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the French, occurs in the collection from the Sandwich Islands : but 

 it is stated on the ticket to be only a cultivated tree, in gardens, in 

 the vicinity of Honolulu. A native of tropical America, it is now 

 widely distributed through the warmer parts of the world. 



Ord flacourtiace^. 



1. P ROCK I A, P. Browne. 



Prockia, P. Browne, in Linn. Gen. no. 647; Bennett, PI. Jav. Bar. p. 191. 

 Prockia, § Prockiaria, DC. Prodr. 1, p. 260 ; Endl. Gen. no. 5072. 



1. Prockia Crucis, Linn. 



Prockia completa, Hook. Ic. PI. 1, t. 94 ; Walp. Bepert. 1, p. 204. 

 Hab. Brazil, in the Organ Mountains, near Rio Janeiro. 



2. K U H L I A, H. B. K. 



1. KUHLIA PARVIFLORA, Sp. Nov. 



K. foliis oblongis acuminatis remote glanduloso-serratis basi sublncequa- 

 libus triplir-quintupMnerviis utrinque viridibus; panicula composita ; 

 Jhribus minimis. 



Hab. Brazil, in the Organ Mountains, near Rio Janeiro. 



A shrub or small tree, apparently : the branchlets slender, minutely 

 verrucose, glabrous. Leaves oblong, or oblong-lanceolate, more or less 



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