249 REVISION OF THE NATURAL ORDER HEDERACEJE. 
and calyptrate. Hitherto there was only one species known; the 
second, which I was enabled to add, I have named in honour of the 
illustrious founder of the genus, P. Grayi. 
l. P. Pickeringii, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 729, t. 95 (1854) 
Walp. Ann. v. 81.—Viti Levu (Seemann! n. 206); Vanua Levu, 
above Nandy (Milne!); Ovalau, Viti Islands (United States asp, 
Exped.). “A tree, called ‘Vola’ by the natives of Vanua Levu” 
(Milne). 
. Grayi, Seem. Viti, Appendix, n. sp.; inermis, glabra, foliis 
digitatis, foliolis 9 obovato-oblongis obtusis basi in petiolum attenuatis 
integerrimis, umbellis multiradiatis, umbellulis 26-floris, calyce post 
anthesin repando-undulato, petalis 5 valvatis oblongis acutis calyptra- 
tim cohærentibus, mox deciduis, staminibus indefinitis, stigmate ob- 
scure multiradiato, ovario 12—15-loculari, drupa obovata obscure 12- 
15-costata.— Viti Levu, Viti Islands (Seemann !, n. 208). 
A small tree. Petioles 12 inches, petiolules 14 inch long. The 
upper leaflets the largest, and their blade 6-7 inches long and 2j 
inches broad. Flowers greenish. Drupe about $ of an inch long, i 
inch in diameter. Stigma depressed in the male flowers, on conical 
stylopodia in the hermaphrodite 
IV. Bnassara, Endl. Pedicelli nulli. Flores calyculati, calyculo 
4-phyllo, polygami. Calyx tubo obconico, limbo truncato. Petala 
linearia, 7—17, plerumque 12, calyptra- 
tim coherentia. Ovarium 7-17-locu- 
lare, vertice exserto multicostatum, 
loculis l-ovulaiis. Stigma sessile, T- 
17-radiatum, stylopodio conico imposi- 
tum. Drupa angulato-suleata, 7—17- 
vulgo 12-locularis.— Arbores inermes, 
Novam Hollandiam, Novam Guineam, 
Amboynam et Sumatram incolentes, 
stipulate, foliis digitatim 7—16-folio- 
N latis, foliolis. subintegerrimis, capitu- 
lisracemosis, pedicellis subnullis. — 
Brassaia, Endl. Nov. Stirp. Mus. Vin- 
dob. Dec. n. 100; Gen. Plant. Suppl. 
E i. p. 1418. Parapanag, Miq. Fl. Ne- 
Brassaia actinophylla, derl. Ind. Suppl. i. p. 339, ex parte 
Sciadophylli, Paratropie sp. auct. 
