700 THE FLORA OF NORFOLK ISLAND, 



I sent a specimen of this plant to Prof. L. Radlkofer, of 

 Munich, who favoured me with the following interesting note 

 upon it : — 



" I obtained from Vienna the original plant of Endlicher, as I supposed 

 what Endlicher called an ' arillus ' might have been, as on your plant, only 

 a t)tin external fleshii layer of the testa, and really so it was, and the specimen 

 of Endlicher, which lies before me as I write, shows in every respect full 

 identity with your specimen also in the number of only 1 ovulum in each 

 cell of the germen and in the anatomical characters of the leaflets (as noted 

 in my previous letter and sketch. (See Plate xxxviii.). 



" There remains only, as in your plant, some doubt about the (tubular ?) 

 disk surrounding the germen; for also in the specimen of Endlicher it seems 

 to be destroyed by the accrescence of the germen, as all the flowers have 

 passed over in young fruits. 



"This is also the reason why Endlicher has taken the short relic of the 

 style for the (fallen off) style (and stigma) itself. 



" What he says about the petals and staminal tube, he has taken from a 

 somewhat incomplete (unpublished) drawing of Bauer, which I have seen 

 too, but which gives no clearness about these things. 



"Endlicher had not seen ripe seeds, so his description may be completed 

 by the following (taken from your plant) : — 



" Semina ovata, basi truncata callosaque, testa subdrupacea, strato tenuii 

 carnoso (ab Endl. ' arillus ' dicto) in cellulis exterioribus mateiiam fiavidam 

 tannine quodammodo afltinem in interioribus amylum gerente obducta, dorso 

 sulco levi (rima? intercotyledonari respondente) notata ; embryo rectus 

 inversus ; cotyledones semi-obovoidese, plano-convexte sat crassai, basi 

 versus angustatse, lateraliter juxtapositHa, fusco-olivaceaj, amylo foette 

 cellulisque secretoriis sparsis instructa;; radicula parva (supera), inter cotyle- 

 dones omnino retracta; plumula pilosa giandulisque minutis clavatis breviter 

 stipitatis adspersa (ad modum Dysoxyli Lessertiani, Benth,, A. C. DC, 

 Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xxii. 1875, p. 231, fig. 3 delineati.") 



olacinej:. 



25. Pennantia corymbosa, Forst., Charact. Gen. 67 (described 

 from Xew Zealand;; Endl., Prod. Norf. 140. (Syn. P. Endlicheri, 

 in Linna3a xvi. 341, t. 13, 1842.) 



Index Kewensis has '■^Pennantia Endlicheri, Reiss., in Linnsea 

 xvi. 1842, 341, t. 13, synonymous with P. corymhosa, Endl., 

 Prod. Norf. p. 80. 



"P. corymhosa, Forst., Char. Gen. 134, New Zealand." 



