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incrassato. Drupa 2—5-pyrena, pyrenis crassis osseis 3-gonis dorso rotundatis, 
loculo angusto. Semina cylindrica, funiculo incrassato apicem putaminis 
claudente, testa membranacea, albumin e parco; embr o cylindricus, cotyle- 
ulate pegnts brabtootate. Diupa 
R. Sandvicensis, Hook. —dlomt ? Sandvicensis, A. Gray in Proc. 
Amer. Acad. iv., ‘ Notes on Rubiaceze,’ p. 6 
Has. Sandwich Islands; Oahu, ltr on the top of a hill, Hinds, 1841, 
and W ilkes’s Expedition (fide A Gray). 
This very remarkable plant was pe by Hinds during the voyage of 
the ‘Sulphur,’ and afterwards published from specimens gathere during 
Wilkes’s Expedition to the Pacific, as a doubtful oe at A. Gray, who 
lobes is unusual, though not ethos in a i Order, and indeed is what often 
es in comet with thick lobes whose margins grow out and become 
mpled on e ; two lobes are muc larger than the others, and the 
aleve of the Istier are enveloped by the thickened edges of the former ; though 
in one sense imbricate, in another this estivation is valvate. —J.D Ho OOKER 
Fig. 1. Flower. 2. caps. te Moesow ee of calyx and ovary. . Portion of co- 
rolla and stamens. 5. Trans ovary. . 7. Fruit. 8, 9. Trans- 
verse section of ditto. 10. Section ‘of costa aes in bud :—all siagitthad: 
Prate 1072. 
TETRALOPHA MOTLEYI, Hook. f. 
Rusiaces#, Tribe TIMONIES ? 
.— Flores hermaphroditi? Calycis tubus 
iin ee ms ha a eal Porolla infundibuliformis, 
valvatis dense " parbatis. Stamina 4, fauci 
i lineari- 
blonge, erectee, dorso infra medi riers 
natx, utrinque obtuse. Discus ss pulvinaris. Ovarium 2- oe — 
stylus 0, stigmatibus 2 brevibus rec ovula in loculis spn piacentis 
1 is inulis in edionelek divaricata. Fruc 
Frutex ? glaberrimus, ramulis teretibus. Folia opposita, “ breviter Belitata, 
obovato-oblonga, obtusa v. obtuse apiculata, coriacea, carnosula, — ct —_ 
enuibus paucis. Stipule dreves, intrapetiolares, in eae on on a % 
Cyme breves, breviter pedunculate, axillares, dense fascie eg 
bracteis annularibus instructis. Flores parvi, breviter pedicellats 
