100 THIRD NOTES ON FBENACE%. 
bitat.—In insulis ‘‘ Samoa,” a reverendo S. Bo Whitmee, n. 3, 
lecta et in herbario Kewensi a me visa. 
Ramuli alterni rigidi nigro-cinerei glabrati dec 
erecto- patentes. Folia « alterna rigide coriacea 4-7 pollices longa 13-3} 
eum venis utrinque expressis; petiolo 4-1 poll. longo robusto. 
Bractee deciduse, ut videtur parve. Calyx fructifer inferus extus 
appresse pubescens intus fulvo-velutino-tomentosus, tubo plus minusve 
Posiniennts 3 poll. diam., lobis 3 deltoideis obtusis reflexis vel patulis 
} poll. latis § poll. altis. Baceze sesquipollicares, ut videtur subsices. 
Semina utrinque acute angustata basi attenuata pollicaria vel ultra, 
dorso rotundato, lateribus vel facie lanis ; albumine corneo albido ; 
radicula supera aie! subclavata 4 pollicari vel ultra; cotyledonibus 
membranaceo-folia 
Flores sisaotils os cum florum femineorum corolla adhue ign 
Species nova in generis sectione Ferreola inter J. Patient, 
Seem., et I. ellipticam, Forst., ponenda. [Ta 
Recently; through the kindness of Dr. M. C. Coo. a of the India 
m, I have had an opportunity of exami ature seeds of 
Diospyros Embryopteris, Pers., from the botanical gardens of Saharun- 
ore. this species Geertner founded his genus Emprroprerts, 
taking his characters from the fruit and seeds, and obviously deriving 
the name from the presumed structure of the e Unfortunately, 
rtner was mistaken as to the true structure of the plant, and the 
about two-thirds of an inch in (vertical) 
length, nearly half an inch in breadth (¢.e., in a horizontal and 1 
the axis of the fruit), and nearly a third of an inch in 
thie e seeds in the dry state are enclosed in a pape eauend 
The i inner vertical edge is nearly straight, parallel and ettiadly to 
axis of the fruit; f i i ide: i i 
“the 
— to meet the outer rounded back which in the vertical direction 
llows the wi ar pct the pericarp. The testa is reddish and rather 
ure 
and in places it slightly intrudes into the pale, hard, abundant 
albumen ; but this intrusion is.so insignificant that I think it can 
scarcely be said to amount to rumination, a Satta which occurs in 
‘some species of the genus. The embryo is fully half an ong, a 
lies in the midst of the albumen, descending from the inner side of the 
apex of the seed; the radicle is superior, terete, scarcely a quarter of 
