum petalis unserta, jisdem numero quadrupla, nempe 28 v. 32, uniseriata: Jilamenta brevia: antherce oblonge, subsagittate. Ovariwm T-10-loculare: stylus nullus: stigma indivisum, obsolete T-10-radiatum, stylopodio brevi conico impositum. Ovula in loculis solitaria, suspensa, ana- tropa. Drupa baccata, 8-10-pyrena; pyrenis coriacers. (Embryo 728 PHANEROGAMIA. haud visus.)—Arbor procera, inermis; foliis exstipulatis pinnatis \-7-foliolatis subtus incanis ; uwmbellis decompositis paniculatis. 1, TurrarLasanpra Hawatensis, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 94.) Has. Hawaii, Sandwich Islands; in the district of Puna. “A fine tree, 30 or 40 feet high, with the trunk a foot in diameter,” ‘unarmed. Branchlets, with the leaf-stalks, inflorescence, and the exterior of the flowers canescent with a close and soft tomentum, glabrate with age. Leaves alternate, destitute of stipules, large (the stout petiole with the rhachis a foot or two in length), pinnately 5-7- foliolate. Leaflets oblong or elliptical, from 4 to 7 inches long, and 2 inches or more in width, obtuse at both ends or acute at the base, entire, coriaceous, glabrous above, densely canescent-tomentose under- neath, pinnately veined from a stout and salient midrib, petiolulate. Peduncle terminal, stout, bearing an ample and open panicle of com- pound or decompound umbels. Bracts caducous. Peduncles and pedicels articulated; the latter about an inch long. Flowers probably polygamous, large for this order; the buds nearly half an inch long and 4 or 5 lines in diameter. Calyx naked at the base (not involu- cellate); the tube hemispherical, adnate; the truncate limb very short, entire, or obscurely repand, persistent. Corolla epigynous, ovoid- hemispherical in the bud, 3 or 4 lines long, of 7 or 8 triangular- oblong valvate petals, lightly cohering, especially by their inflexed tips, sometimes apparently separating, but usually caducous in the form of a calyptra. Stamens 28 or 32, four times as many as the petals, and inserted with them, in a single series, on the margin of the epigynous disk : filaments short, filiform, about the length of the anthers, which are sagittate-oblong, fixed by the middle, incumbent, two-celled; the cells opening longitudinally. Ovary 7-10-celled; the apex crowned with a short and conical stylopodium, bearing a depressed, undivided, obscurely T-10-rayed stigma. Ovules solitary and suspended from the summit of each cell, anatropous. Fruit a globular baccate drupe, 5 lines in diameter, containing 7 to 10 compressed and coriaceous pyrene, Seed suspended. Albumen fleshy. Embryo not seen. This remarkable plant differs from all other known Araliacee by ARALIACESA. 729 having four times as many stamens as petals (whence the name, com- pounded of ‘Tetpiinhdstos, four-fold, and &épa, used for stamens), excepting the succeeding genus, in which they are indefinitely numerous. PLATE 94.—TETRAPLASANDRA HAWAIENSIS: portion of inflorescence and foliage, of the natural size. Fig. 1. A flower, with the cohering petals detached. 2. The same, with the stamens also fallen away. 3. A petal, inside view. 4, 5. Stamens. 6. Vertical section of an ovary. 7. Transverse section of an ovary. 8. A drupe, of the natural size. 9. Vertical section of a drupe. 10. A pyrena, trans- versely divided.—The details (except Fig. 8) variously magnified. 10. PLERANDBRA, Nov. Gen. Flores polygamo-monoici vel dioict? Masc.— Calyx tubo turbinato cum ovario connato; limbo brevissimo post anthesin repando-undulato. Petala 42 epigyna, oblonga, cestivatione valvata, mou decidua. Sta- mina indefinita, epigyna, pluriserialia: filamenta filiformia: antheree oblonge. Ovariwm 14-15-loculare: ovula in loculits solitaria, parva, suspensa, seepius abortiva vel nulla. Stigma truncatum, obsolete multiradiatum, stylopodio conico impositum. Foem. tgnoti.—Arbor 20-pedalis, macrophylla; foliis digitatis 9-foliolatis; umbels com- positis. 1. PuerAnpra Prcxerinet, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 99.) Has. Ovolau, Feejee Islands; at the elevation of 1,500 feet. A small tree, 15 or 20 feet high, according to Dr. Pickering’s notes, “with very large leaves as well as compound umbels,” unarmed? glabrous. Leaves digitate, the stout and fistulous petioles 2 feet or more in length. Leaflets 9, oblong or oblong-obovate, entire, acute at the base, membranaceous, pinnately veined, a foot and a half long in the specimen, probably often much larger, the partial footstalks 2 or 8 inches long. Rays of the compound umbel large and stout: the ultimate umbels many-rayed, the rays an inch and a half long. 183 730 PHANEROGAMIA. Involucel apparently wanting. Male flowers large: the tube of the calyx (seen only after anthesis) turbinate, adnate to the ovary, 3 or 4 lines long; its limb very short, truncate, undivided, but repandly undulate, sometimes appearing to be 4—-5-lobed. Petals apparently 4 (perhaps 5), epigynous, 6 or 7 lines long, thickish, oblong, valvate in estwation, perhaps expanding in anthesis, but early deciduous. Sta- mens indefinite, as many as 60 or 70, distinct, inserted with the petals, occupying more than one series; the filaments filiform and apparently as long as the corolla, deciduous: anthers oblong, somewhat sagittate, two-celled, fixed near the middle, incumbent. Ovary fleshy, turbi- nate, fourteen-celled, or sometimes fifteen-celled, with complete but thin dissepiments. Ovules solitary, suspended, anatropous, small, and apparently sterile, or often wholly wanting. Stylopodium conical, large, a line and a half long, tipped with a truncate and entire, but obscurely 14-15-radiate stigma. Female flowers and fruit (the latter noted by Dr. Pickering as large) not collected. It is much to be regretted that fuller materials of this most inte- resting plant were not preserved. In the collection there is only a single compound leaf, and one ray of the compound umbel, bearing an umbellet of nearly 30 flowers, which are past anthesis, the filaments and a petal or two only remaining on some of them. The enlarging and fleshy ovary has the appearance of being fructified, but seldom contains even a sterile ovule. The scanty materials, therefore, barely suffice to show that we have in this plant a truly polyandrous Ara- hacea! To this character the name chosen for the genus alludes. Puats 95.—PLERANDRA PICKERINGI: a leaf and an ultimate ray of the compound umbel, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Vertical section of a flower. 2. A petal. 38,4. Anthers. 5. Flower, from which the petals and stamens have fallen. 6. Transverse section of the ovary. —The details enlarged. ll. BOTRYODENDRUM, nd. BorryoDENDRUM, Endl. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Norf. p- 62, & Gen. Pl. p. 795; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 97. ARALIACES. 731 1. BorryopEnpRUM TAITENSE, Guill. (Tab. 96.) B. foliis lanceolatis utrinque acutis chartaceis ad apicem ramorum con- fertis; thyrso capitulorum erecto. Botryodendrum Taitense, Guill. Zeph. Tait. p. 55, sine char. B. cerberoides & B. lancifolium, Rich, in Herb. Has. Tahiti, Society Islands; in mountain forests. The specimens consist, 1st, of a branch, with narrow, almost linear- lanceolate leaves, and a portion of inflorescence, with fruit, ticketed B. lancifolium, N. Sp., Tahiti, by Mr. Rich; and 2d, of one with larger and broader, but otherwise similar leaves, with some detached fruitful inflorescence, and male and female flowers, imperfectly pre- served, ticketed B. cerberoides, N. Sp., Samoa, by Mr. Rich. But, on referring to Dr. Pickering’s memoranda, I find evidence that both specimens were gathered at Tahiti; and they appear to be mere varieties of one and the same species. I regret that the state of the materials does not allow me properly to illustrate the genus (of which no figure has yet been published), nor to compare this species with Endlicher’s B. angustifoliwm of Norfolk Island, to which it appears nearly allied. Our plant is stated to be a shrub, from 8 to 12 feet high. The leaves are chartaceous in texture, glabrous, as is the whole plant, lanceolate, acute at both ends, entire, alternate, crowded at the summit of the branches; in the narrow-leaved form only 7 or 8 inches long and three-fourths of an inch wide, on petioles of 2 inches in length, the apex tapering to a very acute point; in the other, they are from 8 inches to a foot long (in the notes of Dr. Pickering said to be 18 inches long), 2 or 22 inches wide, inclining to elongated-elliptical, more or less acute or pointed. The flowers, as far as can be ascertained, accord with Endlicher’s character, except that the short lobes of the calyx in the female flowers are valvate in sestivation, and the divisions of the male perianth and the stamens apparently only 3. Stigmas 6 ‘to 8, linear, recurved. Drupes glo- bose, baccate, a third of an inch in diameter, capitate-clustered on the short branches of the apparently erect and thyrsoid inflorescence. Pyrenze 8, compressed, coriaceous or cartilagineous. Albumen between 732 PHANEROGAMIA., fleshy and horny. Embryo minute, next the hilum: radicle cylin- drical, longer than the cotyledons, superior. According to Dr. Hooker, the petiole is articulated with the lamina in the New Zealand species: but there is no trace of such articu- lation in this and the following species. _ PLATE 96.—BoTRYODENDRUM T'AITENSE: fruiting branches of the narrow and the broader-leaved forms, of the natural size. Fig. 1. A staminate flower. 2. A pistillate flower. 3. Vertical section of the same. 4. Transverse section of a drupe. 5, Vertical section of a drupe, and of one of the contained seeds. 6. Embryo.—The details variously enlarged. 2. BoTRYODENDRUM MACROPHYLLUM, Jtich, in Herb. (Plate 97.) B, foliis obovato-lanceolatis basi attenuatis membranaceis ad apicem ramorum confertis. Has. Samoan or Navigators’ Islands: in forests. Also, according to Dr. Pickering’s notes, at Tongatabu, Friendly Islands, where it was likewise gathered by Mr. Matthews. This is said to be “a simple shrub, from 10 to 25 feet high.” Whether it is really distinct from the preceding species cannot be satisfactorily determined from the present materials, which consist of foliage, some badly preserved fertile flowers, a detached portion of male inflorescence (which perhaps belongs to B. Tuitense), and mature fruit. The Jeaves are much larger than those of the former species, being from 2 to 23 feet in length, and 3 to 5, or towards the apex 6 inches wide, obovate-lanceolate or oblanceolate in form, rather abruptly acuminate, tapering downwards to the acute base, membra- naceous when dry, perhaps rather succulent when fresh, on petioles of 3 to 5 inches in length, crowded at the summit of the stem or branches. The capitula of fertile flowers are sessile along an appa- rently simple rhachis. Teeth or lobes of the calyx of the fertile flowers 6 or 8, irregular, or becoming so after opening, valvate in gestivation, shorter than the 8 recurved stigmas. Ovary eight-celled. ARALIACEA. 733 Ovule solitary in each cell, suspended from its summit, anatropous; the rhaphe ventral. Fruit as in B. Twitense. Pyrenz 8, lunate. Embryo not seen. PLATE 97.—BoTRYODENDRUM MACROPHYLLUM: foliage with flowers and fruit, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Vertical section of a fertile flower-bud. 2. Vertical section of a fertile flower. 3. Summit of a fertile flower after anthesis, showing the calyx (the stigmas removed). 4. The same, with the stigmas. 5. Transverse, and 6, longitudinal section of a drupe. 7. A detached pyrena.—The details variously enlarged. ARALIACEA ?—On high land, near Waianae, Oahu, some branches with nascent foliage and young flower-buds were gathered from “an Araliaceous tree, twenty feet high,” of which, for want of sufficient materials the genus cannot be made out. The following data which the specimens furnish will serve to indicate the tree to future col- lectors in the Sandwich Islands. Branchlets slender (for an Araliacea), with a wrinkled and warty bark, nodose with the scars of former petioles; the bark not pungent to the taste. Young foliage, &., glabrous. Stipules none. Leaves alternate, on slender petioles which are slightly dilated at the base. Leaves either trifoliolate or pinnately quinquefoliolate; the deve- loping leaflets ovate or obovate, petiolulate, entire or undulate, mostly less than an inch long. Male flowers somewhat umbellate or fascicled on the divisions of a small paniculate inflorescence, which arises from the base of the leafy shoot of the season: the buds half a line in diameter, short-pedicelled. Calyx four-lobed, or sometimes five-lobed. Corolla globular in the bud, the 4 or 5 petals moderately imbricated in sestivation. Stamens 4 or 5, alternate with the petals: filaments short: anthers oblong, two-celled, incumbent. Ovary abor- tive, so that the calyx appears as if inferior: a minute stylopodium occupies the place of the style or stigmas. Fertile flowers entirely unknown. 184 Orv CORNACE SZ. Il GRISELINIA, Forst. 1. GRISELINIA LUCIDA, Forst. Griselinia lucida, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 75; A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. in Aun. Nat. Hist. 3, p. 261; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 98. G. littoralis, Raoul, Fl. N. Zel. p. 22, t. 19 (forma latifolia). Scopolia lucida, Forst. Char. Gen. t. 70. Pukateria littoralis, Raoul, in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 8, 2, p. 120. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 2. COROKIA, A. Cunn. 1. CoROKIA BUDDLEOIDES, A. Cunn. Corokia buddleoides, A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. in Ann. Nat. Hist, 3, p. 249; Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 424; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 98. Has. New Zealand; at the Bay of Islands. Orv. BRUNIACEA. 1. BRUNIA, Linn. 1. Brunta NoprFtora, Linn. Has. Cape of Good Hope, in the vicinity of Cape Town. Orv. LORANTHACE A. 1 LORANTHUS, Linn. * Brasilienses. 1. Lorantuus (Psirracantuus) picHRoos, Mart. Loranthus dichroos, Mart. in Schult. Syst. Veg. 7, p. 122 j DC. Prodr. 4, p. 122. Psittacanthus dichroos, Mart. in Flora (Regensb. Bot. Zeit.) 1830, 1, p. 108; Don, Syst. Gard. & Bot. 3, p. 415. Has. Brazil; in the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro, and Organ Mountains. * Although widely separated in the sequence of orders which it is still convenient to follow, the Olacacew, Loranthacee, and Santalacec, as is now well known, are closely related, and belong to one class or alliance. 736 PHANEROGAMIA. 2. LoRANTHUS (PsITTACANTHUS) JAcQUINI, DC. Loranthus Jacquini, DC. Prodr. 4, p. 308. L. Americanus, Jacq. Stirp. Amer. p. 97, t. 67; Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnzea, 1, p. 210. Psittacanthus Jacquini, Don, 1. ¢. Has. Organ Mountains, and in the neighbourhood of Rio Janeiro, Brazil. 3. LORANTHUS (STRUTHANTHUS) MARGINATUS, Lam. Loranthus marginatus, Lam. Dict. 8, p. 596; Schult. Syst. Veg. 7, p. 187; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 289. L. (Struthanthus) citricola, Mart. 1. ¢. Has. Organ Mountains, probably not far from Rio Janeiro, Brazil. * * Chilenses. 4. LORANTHUS (STRUTHANTHUS) HETEROPHYLLUS, Ruiz & Pav. Loranthus heterophyllus, Ruiz & Pay. Fl. Per. & Chil. 8, p. 48, t. 273; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 8312; Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Misc. 3, p. 359; Gay, Fl. Chil. 3, p. 157. L. buxifolius, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnea, 1, p. 207; DO. 1. ¢. LL. Eschscholizianus, Mart. in Schult. Syst. Veg. 7, p. 117. Struthanthus Eschscholizianus, Mart. in Flora, 1. c. Has. Chili, near Valparaiso. 5. LoRANTHUS (TRISTERIX) TETRANDRUS, Ruiz & Pav. Loranthus tetrandrus, Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Per. & Chil. 8, p. 46, t. 275; DC. Prodr. 4 p. 807; Hook. & Arn. 1. ¢. Tristerix tetrandrus, Mart. in Flora, 1. c. p. 109; Don, 1. c. ) LORANTHACEGA. 737 Has. Chili; abundant from Valparaiso to the Cordilleras, near Santiago. 6. LorANtuus (TRISTERIX) APHYLLUS, Miers. Loranthus aphyllus, Miers, ex Bert.; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 307; Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Mise. 3, p. 357. ZL. Cactorum, Hook. & Arn. in Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 25. Tristerix aphyllus, Don, Syst. Gard. & Bot. 3, p. 418. Has. Near Santiago, Chili; growing on Cereus Chilensis ; according to Dr. Pickering’s notes. No specimens are found in the collection. x * * Novo-Zelandict. 7. LORANTHUS (DENDROPTHOE) TETRAPETALUS, Linn. f. Loranthus tetrapetalus, Linn. f. Suppl. p. 217; Forst. Prodr. p. 25; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 99. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. (Foliage only.) x * * * Polynesict. 8. Lorantuus (DENDROPTHOE) ForsreRranvs, Schult. Loranthus Forsterianus, Schult. Syst. Veg. 7, p. 114; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 295; Guill. Zeph. Tait. p. 54. L. Stelis, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 25, & deser. ex Ms. in Zeph. Tait. 1. ¢. Dendropthoe Forsterianus, Don, Syst. Gard. & Bot. 3, p. 419. Has. Tahiti and Eimeo, Society Islands. The specimens (in flower only) furnish nothing of importance to add to the description given by Schultes, and to that of Forster, which lias been reproduced by Guillemin. In one specimen the leaves incline to be obovate and obtuse. The flowers are frequently hexa- merous. 185 738 PHANEROGAMIA., 9. Lorantuus (DENDROPTHOE) INSULARUM, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 98.) L. glaber ; ramis teretibus; foliis oppositis petiolatis ovatis obtusis sub- quintuplinervits vix venosis ; pedunculis axillaribus brevibus racemoso- plurifloris; pedicellis trifloris; floribus (sesqui-bipollicaribus) hexa- heptameris. Has. Feejee Islands; at Vanua-levu and Rewa. Samoan Islands; on Tutuila and Savaii. Tongatabu. There are various forms in the collection; but they appear all to belong to one species, which is nearly related to LZ. Forsterianus, but distinguished by its larger and usually rounder leaves and larger flowers, either hexamerous or heptamerous. It is parasitic on Ino- carpus and other trees. Branches terete, glabrous, as is the whole plant. Leaves opposite, coriaceous, ovate, varying to roundish or to oblong, obtuse, often rounded at the apex, but sometimes narrowed, either rounded at the base, or abruptly contracted into a petiole of 3 to 6 lines in length, 2 to 32 inches long, 14 to 2 inches wide, rather dull, the midrib sending off 3 or 4 rather inconspicuous ascending veins on each side, mostly towards its base, so that the leaf appears quintuplinerved; the veinlets very obscure or wanting. Peduncles asillary, or mostly from the old wood whence the leaves have fallen, short (about half an inch long, the rhachis about the same length or longer), horizontal, terete, racemosely many-flowered; the pedicels opposite, 3 or 4 pairs with a terminal one, a line and a half long, recurved, threeflowered. Flowers hermaphrodite, pendulous, sessile on the apex of the pedicel, or the two lateral ones slightly pedicel- late; each subtended at the base of the cylindraceous ovary by a short and broad, half-clasping, ovate bractlet. Limb of the calyx half a line long, truncate, slightly repand. Corolla red, or often yellow towards the base, linear-filiform in the bud, 14 or 2 inches long, of 6 or 7 narrowly linear valvate petals, which at first are connivent or cohering into an angled tube, the limb (3 lines long) spreading in anthesis, at length separating quite to the base, and deciduous. Fila- ments 6 or 7, equal, connate to the face of the petal up to the spreading portion which constitutes the limb; the free portion about LORANTHACES?. 739 the length of the narrowly linear and mucronulate anther, which is fixed by its base. Style as long as the stamens: stigma slightly capitate, entire. Fruit not seen. PiaTe 98.—LoRANTHUS INSULARUM: from the Feejee Islands; a branch, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Pistil, with the calyx, and two petals with their stamens, enlarged. 2. An anther, more magnified. * * * * * Australasie?/. 10. Lorantuus (DENDROPTHOE) MAYTENIFOLIUS, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 99.) L. glaber ; vamis teretibus; foliis oppositis breviter petiolatis ovali-obo- vatis vel subrotundis scepius retusis opacis obsolete tripli-quintupli- nerviis; pedunculis terminalibus brevissimis 6-12-floris ; floribus bre- vissime pedicellatis penta-hexameris; calycis limbo cupulart ovario paullo breviore; antheris linearibus. Has. Woolongong, New South Wales. A. glubrous parasitic shrub, with gray terete branches. Leaves oppo- site, oval, obovate or roundish, often retuse, narrowed at the base into a petiole of about 3 lines in length, dull and opaque, obscurely tripli- nerved or quintuplinerved, the midrib also obscure, except near the base; the veins not apparent, the texture apparently fleshy-coria- ceous, 14 to 2 inches in length. Peduncles terminal, or in the upper axils, very short, not exceeding the petioles, usually dichotomous, the very short divisions 3-6-flowered. Flowers cymulose, very short-pedi- celled, or the central one of each cluster sessile, hermaphrodite. Bractlet oblong at the base of the short cylindraceous ovary. Limb of the calyx cupulate, almost as long as the ovary, entire, or obscurely repand. Corolla an inch and a half long, slender, of 5 or 6 narrow petals connate into a tube, at length separable. Anthers linear, scarcely thicker than the filament, and about the length of its free portion, 3 lines long, apiculate. Style straight. Stigma subcapitate. Pate 99.—LOoRANTHUS MAYTENIFOLIUS: a flowering branch, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Details of the flower, enlarged. 2. Anther, more enlarged. 740 PHANEROGAMIA. 11. Loranraus (Psirracantaus ?) CELASTROIDES, Sieber. (Tab. 100.) L. glaber ; ramis teretibus ; foliis oppositis obovato-oblongis seu ellipticis basi attenuatis breviter petiolatis obtusissimis fere aveniis ; pedunculis axillaribus vel ramulos breves bifoliatos desinentibus brevibus cymult- Joris; floribus breviter pedicellatis pentameris unibracteolatis ; antheris ovali-oblongis dorso-fixis versatilibus. Loranthus celastroides, Sieb. Pl. N. Holl. Exsic. no. 244 (sine fl. & fruct.); Schult. Syst. 7, p. 163; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 818. Has. Woolongong, New South Wales; and near Sydney. The specimens bear flowers, which have not before been described. The plant is glabrous, except an extremely minute pubescence on the peduncles and nascent parts. Branches terete, nodose. Leaves oppo- site, obovate, oblong, or elliptical, with a narrowed base, contracted into a very short petiole, 1$ to 2 inches long, very obtuse, dull, thick and fleshy-coriaceous in texture, nearly veinless, even the midrib incon- spicuous except towards the base. Peduncles axillary, or more com- monly terminating short and two-leaved axillary branchlets, 2 to 5 lines long, cymosely several-flowered. Flowers im threes, the lateral short- pedicelled, the intermediate one sessile, or sometimes all pedicelled, each subtended by a small ovate bractlet, recurved, pentamerous, Ovary ovoid. Calyx-tube short, coroniform, truncate, puberulent on the edge, which is entire or obscurely denticulate, at length some- times 4—5-toothed or lobed. Corolla apparently red or purple, an inch and a quarter in length, curved in the bud, and the apex cla- vate-thickened; the slender petals connivent into a tube, but sepa- rating after anthesis. Filaments free down almost to the middle: anthers oval, or short-oblong, emarginate at both ends, fixed by the middle, versatile. Style filiform, as long as the stamens: stigma minute, subcapitate. Fruit not seen. Pate 100.—Loranruvs CELASTROIDES: a flowering branch, of the natural size. Fig. 1. Details of the flower, enlarged. 2, 3, Anthers, more magnified. LORANTHACEA. 741 12. Lorantuus (PsiTTAcANTHUS?) EUCALYPTOIDES, DC. I. c. Loranthus eucalyptifolius, Sieber, Pl. Nov. Holl. Exsic. no. 242; Schult. Syst. Veg. 7, p. 168, non H. B. K. Has. New South Wales, near Sydney. Of this species, as of the preceding, neither the flowers nor the fruit were known. They occur on our specimen, and are almost exactly like those of L. celastroides. Moreover, some of the leaves, instead of elongated-lanceolate and somewhat falcate, are elongated- oblong, very obtuse, and less than two inches in length ;—raising the question, whether it may not be an extraordinary form of the fore- going species. 13. LoranTHus (DENDROPTHOE) PENDULUS, Steber. Loranthus pendulus, Sieber, Pl. Nov. Holl. Exsic. no. 241; DO. Prodr. 1. ¢. & Mem. Loranth. t. 1. Has. New South Wales; in the vicinity of Sydney. 14. Lorantaus (DENDROPTHOE) CUNNINGHAMII Loranthus nutans, A. Cunn. in Mitch. Jour. Trop. Austral. p. 158, in adnot., non Spreng. Has. New South Wales, near Sydney. 15. Lorantuus (DENDROPTHOE) PHILIPPENSIS, Cham. & Schlecht. Loranthus Philippensis, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnea, 1, p. 204; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 302. » Has. Luzon; in the mountains near Baiios. 186 742 PHANEROGAMIA. 2. TU PEIA, Cham. & Schlecht. 1. Tupera ANTARCTICA, Cham. & Schlecht. Tupeia antarctica, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnea, 3, p. 203; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p- 101, t. 26. T. Cunninghamii & T. pubigera, Miquel, in Linnea, 18, p. 85. Viscum antarcticum, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 70; A. Rich. Fl. N. Zel. p. 369. V. pubigerum, A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. Has. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. (In fruit.) 3. PHORADENDRON, Nutt. PHORADENDRON, Nutt. in Jour. Acad. Philad. n. ser. 1, p. 185; Engelm. in Gray, Pl. Fendl. p. 58, adnot. Viscum, sect. 2, DC. Prodr. 4, p. 279. 1. PHORADENDRON SCHOTTII. Viscum Schoittit, Pohl, in DC. Prodr. 4, p. 281. Has. Brazil; on the Organ Mountains. Only female plants of this and of the two following species were collected: consequently I cannot verify the essential generic cha- racter. In all of them the ovary is crowned with a three-lobed perianth, as in many Visca. 2, PHORADENDRON PEPERICARPUM, Sp. Nov. P. ramis teretibus ; foliis ovalibus ovato-oblongisve obtusis basi attenuatis breviter petiolatis crassis tri-quinquenerviis aveniis ; spicis in axillis gemini, fructiferis folio triplo” quadruplove brevioribus, vaginulis bifidis ; baccis globosis. LORANTHACEA. 743 Has. Brazil; on the Organ Mountains. (Also gathered by Gard- ner, No. 5478.) There are only fruiting specimens of this species; which is appa- rently related to Pohl’s Viscum crassifolium. The plant is large, with long and terete branches and branchlets, glabrous. Leaves 3 or 4 inches long, rather narrowly oval or ovate oblong, obtuse, narrowed at the base into a petiole of about 3 lines in length, thick, evidently 3—5- nerved, otherwise veiniess. Fertile spikes in pairs, or sometimes in threes, in the axils of the leaves, slender, in fruit an inch or an inch and a half long; the many-flowered joints 8 lines long; the short sheaths two-cleft, very obtuse. Berries spherical, about a line and a half in diameter, but immature, their bases separately immersed in hollows of the rhachiy, 3. PHORADENDRON CHRYSOCLADON, Sp. Nov. P. ramulis compressis; ramis teretibus auratis; foliis ovatis scepius acuminatis brevissime petiolatis crassis subtus obsolete tripli-quintupli- nerviis costa prominula supra nitidulis reticulato-venosis; spicis in axillis solitariis ternisve, fructiferis folio paullo brevioribus pauci-arti- culatis, articulis truncato-bilobis. Has. Brazil; near Rio Janeiro. Apparently a widely diffused species; as it appears to be the same as one gathered at Bahia by Salzmann, at Piauhy by Gardner (No. 2884), and in British Guiana by Schomburgk (No. 554, of Ist coll.). It is evidently allied to Visewm flavens, Swartz; but the venation is different, and the spikes are proportionately longer. We have only the female plant. Branches terete, tinged with golden yellow; the young branchlets compressed or ancipital. Leaves 2 or 3 inches long, ovate or oval-oblong, mostly acuminate, often conspicuously so, abruptly contracted at the base into a very short petiole, thick and coriaceous, often yellowish, obscurely triplinerved or quintuplinerved underneath, the narrow costa prominent, above lucid and conspicuously reticulate- 744 PHANEROGAMIA. veny. Fertile spikes solitary or in threes in the axils, 14 to 2 inches long when fully developed, of 3 or 4 elongated and many-flowered joints; the sheaths truncately two-lobed. Female flowers sunk in excavations of the rhachis. Perianth three-lobed. Young fruit glo- bular. 4, VISCUM, Tourn. 1. Viscum ARTICULATUM, Burm. Viscum articulatum, Burm. FI. Ind. p. 811; DC. Prodr. 4, p. 284. V. compressum, Poir. Dict. Suppl. 2, p. 861; Decaisne, Herb. Timor. p. 87; Blume, Fl. Jav. Loranth. t. 26. Has. Feejee Islands; Ovolau, Vanua-levu, ‘&c.: parasitic on IJno- carpus. Also, a remarkably condensed form, in the mountains of Muthuata. 2. VIscUM MONILIFORME, Bluse. Viscum moniliforme, Blume, Bijdr. p. 667, & Fl. Jav. l.c. t. 25; DO. le; Cham. & Schlecht. in Linnza, 3, p. 202; Wight, Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 1018, 1019. V. opuntioides, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 70, non Linn. V. platycaulon, Bertero, ined. Has. Tahiti, Society Islands (mostly with narrow articulations). Sandwich Islands: on Acacia Koa, and other trees :—the articulations varying in different specimens from a line and a half to an inch in breadth! No male flowers were collected; but those of V. articulatum are figured by Blume (under the name of V. compressum, Poir.) with adnate and multiporose anthers. The form of the articulations is exceedingly various in different specimens; in some states they seem to be almost terete: others appear to pass into the preceding species. Their elucidation requires better materials than the present collection affords. LORANTHACES, 745 2 MYZODENDRON, Banks & Soland. 1. MyzopENDRoN PuNcTULATUM, Banks & Soland. Misodendron (sphalm.) punctulatum, DC. Prodr. 4, p. 286, & Mem. Loranth. t. 11, 12. Myzodendron (Gymnophyton) punctulatum (Banks & Soland. Mss.), Hook. f. FI. Antare. p. 289, t. 102, 104, 106. Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia. “Very common and conspicuous on the Antarctic Beech.” 2. MyzopENpRON BRACHYSTACHIUM, DC. Myzodendron (Misodendron) brachystachium, DO. Mem. Loranth. p. 14, t. 12, f. 1, & Prodr. l.c.; Hook. f. Fl. Antare. p. 297, t. 103, 105, 106, 107. Has. Orange Harbour, Fuegia; on Fugus Antarctica and F. betu- loides. The botanical history, structure and affinities, as well as the ana- tomy and parasitism of Myzodendron, have been most ably and elabo- rately illustrated by Dr. Hooker, in the work above cited. I have only to add that I. oblongifolium, DC. 1.¢.; Deless. Ic. Sel. 3, t. 80; Poepp. & Endl. Nov. Gen. & Spec. t. 2; Hook. f. l.c., is not to be distinguished from Jf. brachystachium by the foliage (our specimens combining the two on the same individuals), but only by the greater length of the plumose sete of the fruit, a character not likely to be constant; so that this species will doubtless be suppressed. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. To p. 74, lowest line, after Kuhlia Brasiliensis, add: (Banara Velloztt, Gardn. in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 331.) To p. 87, add: 2. IonrpIum sETIGERUM, St. Ail. Tonidium setigerum, St. Hil. Fl. Rem. Bres. p. 297, t. 27, & Fl. Bras. Mer. 2, p. 142. Has. Brazil; in the Organ Mountains, near Rio Janeiro. To p. 138. ScurepEA pirFuSA.— This was also collected by Mr. Macrae, on Mouna Kea, in June, 1825. His specimen has a less effuse panicle, as well as shorter and entirely glabrous pedicels. Page 206, line 2 from bottom, for ejusdem read. eodem. Page 291. Perrottetia Sandwicensis was first collected by Mr. Nelson, in Cook’s third voyage. INDEX. SYNONYMES, AND THE NAMES OF GENERA AND SPECIES INCIDENTALLY MENTIONED, ARE IN ITALIC. A. Acacia juniperina, 478. Koa, 480. Abelmoschus esculentus, 172. lacerans, 484. Manihot, 172. laurifolia, 482. moschatus, 172. linearis, 479. Abrus precatorius, 436. linifolia, 479. Abutilon carneum, 167. longifolia, 480. esculentum, 167. melanoxylon, 479. glaucum, 167. mollissima, 483. incanum, 168. myriadenia, 485. Indicum, 167. myrtifolia, 479. mollissimum, 168. pellacantha, 484. rufinerve, 167. prominens, 479. tubulosum, 169. pteridifolia, 484. Acacia albida, 484. Richii, 482. qi angustifolia, 479. Achyranthes tenuifolia, 122. i Baueri, 478. Acicalyptus myrtoides, 551. 2 Brownii, 477. Ackama roscefolia, 671. 4 Cavenia, 484. Acena adscendens, 496. cultriformis, 478. Antarctica, 496. decurrens, 483. exigua, 498. discolor, 483. lappacea, 497. echinula, 478. Magellanica, 495. elata, 483. myriophylla, 497. elongata, 479. ovalifolia, 496. Farnesiana, 484. ovina, 498. floribunda, 480. pinnatifida, 497. glaucescens, 480. pumila, 499. heterophylla, 480. Sanguisorbee, 498. hispidula, 478. spectabilis, 483. insularum, 477. splendens, 497. 748 Aceena suaveolens, 479. trifida, 497. vestita, 478. Acmadenia juniperina, 328. Acmena floribunda, 518, 526. parviflora, 520. Actinotus Helianthi, 704. minor, 705. Acronychia arborea, 336. Endlichert, 336, 338. heterophylla, 333. levis, 836, 339. petiolaris, 335. retusa, 3388. Richii, 836. Adesmia balsamica, 426. Echinus, 427. filipes, 425. hispidula, 425. horrida, 426. microphylla, 426. trijuga, 427. Adrastea salicifolia, 18. Kschynomene ciliata, 430. rudis, 429. sensitiva, 430. Affonsea bullata, 487. Afzelia bijuga, 467. Madagascariensis, 469. Agalmanthus umbellatus, 557. Agatea, 609. Agatea violaris, 89. Agathosma spicata, 327. Agati coccinea, 408. grandiflora, 408. tomentosa, 409. Aglaia basiphylla, 237. edulis, 237. odorata, 236. Samoensis, 236. Alchemilla pinnata, 500. tripartita, 499. Alectryon excelsum, 260. Aleurodendron, 198. Algarobia glandulosa, 474. juliflora, 474. Allophyllus ternatus, 249. INDEX. Alphitonia franguloides, 280. zizyphoides, 278. Alsinez, 115. Alsodeia physiophora, 92. Alysicarpus vaginalis, 486. Alyssum maritimum, 51. Amaroria soulameoides, 356. Amblyarrhena, 595. Ammannia latifolia, 605. Ammi majus, 708. Visnaga, 708. Amphirrox longifolia, 88. Amphithalea densa, 388. Anacardiacesxe, 364. Anacardium occidentale, 364. Anaxagorea Luzonensis, 27. Anchietea salutaris, 88. Ancistrum anserinifolium, 498. diandrum, 498. humile, 496. Magellanicum, 495. repens, 496. Sanguisorbe, 498. Androsemum Webbianum, 219. Anemone helleborifolia, 4. Angelica rosefolia, 710. Angophora, cordifolia, 555. intermedia, 556. lanceolata, 555. Angustinea, 593. Anisotome latifolia, 709. roseefolia, 710. Anoda ovata, 161. Anona Americana, 25. Cherimolia, 26. dolabripetala, 26. palustris, 25. squamosa, 25. xestropetala, 26. Anonacex, 25. Anplectrum ovalifolium, 597. Anthodon undulatum, 286. Anthonota, 469. Antichorus depressus, 196. Aotus villosa, 883. Apeiba australis, 195. Apium australe, 706. Apium Chilense, 706. graveolens, 707. _graveolens, 706. prostratum, 706. Aplectrum, 597. Aporetica Gemella, 249. pinnata, 259. Aquifoliaceze, 294. Arabis albida, 47. Arachis hypogeea, 424. Aralia crassifolia, 718. edulis, 715. Lessoni, 719. polaris, 714. Quinduense, 715. racemosa, 715. Scheefflera, 715. spinosa, 715. trigyna, 719. Vitiensis, 715. Araliacea?, 733. Araliacese, 714. Arenaria Alpamarce, 116. andicola, 116. bryoides, 117. dicranoides, 117. diffusa, 115. jloribunda, 121. nemorosa, 115. scopulorum, 116. serpens, 116. serpylloides, 116. Argemone Mexicana, 44. Aristotelia Maqui, 214. Arnoldia, 670, 676. Arrudea clusioides, 214. purpurea, 215. Arthostemma Martiusianum, 601. Ascyrum humifusum, 220. involutum, 220). Asimina, 31. Aspalathus acuminata, 394. canescens, 394. capillaris, 395. cymbeformis, 395. galioides, 395. microphylla, 394. INDEX. 749 188 Aspalathus spicata, 894. spinosa, 394. uniflora, 395. Asteriscium Chilense, 704. Peeppigiti, 704. Asterotrichion sidoides, 181. Astragalus alienus, 418. Alpamarcee, 417. Brackenridgei, 416. canescens, 413. distans, 412. Garbancillo, 414. geminiflorus, 418. minimus, 418. ochroleucus, 413. Pickeringii, 415. procumbens, 414. pusillus, 418. Richii, 414. uniflorus, 418. untfultus, 414. Astronia confertiflora, 579. Forsteri, 577. fraterna, 576. Pickeringii, 577. subcordata, 580. Astronidium parviflorum, 582. Astroniee, 576. Astrotriche latifolia, 695. Atalantia monophylla, 234. Aubletia caseolaris, 550. Aurantiaceze, 234. Ayenia microphylla, 189. pusilla, 189. tomentosa, 189. Azara celastrinea, 75. integrifolia, 75. Lilen, 75. serrata, 79. Azorella apoda, 699. bolacina, 701. cespitosa, 700, TOL. daucoides, 712. diapensioides, 702. filamentosa, 698. eladorhiza, 702. glebaria, 701. 750 Azorella lanceolata, 694. lineartfolia, 695. lycopodioides, 698. madreporica, 700. monanthos, 699. multifida, 702. Ranunculus, 698. reniformis, 698. Selago, 699. tricuspidata, T01. trifoliolata, 698. B. Backhousia myrtifolia, 551. riparia, O51. Beckia affinis, 571. crenulate, 570. densifolia, 571. diffusa, 571. diosmifolia, 570. leptocaulis, 570. linifolia, 570. Balanopteris minor, 184. Tothila, 184. Banara, 75. Vellozii, T46. Banisteria campestris, 265. monoptera, 266. nitida, 266. sericea, 256. Barbarea australis, 47. Barringtonia Butoniea, 508. excelsa, 508. racemosa, 508. Samoensis, 508. speciosa, 508. Bauera microphylla, 681. rubicfolia, 681. rubioides, 681. Bauerece, 664. Bauhinia acidu, 470. Brasiliensis, 469. grandiflera, 469. purpurea, 470. Raddiana, 470. ungulata, 470. INDEX. Begonia sequata, 658. castanezefolia, 655. coccinea, 656. Cumingii, 658. erecta, 657. Fischeri, 656. geraniifolia, 657. hastata, 656. Hookeriana, 656. luxurians, 654. octopetala, 657. patens, 655. ramentacea, 655. repens, 656. reticulata, 656. truncata, 655. vaginans, 655. villosa, 657. Begoniaceze, 654. Belangera speciosa, 681. Berberidacex, 42. Berberis actinacantha, 43. buxifolia, 42. Chilensis, 43. crispa, 43. dulcis, 42. cuneata, 44. empetrifolia, 43. ferox, 42. horrida, 48. ilicifolia, 42. lagenaria, 42. microphylla, 42. | Berlinia, 469. | Bernardinia Fluminensis, 377. | Bertolonia Leuzeana, 596. nympheeeefolia, 596. | Beythea bifida, 205. Bigelovia Brasiliensis, 79. | Billardiera mutabilis, 222. scandens, 221. Bixa Orellana, 72: Bixinex, 72. Boca serrata, 74. Bolax, 669, 700. complicata, 701. glebaria, 701. Bolax gummifera, 701. Borbonia barbata, 387. cordata, 387. lanceolata, 387. Boronia ledifolia, 331. parviflora, 330. pinnata, 331. polygaleefolia, 331. serrullata, 330. tetrandra, 331. elata, 696. lobata, 696. multiradiata, 696. palmata, 696. tropeeolifolia, 696. Bossiza heterophylla, 386. scolopendra, 386. scolopendria, 411. microphylla, 387. Botryodendrum cerberoides, 731. lancifolium, 734. macrophyllum, 782. Taitense, 731. Bowlesia acutangula, 696. Brachychiton populneum, 185. Brackenridgea nitida, 362. Braya imbricatifolia, 58. pusilla, 57. Brotera Leprieurti, 194. Broussaisia arguta, 683. pellucida, 685. Bruguiera gymnorhiza, 614. Rumphii, 614. Brunellia Sandwicensis, 839, 345. Brunia nodiflora, 735. Bruniacez, 735. Bryophyllum calycinum, 690. Bubon Galbanum, 710. Buchanania florida, 366. Bulliarda Magellanica, 687. moschata, 689. Bunchosia Armeniaca, 263. Martiana, 263. Bupleurum salicifolium, 708. Bursaria diosmoides, 221. spinosa, 221. Bursinopetalum, 301. INDEX. 751 Buttneria dasyphylla, 188. pannosa, 188. Buttneriacese, 187. Byronia Sandwicensis, 296. Taitensis, 297. Byrsonima Brasiliensis, 263. sericea, 263. C. Cactacese, 659. Ceesalpinese, 461. Ceesalpinia corymbosa, 461. glabrata, 461. pulcherrima, 461. Sappan, 461. Caiophora absinthiifolia, 634. contorta, 635. coronata, 634. Cajanus bicolor, 553. flavus, 453. Indicus, 453. Calandrinia acuta, 143. arenaria, 143. biflora, 1438. Gayana, 148. glauca, 142. Phacosperma, 143. Pickeringii, 144. Caldasia andicola, 712. cherophyllea, 712. cherophylloides, 712. Callicoma serratifolia, 666. Callistachys lanceolata, 378. sparsa, 378. Callistemon lancéolatum, 566. pinifolium, 566. Calophyllum Inophyllum, 218. spectabile, 218. Calpandra lanceolata, 215. Caltha appendiculata, 13. dionecefolia, 14. multicapsularis, 12. paradoxa, 13. sagittata, 12. Calycothrix Billardieri, 572. glabra, 572. 752 INDEX. Calycothrix scabra, 572. Cardamine pratensis, 49. Calythrix glabra, 572. sarmentosa, 51. scabra, 572. sylvatica, 50. tetragona, 572. tenuirostris, 49. Campomanesia cerasoides, 549. Cardiandra, 664. Cananga, 30. Cardiospermum Halicacabum, 247. Canarium album, 374. Loxense, 247. Luzonicum, 374. microcarpum, 247. Vitiense, 373. Canavalia galeata, 441. Gaudichaudit, 441. gladiata, 440. mintata, 440. obtusifolia, 440. pubescens, 441. rosea, 440. rutilans, 440. sericea, 440. turgida, 440. Candela Americana, 618. Capellenia, 15. Capellia biflora, 15. membranifolia, 17. multiflora, 17. Capparidacez, 65. Capparis aurantioides, 70. Brasiliensis, 68. cerasifolia, 71. cynallophora, 68. cynophallophora, 68. nemorosa, 70. odorata, 71. Richii, 69. Sandwicensis, 70. sepiaria, 70. Carallia, 609. Carapa Moluccensis, 243. obovata, 243. Cardamine antiscorbutica, 49. Chilensis, 50. cordata, 41. corymboza, 48. geraniifolia, 48. glacialis, 48. hirsuta, 50. laxa, 50. nivalis, 49. Carica candicans, 640. Papaya, 640. Carmicheelia australis, 411. Cunninghamii, 411. Carpenteria, 663. Carpodetus serratus, 665. Carpotroche Brasiliensis, 72. Caryophyllacezx, 109. Casalea Chilensis, 6. Casearia acuminatissima, 80. affinis, 79. disticha, 81. inzequilatera, 79. Melistaurum, 81. oblongifolia, 79. parviflora, 79. Richii, 82. Casparea castrata, 470. Cassia aciphylla, 465. alata, 462. Apoucouita, 465. australis, 465. bifoliolata, 466. calycioides, 466. Candolleana, 464. Chameecrista, 466. calliantha, 464. coluteoides, 464. ensiformis, 465. eremophila, 465. Jlexuosa, 464. Jrondosa, 464. Gaudichaudti, 463. glauca, 464. hirsuta, 464. latopetiolata, 464. Leschenaultiana, 466. montana, 463. oblongifolia, 463. Cassia obtusifolia, 463. occidentalis, 462. ramifiora, 465. ramosa, 466. rotundifolia, 466. Sophera, 463. umbellata, 465. tomentosa, 463. zygophylla, 465. Cassine Maurocenia, 294. Magellanica, 290. Catha cassinoides, 289. crenata, 288. Vitiensis, 287. Ceanothus Asiaticus, 277. capsularis, 277. Celastraceze, 287. Celastrus Magellanicus, 290. crenatus, 288. pyracanthus, 287. Richii, 289. Centrosema decumbens, 437. Plumieri, 437. Cerastium arvense, 119. Beeringianwm, 120. glomeratum, 121. viscosum, 120. vulgatum, 121. Ceratopetalum gummiferum, 666. Cercodea alternifolia, 625. erecta, 625. Cereus Chilensis, 660. Cheenanthera, 596. Chenopleura, 593. Cherophyllum Chilense, 713. Cheetocalyx longiflorus, 423. Cheetogastra fraterna, 604. gracilis, 604. Chalarium, 435. Chamzemeles coriacea, 506. Chamitis integrifolia, 698. Cheiranthus mutabilis, 46. Chorisia speciosa, 183. Chorozema gomphocarpum, 380. Chrysobalanaceze, 488. Chrysomelon pomiferum, 374. Chrysosplenium elevatum, 687. INDEX. 189 Chrysosplenium macranthum, 686. Cissampelos australis, 38. Capensis, 38. discolor, 38. Pareira, 38. Cissus Antarctica, 271. deficiens, 271. acuminata, 273. geniculata, 272. hypoglauca, 272. quinquefolia, 271. sylvatica, 271. Vitiensis, 272. Citriobatus multiflorus, 221. Citronella mucronata, 297. Citrus Decumana, 236. torosa, 236. Clavimyrtus, 509, 514. Clematis aristata, 2. dioica, 3. Heenkeana, 3. indivisa, 2. integrifolia, 2. parviflora, 2. Peruyviana, 3. Pickeringii, 1. sericea, 3. Cleobulia multiflora, 459. Cleome affinis, 67. atropurpurea, 67. Chilensis, 66. dendroides, 67. diffusa, 66. icosandra, 68. pentaphylla, 65. Richii, 67. Sandwicensis, 65. spinosa, 69. viscosa, 68. Clidemia acutiflora, 593. alpestris, 592. althaoides, 587. amygdaloides, 586. biserrata, 593. botryophora, 586. Brackenridgei, 591. bullosa, 593. 753 75d INDEX. Clidemia Carassana, 588. Colobanthus subulatus, 132. cheetocalyx, 589. Colubrina Asiatica, 277. confertiflora, 587. Combretacez, 615. crenata, 598. Comesperma conferta, 105. dasytricha, 588. ericina, 106. dispar, 587. nudiuscula, 106. Epibaterium, 587. virgata, 105. leptostachya, 586. Commersonia echinata, 188. longibarbis, 586. Fraseri, 188. marginata, 587. Javensis, 188. Martii, 592. platyphylla, 188. Martiana, 592. Condalia lineata, 275. Nianga, 586. Connaracez, 375. oocarpa, 590. Connarus Beyrichii, 377. pauciflora, 598. cymosus, 377. Pickeringii, 592. Pickeringii, 375. pulchra, 591. Corchorus Antichorus, 196. retropila, 587. capsularis, 196. scandens, 587. olitorius, 195. spicata, 593. tortipes, 195. stenopetala, 586. trilocularis, 195. umbonata, 598. tridens, 196. Cliffortia dentata, 494. Coriaria ruscifolia, 306. falcata, 494. sarmentosa, 306, ilicifolia, 494. Coriariaceze, 306. odorata, 494. Cornaceze, 734. ruscifolia, 494. Cornidia, 6638. sarmentosa, 494. : Corokia buddleoides, 734. strobilifera, 494. Corrigiola squamosa, 126. trifoliolata, 494. Corynocarpus leevigata, 372. Clusia Ganabarica, 216. Correa alba, 328. lanceolata, 216. reflexa, 329. rupicola, 216. virens, 329. sessilis, 216, 341. viridiflora, 329. Clypea, 36, 37. Coulteria tinctoria, 462. Cocculus Ferrandianus, 39. Crassula ciliata, 690. Forsteri,.36. moschata, 689. velutinus, 40. muscosa, 689. Coleonema pulchrum, 328. pellucida, 690. Colletia spinosa, 276. scabra, 689. ulicina, 276. tetragona, 689. Colobanthus aretioides, 131. squamulosa, 690. Benthamianus, 132. Crassulaceze, 688. crassifolius, 131. Cratzeva tapioides, 68. muscoides, 131. Cremanium chenopleuroides, 596. Quitensis, 131. Sellovianum, 595. saginoides, 181. Cremolobus aphanopterus, 55. Cremolobus pinnatifidus, 56. Cristaria ecristata, 165. Crithmum maritimum, 710. Crossostylis biflora, 610. Crotalaria anthylloides, 390. ealycina, 390. fulva, 390. incana, 389. microphylla, 389. quinquefolia, 390. Roxburghiana, 890. sagittalis, 389. Senegalensis, 388. sessiliflora, 390. stipularia, 389. striata, 389. trigonelloides, 389. verrucosa, 390. vitellina, 389. Croton ertospermum, 108. Crowea saligna, 329. Cruciferee, 46. Cucumis bicirrha, 646. pubescens, 646. Cucurbitacex, 641. Cunoniacee, 663. Cunoniec, 663. Cupania anacardizefolia, 259. anacardioides, 258. Brackenridgei, 255. falcata, 252. lentiscifolia, 256. leptobotrys, 255. rhoifolia, 254. Richii, 257. subcinerea, 258. Cuphea Balsamona, 606. flava, 606. ingrata, 606. ligustrina, 606. Cussonia Lessonii, 719. thyrsiflora, 714. Cyclanthera Matthewsii, 647. Cytisus scoparius, 396. tener, 396. Cynometra grandiflora, 470. INDEX, 755 Cynometra faleata, 472. ineequifolia, 473. D. Dalbergia cassioides, 457. multijuga, 457. myriantha, 458. torta, 458. variabilis, 458. Dalea cylindrica, 401. Mutisii, 401. Onobrychis, 401. Dalibarda geoides, 503. Darwinia fascicularis, 571. laxifolia, 572. taxifolia, 572. Daucus australis, 711. brachiatus, 711. Carota, 711. Montevitlensis, 711. pusillus, 711. toriloides, 711. Daviesia acicularis, 382. corymbosa, 382. ulicina, 582. Davilla Brasiliana, 15. rugosa, 15, Decarphe, 593. Decaspermum fruticosumy 547. Decumaria, 663. id Dendrolobium australe, 431. umbellatum, 431. Dendropthoe Forsterianus, 737. Derris uliginosa, 457. Descurainia, 60. Descurea, 60. Desmanthus depressus, 475. | Desmodium ancistrocarpum, 434. axillare, 434. australe, 481. barbatum, 482. brachypodum, 434. capitatum, 433. Chamissonis, 433. Gangeticum, 433. Gunnianum, 439. 756 Desmodium heterocarpum, 432. incanum, 434. leptopus, 436. Limense, 433. nervosum, 432. obovatum, 434. Peruvianum, 484. polycarpum, 432. purpureum, 432. reptans, 434. Scorpiurus, 435. Sandwicensis, 433. tortuosum, 435. triflorum, 432. Deutzia, 663. Dianthus prolifer, 109. Dicerma pulchellum, 432. Dichoglottis australis, 118. Dichroanthus mutabilis, 46. Diclidocarpus Richii, 200. Didiscus albiflorus, 694. Didymochiton Gaudichaudianum, 241. Richii, 239. Dillenia speciosa, 20. volubtlis, 20. Dilleniaceze, 15. Dillwynia ericeefolia, 383. glaberrima, 384. parviflora, 384. pedun@alaris, 383. tenuifolia, 384. Dimereza, 254. Dimorphanthus edulis, 715. elatus, 715. Dioclea violacea, 439. Diosma succulenta, 328. Diosmec, 327. Diplochita, 5938. Discostigma caudatum, 217. Vitiense, 216. Disemma Herbertiana, 638. Disoxylon Samoense, 241. Dissochzeta Cumingii, 600. Ditoca muscosa, 180. Dodonxa Brasiliensis, 260. Burmanniana, 260. calycina, 262. INDEX. Dodonzea cuneata, 262. erlocarpa, 261. Jamaicensis, 260. neriifolia, 262. spathulata, 261. triquetra, 262. viscosa, 260. Dolichos altissimus, 439. falcatus, 453. galeatus, 441. luteolus, 452. luteus, 452. Donatia fascicularis, 688. Magellanica, 688. Draba Brackenridgei, 53. cryptantha, 51. imbricatifolia, 58. Macleani, 52. Pickeringii, 54. Dracontomelon sylvestre, 274. Draytonia rubicunda, 207. Drosera Anglica, 100. Cunninghamii, 98. dichotoma, 99. intermedia, 98. longifolia, 100. micrantha, 100. pedata, 99. peltata, 99. petiolaris, 100. pusilla, 100. pygmea, 100. spathulata, 100. uniflora, 98. Droseracez, 98. Drymaria apetata, 126. cordata, 122. divaricata, 124. fasciculata, 125. glaberrima, 123. grandiflora, 126. macrantha, 126. rotundifolia, 123. viscidula, 124. Drymis Chilensis, 24. punctata, 24, Winteri, 24. Dryptopetalum, 607. Duvaua dentata, 370. dependens, 370. Dysemone lobata, 631. K. Edwardsia Chilensis, 460. chrysophylla, 459. grandiflora, 458. microphylla, 458. Eleeocarpus bifidus, 205. cassinoides, 204. eyaneus, 202. Griffthii, 203. laurifolius, 203. petiolatus, 203. pyriformis, 205. reticulatus, 202. Elsneria crateegifolia, 696. Entada Adenanthera, 478. Gigalobium, 473. monostachya, 473. Pursetha, 473. scandens, 473. Entelea arborescens, 195. Entoganum levigatum, 350. Eperua, 469. Epilobium alsinoides, 622. atriplicifolium, 622. Billardierianum, 623. Bonplandianum, 621. cinereum, 628. glabellum, 622. hirtigerum, 623. incanum, 628. junceum, 623. micranthum, 623. microphyllum, 622. nerterotdes, 622. nivale, 621. nummulariefolium, 622. pallidiflorum, 623. parviflorum, 621. pedicellare, 621. pedunculare, 622. pubens, 622. INDEX. 190 757 Epilobium thymifolium, 622. tetragonum, 621. virgatum, 628. Epiphylium, 661. Eriocalia major, 704. minor, T05. Hriodendron trischistandrum, 182. Kriostemon buxifolium, 330. cuspidatum, 330. salicifolium, 330. verrucosum, 330. Erodium cicutarium, 317. malachoides, 317. Eryngium coronatum, 706. ebracteatum, 706. paniculatum, 706. Erysimum pusillum, 57. Erythrina Indica, 444. macrophylla, 444, monosperma, 444. ovalifolia, 445. Erythroxylacez, 270. Erythroxylon deciduum, 270. nanum, 270. nitidum, 270. pulchrum, 270. ~ Escalloniee, 663. Escallonia affinis, 664. arguta, 665. Berteriana, 665, illinita, 664. leucantha, 665. Meriensiana, 664. pulverulenta, 665 resiniflua, 665. revoluta, 664. rubra, 664. serrata, 663. Eucalyptus acervula, 553. botryoides, 554. marginata, 553. miniata, 554. multiflora, 554. pallens, 554. paniculata, 554. platypodos, 554, radiata, 553. 758 Eucalyptus rostrata, 553. subulata, 553. Eucladus suffruticosus, 187. Eugenia affinis, 537. Amicorum, 524. apiculata, 537. arenaria, 517. australis, 514. Benthamii, 520. Brasiliensis, 517. Brackenridgei, 521. Bridgesti, 536. brevifolia, 531. Chekan, 587. clusizefolia, 528. confertiflora, 523. correcefolia, 542. corynocarpa, 526. Cruckshanksti, 540. Cumingii, 536. effusa, 524. elliptica, 518. Jerruginea, 542. Gayana, 530. Gilliesti, 537. gracilipes, 513. inophylloides, 521. leptospermoides, 536. Maire, 518. Malaccensis, 510. maritima, 536. Michelit, 516. multiflora, 5386, 539. myrtifolia, 514. nemoralis, 516. neurocalyx, 512. obtusa, 541. ovata, 5386. paniculata, 525. planipes, 536. quadrangulata, 511. rariflora, 514. Richii, 510. rotundifolia, 517. rubescens, 525. Sandwicensis, 519. Salzmanni, 517. INDEX. Kugenia Savaiensis, 530. Selkirkii, 536. Smithii, 518, 526. stenophylla, 540. tenella, 517. Temu, 539. Tutuilensis, 529. Ugni, 544. uniflora, 516. zanthoxyloides, 517. Zeylanica, 520. Kuodia drupacea, 332. hortensis, 332. longifolia, 332. Kurya Pickeringii, 211. Richii, 212. Sandwicensis, 209. Vitiensis, 210. Kuryodes, 211. Kuryomyrtus diffusa, 571. Eustylis, 710. Kvia dulcis, 374. F. Fabricia myrtifolia, 568. Fagara Euodia, 332. Fagelia bituminosa, 453. Fagonia aspera, 326. Fendlera, 663. Firmiana diversifolia, 185. Flacourtia inermis, 75. Flacourtiaceze, 73. Flemingia strobilifera, 454. Feeniculum vulgare, 709. Fragaria Chilensis, 500. vesca, 500. Fragosa cladorhiza, 702. multifida, T02. spinosa, 703. Fuchsia affinis, 624. coccinea, 624. excorticata, 624. integrifolia, 623. lycioides, 624. rosea, 624. Fumaria agraria, 45. capreolata, 45. media, 45, officinalis, 45. Fumariacee, 45. G. Galactia hispidula, 438. Galega littoralis, 407. Gamochleena, 173. Garcinia Mangostana, 267. Gastonia Oahuensis, 726. Gaya subtriloba, 166. Geissois ternata, 679. Gelpkea, 509. Gemella trifoliata, 249. Genista Cumingii, 396. Gayana, 397. Maderensis, 396. umbellata, 397. virgata, 396. Geraniaceex, 308. Geranium arboreum, 315. Berterianum, 309. crassipes, 309. cuneatum, 312. diffusum, 308. dissectum, 308. microphyllum, 308. multiflorum, 311. multipartitum, 310. ovatifolium, 314. Patagonicum, 308. ptlosum, 308. potentilloides, 308. sessiliflorum, 309. retrorsum, 308. Geum Chilense, 501. Chiloense, 501. intermedium, 501. involucratum, 501. Magellanicum, 501. Quillyon, 501. parviflorum, 501. ranunculoides, 501. INDEX. 759 Geum strictum, 501. urbanum, 501. Glossocentrum, 598. Glossospermum, 198. Glycyrhiza astragalina, 406. Godetia tenuifolia, 620. Gomphia semula, 360. Hookert, 361. tteoides, 360. linearis, 359. oliveeformis, 361. parviflora, 360. stipulacea, 360. Gompholobium barbigerum, 380. glabratum, 381. glaucescens, 381. grandiflorum, 380. latifolium, 381. pinnatum, 381. virgatum, 381. uncinatum, 381. Goniocarpus citriodorus, 626. depressus, 626. micranthus, 626. serpyllifolia, 626. tenellus, 626. tetragyna, 625. teucroides, 625. Gonocarpus micranthus, 626. Gossypium album, 179. Barbadense, 179. croceum, 179. herbaceum, 179. nigrum, 179. religiosum, 179. Gouania cordifolia, 285. denticulata, 282. integrifolia, 284. orbicularis, 284. Richii, 282. smilacina, 285. vitifolia, 283. Gourliea decorticans, 460. Graffenrieda jucunda, 594. Grewia Amicorum, 198. glabra, 199. leevigata, 199. 760 Grewia Mallococca, 197. persiczefolia, 198. prunifolia, 199. Richardiana, 198. tiliefolia, 198. Griselinia lucida, 734. littoralis, 734. Grossulaceze, 662. Guaiacum dubium, 256. Guarea purgans, 2438. tuberculata, 243. Guatteria pallida, 27. psilopus, 26. Guilandina Bondue, 461. Guioa lentiscifolia, 256. Gunnera Chilensis, 629. Falklandica, 631. lobata, 631. Magellanica, 631. petaloidea, 629. scabra, 629. Guttiferee, 214. Gymnophyton, 745. Gynandropsis affinis, 65. pentaphylla, 65. Gynopleuru tubulosa, 635. Gynotroches reticulata, 607. Gypsophila australis, 112. H. Heemocharis semiserrata, 218. Hallia cordata, 388. imbricata, 888. virgata, 388. Halorages, 624. Haloragis alata, 625. Cercodea, 625. depressa, 626. elata, 625. elata, 626. filiformis, 628. micrantha, 626. pinnatifida, 627. serra, 625. tenella, 626. INDEX. Haloragis Tetragonia, 625. tetragyna, 625. teucroides, 625. Haplopetalon Richii, 608. Hardenbergia ovata, 438. Harmogia densifolia, 571. Harpeetropis speciosus, 446. Hartighsea Billardieri, 239. Forstert, 239, 240. Fraseriana, 239. spectabilis, 238. Hartigia, 593. Hecastophyllum Brownei, 454. Hedera crassifolia, 718. Gaudichaudi, 719. Lessoni, 719. platyphylla, 720. Hedysarum australe, 431. barbatum, 482. capitatum, 433. diphyllum, 423, 424. heterocarpum, 432. lagopodioides, 430. lagopoides, 430. umbellatum, 481. Heisteria Raddiana, 305. Heisteria pungens, 106. Helicteres ovata, 184. Helosciadium laciniatum, 708. lateriflorum, 708. leptophyllum, 707. ranunculifolium, 708. Hemigyrosa Perrottetii, 251. Henriettea Brasiliensis, 585. succosa, 585. Heretiera Fomes, 184. lanceolata, 184. littoralis, 184. minor, 184. Hermas villosa, 713. Herniaria illecebroides, 127. Hesperomeles cuneata, 507. Heteroloma, 433, 484. Heteropterys chrysophylla, 266. laurifolia, 266. megaptera, 267. metallochroa, 266. Heteropterys nitida, 266. sericea, 266. venosa, 266. Hibbertia camphorosma, 21. canescens, 21, dentata, 20. diffusa, 20. fasciculata, 21. linearis, 20. obtusifolia, 20. volubilis, 20. Mibiscus Abelmoschus, 172. Adthiopicus, 173. Arnottianus, 176. bacciferus, 179. Boryanus, 177. Brackenridgei, 175. bifurcatus, 174. diversifolius, 174. Jiculneus, 174. hastatus, 178. heterophyllus, 174. physaloides, 173. populneus, 179. Pseudo-Abelmoschus, 172. Rosa-Sinensis, 178. scaber, 174. Sturtii, 173. tiliaceus, 178. tricuspis, 178. Youngianus, 174. Hippocratea micrantha, 286. Hippocrateaceze, 286. Hiptage Javanica, 267. myrtifolia, 267. Hireea Gaudichaudiana, 270. glabra, 269. Hirtella oblongifolia, 492. Hoffmanseggia viscosa, 462. Hoheria angustifolia, 180. Lyallii, 181. populnea, 180. Hosackia Macrazi, 400. Hovea lanceolata, 386. longifolia, 386. Huberia ovalifolia, 596. resinosa, 096. INDEX. Hugueninia, 60. Hydrangiee, 664. Hydrocotyle Asiatica, 693. batrachioides, 698. Bonariensis, 692. elongata, 693. glechomoides, 686. gummifera, 701. hirta, 6938. interrupta, 692. laxiflora, 693. leucocephala, 693. microphylla, 694. modesta, 693. peduncularis, 694. plebeia, 693. quinqueloba, 692. ranunculoides, 693. vulgaris, 692. Hypericacez, 219. Hypericum Brasiliense, 220. Guianense, 219. glandulosum, 219. gramineum, 220. grandifolium, 219. humifusum, 220. involutum, 220. Japonicum, 220. perforatum, 220. pusillum, 220. Hypopterygium, 371, 372. Icacineze, 299. Tlex anomala, 296. Canariensis, 294. Mate, 294. Paraguariensis, 294. Paraguayensis, 294. Vitiensis, 295. Illecebreze, 121. Indigofera adesmizefolia, 405. Anil, 403. australis, 405. coriacea, 406. 761 762 Indigofera filiformis, 406. glutinosa, 405. linearis, 405. Obrajillensis, 404. tephrosioides, 404. tinctoria, 403. Truxillensis, 403. viscosa, 405. Inga affinis, 487. Cumingiana, 487. dulcis, 487. Feuillei, 486. semialata, 486. Velloziana, 487. Intsia Amboinensis, 467. Involucraria, 645. Tonidium longifolium, 88. monopetalum, 87. orchidifiorum, 88. setigerum, 746. Isatis tinctoria, 64. Isodendrion laurifolium, 96. longifolium, 95. pyrifolium, 93. J. Jacksonia scoparia, 382. Jambosa australis, 514. domestica, 510. Malaccensis, 510. myrtifolia, 514. pterocaulis, 512. Jamesia, 663. Jossinia cotinifolia, 515. Jucunda Lhotzkyana, 594. Martiana, 594. Juliania Huaucui, 371. Jungia imbricata, 571. Jussizea erecta, 618. longifolia, 619. octofila, 619. octonervia, 619. Peruviana, 618. pilosa, 618. repens, 618. INDEX. K. Kageneckia crategoides, 493. lanceolata, 493. oblonga, 493. Kalanchoe Brasiliensis, 690. Kallstreemia, 325. Kampitzia albens, 556. Karivia Samoensis, 642. Kennedya coccinea, 437. monophylla, 438. ovata, 438. rubicunda, 437. Kibessiec, 576. Kleinhovia Hospita, 187. Koniga maritima, 51. Kotschya, 429. Kuhlia Brasiliensis, 74, 746. parviflora, 73. Kunzea corifolia, 565. Schaueri, 566. L. Lablab vulgaris, 453. Laguncularia purpurea, 615. racemosa, 615. Lamanonia ternata, 681. Laplacea semiserrata, 213. Lardizabala biternuta, 41. triternata, 41. Lardizabalez, 41. Laretia acaulis, 704. Larrea divaricata, 326. Larrea viscosa, 462. Lasiopetalum ferrugineum, 187. Lasiandra adenostemon, 603. argentea, 603. Gaudichaudiana, 603. gracilis, 604. Kunthiana, 604. phalacrostemon, 603. spoliata, 608. Lathyrus epetiolaris, 421. pubescens, 422. sericeus, 422. Lathyrus sessilifolius, 421. tomentosus, 422. Laurus caustica, 370. Lawrencia, 180. Leandra angustifolia, 585. villosa, 585. Leea Manillensis, 274. sambucina, 274. Staphylea, 274. Leguminosz, 378. Legnotidex, 607. Leiospermum parviflorum, 670, 678. Lepidium Bonariense, 62. bipinnatifidum, 62. didymum, 63. graminifolium, 63. Owahiense, 63. piscidium, 63. ruderale, 62. Leptocyamus elongatus, 438. microphyllus, 438. Leptosperm um arachnoideum, 570. collinum, 558. ericoides, 569. flavescens, 569. juniperinum, 570. lanigerum, 569. myrtifolium, 569. perforatum, 558. scandens, 557. Scoparium, 569. Lessertia monticola, 411. Leucena Forstert, 477. Leucolena pannosa, 696. Lichtensteinia lacera, 709. pyrethrifolia, 709. Ligusticum Pansil, 709. Lilenia dentata, 75. Limacia yelutina, 40. Limonia minuta, 235. Linacez, 319. Lindackeria, 72. Linum Africanum, 320. aquilinum, 319. Macreei, 319. marginale, 320. monogynum, 319. INDEX. 763 Linum oligophyllum, 319. polygaloides, 319. Lithreea caustica, 370. venenosa, 370. Loasa Aldunata, 634. atriplicifolia, 633. contorta, 633. coronata, 684. grandiflora, 633. heterophylla, 684. incana, 633. ' pinnatifida, 634. Loasaceze, 633. Lobelia bryoides, 117. Lobularia maritima, 51. Loranthacesxe, 735. Loranthus Americanus, 736. aphyllus, 737. buxifolius, 736. Cactorum, 737. citricola, 736. celastroides, 740. Cunninghamii, 741. dichroos, 735. Eschscholtzianus, 736. eucalyptoides, 741. Forsterianus, 737. heterophyllus, 736. insularum, 738. Jacquini, 736. marginatus, 736. maytenifolius, 739. Philippensis, 741. pendulus, 741. stelis, 737. tetrandrus, 736. tetrapetalus, 737. Lotus angustissimus, 399. arboreus, 411. australis, 400. Candolleanus, 400. corniculatus, 400. divaricatus, 399. Fluminensis, 487. Fraseri, 400. Macrzxi, 401. maritimus, 450. 764 Lotus uliginosus, 400. Ludwigia jussizoides, 619. Luffa insularum, 644. Luma Cheken, 536. correvefolia, 542.. Cruckschanksii, 540. ferruginea, 542. obtusa, 541. stenophylla, 540. Temu, 539. Lumnitzera coccinea, 615. purpurea, 615. - Lupinus alopecuroides, 391. Cruckshanksii, 393. Lindleyanus, 391. microcarpus, 391. nubigenus, 391. paniculatus, 392. Pickeringii, 392. prostratus, 392. Termis, 393. tomentosus, 392. Lychnis thysanodes, 114. Chilensis, 115. Lythrum Hyssopifolia, 606. maritimum, 606. Pemphis, 605. Salicaria, 605. M. Macherium acutifolium, 455. angustifolium, 454. incorruptibile, 455. muticum, 499. oblongifolium, 455. Macrolobium bijugum, 467. Macroptilium, 450. Mamillaria flavescens, 659. prolifera, 659. Magnoliaces, 24. Maiten, 290. Malacmea fluminensis, 263. Malesherbia thyrsiflora, 635. Malesherbiaceze, 635. Mallea Rothii, 244. INDEX. Mallococca crenata, 197. Malochia, 441. Malpighia Armeniaca, 263. Martiana, 263. Malpighiacese, 263. Malwa acaulis, 150. Americana, 148. Belloa, 150. Coromandeliana, 148. Domingensis, 148. humilis, 150. leprosa, 157. Trimensis, 146. Lindheimeriana, 148. obtusiloba, 171. ovata, 147. Peruviana, 146. plumosa, 147. scabra, 147. scoparia, 147. subhastata, 148. sulphurea, 150, 157. Timorensis, 147. tricuspidata, 148. Malvaceze, 146. Malvastrum acaule, 150. anthemidifolium, 152. aretioides, 153. carpinifolium, 148. Cavanillesii, 156. coccineum, 150. compactum, 152. humile, 150. Macleani, 152. parnassizefolium, 150. pedicularizefolium, 152. Peruvianum, 146. Phyllanthos, 152. Pichinchense, 152. pinnatum, 154, plumosum, 147. Purdizei, 150. Richii, 149. scabrum, 147. scoparium, 147. spicatum, 147. stenopetalum, 155. Malvastrum tricuspidatum, 148. ulophyllum, 150. Mangifera Indica, 364. Mangium celsum, 614. Margyricarpus alatus, 495. setosus, 495. Marlierea excorticata, 535. suaveolens, 534. Matthiola Maderensis, 46. Mauria multiflora, 371. Maytenus Brasiliensis, 290. Chilensis, 290. obtusifolius, 290. Mayna Brasiliensis, 72. Mazeutoxeron reflecum, 329. Medicago denticulata, 397. lupulina, 397. sativa, 397. Medinilla heterophylla, 598. rhodochlzena, 600. Melaleuca eriocephala, 566. erubescens, 567. ferrea, 566. florida, 557. Fraseri, 567. genistifolia, 567. linariifolia, 567. lucida, 557. myrtifolia, 568. nodosa, 567. perforata, 558. INDEX. Melastomex, 576. Melhania Leprieurii, 194. Meliaceze, 236. Melicope barbigera, 351. cinerea, 350. elliptica, 353. grandifolia, 354. simplex, 345. spathulata, 352. ternata, 346. Melicytus macrophyllus, 97. ramiflorus, 97. Melilotus parviflora, 398. Melistaurum distichum, 81. Melocactus, 661. Melochia aristata, 193. corchorifolia, 191. concatenata, 191. odorata, 192. Vitiensis, 193. Melothria Fluminensis, 641. Samoensis, 641. Memecyleze, 573. Menecylon Calderense, 574. Vitiense, 573. Menispermacee, 36. Menispermum Japonicum, 36. peltatum, 36. Mentzelia aspera, 633. scabra, 633. Mesembryanthemez, 145. 352. 765 ‘squarrosa, 568. styphelioides, 566. thymifolia, 567. villosa, 558. Melandrium apetalum, 115. Magellanicum, 115. thysanodes, 114. Melastoma adpressum, 602. cereacea, 581. longifolium, 602. Malabathrica, 601. polyanthum, 602. staminea, 594, Taitense, 601. Vitiense, 601. Melastomacez, 573. Mesembryanthemum australe, 145. glaucum, 145. nodiflorum, 145. tenuifolium, 145. Metrosideros Amboinensis, 467. buxtfolia, 558. capitata, 566. collina, 558. corifolia, 565. diffusa, 558. florida, 557. floribunda, 518. glomerulifolia, 556. hypericifolia, 558. lucida, 557. lutea, 560. 192 766 Metrosideros Macropus, 564. perforata, 558. polymorpha, 562. robusta, 557. rugosa, 561. scandens, 558. spectabilis, 558. tomentosa, 557. umbellata, 557. villosa, 558. Miconia affinis, 595, attenuata, 595. brunnea, 594. cheenopleuroides, 596. cinerascens, 594, depauperata, 595. divaricata, 594. fasciculata, 595. latecrenata, 596. paludosa, 595. prasina, 595. Sellowiana, 595. staminea, 594. seplaria, 595. Microjambosa, 509, 520, 528, 530. Microlotus, 400. Micromelum glabrescens, 235. pubescens, 235. Micropetalon lanuginosum, 115. Micropteryx, 446. Milletia Luzonensis, 456. Milnea edulis, 237, Mimosa albida, 476. balsamica, 426. ephedroides, 477. elliptica, 476. Gilliesii, 477. glandulosa, 477. juliflora, 474. Mangium, 482. pudica, 476. scandens, 4738. sepiaria, 476. semilata, 486. Velloziana, 476. viva, 476. Mimosez, 473. INDEX. Mirbelia reticulata, 385. Misandra Magellanica, 631. Misodendron brachystachium, 745. oblongifolium, 745, punctulatum, 745. Mischocarpus, 252. Mniarum biflorum, 129. pedunculatum, 130. Modiola reptans, 171. Mollia tenuifolia, 122. Mollugo bellidifolia, 130. Berteriana, 180. dichotoma, 130. nudicaulis, 130. Schrankii, 130. stricta, 130. triphylla, 130. verticillata, 130. Momordica Charantia, 646. Senegalensis, 646, Monnina angustifolia, 107. linearifolia, 107. macrostachya, 107. Monocera Griffithii, 202. petiolata, 202. paniculata, 202. Monoxora rubescens, 547. spectabilis, 546. Montia fontana, 144. Montinia acris, 621. Moschoxylum elegans, 242. Richardianum, 242. Moulinsia cupanioides, 250. rubiginosa, 250. Mucuna altissima, 448, 446. gigantea, 442. platyphylla, 443. urens, 4438. Mulinum cuneatum, 7038. Echinus, 703. proliferum, 703. spinosum, 703. ulicinum, 703. Muraltia diffusa, 106. Heisteria, 106. mixta, 106. Murrya exotica, 235. Myrcia Browniana, 533. Kriopus, 533. elliptica, 532. ellipticifolia, 532. exsucca, 531. ferruginea, 532. prunifolia, 532. Pseudo-Mini, 532. pubescens, 531. ramulosa, 532. rostrata, 534. sepiaria, 534. spectabilis, 533. spheerocarpa, 532. subsericea, 533. Myriophyllum proserpinacoides, 628. verrucosum, 629. Myristica castanezefolia, 32. cinerea, 35. hypargyrea, 33. inutilis, 34. macrophylla, 83. Myristicacese, 32. Myroxylon orbiculatum, 78. suaveolens, 76. Myrrhis andicola, 712. Myrtaceze, 508. Myrtus bullata, 543. Candollet, 545. Cheken, 537. communis, 543. Coquimbensis, 536. Fernandesiana, 586. Gudilla, 540. Luma, 537, 539. Moline, 537. multiflora, 536. nummularia, 544. pedunculata, 544. Raran, 541. rufa, 542. smilactfolia, 546. tenuifolia, 545. tomentosa, 546. trinervia, 547. Ugni, 544. ) Myzodendron brachystachium, 745. INDEX. 767 Myzodendron oblongifolium, 745. punctulatum, 745. N. Nasturtium officinale, 46. palustre, 47. sylvestre, 47. terrestre, 47. Nelitris fruticosa, 547. Jambosella, 547. Vitiensis, 548. Nephelium pinnatum, 259. Nephroica Ferrandiana, 39. Neptunia gracilis, 475. '. pubescens, 475. Neurocarpum cajanifolium, 437. Neurophyllodes, 310. Nicolsonia barbata, 482. capitata, 438. Cayennensis, 432. reptans, 452. venustula, 432. Nissolia incorruptible, 455. Noisettia longifolia, 88. orchidiflora, 88. pyrifolia, 88. O. Ochna Jabotapita, 360. stipulata, 360. Ochnacex, 359. (Anothera acaulis, 620. albicans, 620. grandiflora, 620. mollissima, 619. multicaulis, 620. nocturna, 620. odorata, 620. prostrata, 620. stricta, 620. tenuifolia, 620. Olacacese, 299. Olacinez, 304. 768 Olax imbricata, 305. Onagracex, 618. Oncocarpus Vitiensis, 365. Ononis capillaris, 395. Opuntia, 661. Oreomyrrhis andicola, 712. lasiopetala, 712. Ormocarpum sennoides, 422. Ornitrophe glabra, 250. Osmorhiza Berteri, 713. Chilensis, 713. Osteomeles anthyllidifolia, 507. Otolepis nigrescens, 259. Otophora Blancoi, 259. Outea bijuga, 467. Oxalis Barrelieri, 321. bipunctata, 321. cataracte, 324. ciliifera, 520. corniculata, 320. crassifolia, 320. elegans, 322. exilis, 8320. filicaulis, 325. floribunda, 321. fruticosa, 321. geminata, 322. hedysaroides, 321. hirta, 324, lactea, 324. lasiopetala, 321. lineata, 322. lobata, 322. Magellanica, 324. Martiana, 321. microphylla, 320. nubigena, 323. parvula, 323. Pickeringii, 322 polyantha, 322. purpurea, 325. pygmea, 322. reptans, 320. urbica, 321. versicolor, 325. Oxalidaceze, 320. Oxymeris ciliata, 592. INDEX, Oxymeris pulchra, 591. Oxylobium hamulosum, 379. Pultenee, 378. P. Palava moschata, 146. Palavia moschata, 146. Panax arboreum, 717. Gaudichaudi, 719. fruticosum, 716. Lessoni, 719. platyphyllum, 720. sambucifolium, 717. Samoense, 717.., simplex, 718. ovatum, 719. Panke, 629. Pangiaces, 72. Papaveracexe, 44. Papayacez, 640. Papilionaceze, 378. Paratropia multijuga, 722. Samoensis, 722. Paritium tiliaceum, 178. tricuspis, 178. Parinarium insularum, 488. laurinum, 490. Margarata, 489. Sumatranum, 489. Griffithianum, 491. Jackianum, 491. Parivoa, 469.. Paronychia Andina, 128. Bonariensis, 127. Brasiliana, 127. Chilensis, 127. communis, 127. illecebroides, 127. ramosissima, 129. Passiflora albida, 637. bilobata, 638. elliptica, 638. footida, 638. littoralis, 637. hibiscifolia, 638. peduncularis, 639. Passiflora piligera, 638. Herbertiana, 688. tetrandra, 637. trifoliata, 639. Passifloracese, 637. Pastinaca(?), 714. Paullinia falcata, 248. discolor, 248. Guarumima, 247. multiflora, 248. rubiginosa, 248. wienmanniefolia, 248. Barbadensis, 249, Payonia communis, 171. hastata, 171. sepium, 171. Pectophytum, 697, 702. Peixotoa glabra, 265. Pelargonium Acugnaticum, 817. anceps, 317. australe, 317. clandestinum, 317. cucullatum, 317. myrrhifolium, 318. Pelea auriculefolia, 3438. clusizfolia, 340. lucida, 348. oblongifolia, 343. rotundifolia, 344. Sandwicensis, 345. volcanica, 346. Pemphis acidula, 605. Pentacena polycnemoides, 129. ramosissima, 129. Pentaloba, 92. Pereskia, 661. Perrottetia Sandwicensis, 291, 746. Quinduensis, 292. Petrocarya Sumatrana, 489. excelsa, 491. Petroselinum peregrinum, 707. prostratum, TOT. Peucedanum capillaceum, 710. Phaca canescens, 413. ochroleuca, 418. Richii, 414. Phaseolus amenus, 449. INDEX. 193 Phaseolus Cumingii, 449. maritimus, 450. Mungo, 449. rostratus, 449. Schottii, 449. Truxillensis, 449. vestitus, 450. Philadelphus, 663. Philotheca australis, 329. Reichenbachiana, 329. Phoradendron chrysocladon, 743. pepericarpum, 742. Schottii, 742. Phylacium bracteosum, 423. Phylica stipularis, 285. bicolor, 285. Phyllota aspera, 383. Baueri, 383. Phyllodium pulchellum, 431. Pigea filiformis, 87. monopetala, 87. Piliostigma acidum, 470. Pilocarpus spicata, 331. Pimela Luzonica, 374. Piptadenia communis, 473. macrocarpa, 474. Pitavia, 340. Pithecolobium Clypearia, 485. dulce, 485. Pittosporacese, 221. Pittosporum acacioides, 222. arborescens, 223. Brackenridgei, 2265. confertiflorum, 232. cornifolium, 223. crassifolium, 223. eugenioides, 223. glabrum, 229. microcarpum, 223. Pickeringii, 227. pimelioides, 223. Richii, 224. rhytidocarpum, 228. tenuifolium, 222. terminalioides, 231. tobiroides, 226. umbellatum, 223. 769 770 Pittosporum undulatum, 222. Pitumba, 79. Plagianthez, 180. Plagianthus betulinus, 182. divaricatus, 181. sidoides, 181. urticinus, 182. Platylobium formosum, 386. parviflorum, 386. Pleiochiton crassifolia, 583. Plerandra Pickeringii, 729. Pleroma adenostemon, 603. argenteum, 603. Fontanesianum, 603. Gaudichaudianum, 6038. gracile, 604. Kunthianum, 604. spoliatum, 603. Pleurandra acicularis, 23. Camphorosma, 22. parviflora, 23. scabra, 22. stricta, 23. Pleuropetalon Samoense, 299. Pleuropetalum, 302. Ploiarium elegans, 218. Podalyria biflora, 378. subbiflora, 378. Podocarpium, 436. Podolobium obovatum, 379. trilobatum, 379. scandens, 380. Pecilodermis populnea, 185. Poinciana, 461. Polanisia icosandra, 68. viscosa, 68. Polycarpzea tenuifolia, 122. glabrifolia, 122. Polycarpon Magellanicum, 688. Polycarpon tetraphyllum, 122. Polygala cestrifolia, 104. cyparissias, 104. erloptera, 105. Jrutescens, 105. Garcini, 105. Heisteria, 106. lancifolia, 104. INDEX. Polygala paniculata, 104. stenophylla, 104. Polygalaceze, 103. Polystemon pentaphyllus, 681. Pomaderris discolor, 281. ericeefolia, 281. lanigera, 281. multiflora, 281. ztzyphoides, 278. Pometia pinnata, 259. Pomum-draconis sylvestre, 374. Pongamia glabra, 455. religiosa, 457. triphylla, 457. uliginosa, 457. Portulaca hirsutissima, 140. lutea, 189. oleracea, 139. pilosa, 140. quadrifida, 140. sclerocarpa, 141. villosa, 140. Portulacacez, 139. Potentilla procumbens, 500. Tormentilla, 500. Poupartia dulcis, 374. Poza Ranunculus, 698. Priestleya sericea, 387. Prinos, 295. Prockia crucis, 73. completa, 73. Prockiaria, 73. Prosopis affints, 474. dulcis, 474. juliflora, 474. strombulifera, 475. globosa, 477. Pseudarthia capitata, 483. Psidium cerasoides, 549. Decaspermum, 547. Guajava, 550. polycarpon, 550. pomiferum, 550. pyriferum, 550. Psittacanthus dichroos, 735. Jacquint, 736. Psoralea Americana, 401. Psoralea aphylla, 402. bituminosa, 402. dentata, 401. decumbens, 402. glandulosa, 403. lasiostachys, 403. patens, 402. - pinnata, 402. tenax, 402. Psychrophila appendiculata, 18. andicola, 12. dionezefolia, 14. sagittata, 12. Pterocarpus frutescens, 458. Pterospermum diversifolium, 194. Pukateria littoralis, 734. Pultencea aspera, 383. biloba, 385. daphnioides, 384. elliptica, 385. euchila, 384. linophylla, 384. polifolia, 385. retusa, 385. stipularis, 385. villosa, 385. Putterlickia pyracantha, 287. Pyrranthus littoreus, 615. Q. Quillaia Moline, 493. saponaria, 493. Smegmadermos, 493. Quintinia serrata, 666. R. Rafnia axillaris, 387. Ranunculus acaulis, 7. Aucklandicus, 8. biternatus, 6. Bonplandianus, 6. Chilensis, 6. exiguus, 6. Hawaiensis, 10. hirtus, 7. INDEX. Ranunculus inundatus, 9. lappaceus, 9. Mauiensis, 11. plebeius, 8. preemorsus, 5. rivularis, 7. Ranunculaces, 1. Raphanus Raphanistrum, 64. Reissekia cordifolia, 285. Retanilla Ephedra, 276. trinervia, 276. Reynoldsia pleiosperma, 724. Sandwicensis, 723. Rhadinocarpus, 423. Rhamnacex, 274. Rhamnuus zizyphoides, 278. incana, 278. Rhexia Fontanesii, 603. gracilis, 604. Langsdorfiana, 603. Leuzeana, 596. nympheifolia, 596. Rhizophora Candelaria, 613. Mangle, 613. mucronata, 613. Rhizophoraceze, 607. Rhizophoree, 613. Rhodamnia cinerea, 546. trinervia, 547. Rhodomyrtus tomentosa, 546. Rhus atrum, 367. caustica, 370. lucida, 370. Sandwicensis, 369. simarubeefolia, 367. Taitensis, 368. Rhynchanthera dichotoma, 604. pentanthera, 604. Schrankiana, 604. Rhynchosia minima, 454. Rhytidandra Vitiensis, 303. Ribes albiflorum, 662. glandulosum, 662. Magellanicum, 662. punctatum, 662. Richella monosperma, 28. Riedleia concatenata, 191. 771 772 Riedleia corchorifolia, 191. odorata, 192. Rochea odoratissima, 690. Rollinia longifolia, 26. parviflora, 26. Rosaceze, 493. Rourea heterophylla, 875. Rubus alcecefolius, 5038. australis, 502. Bergii, 503. cissoides, 502. Kglanteria, 502. fruticosus, 502. geoides, 503. Hamitltonianus, 503. Hawaiensis, 504. heterophyllus, 5038. Macrei, 505. macropodus, 502. Molluccanus, 503. reflecus, 503. roszefolius, 501. rugosus, 503. schmidelioides, 502. tiliaceus, 503. urticeefolius, 503. Rulingia pannosa, 188. Ruta bracteosa, 327. Rutaceze, 327. S. Sagotia triflora, 432. Sagina crassifolia, 181. subulata, 182. Salacia macrophylla, 286. undulata, 286. Salomonia Cantoniensis, 105. Samyda polyandra, 81. Selloi, 79. Samydaceze, 79. Sanicula Sandwicensis, 705. Sapindacese, 247, Sapindus baccatus, 259. cinereus, 258. Jraxinifolius, 250. INDEX. Sapindus rubiginosus, 250. Saponaria, 252. Vitiensis, 251. Sarothamus scoparius, 396. Saurauja, 208. Sauvagesia erecta, 97. Saxifraga bicuspidata, 687. Bonplandit, 687. exarata, 687. Magellanica, 687. Peruviana, 687. stellata, 687. Saxifragacess, 663. Saxifragec, 664. Scandix glochidiata, 711. Schefilera digitata, 715. Schidiomyrtus crenulata, 571. diosmeefolia, 570. Schiedea diffusa, 138, 138. Hookeri, 133. ligustrina, 133. Menziesii, 133. Nuttallii, 133, 137. spergulina, 133, 135. Schinus dentatus, 370. terebinthifolius, 371. Molle, 371. Schizeilema, 698. Schizophragma, 664. Schmidelia Cochinchinensis, 249. glabra, 249. leevis, 249. obovata, 249. racemosa, 249. serrata, 249. Schnella macrostachya, 470. splendens, 470. Sciodaphyllum, 7238. Sclerantheze, 129. Sclerostylis atalantoides, 233. Scopolia lucida, 734. Scutula, 575. Scytalis anomala, 452. Securidaca ovalifolia, 108. Sedum nudum, 691. Peruvianum, 691. Selenolobium, 458. Selinum acaule, 704. proliferum, 708. spinosum, 708. Senebiera didyma, 63. pectinata, 63. pinnatifida, 63. Serianthes myriadenia, 485. Vitiensis, 485. Seringia platyphylla, 187. Serjania communis, 247. cuspidata, 247. Sesbania tomentosa, 409. Sesuvium Portulacastrum, 142. parviflorum, 142. Sicyocarya, 649. Sicyopsis, 649. Sicyos angulatus, 648. australis, 648. cucumerinus, 652. Fretensis, 648. levis, 648. macrophyllus, 651. montanus, 649. pachycarpus, 650. Sida acaulis, 156. acuta, 159. Africana, 160. alba, 158. althxifolia, 160. anthemidifolia, 152. atrosanguinea, 160. Borussica, 152. bracteoluta, 159. Canariensis, 158. canescens, 158. carpinifolia, 159. carpinoides, 148. compacta, 152. cordifolia, 160. corrugata, 169. depressa, 147. Diellii, 162. Dombeyana, 160. fallax, 161. fibulifera, 165. floribunda, 159. glauca, 167. INDEX. Sida herbacea, 160. Hondensis, 158. humilis, 160. incana, 168. Javensis, 160. linifolia, 157. maura, 162. Meyeniana, 164. microphylla, 158. multiflora, 160. paniculata, 159. parnassizfolia, 150. pedicularizxfolia, 152. Philippica, 158. Phyllanthos, 152. Pichichensis, 152. pinnata, 154. planicaulis, 159. pulchella, 181. pygmeza, 150. retusa, 158. rhombifolia, 158. rhomboidea, 158. rotundifolia, 160, 161, 163. salicifolia, 158. Sertum, 163. spireifolia, 159. spinosa, 157. sulphurea, 157. Tasmanica, 181. ulmifolia, 164. venusta, 160. veroniceefolia, 160. Sieversia albiflora, 501. Silene Anglica, 109. Antirrhina, 112. cerastoides, 109. Gallica, 109. inflata, 112. lanceolata, 111. quinquevulnera, 112. struthioloides, 109. thysanodes, 114. Silenez, 109. Simarubaceex, 355. Sinapidendron frutescens, 64. Sinapis frutescens, 64. 194 773 174 Sisymbrium amplexicaule, 61. __ athrocarpum, 59. canescens, 59. gerantifolium, 48. glaciale, 49. leptocarpum, 58. myriophyllum, 59. pimpinellifolium, 59. Titicacense, 59. spathuleefolium, 60. Sizygium, 509, 518. Sizygium paniculatum, 525. zeylanicum, 520. Skinnera excorticata, 624. Smithia spicata, 429. Solea monopetala, 87. Sonneratia acida, 550. Sophora macrocarpa, 460. microphylla, 458. tetraptera, 458. tomentosa, 460. Spadostylis Sieberi, 384. Spartium junceum, 395. scopartum, 396. virgatum, 396. Spatholobus, 445. Spathularia longifolia, 88. Spennera paludosa, 601. Spergula arvensis, 121. Spergularia ramosa, 121. rubra, 121. Spergulastrum lanuginosum, 115. Spheeralcea obtusiloba, 171. Spirzeanthemum Samoense, 667. Vitiense, 669. Spondias Cytherea, 374. dulcis, 374. Stackhousia linearifolia, 807. muricata; 306. spathulata, 306. Stackhousiacez, 306. Staphidium biserratum, 598. pauciflorum, 593. Stellaria ceespitosa, 119. cuspidata, 118. debilis, 118. elongata, 115. INDEX, Stellaria lanuginosa, 115. leptopetala, 119. pungens, 119. squarrosa, 119. Stephania australis, 38. Forsteri, 36. Gaudichaudii, 37. glaucescens, 37. Sterculia Ceramica, 184. Sterculiaceze, 182. Stereoxylon pulverulentum, 665. revolutum, 664. rubrum, 664. Stigmaphyllon ciliatum, 265. Gaudichaudinum, 265. | tomentosum, 265. vitifolium, 264. Stilbocarpa polaris, 714. Streptodesmia canescens, 427. Strombocarpa cinerascens, 475. odorata, 475. pubescens, 475. reptans, 475. strombulifera, 475. Strongylocalyx, 509. Strongylodon macrobotrys, 448. ruber, 445. Strophostyles, 449. Struthanthus Eschscholtzianus, 736. Stylosanthes Guianensis, 424. viscosa, 424. Suriana maritima, 307. Surianiaceze, 307. Swainsona coronilleefolia, 410. galegifolia, 410. microphylla, 410. monticola, £11. Swartzia elegans, 467. grandiflora, 467. Syllysium, 509. Syncarpia laurifolia, 556. I. Tacsonia gracilens, 639. peduncularis, 639. Tacsonia trifoliata, 639. Talinum patens, 142. Teesdalia Lepidium, 55. Teline Maderensis, 396. Tephrosia Baueri, 408. bracteolata, 407. Capensis, 408. hirta, 407. piscatoria, 407. Terminalia Catappa, 615. glabrata, 616. Moluccana, 616. Richii, 616. Ternstreemia Brasiliensis, 209. Ternstroemiaceze, 206. Tetraglochin strictum, 495. Tetragonia expansa, 144. Tetrameris Martiana, 601. Tetrapathzxa australis, 637. Tetraphyle muscosa, 689. Tetraplasandra Hawaiensis, 728. Tetrapterys Guilleminiana, 270. mogorizfolia, 269. punctulata, 269. rotundifolia, 269. Tetratheca affinis, 102. ericifolia, 102. juncea, 101. setigera, 102. thymifolia, 102. Thespesia populnea, 179. Thlaspi Bonariense, 62. multifidum, 62. Thomasia quercifolia, 187. Thryallis rotundifolia, 264. Tiliaceze, 195. - Tillzea connata, 688. moschata, 689. rubescens, 689. verticillaris, 638. muscosa, 688. Tontelea undulata, 286. Torilis nodosa, 712. Tovaria pendula, 65. Trachymene ericoides, 695. lanceolata, 694. linearis, 695. INDEX. Trachymene myrtifolia, 694. ovalis, 694. subvelutina, 695. tenuis, 695. Tremandra, 102. Tremandracez, 101. Trevoa trinervia, 276. Tribulus cistoides, 325. Trichilia alliacea, 240. monophylla, 222. spectabilis, 238. Trichilia elegans, 242. Richardiana, 242. Trichocephalus stipularis, 285. Trichosanthes quinquangulata, 645. Trifolium filiforme, 398. fragiferum, 398. Matthewsii, 398. obcordatum, 399. Peruvianum, 398. polymorphum, 399. Trigonia crotonoides, 108. nivea, 108. Trigoniaceze, 108. Triphasia monophylla, 234. trifoliata, 234. Triptolemea montana, 458. myriantha, 458. Tristania albens, 556. laurina, 568. neriifolia, 568. Tristerix aphyllus, 737. tetrandrus, 736. Triumfetta annua, 197. eriocarpa, 196. Fabreana, 197. Indica, 197. obscura, 196. procumbens, 197. rhomboidea, 196. trilocularis, 197. Tropxolacex, 318. Tropeolum majus, 318. tricolor, 318. tricolorum, 318. tuberosum, 318. Tupeia antarctica, 742, 775 776 Tupeia Cunninghamii, 742. pubigera, 742. Turnera cuneiformis, 636. salicifolia, 636. ulmifolia, 636. Turneraceze, 636. U. Ugni, 544. Ulex Europzus, 395. Umbelliferze, 692. Umbilicus pendulinus, 691. Unona leptopetala, 30. ligularis, 30. odorata, 30. Uraria lagopoides, 430. linearis, 480. picta, 430. Urena lobata, 169. morifolia, 170. monopetala, 169. scabriuscula, 169. Uvaria amygdalina, 31. odorata, 30. V. Vavea Amicorum, 244. Ventilago Vitiensis, 274. Vepris simplicifolia, 336. Vicia Andicola, 420. bidentata, 419. depauperata, 419. grandiflora, 420. Matthewsii, 419. Menziesii, 420. nigricans, 419. Selloi, 419. Vigna anomala, 452. lutea, 452. Oahuensis, 450. Sandwicensis, 451. Sinensis, 452. villosa, 450. Villaresia mucronata, 297. Viminaria denudata, 382. INDEX. Viola Chamissonana, 86. Commersoniana, 83. hederacea, 84. Kauensis, 85. Magellanica, 84. longifolia, 88. tracheliifolia, 86. tridentata, 83. orchidiflora, 88. Siebert, 84. Sieberiana, 84. spathulata, 84. summa, 88. Violacezx, 83. Virgilia Capensis, 460. Viscum antarcticum, 742. articulatum, 754. compressum, 754. moniliforme, 754. opuntioides, 754. platycaulon, 754. Schottii, 742. Visenia, 193. Vismia G'utanensis, 219. Hilarii, 219. Vitaceze, 271. Viviania marifolia, 307. Vivianaceee, 307. Vochysia emarginata, 617. tucanorum, 617. Vochysiaceze, 617. Vouapa, 469. W. Waltheria Americana, 189. Indica, 190. Lophanthus, 191. ovata, 190. pyrolzefolia, 190. reticulata, 190. Walpersia capitata, 285. stipularis, 285." Webbia floribunda, 219. Weinmannia affinis, 674. Arnoldia, 676. betulina, 671. Weinmannia Blume, 676. fuschioides, 671. parviflora, 6738. pinnata, 677. Richii, 675. roseefolia, 671. Samoensis, 677. spirseoides, 677. sylvicola, 671. Wintera aromatica, 24. ~ Winterana aromatica, 24. Wormia apetala, 18. Wrenciala, 180. X. Xanthosia hirsuta, 695. montana, 696. pilosa, 695. tridentata, 696. Ximenia Americana, 304. May 20, 1854. INDEX. | Ximenia elliptica, 305. Xylocarpus Granatum, 243. obovatus, 243. AXylophylla longifolia, 718. Xylosma orbiculatum, 78. suaveolens, 76. Zanthoxylee, 327. Zanthoxylum, 340. Kauaense, 354. varians, 382. Zichya, 437. Zieria lanceolata, 331. pauciflora, 331. Zizyphus Jujuba, 275. Zornia angustifolia, 423. reticulata, 424. Zygophyllaceze, 325. 195 ~I “I iT