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slender but short stipes (4 or 5 lines long). The mature follicles are 

 all open and leaf-like, in the manner of the genus, membranaceous, 

 very veiny, glabrous or nearly so, oblong-lanceolate, 2h inches long, at 

 most an inch wide, obtuse at both ends, abruptly tipped with a small 

 mucroniform style; the edges not thickened towards the base, each 

 bearing one or 2 seeds. Seed globular, 3 lines in diameter, attached 

 by a short linear hilum, without any funiculus, semianatropous ; the 

 testa, or outer integument, thin, rather fragile, and wrinkled when 

 dry, but apparently fleshy in the living state ; the inner integument 

 crustaceous, although rather thin, umbilicate at the chalaza, lined 

 with a very thin membrane. Albumen fleshy. Embryo as long 

 and as broad as the albumen, nearly straight; the short radicle a 

 little bent towards the hilum : cotyledons nearly plane, broadly oval, 

 foliaceous. 



The five-lobed leaves, either of a second species, or more probably of 

 a variety of this, destitute of flowers or fruit, were gathered at Sandal- 

 wood Bay, on Vanua-levu, according to Dr. Pickering's notes. They 

 are not found in the collection. 



Plate 13. — Firmiana diversifolia : a branch in fruit. Fig. 1. A 

 seed, enlarged. 2. A longitudinal section of the same parallel with 

 the hilum. 3. A transverse section of the seed. 4. A longitudinal 

 section parallel with the cotyledons, the breadth of which is displayed. 

 The analyses magnified. 



