Elattostachys. 1267 



ovato-lanceolata, sublinearia, apice in acumen acutissimum sensim angustata, basi 

 oblique abruptiusque in petiolulos longiores contracta, valde inaequilatera, latere 

 exteriore minore, falcatim curvata, integerrima, glabra, basi 1-foveolata (in latere 

 exteriore), chartacea, vix pellucido-punctata, strato hypodermatis simplici instructa; 

 antherae ex atro-purpureo nigricantes ; Capsula obovoidea, trigona, basi acutata, extus 

 glabra, intus pilis longis flavidis fragilibus dense villosa, valvis totis lignosis. 



Rami inflorescentias gerentes circ. 2 mm crassi, cortice nigricante. Folia circ. 

 20 cm longa; foliola 7 — 10 cm longa, 1,5 — 2 cm lata, subopposita, sicca subfusca, supra 

 et praesertim subtus opaca, nervis lateralibus margine arcuato-anastomosantibus; 

 petioli nigricantes. Inflorescentiae axillares, foliis multo breviores, spiciformes, tomen- 

 tellae; bracteae minimae; pedicelli 2 — 3 mm longi. Galyx (in floribus juvenilibus) vix 



1 mm longus, tomentellus. Petala 5, ovata. Antherae glabrae, 0,5 mm longae. Capsula 

 minor, 1,2 cm longa. 



In insulis Vitiensibus Ovalau, Taviuni et Kandavu, in insulis Tongaensi- 

 bus (s. amicorum) Tongatabu et Vavau, nee non in insulis Samoanis (s. navi- 

 gatorum): Rieh et Brackenridge, Wilkes N. S. Expl. Exp.! (Ovalau et Taviuni 

 [Somo-somo], a. 1838 — 1842, fl. et fr.; Hb. Kew.); Seemann n. 70! (Kandavu, a. 

 1860, fl.; Hb. Kew., Berol., Vindob., DG., Boiss.); Moseley, Ghallenger Exp.! (Tonga- 

 tabu, m. Jul. 1874, fl.; Hb. Kew.); Forster! (ibid.?; Hb. Kew., c. indic. vix dubie 

 erronea Amsterdam Isl. et nomine futili non edendo); Grosby (Vavau, ex Burkill, 

 1. c); Rev. S. J.Whitmee n. 92! (Samoa, circ. 1876, fr.; Hb. Kew.). 



11. E. apetala(Labill.)Radlk. Sap. Holl.-Ind. (1877) 42 (112),in Sitzungsber. bayer. 

 Akad. IX. (1879) 531 n. 376 etc., p. 602 c. form. 1. et 2., 603 et in Engl. u. Prantl, 

 Nat. Pflanzenfam. III. 5. (1895) 350; Guillaumin in Gontrib. Fl. Nouv.-Galed. in Bull. 

 Mus. Nation. d'Hist. nat. (1912) Nr. 3, p. 171, coli. Gribs n. 1281. — Cupania apetala 

 Labillard. Sert. Austro-caled. II. (1825) 72 t. 73 (non Macfad.)!; Spreng. Syst. Veg. 

 IV. 2. (curae poster., 1827) 149; Gamb. in Mem. Mus. d'Hist. nat. XVIII. (1829) 28; 

 Don, Gen. Syst. I. (1831) 668; Endl. Üb. d. Fl. d. Südseeinseln in Ann. Wien. Mus. 

 Naturg. I. (1836) 183 n. 1536; Duchesne, PI. utiles (1846) 193; Pancher et Seb. in 

 Sebert, Not. Bois Nouv.-Gal6d. (1874) 230, excl. var., cfr. E. incisa; idib. 270 quoad 

 »coli. Vieillard n. 207<<!, excl. »coli. Panch. (coli, lign.) n. LXXVI<<!, quae E. incisa 

 Radlk.; — non Seem. in Bonpl. IX. (1861) coli. n. 67, nee A. Gray de ead. coli. (1862), 

 cfr. Cupaniopsis Storckii Radlk. — Mischocarpus sp.? A. Gray in Wilkes Expl. Exped. 

 XV. Bot. I. (1854) 253 in obs. — Ratonia sp.? Turcz. in Bull. Mose. XXXVI. (1863) 

 587, coli. Vieillard n. 207 c. nom. Cup. apetala Labill. — Schleichera sp.? id. ibid. — 

 Ratonia apetala, non Griseb., Seem. Fl. Vit. (Part II, 1865) 47 in annot. ad n. 2 >yRat. 

 Storckii<<. — Vulgo: Mako t. Deplanche in sched., cfr. Alectryon carinatus Radlk. et 

 obs. in Sitzungsber. bayer. Akad. IX. 603. — Arbor, 10 m alta (Pancher). Rami 

 inflorescentias gerentes 2 — 3 mm crassi, saepius nitidi fusco-nigri (uti petioli). Folia 

 15 — 50 cm longa; foliola 7 — 16 cm longa, 3 — 5 cm lata, utrinque nitidula, siccitate 

 fuscescentia, denique atro-fusca, nervis lateralibus patentibus ad marginem arcuato- 

 anastomosantibus, utrinque reticulato-venosa. Inflorescentiae axillares, foliis multo 

 breviores, saepe ramificatae, pilosiusculae vel subglabrae; bracteae minimae; pedicelli 



2 mm longi. Galyx 1 mm longus, 5-lobatus, lobis triangularibus, extus tomentellus. 

 Petala vix 1 mm longa, lamina brevi late ovata in unguem contracta, supra unguem 

 2-squamulata, squamulis cum petalorum margine connatis pubescentibus. Discus 

 patellaris, glaber. Stamina 2 — 3 mm longa, glabra; antherae 0,5 mm longae. Germen 

 tomentosum. Capsula 1 — 1,8 cm longa. 



Rami teretes, glabri vel e tomentello glabrescentes ; folia abrupte pinnata; foliola 



3 — 9, subopposita, latiuscule ovato-lanceolata, apice acuta, basi oblique in petiolulum 

 longum contracta, inaequilatera, interdum abbreviata et oblique ovata, plus minus 

 falcatim curvata, integerrima, chartacea coriaceave, glabra, saepius in axillis nervorum 

 (lateris exterioris) glandula una alterave urceolata (foveola) notata, impunctata, strato 



