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characters were ever published. The specimen preserved in the 

 British Museum, however, has larger leaves than ours. Forster sup- 

 posed his plant to be polygamo-dicecious, and that he had only male 

 flowers ; which may be the case ; but the flowers I have examined 

 in our specimen are hermaphrodite. They accord with the Casearice 

 of the section Pitumba, except in the sessile, or nearly sessile, and 

 thickened stigma, and the fewer ovules ; — characters which may serve 

 to define a sixth section of the genus. 



Plate 5, A. — Case aria distich a. Fig. 1, An expanded flower, 

 magnified. 2. Androecium displayed, magnified. 3. A portion of 

 the same, more magnified (inside view). 4. Exterior view of one of 

 the stamens. 5. The pistil, magnified. 



6. Casearia Richii, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 5.) 



O. foliis ovatis subacuminatis vix punctatis subcoriaceis modice petiolatis 

 distichis ; floribus minimis e gemma axillari fasciculatis subsessilibus ; 

 filamentis fertilibus infer ne ciliatis; stigmate subtrilobo. 



Hab. Ovolau, Feejee Islands. 



A close congener of the foregoing species ; from w T hich it is distin- 

 guished by its much smaller and crowded ovate and somewhat taper- 

 pointed leaves (from one to 2 inches long), of a rather coriaceous tex- 

 ture, very obscurely punctate, and on petioles of greater proportional 

 length : they are equally distichous, smooth, and entire. The flowers 

 are apparently still smaller, from similar axillary and sessile buds. 

 Their fertile filaments, moreover, are ciliate below the middle; the ovary 

 is more ovoid ; and the depressed-capitate and sessile stigma is some- 

 what three-lobed. 



Plate 5, B. — Casearia Richii. Fig. 1. Diagram of the flower. 

 2. Vertical section of the flower. 3. A stamen, with a sterile fila- 

 ment; inside view. 4. A stamen, outside view. 5. The pistil. — The 

 analyses all magnified. 



