152 FLORA VITIENSÉÉ. 
12 per paria basi connata, hypogyna, pistilli rudimento piloso basi accreta; filamentis gracilibus, 
antheris linearibus, szpius apiculatis, lateraliter dehiscentibus, polline late ellipsoideo. Femin. : 
Stamina 0. Ovarium 3-loculare, hirsutum, loculis 2-spermis. Stigma 3-partitum. Bacca ellipsoi- 
dea, raro globosa, levis, 3-2-locularis, carne parcá. Semina abortiente ovulo altero sepius in loculis 
solitaria, pendentia, oblonga, prope basim transversim sulcata, nigricantia.—Arbores v. frutices; 
foliis alternis, parvis, integris; floribus solitariis geminisve, axillaribus, parvis, subsessilibus; corolla 
extus plerumque pilosa, pilis longis albidis medio loborum precipue densis; filamentis antheras 
longitudine subzequantibus.— Ferreola, Roxb. Cor. vol. i. p. 35. t. 45. 
]. M. foliosa, Rich, mss. ex A. Gray in Proceed. Amer. Acad. vol. v.; foliis confertis lato- 
ellipticis utrinque rotundatis basi cordatis brevissime petiolatis glabratis (pollicaribus v. sesquipol- 
licaribus), novellis cum ramulis fructibusque oliveeformibus ferrugineo-tomentulosis ; pedunculis fruc- 
tiferis brevibus 1-3-floris; calyce 3-lobo.—Mountains of Ovalau, and Macuata coast of Vanua 
Levu (U. S. Expl. Exped.). 
2. M. elliptica, Forst. Char. Gen. 61; Prodr. n. 366.; Icon. (ined.) t. 267; DC. Prodr. vol. 
viii. p. 240; ramulis foliisque recentissimis hirsutis demum glabratis fuscis; foliis ellipticis obtusis 
basi acutis coriaceis margine revolutis; pedunculis 3—5-floris petiolo duplo triplove longioribus; 
calyce piloso, lobis ovato-rotundatis, staminibus 8; bacca (rubra) ellipsoidea.— M. rufa, Labill. Sert. 
Austr. Caled. p. 33. t. 36?—Kandavu, Vanua Levu, and other Islands of Viti (Seemann! n. 295, 
296, 297, Storck! n. 298). Also collected in the Tongan Islands (Forster! Capt. Cook! Harvey! 
. Matthews !), Isle of Pines, and New Caledonia (Labillardiére!). 
I suspect that M. rufa of Labillardiére is merely a form of Forster's M. elliptica. I have seen speci- 
mens which have the foliage of the common form of M. elliptica, together with the shape of the fruit 
deemed peculiar to M. rufa, and vice versá. Whether M. major, Forst. Plant. Escul. p. 21, is a synonym of 
M. elliptica cannot be determined from the materials at hand. There are no authentic specimens of it at 
the British Museum, unless what is marked * Maba Andersonii—Arbor—Tongan Islands (Capt. Cook !)," 
and has very large leaves, should prove to be that plant. My nos. 295, 296, and 297, and Storck's n. 898, 
exu be distinguished as a variety glabrescens of M. elliptica, as the nascent branches very quickly become 
glabrous. 
Orvo LVIII. STYRACEA. 
I. Symplocos, Jacq. Amer. p. 166. t. 175. fig. 68; DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 246. Calyx 5-fidus, 
lobis :estivatione quincunciali, post anthesin erectis, sepius ciliatis. Corolla vix gamopetala, petalis 
5 l-serialibus vel rarius 10 2-serialibus, basi parum connatis, ex staminibus interne adnatis potius 
eoalitis, tubo brevissimo vel lobos æquante, lobis patentibus sestivatione 5-unciali. Stamina imo 
corolle inserta, 15-20; nunc pentadelpha, adelphiis cum lobis corolle alternantibus; nunc poly- 
adelpha; nune 1-serialia, sublibera, ubi lobis corolle alterna majora; sepius monadelpha, 3—4- 
serialia, exterioribus nempe in monadelphia longioribus, tubo staminum plus minus longo corollæque 
accreto. Filamenta filiformia vel ligulata et apice constricta. Antherz ovoideo-globose, filamen- 
tis multo minores, 2.loculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes, loculis pariete subdivisis. Pollen late 
ellipticum, subglobosum, in aqua globosum, leve, exsiecatione corrugatum. Ovarium inferum vel 
semi-inferum, 5—2-loculare, loculis lobis calycinis (ubi isomeri) oppositis. Ovula 2-4 ex angulo 
superiore cujusque loculi pendentia, anatropa. Glandule interdum ovario insidentes. Stylus fili- 
formis, glaber vel pilosus. Stigma capitellatum, simplex et trigonum, vel 5—3-partitum. Bacca 
calycis limbo coronata, ellipsoidea, raro subglobosa, 5-3-locularis, 4-2 loculis sæpe abortientibus, 
