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single series, and a 5-celled ovary; from Tefraplasandra, in having 
only 5 petals and a 5-celled ovary, and a different habit; from Rey- 
noldsia, in having three times as many stamens as petals, and a 
5-celled ovary ; and from all the other genera of the Order in having 
5 free petals, 15 stamens, and a 5-celled ovary. There is only one 
species, viz. :— 
1. B. Vitiensis, Seem. n. sp. ; a slender tree ; petioles 4—5 inches long, 
petiolules 1 inch long; blade of leaflets 3—4 inches long, 13-2 inches 
broad; pedicels 4-angular, not articulated.—Namosi, interior of Viti 
Levu (Seemann!, 209); also collected in the same island (foliage 
only), twenty miles inland, and there plentiful, by Milne. 
X. NzsoPANAX, Seem. n. gen. Pedicelli inarticulati. Flores ecaly- 
culati. Calyx tubo obconico, cum ovario connato; limbo supero, obsolete 
5-dentato. Corolle petala 5, ovato- 
triangularia, disci epigyni margini in- 
serta, libera, zestivatione valvata. Sta- 
mina indefinita, cum petalis inserta, CORN 
pluriserialia; filamenta brevia ; antherze 
oblonge. Ovarium inferum, 5-7-lo- 
culare. Ovulain loculis solitaria, pen- 
dula. Styli 5-7, breves, distincti; 
stigmata simplicia. Drupa oblonga, 
5—7-locularis, calycis limbo stylisque 
coronata.—Arbor Vitiensis mediocris, 
glabra, inermis, foliis digitatis, foliolis 
1—9 obovato-oblongis utrinque attenu- 
atis integerrimis, petiolis basi stipulato 
dilatatis, umbellis multiradiatis, umbel- 
lulis 26-30-floris, floribus viridibus. 
This genus differs from Plerandra, 
A. Gray, in having free petals, 5- 7 
distinct styles, and a 5—7-celled drupe. 
It agrees with it in habit, and the in- 
definite number of stamens. I have Nesopanax Vitiensis. 
T one species :— z 
. N. Vitiensis, Seem. n. sp.— Viti Islands (Seemann! n. 207, 
ii el). 
Petiole 13 feet long. Leaflets pinnately veined, coriaceous ; blade 
