30 PHANEROGAMIA. 



marked genus to William Rich, Esq., the Botanist of the Expedition in 

 which these collections were made. According to Blume's arrange- 

 ment of the family, this genus would stand next to his PolyaltUa, 

 from which it is at once distinguished, as from all the others, by 

 its remarkable winged seed, 



Plate 2. — Richella monosperma: in fruit. Fig. 1. A flower, of 

 the natural size. 2. Vertical section of the receptacle, with the sta- 

 mens and pistils, enlarged. 3. A stamen, magnified. 4. A pistil, 

 with the ovary vertically divided to show the two superposed ovules, 

 magnified. 5. Fruit and enclosed seed, divided transversely, of the 

 natural size. 6. Back view of a detached seed, of the natural size. 

 7, Same, seen from the other side, and divided transversely. 8. The 

 same, longitudinally divided, showing the embryo. 9. Embryo de- 

 tached and magnified. 



6. UVARIA, Linn. 



1. UVARIA ODOR AT A, Lam. 



Uvaria odorata, Lam. Diet. 1, p. 595, & 111. t. 495, f. 1 ; Blume, Fl. Jav. Anonac. 



p. 29, t. 9, & 14, B. ; Decaisne, Herb. Timor, p. 94. 

 Unona odorata, Dunal, Anonac. p. 108 j DC. Syst. 1, p. 492, & Prodr. 1, p. 90. 

 U. leptopetala, DC. Syst. 1, p. 496; Deless. Ic. Sel. 1, t. 88. 

 U. ligularis, Dunal, 1. c. ? DC. 1. c. ? & Uvaria ligularis, Lam.? 

 Cananga, &c. Rumph. Herb. Amboin. t. 65 (& 66 ?). 



Hab. Samoan or Navigators' Islands ; at Savaii, &c. 



That this is the Uvaria odorata I cannot doubt, although the 

 peduncles incline to branch, and to bear a larger number of flowers 

 than is usually attributed to that species ; on which account, as I find 

 no other difference of moment in the character, I suspect that 27. 

 ligularis, Lam. is no more than a variety. The petals are remarkably 

 long and narrow. The fruit, that of an Uvaria, is ovoid, and about 

 the size of a small cultivated cherry ; and the flat seeds are minutely 

 porose-pitted, as described and figured by Blume. I do not know 

 whether the flowers were noticed to be agreeably fragrant, and 

 whether they are used to scent the cocoa-nut oil which the Samoans 



