36 FLORA VITIENSIS. 
1-1} inch long. Blade 3-4 inches long, 11-2 inches broad, with from 5-6 veins on each side of the midrib. 
Flowers white. Most of my specimens are in bud only. 
In V. amicorum the leaves are more or less clad with hair, but they never retain it on the under side, 
as is the case in V. Harveyi, nor are they ever as giabrous and almost pruinose as those of V. Vitiensis ; 
the ealyx is villose, and the petals obtuse. I have no doubt that when we get more complete materials, 
these three species will be found to be quite sound. 
II. Melia, Linn. Gen. n. 576; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. p. 332. Calyx 5-6-partitus, im- 
bricatus. Petala 5-6, libera, lineari-spathulata, patentia, contorta. Tubus stamineus subcylin- 
dricus, ore dilatato 10-12-fido, lobis 2—3-fidis; anthere 10-12, incluse, erectz, vix apiculatze. 
Discus annularis. Ovarium subglobosum, 3—6-loculare; stylus gracilis, stigmate capitato 3—6-lobo, 
deciduo; ovula in loculis 2, superposita. Drupa subcarnosa, putamine osseo 1—5-loculari, loculis 
l-spermis. Semina pendula, testa crustacea, albumine carnoso parco v. 0; cotyledones foliacez ; 
radicula teres.— Arbores, ramulis cicatricosis; foliis alternis, pinnatis v. 2—3-pinnatis, novellis et 
inflorescentia sspe stellato-tomentosis, foliolis petiolulatis dentatis v. serratis; paniculis axillaribus 
amplis ramosissimis, oo-floris; floribus mediocribus, albis v. purpureis.— Azadirachta, A. Juss. 
Mel. 68. 
1. M. (?) elegans, (sp. nov.) Seem.; arborea; ramulis angulatis verrucosis; foliis alternis 2- 
pinnatis villosis demum (petiolis petiolulis venisque foliolorum exceptis) glabratis, foliolis petiolulatis 
ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis duplicato-serratis coriaceis, supra lucidis viridibus, subtus opacis palli- 
dioribus; cct. ign.—Macuata coast of Vanua Levu (Seemann! n. 64). 
A tree 24 feet high, having somewhat the habit of M. Azedarach, and not referable to any other genus 
with which I am acquainted. 1t is a much more elegant and robust species than that just mentioned. 
Leaves, when young, villous, afterwards more or less glabrous, from 1-14 foot long, the pinne with 10-12 
leaflets; leaflets 13 inch long, 4-5 lines broad. The general petiole and rachis with 3 deep furrows, one 
above, and two below. When collecting my specimens, the tree was just beginning to make new leaf, and 
had no flowers. 
III. Dysoxylum, Blum. Bijdr. 172; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. p. 332. Flores hermaphroditi. 
Calyx brevis, 4—5-fidus -dentatus v. -partitus, imbricatus. Petala 4-5, lineari-oblonga, patentia, 
basi interdum cum tubo stamineo agglutinata, valvata. "Tubus stamineus cylindricus, ore 8-10-den- 
tato; antherze 8-10, incluse. Discus tubulosus, ore crenulato v. integerrimo glabro v. ciliato, ova- 
rium sepissime vaginans et superans. Ovarium ovoideum v. oblongum, 3-5-loculare; stylus gracilis, 
stigmate capitato discoideo; ovula in loculis 2, superposita v. collateralia, rarius solitaria. Capsula 
crasse coriacea, globosa v. pyriformis, 1-5-locularis, loculicide 2—5-valvis, valvis medio septiferis 
loculis 1-2-spermis. Semina arillata v. exarillata, oblonga, hilo lato ventrali, testa castanea coriacea ; 
cotyledones maxime, superposit v. collaterales, plumula centrali v. laterali.—Arbores glabra, sepe - 
foetidee, odore nunc alliaceo; foliis amplis, abrupte v. imparipinnatis, foliolis petiolulatis basi obli- 
quis; 'paniculis axillaribus, laxis; floribus mediocribus, bracteatis v. ebracteatis, alabastris sspe 
elongatis.—Hartighsea, A. Juss. Mem. Mel. 75, t. 4.  Didymochiton, Blum. Bijdr. 177. 
1. D. (Hartighsea) alliaceum, Seem.; glabratum; foliis imparipinnatis, foliolis 7-19 petio- 
latis szepe alternis oblongis v. lanceolato-oblongis subacuminatis basi rotundato-insquilateris ; pani- 
culis compositis thyrsoideis racemifloris; floribus siepe 4-meris; columna staminea et disco glabro 
tubulari minutissime crenulatis; ovario 3—4-loculari, villoso.— Didymochiton Richii, A. Gray, Bot. 
Wilkes, p. 240. t. 20. Trichilia alliacea, Forst. Prodr. n. 189, et Icon. ined. t. 133. Hartighsea 
Forsteri, A. Juss. Mem. Mel. 265.— Bua Bay, (Vanua Levu), Taviuni and Nukulau (U. S. Expl. 
Exped.). Previously collected in the Tongan Islands (Forster! Barelay !). 
Judging from the materials existing at the British Museum, Forster's Trichilia alliacea does not differ 
from A. Gray’s Didymochiton Richit. 
