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large as those of C. grandifolia, but they have more the shape 

 and texture of those of C. robusta, and they dry a brownish-black 

 as in that species. The average length of the fruit is about 

 f inch, but some specimens were observed over an inch. Tbe 

 flowering season was past at the time of our visit, but judging 

 from the arrangement of the berries, the inflorescence must 

 resemble that of C. grcmdifoUa, with shorter peduncles and fewer 

 flowers. 



3. Paratrophis ( Uromorus) smithii, n. sp. 



A small tree, 10-15 feet high, with milky juice, perfectly gla- 

 brous in all its parts ; branches long, slender, straggling ; bark 

 brown, rough, with raised lenticles. Leaves shortly petiolate, 

 alternate, entire, 5-9 inches long, 2-4 inches broad, ovate-oblong, 

 oblong- elliptical or almost ovate, obliquely cordate at the base, 

 sub-coriaceous, obtuse or obtusely acuminate, veins conspicuous, 

 penninerved. Stipules small, lanceolate, very deciduous. Spikes 

 simple or bifid, axillary, 2-5 inches long, only females seen, 

 and those with the flowers not quite fully developed. Flowers 

 apparently arranged in two irregular rows on each side of the 

 spike, numerous, minute, mixed with peltate scales. Perianth 

 4-partite to the base; leaflets broadly ovate, obtuse, imbricate. 

 Ovary sessile, ovoid, exserted beyond the perianth. Style 

 divided to the base into two linear stigniatic branches. Fruit 

 a drupe, enclosed at the base in the slightly enlarged persis- 

 tent perianth, globose, ^-inch long, bright red. Seed solitary, 

 pendulous. 



A singular species, which I have dedicated to my fellow- 

 traveller, Mr. Percy Smith. Technically, it falls into the genus 

 Paratrophis, as defined by the authors of the "Genera Plan- 

 tarum," the type of which is the plant well known to New 

 Zealand botanists under the name of Epicarpurus microphallus. 

 P. smitliii, however, belongs to a section of the genus called 

 I r romorus t wbich was originally constituted as a distinct genus 

 by Pureau, in his monograph of the order (l)e Caudolle's 

 "Prodromus," vol. xvii.). Three species of the section are 

 known : one from the Fiji Islands, one from Tahiti, and the 

 third from the Philippines. Ours is very distinct from all. 



4. Davallia, sp. 



Rhizome stout, wide-creeping, densely clothed with pale 

 chestnut-brown subulate cobwebby scales. Stipes stiff, smooth, 

 8-0 inches long. Frond 1-12 inches long, 3-8 inches broad, 

 deltoid or rhomboid, tri- or quadripinnatifid, very coriaceous, 

 quite glabrous. Primary pinna; ovate-deltoid, acuminate; secon- 

 dary narrower; pinnules lanceolate, cut down nearly to the 

 base into 3-5 pairs of segments. Sori numerous, narrow cup- 

 shaped, sunk in the top of the teeth, usually with a projecting 

 horn on the outer side. 



