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apply to their hair; as they are used, according to Blume, in the 

 Malayan and Moluccan Islands. The tree is said to attain the 

 height of 60 or 70 feet, and its wood to be considerably valued as 

 timber. 



2. UVARIA AMYGDALINA, Sp. Nov. 



U. glabra, foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acwninatis basi sinu parvo subcor- 

 datis breviter petiolatis fere membranaceis supra nitidis reticulatis, 

 venis omnibus tenuibus; pedunculis brevibus unifloris; fructibus 

 ovoideo-globosis obtuse apiculatis in gynophorum sessilibus oligospermis. 



Hab. Ovolau, Feejee Islands. 



A tree ; its size not recorded. Branches slender, with a minutely 

 rimose or somewhat verrucose bark, glabrous. Leaves 5 or 6 inches 

 long, by an inch and a half in width, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, a 

 little narrowed towards the base, which is subcordate, with a small 

 and narrow sinus, rather thin in texture, coriaceo-membranaceous, gla- 

 brous, the upper surface shining, but both surfaces of the same green 

 colour, reticulated with slender veins, of which the principal ones 

 are scarcely larger than the veinlets ; the midrib minutely verrucose- 

 roughened underneath. Petiole little more than a line long. Flowers 

 not seen. Fructiferous peduncle half an inch long, axillary, one- 

 flowered, at the apex bearing the vestiges of the calyx ; above which 

 the torus is immediately dilated into a globular gynophore, bearing 8 

 or 9 fleshy carpels. These in an unripe state, but some of them appa- 

 rently full-grown, are half or two-thirds of an inch long, sessile on the 

 gynophore, globose-ovoid, with a short obtuse point, containing a few 

 (from 5 to 8) rather large and flat horizontal seeds. Albumen deeply 

 ruminated, as in the order. 



This species, having the carpels sessile on the receptacle, belongs to 

 the section Asimina, as the genus is disposed by Blume. Judging 

 from the figures of Blume's three Javanese species of this section, and 

 from an arillus having been noticed by Martius in U. Brasiliensis, I 

 fear it will be hardly possible to maintain Asimina as a genus. 



A leafy branch apparently of a second species exists in the Feejeean 

 collection, but without flowers or fruit. 



