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ulatis; calycis dentes subulati, semipollicares ; corolla leviter 
obliqua, fere hypocrateriformis, tubo circiter 3 poll. longo angusto 
vix curvato, limbo subequaliter 5-lobo, fere 2 poll. diametro, 
lobis latis. Stamina 4,inclusa. Ovarium multiovulatum. Capsula 
non visa. 
-Treasury Istanp, Solomon group, Dr. H. B. Guppy, 186; 
Unawa, in™the same group, Rev. R. B. Comins, 264. These 
two localities are almost at the two extremities of this chain of 
islands. 
Hedycarya ? alternifolia, Hems/. 
Species insignis, si hujus generis, foliis alternis. 
Frutex vel arbor undique glabra. Ramuli ultimi pallidi, ver- 
ruculosi. Folia alterna, coriacea, in siccis nigrescentia, breviter 
petiolata, rotundato-ovata vel late elliptica, cum petiolo usque 
ad 5 poll. longa et 3 poll. lata, obtusa, remote obscureque denti- 
culata, venis primariis lateralibus utrinque 4-5. Flores ¢ vix 
sesquilineam diametro, racemosi, racemis parvis axillaribus; 
perianthium depressum, obscurissime lobatum, margine cilio- 
latum ; stamina numerosissima antheris subsessilibus. 
Tonea Isnanps, Mr. J. J. Lister. 
Antiaris turbinifera, Hemsl. 
Inter species Polynesiz magnitudine fructus insignis. 
Arbor 80-100-pedalis (fide Comins). Folia petiolata, sub- 
coriacea, oblongo-obovata, sine petiolo usque ad 6 poll. longa, 
integra, obtusissima, basi cuneata, supra nitida, subtus pallidiora, 
venis primariis lateralibus utrinque 8-9 inter se prope margi- 
nem anastomosantibus ; petiolus sesquipollicaris. Receptaculum 
florum ¢ breviter pedunculatum, circiter 9 lineas diametro, ut 
videtur cupulatum, carnosum, extus verrucosum, multiflorum, 
involucro brevissime 5-lobato, lobis late rotundatis, margine 
incrassatis. Perianthium tenuissimum, perfectum non visum ; 
filamenta brevissima. Fructus ellipsoideus, siccus 23 poll. longus 
et 2 poll. diametro. 
Paura, Usawa, etc., Solomon Islands, Rev. R. B. Comins. 
The Rev. R. B. Comins, to whom we are indebted for this and 
many other curious plants from Polynesia, sends a specimen of a 
humming-top made by natives of the Solomon Islands from the 
fruit of Antiaris turbinifera. After the fleshy part of the fruit 
has been removed or has decayed, there remains an excessively 
bard endocarp of ivory-like density. The peduncle disarticulates 
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