88 NOUVELLES OBSERVATIONS 



1. COCCONERION BaLANS^E. 



Arbor (8-metralis, teste Balansa) 



fissili 



nde solubili 



cibusquc verticillatisfoliorum delapsornm notafo. Folia ad summos 

 ramiilos approximate verticillata (6-10-nata) subsessilia elongato- 

 lanceolata (ad 20 cent, longa, k cent, lata), basi longe angustata 

 V. subspathulata, apice breviter acuminata, integerrima (margine 

 revoluto) coriacea crassa, penninervia obscure reticulato-venosa; 

 nervis primariis tenuissimis subtransversis ; costa crassa subtus 

 valde prominula ; supra glabra (pallide virescentia), subtus bre- 

 viter pallideferrugineo-velutina. Flores foeminei in axilla folioruni 

 evolulorum supremorum solitarii (inde verticillati 6-8); peduncuio 



caiyce dense ferrugineo-villoso (2 cent, longo). Sepala 



(1 ^cenlim. longa). Germen 



oblon 



3-sulcum villosum; styli ramis 3, bis terve ad apicem 2-fidis 

 (in sicco nigrescentibus) linearibus caiyce longioribus. — In 

 declivis montium orientalium Planitiei laciium dicta Austro- 

 Caledonise, inter Duma et S. Ludovicum frequens, ex Balansa 

 qui (exs., n. 2999) plantam banc insignem legit decembre 1870 

 floriferam (herb. Mus. par.). 



2. COCCONERION MINUS. 



Arbuscula (ft, 5-mefralis, teste Balansa) ex omni parte spec 



pennge 



prsecedenti similis sed minor; ramulis crassit. 

 cinerascentibus rugulosis elongato-denudatis. Folia ad summos 

 ramulos valde approximatn, saepius per 6 verticillata, lineari- 

 lanceolala (ad 10 cent, longa, 1 i cent, lata), basi in petiolum 



b 



pallide seneo-virescenlia, subtus (uti petal 



supi 



a 



dense ferrugineo-villosa; costa valde prominula; nervis subtrans- 

 versis vix conspicuis. Flores fceminei ad folia supcriora (nee 



