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2—4-)loculare, stigmate sessili capitato 3-4-lobo; ovula in loculis 2. Drupa ovoidea v. ellipsoidea, 
siepe 3-gona, carne parca, putamine osseo abortu 1-loculari 1-spermo. Semen loculo conforme, testa 
membranacea ; cotyledones (interdum fissæ) contortuplicatz ; radicula brevis, recta, supera.— Arbores 
elatze, balsamifluz ; foliis amplis alternis exstipulatis v. pinnulis inferioribus sessilibus stipulæfor- 
mibus, imparipinnatis, rarissime 1—3-foliolatis, foliolis oppositis valde coriaceis integerrimis v. crenu- 
latis; paniculis axillaribus ramosis, ramulis robustis; floribus parvis v. mediocribus. 
1. C. Vitiense, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 373; glaberrimum ; stipulis subulatis parvis caducis ; 
foliolis 5-7 oblongo-ellipticis utrinque obtusis nunc subacuminatis nitidis; paniculis parvifloris; pedi- 
cellis (semipollicaribus et ultra) clavatis; calycis lobis triangularibus acutis; drupa ellipsoidea ros- 
trata, vertice pilosa.—Mountains of the Macuata coast of Vanua Levu (U. S. Expl. Exped.), Ovalau 
(Seemann ! n. 97). : 
Var. B.t foliolis 5-9 sepius apice v. utrinque plus minus acuminatis. A. Gray, l. c.—Macuata 
coast of Vanua Levu (U. S. Expl. Exped.). 
Harvey collected an allied species (C. Harveyi, Seem. ; glaberrimum ; foliolis 6-7 ovato-oblongis acumi- 
natis nitidis; panieulis paucifloris; laciniis calycis obtusis ; drupa ovoidea, glabra) in the Tongan Islands. 
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Ordo XXII. MELIACEA. 
I. Vavæa, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vol. ii. p. 212; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. p. 331. 
Calyx 4-7-fidus, persistens, leviter imbricatus. Petala 4-7, oblongo-ligulata, patentia, contorta. 
Tubus stamineus in lacinias 8-30 lineares villoso-barbatas fissus, basi cum disco carnoso confluens; 
anthere muticz, exserte. Discus cylindricus. Ovarium ovoideum v. globosum, hirsutum, 3—4-locu- 
lare, in stylum gracilem attenuatum, stigmate capitato 3—4-lobulato; ovula in loculis 2, collateralia. 
Bacca globosa, indehiscens, 3-4-locularis, loculis 1—2-spermis. Semina ovalia, adscendentia, exaril- 
lata, testa levi, hilo lineari; cotyledones plano-convexz, cordate; radicula gracilis, retracta.— 
Arbores; foliis simplicibus alternis petiolatis; floribus parvis corymbosis, corymbis longe peduncu- 
latis, pedicellis basi bracteolatis ; bacca globosa. 
I have not seen Fijian specimens of the species upon which this genus was founded (V. amicorum, 
Benth.), and I believe that it 1s confined to the Tongan or Friendly Islands, where it was first collected by 
Forster, though not named by him, and subsequently by Barclay and other collectors. Two additional new 
species occur in the Vitian Islands, and it is very probable that they were known to A. Gray, whose analysis 
of Vavea amicorum must be referred to my V. Harveyi ; whilst the flowering branch he figures on Plate 
16 of Wilkes's Botany, agrees with Forster’s Tongan specimens. Barclay’s specimens of V. amicorum, 
from the same locality, have smaller leaves, though they do not differ in any other respect. 
1, V. Harveyi, (sp. nov.) Seem.; foliis obovatis acuminatis in petiolum angustatis integer- 
rimis, supra demum glabris, subtus villosis ; laciniis calycis ovato-triangularibus acutis pubescentibus ; 
petalis ovato-oblongis acuminatis v. acutis villosiusculis; filamentis (12-14) versum apicem attenuatis, 
extus glabris, intus villosis; ovario villoso.— Viti (probably Vanua Levu), Harvey! in Herb. Hook. 
Leaves 5-8 inches long, 4 inches broad. A much more robust-looking plant than either V. amicorum 
or Vitiensis. 
2. V. Vitiensis, (sp. nov.) Seem. ; ramis glabris; foliis obovatis acutis v. obtuse acuminatis, in 
petiolum attenuatis, utrinque glabris, subtus subglaucis; pedunculis pedicellisque glabris, bracteis 
lineari-lanceolatis, laciniis calycis ovato-triangularibus aeutis mox glabratis; petalis oblongo-ligulatis 
obtusis extus intusque sericeo-puberulis; filamentis utrinque villosis; ovario villoso.—Macuata coast 
of Vanua Levu (Seemann! n. 63). 
This is a middle-sized tree, with smaller and more membranaceous leaves than V. Harveyi. Petiole 
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