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quam petala breviora, basi disco brunneo cupuliformi adnata, pubescentia, prope 
bases antherarum albo-hirta, antheris ellipticis longitudinaliter dehiscentibus, 
apiculo brevi. Ovarium subglobosum, hirtum, biloculare; ovula in utroque 
loculo 2, pendula, collateralia. Stylus cylindricus, crassus, apice angustatus, 
stamina superans, hirtus. Stigma capitatum, obscure 5-lobum. Bacca globosa, 
bilocularis, nigra, pubescens, 7 mm. longa, pericarpio crustaceo intus nitido, 
seminibus 2. 
Between Camps I and III, 500 to 2500 ft. 
Allied to Vavea vitiensis, Scem., but with nearly sessile leaves, the petiole being 
winged nearly to the base, and very few flowers in a small cyme. The ovary seems 
clearly to be only 2-celled, not 4-celled as in the other species, with two seeds in each 
cell. The two or three known species of the genus occur in the Fiji Islands, and have 
petioled leaves and long-peduncled corymbs of flowers. 
OLACINEA. 
LEPIONURUS PUBESCENS, Ridl., sp. nov. 
Folia alterna, subremota, tenuiter coriacea, ovata, longe acuminata, basi cuneata, 
glabra, 13-15 em. longa, 7 cm. lata, nervis tenuibus 5 paribus, petiolis 8 mm. 
longis. Spice axillares singule vel binz, pubescentes. Bractee lanceolate, 
deflexze, hirtze, diu persistentes. Flores parvi, 9 mm. lati, dissiti, sessiles, hirti. 
Sepala 5, minuta, ovata, hirta. Petala 5, triangularia, acuta, extus hirta. 
Stamina 5, petalis opposita, extus discum inserta, filamentis brevissimis, antheris 
ovatis triangularibus. Discus quadratus, breviter 4-lobus. 
Camp VI b, 3900 ft. 
This differs from Lepionurus sylvestris, Bl., in its hairy inflorescence of sessile flowers 
and the lanceolate persistent bracts. 3 
ICACINE. 
PENTASTIRA, Ridl., gen. nov. 
Arbores. Folia alterna, coriacea vel membranacea, glabra, petiolata. Cyme axillares, 
breves, pauciflorze, floribus parvis. Sepala 5, ovata, carinata, pubescentia. Petala 5, 
breviora, libera, linearia, oblonga, retusa, faciebus internis carinatis. Stamina b, 
sepalis opposita, filamentis brevibus, antheris introrsis parvis. Ovarium hirtum, 
uniloculare. Stylo nullo. | ' 
Species 2. 
PENTASTIRA FLAVA, Ridl., sp. nov. 
Arbor. Folia elliptica, lanceolata vel obovata, anto. basi cuneata, dita, 
_ 105-13 em. longa, 4'5 cm. lata, nervis 5-paribus subtus elevatis, petiolis 3 mm. 
longis.  Cyme 3 cm. longe, pubescentes. Bractee minute, lineares, hirte. 
| Pedicelli 1 mm. longi, hirti. Sepala 5, ovata, ee acuta, iuflexa, pubescentia, 
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