210 PHANEROGAMIA. 



lated underneath, glabrous, or the midrib strigillose underneath, on 

 distinct petioles of only a line and a half in length, or sometimes 

 sessile and the leaf appearing as if partly clasping. Only one kind of 

 flowers seen : these appear as if hermaphrodite, but their ovary is 

 destitute of ovules. The flowers are solitary in the axils of the much- 

 crowded leaves, on ebracteolate pedicels of from 3 to 5 lines lon°-, 

 mostly nodding, large for the genus, being 3 or 4 lines in length. 

 Calyx scarcely puberulent, brownish, subtended by two small bract- 

 lets at the base: sepals 5, unequal (the exterior smaller), coriaceous, 

 orbicular, imbricated, persistent. Corolla pale yellow, hypogynous, 

 nearly twice as long as the calyx ; the petals 5, united at the base, 

 imbricated, obovate, thickish. Stamens 10 or 15, hypogynous, or 

 very slightly if in the least adnate to the base of the corolla : fila- 

 ments distinct, short, subulate: anthers oblong-linear, mucronulate, 

 longer than the filaments. Ovary (sterile) three-celled; the cells not 

 ovuliferous : styles as long as the stamens, united at the base, or sepa- 

 rate, or two of them united : stigma subcapitate. 



Until the fertile flowers or the fruit are known, we cannot be 

 certain that this is a true Eurya; but it probably is so. 



2. Eurya Vitiensis, Sp. Nov. 



E. glaberrima; foliis lanceolato-ellipticis oblongisve utrinque acuminatis 

 serrulatis supra nitidis; floribus plerisque geminis, masculisve (10- 

 andris) fasciculatis ; sepalis orbicidatis; stylis 3 vel 4 brevissimis 

 fere discretis; fructu globoso. 



Hab. On the summit of a mountain of Ovolau, one of the Feejee 

 Islands, at an altitude of 2,000 feet. 



Shrub (or small tree ?) very glabrous, even to the ultimate branch- 

 lets ; or these slightly and minutely pubescent, when very young, in 

 the specimens with male flowers. Leaves lanceolate-elliptical, oblong, 

 or oblong-lanceolate, rather crowded on the angled branches, tapering 

 or acuminate at both ends, coriaceous, serrulate with callous teeth, li 

 to 2 inches long, 8 to 10 lines wide, smooth and shining above, dull 

 bat scarcely paler underneath : petioles 2 lines long. Floioers dioe- 



