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testa crustacea v. coriacea.—Frutices v. arbores; foliis alternis v. oppositis integerrimis v. serratis ; 
floribus parvis solitariis v. sepius racemosis v. paniculatis axillaribus v. terminalibus ; filamentis 
nunc brevissimis nunc antheris longioribus. 
1, A. () Storckii, (sp. nov.) Seem. in Journ. of Bot. British and Foreign, vol. ii. p. 75. (1864); 
glabra; ramulis geniculato-flexuosis; foliis brevissime petiolatis v. sessilibus ovatis v. ovato-oblongis 
acuminatis integerrimis, stipulis ovato-lanceolatis; floribus axillaribus solitariis (viridibus), calycis 
laciniis 5 oblongis obtusis, petalis . . . , staminibus . . . , capsula (flava) ovato-oblonga obtusa 3-valvi ; 
seminibus numerosis subglobosis glabris grani Piperis magnitudine.—“ Serirakavono " incolarum.— 
Port Kinnaird, Ovalau (Storck ! n. 867). | 
This plant may possibly be the type of a new genus, but having only seen fruiting specimens, I have 
provisionally placed it in Alsodeia, though the numerous seeds are rather opposed to its admission. I do 
not find anything like it either in the Kew or British Museum Herbaria. Mr. Storck says (* Bonplandia,’ 
x. p. 295), “the flowers are greenish and the fruit yellow.” The leaves, when in very young bud, are 
covered with silky, whitish hairs, but after expansion they are perfectly glabrous, the largest being 5 inches 
long and from 2-2} inches broad. Capsule $ of an inch long, nodding. 
Orpo VII. BIXINEZE. 
I. Xylosma, Forst. Prodr. 72; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. p. 198. Flores dioici (v. polygami ?). 
Sepala 4—5, squamzeformia, scepius ciliata, imbricata. Petala 0. Stamina oo, disco glanduloso sepe 
cincta; anthere versatiles, breves. Ovarium disco annulari impositum; placente parietales 2 v. 
rarius 3-6, 2—pauci-ovulatz; stylus integer v. plus minus divisus, stigmatibus dilatatis, v. stigma 
rarius subsessile peltato-lobatum. Bacca indehiscens, parva, 2-8-sperma. Semina ovoidea; testa 
levis, crustacea; cotyledones latz.— Arbores spe spinescentes ; foliis dentatis v. rarius integerrimis ; 
floribus ad axillas glomeratis v. rarius breviter racemosis. 
1, X. orbiculatum, Forst. Prodr. n. 380; inerme, glabrum ; foliis orbiculatis v. elliptico-rotun- 
datis coriaceis integerrimis v. suberenatis; sepalis 4, lobis obtusissimis, ovato-rotundatis, intus pube- 
rulis, extus hispidis, bacca (nigra) ovato-globosa.— Myroxylon -orbiculatum, Forst. Char. Gen. p. 63. 
n. 2. Xylosma integrifolium, Clos. Ann. des Sc. Nat. 4 Ser. vol. viii. 236.— Island of Taviuni (See- 
mann! n.10). Also collected at Savage Island (Forster!) and Tongan Islands (U. S. Expl. Exped.), 
Marquesas Islands (Lapére). 
I hold X. Laperei, Clos. = X. suaveolens, Forst. (Merretia axillaris, Sol. in Parkins. Drawings of 
Tahit. Plant. t. 120, ined. Rhamnoides axillaris, Sol. Prim. Fl. Ins. Pacif. p. 377, ined.), Tahiti (Banks 
and Solander! W. Anderson! Forster! in Mus. Brit.), of which A. Gray has given a good illustration. 
But 1 find another new Polynesian species in Barclay's Sandwich Island collection.* 
Orpo VIII. PITTOSPOREZE. 
I. Pittosporum, Banks in Gertn. Fruct. vol. i. p. 286. t. 59; Benth. et Hook. f, Gen. p. 131. 
Sepala distincta v. basi connata. Petala basi v. ultra medium in tubum conniventia v. cohserentia v. 
rarius a basi patentia; filamenta subulata; antherz erectw, ovato-oblonge, 2.rimosw. Ovarium 
sessile v. breviter stipitatum, imperfecte v. subperfecte 2- rarius 3—5-loculare; stylus brevis, Capsula 
* Xylosma Hawaiense, sp. nov. Seem.; inerme, glabrum, foliis petiolatis ovatis v. ovato-oblongis acu- 
minatis minute glanduloso-dentatis coriaceis, racemis axillaribus 6-floris, bracteatis, pedicellis (6-8 lin. long.) 
infra medium 2-bracteolatis, sepalis 4 rotundatis v. oblongis obtusis v. subapiculatis glabris, margine ciliatis, 
petalis . . , , disco hypogyno glanduloso, staminibus ..., bacca (immatura) ovata glabra stigmate sessili 
4-lobo eoronata.—Oahu, Sandwich Islands (Barclay! n. 1256).—" A shrub, 4 feet high, growing in ravines, 
and vernacularly termed * Rouk-kui' (Barclay). Branches stout. Leaves very coriaceous, 3-43 inches long, 
including petiole, and 2-21 inches broad. Petals and stamens wanting in the specimen. 
