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Hab. Vicinity of Newington, New South Wales. (In flower.) 

 2. El^eocarpus (Monocera) petiolatus. 



Monocera petiolata, Jack, Malay. Misc. & in Hook. Bot. Misc. 2, p. 86. 

 Var. (3. petiolis brevioribus (liaud ultra bipollicaribus) . 



Hab. Singapore. (A form with shorter petioles than ordinary.) 

 3. El^eocarpus (Monocera) Griffithii, Wight. 



Monocera Griffith™, Wight, 111. Ind. Bot. 1, p. 84; Walp. Kepert. 1, p. 365. 

 Monocera paniculata, Wall. Cat, 



Hab. Singapore. 



4. El^eocarpus ( Acronodia ?) laurifolius, Sp. Nov. 



E. glaber ; foliis coriaceis oblongis subserratis utrinque acutis vel subacu- 

 rninatis supra nitidis; racemis axillaribus brevibus paucifloris ; flori- 

 bus diclinis, masculis perianikio pentamero ; petalis laciniatis; antheris 

 vix apiculaiis plurimis, 



Hab. Feejee Islands. 



The single specimen of this plant which exists in the collection 

 (without any indication of its particular locality) is a stout branchlet 

 of a shrub or tree, entirely glabrous, with some short and few-flowered 

 racemes from the axils of the leaves of the preceding year (which have 

 principally fallen), bearing unexpanded flowers, of which those exa- 

 mined are staminate only, showing no trace of a pistil. From its dicli- 

 nous flowers it may be allied to Blume's genus Acronodia, which this 

 author describes as dioecious, and of which he knew only the stami- 

 nate plant (although, indeed, Hasskarl, in PI. Jav. Rar. p. 323, has 

 recently characterized the flowers as hermaphrodite) : but, otherwise, 

 it appears not different from Elceocarpus. The leaves are crowded on 



