lg PHANEROGAMIA. 



thinner, membranaceous leaves (9 inches, or more in length), with 

 fewer and more distant primary veins, in its perhaps several-flowered 

 peduncles (though I have noticed only three), and in the flowers being 

 to all appearance only half as large, and with rather fewer ovaries. 

 I think that the axis of the united pistils is not so much thickened. 

 The stamens of the flower-bud examined are in good condition. The 

 exterior are shorter, and perhaps imperfect. The others are succes- 

 sively longer and more recurved : anthers oblong-linear and linear, 

 shorter than the filaments, adnate-introrse ; the cells opening longi- 

 tudinally down the margin apparently for their whole length ; — cha- 

 racters which would refer these Feejeean plants to Dillenia, if the fruit 

 would permit. To the same species I doubtfully refer a sterile branch, 

 with the thin leaves a foot and a half long. Perhaps these are all 

 mere varieties of the foregoing. 



From Caldera, Mindanao, we have foliage of one or perhaps two 

 apparently allied Dilleniaceas, in an undeterminable condition: and 

 from Luzon (near Manilla), a single leafy specimen of what may be 

 Wormia apetala, Gaud. 



3. ADRASTEA, DG. 



Sepala 5, persisientia, oblonga, subulato-acuminata, marginibus membra- 

 naceis petaloideis. Petala 5, ovalia, calyce breviora, caduca. Sta- 

 mina 10, osqualia, conformia, persistentm : antherce oblonga?, apice 

 emarginatce, filamento piano longiores, locidis longitudinaliter subin- 

 trorsum dehiscentibus. Ovaria 2, distincta, conica, in stylum subu- 

 latum attenuata : stigma, terminale minutissima. Ovulum unicum, e 

 basi suturce ventralis adscendens, anatropum. Folliculi membranacei, 

 intus longitudinaliter dehiscentes. /Semen erectum, ovoideum, larce, ad 

 hilum arillo brevissimo scarioso appendiculatum. — Suffrutex lineari- 

 folius, floribus flavis. 



Adrastea, DG. Syst. 1, p. 424, & Prodr. 1, p. 73 ; Endl. Gen. no. 4752. 



1. Adrastea salicifolia, DC. I.e. 

 Hab. Near Sydney, New South Wales. 



