VIOLACE.E. 97 



9. MELICYTUS, Forst. 

 Melicytus, Forst. Char. Gen. Fl. Ins. Austr. t. 62 j Hook. f. PL N. Zeal. p. 17. 



1. Melicytus ramiflorus, Forst. 



Melicytus ramiflorus, Porst. 1. c, & Prodr. FL Ins. Austr. p. 70 j Lam. 111. t. 812 j 

 DC. Prodr. 1, p. 257; A. Rich, PL N. Zel. p. 313; A. Cunn. in Ann. & Mag, 

 Nat. Hist. 4, p. 256; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 18. 



Hab. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 



Dr. Hooker has with manifest correctness referred this genus to the 

 order Violacece, and has increased the number of the species to five. 

 The dorsal appendage of the anther is inconspicuous in the present 

 species : it is thickened and concave at the apex. 



2. Melicytus macrophyllus, A. Cunn. 



Melicytus macrophyllus, A. Cunn. in Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1. c. ; Hook. f. 



Hab. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. (In fruit.) 



The leaves of this species, as Dr. Hooker remarks, are larger than 

 those of the preceding, of a deeper green, and with fewer and coarser 

 teeth : the somewhat obovoid berries are more than twice as large. 



10. S A U Y A G E S I A, Jacg, 



1. Sauvagesia erecta, Linn. 



Hab. Organ Mountains, near Rio Janeiro, Brazil. Common almost 

 throughout tropical America. 



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