310 PKOCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



GOULDIA, Nov. Gen. 



Calyx tubo obovato vel turbinate ; limbo brevi quadrifido. Corolla 

 hypocraterimorpha, subcoriacea, undique glabra ; limbo quadripartito, 

 lobis ffistivatione valvatis. Stamina 4, fauci corolltE inserta : filamenta 

 brevissima : antherjB inclusJB, oblongo-lineares, acutie. Stylus gra- 

 cilis, apice bifidus : stigmata filiformia, acuta, in una specie crassiora. 

 Ovarium' biloculare. Ovula in placentis crassis, medio dissepimento 

 utrinque insertis, plurima, parva, ampbitropa. Bacca drupacea bilo- 

 cularis, endocarpio pergameno ; placentis spongioso-carnosis alveolatis 

 oligo - pleiospermis. Semina angulata vel complanata, peltata, nunc in 

 alveolis placenta3 subimmersa : testa nucleo conformis, tenui-crustacea, 

 pellicula papuloso-reticulata. Embryo intra albumen subcartilagineum 

 rectus ; cotyledonibus ovatis parvis radicula vix brevioribus. — Fru- 

 tices vel arbusculre insularum ; foliis oblongis brevi-petiolatis ; stipulis 

 brevibus utrinque integris subvaginatis ; fioribus viridulis albidisve 

 cymosis vel subsolitariis. 



GouLDiA Sandwicensis. Kadua affinis, Cham. ^ Schlecht. Var. 

 TERMiNALis. Petesia ? terminalis, Hooh S^ Am. Var. coIiiacea. 

 Petesia ? coriacea, Hook. Sf Am. Var. hirtella. — A polymorphous 

 species. 



GouLDiA RoMANzOFFiENSis. Kadua RomanzofRensis, Cham. ^ 

 Schlecht. Petesia carnosa, Hooh. ^ Am. 



I have much pleasure in dedicating this genus to Augustus A. Gould, 

 M. D., a distinguished zoologist, author of the Natural History of the 

 Invertebrata of Massachusetts, and of the Conchology of the South 

 Sea Exploring Expedition under Captain Wilkes. These species were 

 taken for congeners by Chamisso and Schlechtendal, who included 

 them in their genus Kadua, and afterwards, quite independently, by 

 Hooker and Arnott, who referred them to the much-vexed or facti- 

 tious genus Petesia. On the whole, they appear to be properly asso- 

 ciated, although the differences between them are not unimportant. 

 G. Sandwicensis is more related to Stylocoryne. G. Romanzoffiensis, 

 with its distinctly vaginate, though very short, and conpetiolar stipules, 

 and with the large, pyriform, whitish, drupaceous berry opening at 

 maturity at the naked apex by a round hole or short chink, through 

 which it may discharge the seeds, is really allied to Kadua. But 

 besides the truly baccate or drupaceous fruit, with the limb of the 

 calyx obliterated, the few and peltate seeds are quite different. On 



