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pericarpio intra calycem carnosulum indurato incrassato, axi centrali perforato. Semina in loculis 
persistentibus solitaria, elongata, plerumque pendentia, nunc (in S. spicata) pressione pericarpii et 
brevitate fructus obliqua, imo circa axim horizontaliter convoluta. Spermodermium tenue. Albu- 
men copiosum, Embryo axilis, orthotropus, cylindraceus, longitudine albuminis. Radicula elongata, 
umbilicum spectans. Cotyledones brevissimse.— Arbores vel frutices; foliis alternis, nunc serratis 
vel crenulatis, in herbario frequenter lutescentibus; racemis axillaribus, seepius multifloris, bracteatis, 
nunc brevissimis; floribus sessilibus vel pedicellatis, articulo insertis, bracteolatis; coroll sepius 
lutea, nune alba vel rubra.— Eugenioides, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. p. 192. Bobu, Adans. Fam. vol. ii. p. 11, 
Bobua, DC. Prodr. p. 23. Alstonia, Linn. Suppl. p. 264, non R. Brown, nec Scop. Hopea, Linn. 
Mant. p. 105, non Roxb. Ciponia v. Siponima, Aubl. Guy. vol.i. p. 567. t. 226. Decadia, Lour. Fl. 
Cochinch. p. 385 ? Barberina, Vell. Fl. Flum. vol. iv. t. 117. Stemmatosiphum, Pohl, Bras. vol. ii. 
p. 87. t. 157-159. 
l. S. (Hopea) spicata, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. 1832. vol. ii. p. 541; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis, 
acutis serratis v. subintegerrimis glaberrimis; racemis axillaribus compositis glabriusculis ; bracteis 
ovatis obtusis brevissimis ; floribus sessilibus ; calyce patente 5-fido, lobis ovatis obtusis glabris ; drupa 
urceolata.—DC. Prod. vol. viii. p. 254.—Nomen vernac. Vitiense, “ Ravu levu."—On the coast of 
Viti Levu (Seemann ! n. 294). Also collected in Aneitum, New Hebrides (M*Gillivray !). Com- 
mon in the East Indies and Ceylon. 
In the Fijian and New Hebrides form the foliage turns yellowish in drying. 
Orno LIX. JASMINE. 
The allied Order, or rather suborder of Jasminew, Oleacea, is represented in tropical Polynesia by 
Olea Vitiensis, Seem., O. apetala, Vahl, a native of Norfoik Island, and O. Sandwichensis, A. Gray, from 
the Hawaiian group. 1 may add that the genus Schrebera, Roxb., which De Candolle, Prodr. p. 674, refers 
to Jasminec (having nothing to rely upon except Roxburgh’s figure and description), I hold to be identical 
with Nathusia, which that same author correctly places in Oleacee, as pointed out by me, ‘ Journal of 
Botany’ (1864, p. 357). There are in Africa species with single and compound leaves. 
I. Jasminum, Tournef. Inst. p. 597. t. 368; Linn. Gen. n. 17; DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 301. 
Calyx campanulatus, 5-8-lobus, dentibus nunc brevibus, nunc subulatis. Corolla hypocraterimorpha ; 
tubo tereti; limbo plano, 5-8-partito; lobis obliquis, per :estivationem contortis. Stamina 2, tubo 
adnata, inclusa. Ovarium 2-lobum. Stylus simplex, apice 2-lobus. Bacca didyma, loculis 1-spermis 
(in J. dispermo solum dispermis). Semina erecta, exalbuminosa.—Frutices, dumosi aut scandentes ; 
foliis oppositis, rarius alternis, omnibus compositis; petiolo nunc medio articulato et foliolum uni- 
cum gerente, nunc foliola plura numero imparia 3-7 gerentia et tunc ideo folium trifoliolatum aut 
imparipinnatum ; paniculis pauci- aut multifloris; corollis flavis aut albis, sæpe extus rubentibus.— — 
Nyctanthes, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. vol. i. p. 25. 
l. J. tetraquetrum, A. Gray in Proceed. of the Amer. Acad. vol. v. ; glabrum, erectum ; 
foliis oppositis 1-foliolatis, articulo petioli obscuro, foliolo ovato-lanceolato seu ovato-acuminato basi 
acutiuscula 3-nervi; pedunculis brevibus paucifloris; calyce fructifero 4-ptero, alis angustis deorsum 
in pedicellum longe clavatum decurrentibus sursum in dentes lineari-subulatos verticales tubum 2—3- 
plo superantes productis.— Mountains of the Macuata coast of Vanua Levu (U. S. Expl. Exped.). 
2. J. australe, Pers. Ench. vol. i. p. 8; glabrum, leve, ramis teretibus scandentibus; foliis 
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