STTRPES EX0TIC.E NOY/E. 244 



(mascula), in sylvis interioribus insulœ inter S. -Louis cl 

 Ounia (Herb. Mus. par.). 



205. GUETTARDA EXIMIA. 



Arbor (5-(3-mctralis) , ramis crassis nodbsis. Folia lon- 

 giusculc (2-4 cent.) petiolata, ellipticô-obovata, mine suborbi- 

 cularia (ad 15-20 cent. longa, 8-15, cent, lata), basi longius- 

 cnle cuneata, apice breviter acuminata, integerrima coriacea, 

 supra glabra laevia, subtus dense lutescenti-velutina penni- 

 nervia; nervis secundariis crebris (ad 8-10) parallèle obliquis 

 subtus cum costa valde prominulis. Stipulai majuscula? ovato- 

 acutae, deciduae. Flores diœci : masculi...?; fœminei pedun- 

 culati axillares, 6-meri; calyce crasso gamophyllo, 4-6-lobo. 

 Corolla conico-tubulosa crassa, extus dense sericea, apice bre- 

 viter 0-loba arcteque imbricata. Stamina 6, inclusa; antheris 

 subsessilibus elongato-acuminatis. Germen ad 12-Ioculare; 

 stylis totidem in columnam ereclam sulcatam connatis, apice 

 tantum liberis ibique inaequali-acutatis. Fructus stipitatus 

 « nonnihil cernuus », pro génère magnus (ad 5 cent, longus 

 latusque) ovoideus compressus, calice coronaius ; carne extus 

 glabra crassiuscula. Putamen conforme, extus longitudinaliter 

 profunde et intcquali-sulcatum. Loculi ad 12, putaminis com- 

 pressione parallèle 2-seriatis ; seminibus cylindricis. Embryo 

 carnosus ; albumine tenui mcmbranilbrmi. — Planta eximia 

 austro-caledonica, a cl. Balansa (exs., n. 340, 1973, 1973 a ) 

 lectaest,in sylvis ad sinuin Prony dictum et circa Messioncoue, 

 prope Port-Bouquet. 



200. GUETTARDA RIIAMX0IDES. 



Frutex (3-5-metralis), ramis ramulisque oppositis v. abortu 

 solitariis, junioribus lutescenti-tomentosis. Folia in summis 

 ramulis approximata ; petiolo brëvi (1-2 cent.) tomentello; 



xii. (20 mars 1879.) 1U 



