966 MR. J. G. BAKER ON THE FLORA OF FIJI. 
oled, 3-4 in. long, 1-13 in. broad, narrowed gradually to the base 
and apex, subeoriaceous, green and glabrous on both surfaces, 
the main veins fine and inconspieuous. Flowers in copious 
glomerate sessile axillary fascicles. Calyx-limb campanulate, 
coriaceous, truncate, } in. long and broad. Corolla j in. long, 
with a campanulate tube and. 4 oblong-lanceolate segments. 
Fruit a globose berry 4 in. long. and broad, with four bony one- 
seeded tightly packed pyrenes, filling up the whole of it inside 
the epidermis. 
Hab. Wooded mountains of Taviuni, near the coffee-estate of 
Forest Creek, Horne 1189. 
This recedes from the typical species of Hydnophytum by its 
four-celled ovary ; and Mr. Horne's note on the sheet does not say 
any thing about the stem being tuberous and excavated by ants, 
as in the other species. 
The following species was examined and characterized by Mr. 
W. P. Hiern, the monographer of the order to which it belongs. 
Masa LATERIFLORA (Horne, ‘A Year in Fiji; p. 264). 
Arborea, ramulis glabris, foliis breviter petiolatis oblongis obtusis coria- 
ceis glabris, floribus lateralibus contiguis distichis subsessilibus, calycis 
pilosi campanulato lobis parvis deltoideis, corolla pilose segmentis bre- 
vibus ovatis, masculis staminibus 6 glabris, ovario rudimentario piloso, 
foemineis staminodiis nullis, ovario triloculari ovulis in loculo geminis, 
fructu magno ellipsoideo obtuso piloso.—Maba (Ferreola) lateriflora, 
Hiern in Herb, Kew. 1879. 
A small dicecious tree, 16-20 feet high; branches alternate, 
terete, black-ashy, glabrate except the puberulous extremities. 
Leaves alternate, distichous, oval, obtusely narrowly or nearly 
rounded at both ends, glabrous, thinly coriaceous, brown-green 
(in the dry state), rather paler beneath, opaque, 23-53 in. long 
by 1-27 in. wide; petiole 3-3 in. long. 
Male flowers lateral and axillary, clustered in 2 or more rows, 
white; calyx shortly 3-lobed, nearly } in. long (in the dry state) 
by g in. thick; corolla 3-cleft, hairy outside, glabrous inside; 
stamens 6, glabrous; ovary rudimentary, hairy. 
Female flowers lateral in 2 opposite rows on the branches of 
#-} in. diam., solitary but approximate, subsessile ; peduncles 
very short, with small imbricated bracts at the base, pubescent ; 
flower-buds nearly 4 in. long; calyx cup-shaped, shortly 3-cleft, 
silky-tomentose, } in. long, with roundly deltoid not imbricated 
