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Sandwich Islands, in Kauai, Maui, Oahu, and Hawaii (coll. Expl. 

 Exped., and coll. Remy). 



Labordea fagr^oidea (Gaudich.) : glabra, pallida ; foliis obo- 

 vato-oblongis oblongisve basi in petiolum breviusculum attenuatis pen- 

 ninerviis subcoriaceis ; cyma sessili quasi umbellato-contracta ; calyce 

 amplo fere 5-secto, sepalis lanceolatis foliaceis nervosis corollas tubum 

 subajquantibus ; stigmate elongato subclavato ; ovario 2 - 3-loculari. — 

 Our specimens are from Hawaii. On the same island was gathered an 

 imperfect fruit-bearing specimen, possibly of this very species, but the 

 vestiges of the calyx are much smaller, and the leaves are larger and 

 somewhat pubescent. Of the fruit, I can only say that it is narrower 

 than in the next, and bivalvular. Perhaps it is a distinct species, but 

 the materials are insufficient. 



Labordea sessilis {Gray, I. c.) : foliis subsessilibus crasso-coriaceis 

 lineato-venosis oblongis seu lanceolato-oblongis, junioribus subtus ramis- 

 que pube brevi fusca hirsutis ; sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis ; capsulis 

 brevissime pedunculatis trivalvibus. — Oahu ; in fruit only. 



2. Fagrcea. The two Polynesian species of this genus in the collection 

 are interesting as offering additional points of similarity with Lisian- 

 thus and related GentianacecB. They are, F. Berteriana, Gray, which, 

 with the corolla of F. Zeylanica, though smaller, (yet sometimes with 

 the tube three inches long,) has the bilamellar stigma of Lisianthus ! 

 This is not mentioned in the character published in Bentham's revision 

 of the genus. The other species, which is mentioned by Bentham, but 

 not characterized, has the placentae so strictly parietal and sessile, that 

 they appear like four placentae approximate in two pairs, after the 

 manner of some Gentianece and OrohanchecB. It has no distinct stipules. 

 It is as impossible, therefore, to draw a marked line of distinction be- 

 tween Loganiaceoi and Gentianacece on the one hand, as between them 

 and Ruhiacece on the other. So true is it, that Loganiacece are not so 

 much an order per se, as a nexus, binding together four otherwise very 

 distinct orders. — The new Feejean species may be thus character- 

 ized : — 



Fagr^a gracilipes {Gray, I. c.) : foliis lato-ovatis subcoriaceis 

 obtusis vel apiculato-acutis basi in petiolum longum abrupte decurrenti- 

 bus ; cyma terminali sessili multiflora foliis multo breviore ; calyce 

 parvo ; corolla e tubo angusto superne late obconico-ampliata ; sta- 

 minibus subexsertis ; stigmate capitellato ; ovario prorsus uniloculari, 

 placentis arete parietalibus. — Feejee Islands. 



