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subserratis utrinque acutis v. subacuminatis supra nitidis; racemis axillaribus brevibus paucifloris ; 
floribus diclinis, masculis perianthio 5-mero; petalis laciniatis; staminibus 20 v. pluribus; antheris 
vix apiculatis v. mucronatis.— Viti Islands, locality not recorded (U. S. Expl. Exped.). 
9. E. cassinoides, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 204; glaber; foliis coriaceo-chartaceis obovatis 
denticulatis leviter penninerviis; racemis axillaribus plurifloris ; drupa pyriformi.—Bua or Sandal- 
wood Bay, Vanua Levu (U. S. Expl. Exped.). Also collected in the Tongan Islands (U. S. Expl. 
Exped.). 
6. E. pyriformis, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 205; subglaber; foliis membranaceis ellipticis 
utrinque obtusissimis serrulatis perspicue penninerviis; racemis axillaribus ; drupa pyriformi.— Bua 
or Sandalwood Bay, Vanua Levu (U. S. Expl. Exped.). 
Professor A. Gray kindly sent me a fragment of the latter plant, for comparison with my new 
species, but it agreed with none of them. All the Eleocarpi are evidently very local and rare in the group. 
The flowers of E. cassinoides and pyriformis are as yet unknown. 
Orvo XVI. MALPIGHIACEZE. 
I. Hiptage, Gertn. Fruct. vol. ii. p. 69. t. 116; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. p.258. Calyx 
5-partitus. Glandula 1l, magna, partim pedicello adnata. Petala unguiculata, ineequalia, sericea. 
Stamina 10, declinata, omnia fertilia, unico ceteris multo majore; filamenta ima basi connata. 
Ovarium 3-lobum, dorso 3-4-appendiculatum ; stylus 1 (rarius 2), filiformis, primum circinatus, 
stigmate capitellato serius truncato, ceteri rudimentarii. Samare 1-3, 3-alate. Semen subglo- 
bosum; cotyledones inzquales, crasse, curvz.—Frutices scandentes; foliis oppositis, coriaceis, in- 
tegerrimis, petiolatis, eglandulosis, stipulis 0; racemis terminalibus et axillaribus, interdum com- 
positis; pedunculis erectis, basi bracteatis, cum pedicellis 2-bracteolatis articulatis; floribus albis 
v. roseis, odoratis, petalo quinto discolore.—Gertnera, Schreb. Gen. vol. i. p. 290; Molina, Cav. 
Diss. 435. t. 263. 
l. H. myrtifolia, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 267. t. 21; foliis lanceolato-ellipticis oblongisve 
nitidis; racemis paucifloris; petalis roseis; staminibus anticis majoribus subzquilongis arcuatis; 
alis samare obovatis brevibus, crista dorsali quoque in alam producta.—Ovalau and Vanua Levu 
(U. S. Expl. Exped.), Viti Levu (Greffe! n. 18). 
A. Gray enumerates two varieties, viz. a, foliis 1-2 poll. longis crassiusculis rigidis haud perspicue 
venosis (represented by figs. A, B of his Plate), and £, foliis 3—4 poll. longis tenuioribus magis venosis 
(fig. C of his Plate). 1 did not find the plant, and know it only from Dr. Græffe’s specimens. 
2. H. Javanica, Blum. Bijdr. 224?; foliis ovali-oblongis acuminatis, basi rotundatis aut 
acutis biglandulosis glabris; racemis axillaribus simplicibus; calyce 1-glanduloso.— Taviuni and 
Narai (U. S. Expl. Exped.). : 
. .l have not seen specimens answering to this description, and A. Gray has some doubt about the 
identity of the Fijian species with the Javanese. Some of the leaves are very obtuse. The crest is 
extended into a wing fully half as large as the lateral wings, and similar in shape. The petals are 
fimbriate. . 
Only four representatives of the Natural Order Malpighiacee have hitherto been found in Polynesia, 
viz. the two just enumerated, the well-known Tristellaria Australasica, A. Rich. Voy. Astrolabe, Bot. vol. 
ii. t. 15, collected by Barclay (n. 3348) in New Ireland, and Ryssopterys Timorensis, A. Juss., found by 
M‘Gillivray in New Caledonia. : : a ; 
