80 PHANEROGAMIA. 



Hab. Near Rio Janeiro, Brazil : probably from woods on the Cor- 

 covado, where Gardner found the plant. 



Our specimen bears ripe fruit only, which is exactly globose, mostly 

 one-seeded, about 4 lines in diameter, and tipped with a short persis- 

 tent style, which appears to be entire. 



4. Case aria? acuminatissima, Sp. Nov. 



C. glabra; foliis nitidis oblongo-lanceolatis longe acuminatis basi rotun- 

 datis vix punctatis subintegerrimis ; fructu obovato-globoso trivalvi 

 monospermo. 



Hab. Sandal-wood Bay, Vanua-levu, one of the Feejee Islands. 

 (In fruit only.) 



. The specimen consists of a branch of a glabrous shrub or small tree, 

 with ripe fruit. The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, with a long and 

 slender acwnination and a rounded base : they are chartaceous in tex- 

 ture, smooth and shining both sides, copiously feather-veined, mostly 

 entire, occasionally showing a few minute teeth, obscurely if at all 

 pellucid-punctate, 2 or 3 inches long, an inch or less in width : the 

 petioles a line and a half in length. Stipules minute. Flowers not 

 seen. They appear to have been solitary in the axils of leaves 

 (which have mostly fallen) of the slender axillary branchlets of the 

 season. Pedicels in fruit 4 or 5 lines long. Fruit obovate-globose, 

 naked, 4 lines long, tipped with a short and apparently entire persis- 

 tent style, probably fleshy and becoming coriaceous, glabrous, one- 

 celled, tardily three-valved from the apex, filled with a single seed. 

 The vestiges of numerous ovules are still visible, however, on 3 

 filiform, parietal placentae. The solitary seed is globular, nearly 

 3 lines in diameter ; its dark-coloured crustaceous testa covered with 

 a thin and fleshy pellicle ; its base marked with a circular impressed 

 raphe; the micropyle superior, apiculate. Albumen fleshy, rather 

 soft. Embryo in the axis of the albumen next the micropyle, 

 straight, fully half the length of the albumen : radicle superior, about 

 the length of the flat, orbicular-cordate cotyledons. — The flowers are 

 needed for the certain determination of the genus. 



