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pctiolarcs a eu lac, dccidua\ Flores polygamo-diœci axillares v. 

 spnrie terminales pedunculati: niasculi >o , in eymam 1-param 

 2-furcatam dispositi sessiles; fœrninei solitarii; ramis inflores- 

 centiœ albido- v.pallide lutcsccnti-villosulis. Calyxgamophyllus 

 crassus cnpularis, in llore niasculo 4-5-lobus; in fœminco 

 6-9-lobus; lobis iniequalibus obtusis. Corolla dense albido- 

 sericea crassa Inbnlosa; lobis arcte imbricatis, brevibus 

 obtusis; in flore maseulo 4-5; in fœminco autcm 6-9. Stamina 

 5-9, in flore fœminco minora (eflœta?), in maseulo clongata 

 subsessilia inelusa. Disons crassiusculus glaber. Germen floris 

 fœrninei 10-15-loculare; ovulo in singulis solitario descen- 

 dente lincari; styli ramis totidem brevibus penicillatis. Germen 

 floris masculi eflœtum brève; stylo lineari simplici, apice obtu- 

 sato. Fructns breviter ovoideus (2-3 cent, longus) calyce coro- 

 natus cumque co tenuiler velutinus; carne parca; putamine 

 durissimo 10-15-loculari. Semen cylindricum vermiforme; 

 albumine tenui; embryonis cylindrici cotyledonibus brevibus 

 inferis. — Spccies pulclira oritur in latere orientali montis 

 Nekou Austro-Caledonia) supra Bourail, ubi Aprili floriferam 

 fructiferamque legit cl. Balansa (exs., il 1 129, 1137). 



203. GUETTARDA SPLENDENS. 



Frulex pulchcrrimus (ad 2-metralis); ramis crassis rugosis 

 cineraseentibus. Folia ad summos ramnlos congesta, jure 

 opposita, sessilia, oblongo-obovata, nunc subspathulata (ad 

 42 cent, longa, 4 cent, lata), basi repente rotundata, apice bre- 

 viter acuminata, integerrima coriacea glabra penninervia; 

 venis vix conspicuis; superiora in sicco rubescentia. Flores 

 diœci longe petiolati; petiolo ad folia superiora axillari, folio 

 subœquali v. 2-midio breviore; lœmineo 1-floro; maseulo ad 

 10-floro; terminali 1; caHeris in brachiis 2 cymœ 1-parœ 

 insertis secundis; sessilibus omnibus. Galyxbrevis crassus in 

 flore maseulo 4-lobus (in sicco fnseato-ferrimineus). Corolla 



