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lineato reticulatis quasi tenuiter nervoso-striatis, areolis lineari-elongatis 

 parallels, venis primariis obsoletis ; pedunculis fructiferis petiolum 

 jEquantibus ; pyrenis linearibus, putamine tenui. — Feejee Islands. 



TiMONius AFFiNis {Gray, I. c. ined.) : foliis ovalibus obscure penni- 

 veniis, venis subreticulatis, retibus venularum varie versis hinc inde 

 contrariis ; — cjsterum pr£ecedentis. — Feejee Islands. 



BOBEA, Gaudichaud, 



Flores hermaphroditi (an semper?). Caljcis limbus cupuliformis 

 persistens. Corolla hypocraterimorpba, glabra, intus nuda, lobis 4 

 ovalibus obtusissimis asstivatione valde imbricatis. Stamina tubo in- 

 serta ; filamentis brevibus. Stylus superne ina^qualiter 3-10-fidus, 

 lobis filiformibus apice introrsum stigmatosis. Ovarium 3 - 10-loculare. 

 Ovula in loculis solitaria, funiculo brevissimo strophiolEcformi suspensa. 

 Drupa 3 - 10-pyrena ; pyrenis parallelis osseis crassis, sarcocarpio 

 tenui. Semen cylindricum, cum funiculo strophiolato crassissimo duro 

 (instar obturamenti) eodem latius loculum angustum implens : albumen 

 vix ullum. Embryo semini conformis ; radicula oblonga cylindrica ; 

 cotyledonibus brevibus subcomplanatis. — Arbores Sandwicenses ; sti- 

 pulis squamaceis interpetiolaribus discretis caducis ; venulis foliorum 

 creberrime ac tenuissime reticulatis ; pedunculis uni — paucifloris. 



Bobea, Gaudich. in Bot. Voy. Freyc,p. 473, t. 93, non Korthals. 

 Bobsea, A. Rich. Mem. Rubiac. p. 135. 

 BurneyEe sp. No. 2, Cham. ^' Schlecht. in Linncea, 1. c. 

 Timonius, DC. Prodr. 4, p. 461 ex char., non Rumjyh. 



1. Bobea elatior (Gaudich. L c.) : glaberrima ; foliis obovatis 

 oblongisve basi in petiolum sat longum attenuatis ; pedunculis gracili- 

 bus 3 - 7-floris, flore intermedio sessili, omnibus basi subcupulatis. — 

 Oahu, Sandwich Islands. 



2. Bobea brevipes (Gray in Bot. Expl. Exped. ined.) : foliis 

 oblongis vel subovatis breviter petiolatis, junioribus pra^sertim ramisque 

 hirto-pubescentibus, pedunculis brevibus unifloris ? — Oahu, Sandwich 

 Islands. 



The name of Bohea is to be preferred to Burneya, not only because 

 Gaudichaud's plate was earliest published, but because Chamisso's 

 genus was founded primarily upon Forster's Erithalis, which is a gen- 

 uine Timonius. 



The aestivation of the corolla (now first made out), the completely 

 hermaphrodite blossoms, as far as is known, and the uniseriate, com- 



