200 PHANEROGAMIA. 



From Fulanga, Feejee Islands, there is a single fruiting specimen, 

 possibly of a different species, with larger, crenately toothed leaves. 



5. DICLIDOCARPUS, Nov. Gen. 



Flores polygamo-dioici? Calyx tribracteolatus, pentaphyllus ; sepalis 

 crassis cestivatione valvatis. Petala 5, inappendiculata, cestivatione 

 imbricata. Discus hypogynus, annularis, crenatus. Stamina creber- 

 rima, distincta {fl. fert. pauciuscula effceta ?) : antlierce biloculares. 

 Ovarium sessile, oblongum, biloculare, pilis parcis circumdatum, stig- 

 mate sessili retuso coronatum, multiovulatum, fl. masc. effcetum scepis- 

 sime exovulatum. Capsula latissime obcordato-rlwmboidea, bilocidaris, 

 dissepimento contrarie compressa, marginibus alata, ab apice locidicide 

 bivalvis, polysperma. Semina lenticular i-globosa, Mnc impressa, mar- 

 gine pilis prcelongis crinita; testa fragili laxa. Embryo albumine 

 carnoso vix brevior ; cotyledonibus orbiculatis planis radicula cequi- 

 longis. — Arbor, foliis ovalibus integerrimis, stipulis caducis, floribus 

 in cymulis axillaribus parvis. 



1. Diclidocarpus Richii, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 14.) 

 Hab. Ovolau, and Vanua-levu, at Sandal-wood Bay, Feejee Islands. 



" Tree about 40 feet high." Branchlets, &c, pulverulent with a 

 minute stellular pubescence, terete, annulate with the scars of the 

 fallen stipules. Leaves alternate, oval, entire, obtuse, or usually with 

 a minute and abrupt acumination, rounded or rarely slightly subcor- 

 date at the base, 2 to 3£ inches long, and U to 2i inches wide, char- 

 taceous, prominently feather-veined, three-ribbed at the base, the 

 principal veins connected by transverse veinlets, green, scarcely paler 

 underneath, glabrous to the naked eye, under a lens finely dotted 

 with a minute stellular pubescence, especially beneath and on the 

 midrib and veins; the latter more or less bearded in their axils. 

 Petioles about half an inch long. Stipules oblong, acute, caducous. 

 Flowers polygamo-dicecious, or perhaps monoeciously polygamous, very 

 small, crowded in small axillary cymes; the inflorescence and exte- 

 rior of the calyx tomentose-puberulent. Sterile flowers. Peduncle 



