96 PHANEROGAMIA. 



any dorsal or terminal appendages. Anthers oblong, inappendiculate, 

 exactly like those of the foregoing species. Disk none. Ovary, 

 ovules, style, stigma, &c, nearly as in the foregoing species. Mature 

 fruit not seen. — The leaf-bearing and flowering branches are about 

 a quarter of an inch in diameter : the flowers are small and inconspi- 

 cuous. 



Plate 9. — Isodendrion longifolium. Fig. 1. Stipules, front and 

 back view, enlarged. 2. Diagram of the flower. 3. A flower, en- 

 larged. 4. A petal, more enlarged. 5. Stamens and pistil, magni- 

 fied. 6. The same after the removal of the stamens. 7. Vertical 

 section of the ovary, magnified. 

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3. Isodendrion laurifollum, Sp. Nov. 



I. glabrum; foliis coriaceis oblongo-lanceolatis subrepandis basi obtusis 

 brevissime petiolatis ; sepalis lanceolatis. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands, with the preceding species. 



Branches rather stout, entirely glabrous, as is the whole plant. 

 Leaves coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, somewhat narrowed at both ends, 

 obtuse at the base, about 3 inches long and an inch wide, sparingly and 

 obscurely repand-serrulate, or entire, very short petioled, shining above, 

 pale beneath, not unlike those of Laurus vobilis. Petioles only one 

 or 2 lines long, seldom longer than the stipules. Pedicels a line long, 

 bibracteolate. Flowers apparently similar to those of the preceding 

 species; except that the sepals are lanceolate and much narrower. 

 Fruit not seen. 



Only a single and incomplete specimen of this plant was gathered. 

 Perhaps it will be found to vary into I. longifolium ; but the branches 

 are much less stout, the leaves are less than half the size, are all 

 obtuse or rounded at the base, and very short-petioled, and the sepals 

 are of a different shape. As to the rest of the flower, no especial dif- 

 ference is manifest The stipules are similar, but apparently less per- 

 sistent. 



