260 LOO CHOO AND BONIN. [Balsaviinece. 



simplex, pedunculatus, axillaris versus apices ramulorum, folia subaequans. Flores subsecundi, cernui, pedi- 

 cellos sequantes. Alabastra ovata. Sepala oblonga, acutiuscula. Petala dorso glabra, cuneata, basi 

 integerrima, apice lobata ac fimbriata. Stamina eopiosa. Aniherm subsessiles, lineares, puberulse, apice 

 bifida?, segmentis recurvo-patentibus asqualibus apice obtusis barbulatis. Ovarium globosum, villoso-pubescens, 

 3-loculare. Stylus filiforrnis, antheras subsequans. 



This differs from E. serratus by the habit and the foliage. 



Tab. LIII. Eheocarpus photinisefolius. Fig. I. Petal ; Jig. 2. Anther -.—magnified. 



Ord. VII. TERNSTROEMIACE^. De Cand. 



1. Eurya Japonica. Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 191. tab. 25. 



Hab. Loo Choo In our plant the leaves are smaller and much more approximate than in Thunberg's 



plate ; in size and shape they exactly resemble the uppermost of that figure. The specimen is in fruit. The 

 style is persistent, short, and trifid at the apex. 



Ord. VIII. AURANTIACE^S. Corr. 



1. Murray a exotica. Linn. 



Hab. Loo Choo.— Called by the natives Gee-Keetza. Most botanists consider that Japan is the native 

 country of this plant, but it does not seem to have been noticed there by Thunberg. 



Ord. IX. GUTTIFERiE. Juss. 



1. Calophyllum Jnophyllum. Linn. 



Hab. Bonin.-Plukenefs Aim. t. 147. f. 3, referred here by some botanists, by others to C. Tacamahaca, 

 is considered by Dr. Buchanan Hamilton to be a species of Gardenia ; it resembles Xanthochymm ovali- 

 folius more than any of these, and is probably that species. 



Ord. X. SAPINDACEiE. Juss. 



1. Dodonaea Burmanniana. De Cand. Prod. 1. p. 616. 

 Hab. Bonin. 



Ord. XI. AMPELIDE^. H. B. K. 



1. Vitis (Cissus) carnosa. Wall.— Wight et Am. Prod. Fl. Penins. Ind. Or. 1. p. 127. 

 Hab. Loo Choo.— If the genus Cissus is to be retained, its characters must rest on the quaternary pro- 

 portion of the flower (quinary in Vitis), and the distinct style ; the inflorescence is considerably d.fferent. 



2. Vitis Indica. Linn.— Wight et Am. I. c. p. 131— V. Labrusca. Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 

 103? 



Hab. Loo Choo. 



Ord. XII. BALSAMINEZE. Rich. 

 1. Impatiens Balsamina. Linn — -Balsamina hortensis. Desp. 

 Hab. Loo Choo. 



