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stoma is therefore more exactly intermediate between Bubiacece 

 and Apocynece than any other known genus. 



The corolla is usually described as " subinfundibuliformis, fauce 

 barbata." The tube is, however, so short that it is often almost 

 rotate, and the hairs, when they exist, are rather on the upper 

 surface of the lobes than in the throat. 



Of the species enumerated by DeCandolle six are from the 

 Mauritius, but of these the G. parviflorum does not appear to 

 differ from G. pedunculatum, and G. lanceolatum is probably a 

 mere variety of the common G. ovatum which varies much in the 

 shape of the leaf. On the other hand, some specimens transmitted 

 by Bqjer under the name of G. obovatum belong to a really distinct 

 species with larger flowers, anthers terminated by a long linear 

 appendage, and pods more than twice the length of those of the 

 other species. 



From the five Polynesian species must be deducted G. acumi- 

 natum, Wall., described from male specimens of a species of 

 Zfrophyllum {Axanthes, Bl.) allied to XT. glabrum ; and G. hcemo- 

 spermum does not appear to me specifically to differ from Forster's 

 original G. rupestre, of which I have seen the specimen in the 

 British Museum, and which I have also from the Feejee Islands, 

 gathered by the American Exploring Expedition. It is well 

 described by Blume, and, besides the varieties alluded to by him, 

 the branches often become glabrous. I have three new species to 

 add : one from the Philippine Islands with the leaves of G. ligus- 

 trifolium, but differently shaped calyxes, a thick-leaved sea-coast 

 one from the Isle of Pines off New Caledonia, and a very large- 

 leaved one from Bonin. 



Tribe III. FAGK^EE^E. 



This tribe corresponds with Gardeniece, characterized by an in- 

 dehiscent fleshy fruit with several ovules in each cell of the ova- 

 rium. The affinities, however, with Bubiacece, except in the case 

 of Fagrcea itself, are not so close as in the case of the other 

 tribes. Strychnos is in the tribe the representative of Apocynece, 

 and Nicodemia of Scrophularinece, but in both instances the con- 

 nexion is rather remote ; nor are all these genera very naturally 

 associated with each other, but I have been unable to discover 

 any better arrangement. Like the other tribes, it may be divided 

 according to the aestivation of the corolla ; contorted in the Asiatic 

 Fagrcea, the American Desfontainea and Potalia, and the African 



