KUBUS OBLIQULS. G9 



stamens, the specimen is sufficient to enable us to say that it is the 

 representative of a new genus of Celastrinea, belonging to Bentham 

 and J. D. Hooker's subtribe Elmodendrece, and that group of it which 

 has cells with solitary ovules. 



Phocea, gen, nov. Flores polygami (?). Calyx 5-fidus. Petala 

 . . . (v. ?). Stamina . , . Discus nuUus. Ovarium sessile, 3-locu- 

 lare, loculis 1-ovulatis ; ovula ab axi adscendentia. Stylus brevissi- 

 mus, stigmatibus 2 elongatis. Drupa sicca, parva, 2-locularis. Se- 

 mina erecta, exarillata, albumine carnoso ; embryone recto. Frutex v. 

 arbor Austro-Caledonise, ramis teretibus ; foliis alternis petiolatis 

 ovatis V. obovato-oblongis obtuse acuminatis basi rotundatis v. sub- 

 cuneatis integerrimis, coriaceis penninerviis ; cymis axillaribus, floribus 

 sessilibus, pedunculis, calycibus ovariisque villoso-pubescentibus, drupis 

 glabris. Species unica : — 



1. P. Andersonii (n. sp.). Seem, in Herb. Mus. Brit. — Habitat 

 in Austr. Caledonia (W. Anderson! leg. anno 1774). 



HUB US OBLIQUUS, Wirtg. 

 By the Rev. A. Bloxam, M.A. 



I am not aware that this species is described in any foreign work on 

 the Riibi, but the following is a translation from the German of the 

 description of it, accompanying the specimen so named in my collection 

 of Wirtgen's Fasciculi. 



Wirtg. Herb. Eubor. Rhen. ed. i. fasc. iv. 98, Glaiididosi, Mull. ; 

 a. Aculeati, Wirtg. — " Stem beset with short reflexed prickles, broad 

 at the base, and with aciculi, glands, and hairs. Leaf 5-nate, terminal 

 leaflet cordate, acuminate, glabrous on both sides, unequally sharply 

 toothed, almost always oblique. Flower branches more densely clothed 

 with similar armature, calyx and pedicels especially prickly ; inflo- 

 rescence principally axillary, consisting of numerous many- flowered 

 racemes. Sepals long pointed, exceeding the obovate white petals." 



The above description accords well with the specimen accompanying 

 it, with one exception, viz., the leaves are slightly hairy on both sides. 

 Some three or four years since, Mr. Briggs sent me from Devonshire, 

 amongst other specimens, a Riibus not answering to any of our well- 

 known British species, but which, soon after 1 received Wirtgen's pub- 



