198 PHANEROGAMIA. 



G. tilicefolia, A. Rich. Sert. Astrolab. introd. p. 9, non Vahl. 

 G. Richardiana, Walp. Repert. Bot. 1, p. 363. 

 G. Amicorum, Steud. Nomencl. Bot. 



Hab. Tongatabu, Friendly Islands. Vanua-levu, Feejee Islands. 



The petals are ovate-lanceolate and acute, the circular nectary at 

 their base surrounded by a dense villous ring; the nearly entire margin 

 of the turbinate disk or torus equally villous. Stigma two-parted, 

 the divisions somewhat two-lobed or laciniate. The leaves vary from 

 ovate-oblong to oblong-lanceolate, and are barely subcordate; their 

 upper surface is either slightly scabrous or smooth. The margins of 

 the sepals, as in the following species, are induplicate in aestivation. 



2. Grewia persiclefolia, Sp. Nov. 



O. glabra; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis subserratis basi obtusa 

 tantum trinerviis laxe venosis membranaceis ; pedunoulis axillaribus 

 solitariis petiolo sublongioribus bir-trifloris ; pedicellis pedunculo cequi- 

 longis; petalis minimis? toro apice villoso-barbato ; fructu hirsutulo. 



Hab. Ovolau, Feejee Islands. 



Shrub glabrous, or the branchlets, petioles, &c, slightly puberulent. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, or some of them oblong, from 3 to 6 inches in 

 length, and one or 2 inches in width, acuminate, usually tapering gra- 

 dually from above the middle to the apex, finely and mostly obscurely or 

 repandly serrate with obtuse teeth, thin and membranaceous in texture, 

 of the same green hue both sides, pinnately veined with 4 or 5 pri- 

 mary veins on each side, besides a rather stronger pair at the obtuse 

 base, therefore three-nerved at the base only; the veins connected by 

 rather loose and inconspicuous transverse and reticulated veinlets. 

 Petioles 4 to 6 lines long. Peduncles axillary and solitary, half an 

 inch long, slender, 2-3-flowered; the pedicels as long as the peduncle; 

 the bractlets, if any, caducous. The sepals, petals, &c, have fallen 

 or have been destroyed. There are vestiges, however, of linear and 

 three-nerved sepals, smaller than those of Q. Mallococca, and of very 

 small? petals. The top-shaped torus'is villous-bearded at the undulate 



