28 PHANEROGAMIA. 



a style as long as itself: stigma obtuse, little dilated, not discoid. 

 Ovules 2, collateral, erect from the base of the cell. Follicles 2 to 3, 

 or solitary, gibbous, minutely wrinkled or roughened, tipped with a 

 persistent style, which is a line and a half longi tapering gradually 

 into the smooth and thickened stipe, the whole together club-shaped, and 

 over an inch long, two-valved at the apex; the valves thickened, 

 corticose-coriaceous, at length splitting through the clavate-thickened 

 stipe. Seed often by abortion solitary, oval, compressed ; the testa 

 chestnut-coloured, smooth and shining. 



This species, which appears to be a true Anaxagorea, notwithstand- 

 ing the extreme fewness of its pistils, differs from A. Javanica of 

 Blume in its narrower leaves, not at all glaucous beneath, in its 

 slender styles, and especially in its uniform, wholly perfect stamens ; 

 in which last respect it accords with the genuine American species. 

 Our specimens exhibited good fruit ; but there was only a single un- 

 opened flower to examine. 



5. RICHELLA, Nov. Gen. 



Calyx subtrilobus, persistens. Corolla e petalis 6 ovatis, internis dimidio 

 brevioribus. Torus acetabuliformis. Stamina indefinita Guatterise, 

 etc. Ovaria plurima, libera, biovulata: styli majusculi, intus longi- 

 tudinaliter stigmatosi. Ovula sutures ventrali juxta basim inserta, 

 adscendentia, superposita. Fructus e carpellis paucis, obovoideis, sub- 

 carnosis (exsuccis, siccatis coriaceis), indehiscentibus, breviter stipitalis, 

 rnonospermis. Semen erectum, magnum, samaroideo-nuciforrne; nempe, 

 testa coriacea marginibus alato-productis. Albumen, embryo, etc. 

 ordinis. Arbor Uvariae facias. 



1. RlCHELLA MONOSPERMA, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 2). 



Hab. Ovolau, Feejee Islands ; not uncommon. 



A tree of considerable size, with glabrous leaves, branches, &c, and 

 with the aspect of an Uvaria. Leaves coriaceo-membranaceous, ellip- 



