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oblongo-ellipticis seu ovalibus integerrimis utrinque obtusis brevissime 

 petiolatis supra nitidis crebre costato-venosis, venis venulisque reticu- 

 latis prominulis ; pedicellis fructu longioribus ; calycis fructiferi lobis 

 4 triangulari-ovatis acutiusculis. — Mountains of Tahiti, Society Islands. 

 Flowers not seen. 



From the Sandwich Islands I have seen nothing answering to Myr- 

 sine Gaudichaudii, A. DC, with subsessile fruits and triangular acute 

 calyx-lobes, but the collection comprises various forms of 31. Sandwi- 

 censis and M. Lessertiana, the latter mostly with obovate- or cuneate- 

 oblong and obtuse, or even retuse, leaves, the largest 5 or 6 inches 

 in length. Their scanty flowers enable me to ascertain that the petals 

 are distinct to the base and valvate in aestivation. De CandoUe's tribe 

 EmbelietB manifestly should be suppressed, and his two suborders cer- 

 tainly do not merit such a rank. 



Ardisia ? CAPiTATA (sp. nov.) : arborea ? glabra ; foliis ad apicem 

 ramorum crassorum congestis obovato-spathulatis ultrapedalibus sub- 

 coriaceis integerrimis reticulato-venulosis basi in petiolum brevem 

 crassum angustatis ; pedunculis axillaribus compressis simplicissimis 

 capitulum strobilaceum gerentibus ; bracteis magnis squamaceis per- 

 sistentibus. — Ovalau, Feejee Islands. — A. grandis, Seemann, no. 293 

 (in fruit only), considerably resembles this in foliage, but has thyrsoid 

 panicles. 



Oleacece. 



Olea Sandwicensis (sp. nov.) : lasvis ; foliis lato-lanceolatis oblon- 

 gisve acuminatis integerrimis petiolatis supra lucidis subtus pallidis ; 

 racemis axillaribus brevibus ; corolla profunde quadripartita ; stamini- 

 bus (an semper ?) 4 ; ovario conico ; drupa ovoidea (in stirp. angusti- 

 fol. oblonga). — Oahu, Sandwich Islands; also in Remy's collection 

 from Kauai (no. 479), and a narrow-leaved form, with the immature 

 fruit similar to a common olive, fi'om Molokai (no. 482). Leaves re- 

 sembling those of Laurus yiohilis. The four stamens, although unusual 

 in the family, are not unprecedented, being occasionally met with in 

 Ghionanthus. 



Blume, followed by Endlicher and De Candolle, attributes to CMo- 

 nanthus and Linociera an exalbuminous seed and a thick embryo ; and 

 De Candolle founds a tribe thereupon. But this is not the case in the 

 original species, — C. Virginica, as I had long ago noted, and O. {Lino- 

 ciera) ligustrina, as Charles Wright had observed upon the living plant 



