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magnified. 2. Diagram of the flower, in a transverse section. 3. 

 Flower, seen from below. 4. The same, seen from above. 5. Verti- 

 cal section of the pistil, with the base of the calyx, corolla, &c. 6. 

 A portion of the ring of stamens. 7. Apex of the style and stigma, 

 more magnified than in fig. 5. 8. Fruit, surrounded by the persistent 

 calyx. 9. Transverse section of the fruit. 10. A seed. 11. Vertical 

 section of the same. 12. Embryo, detached. — All the dissections 

 variously magnified. 



2. TERNSTRCEMIA, Mutis. 

 1. Ternstrcemia Brasiliensis, Gamb. 



Ternstrcemia Brasiliensis, Cambess. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 1, p. 298, t. 59 



Hab. Near Rio Janeiro, Brazil ; the var. minor. 



3. EURYA, Thunb. 



1. Eurta? Sandwicensis, Sp. Nov. 



E. ramulis ultimis strigillosis ; foliis ellipticis oblongisve basi subcordatis 

 creberrime serrulatis reticulatis; fioribus (masculis) in axillis solitariis 

 nutantibus 10-15-cmeZm. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands : on mountains, behind the town of Hono- 

 lulu, Oahu: also in forests, on the side of Mouna Kea, Hawaii. 

 (Gathered at Oahu by Macrae and Gaudichaud.) 



Apparently a large shrub, much branched ; the branches crowded 

 with leaves ; the ultimate branchlets strigosely hairy. Leaves elliptical 

 or oblong, coriaceous, varying from one to 2% inches in length, and 

 from half an inch to an inch in width, mostly obtuse or rounded at 

 the apex, more or less cordate at the base (the smaller slightly so), 

 closely serrulate throughout with inflexed mucronulate teeth, nume- 

 rously and closely feather-veined, and with the veinlets finely reticu- 



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