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cious, very small (the buds about a line in diameter), axillary; the 

 fertile ones mostly in pairs, rarely in threes, sometimes solitary; the 

 staminate often in clusters of 3 or 4 or more in the same axils. Pedi- 

 cels of the fertile flowers II to 2 lines in length ; of the sterile shorter, 

 not so long as the flowers. Calyx minutely 1-2-bracteolate ; the 5 

 sepals orbicular, imbricated. Corolla yellowish, rather longer than 

 the calyx ; the petals 5, oval or obovate, a little united at the base. 

 Staminate flowers with an abortive rudiment in place of a pistil, 

 decandrous. Filaments distinct, free or nearly so from the corolla. 

 Anthers oblong, scarcely as long as the filament, obtuse, very minutely 

 apiculate under a lens. Pistillate flowers destitute of any rudiments 

 of stamens. Ovary globose, glabrous, four-celled, sometimes three- 

 celled, with numerous downwardly imbricated ovules in each cell. 

 Styles 3 or 4, very short, nearly distinct to the base : stigmas introrse, 

 subcapitate. Fruit globose, barely a line in diameter, a little longer 

 than the persistent calyx, dry, crustaceous, indehiscent; the cells 

 several-seeded. 



This species in foliage resembles Eurya nitida of Korthals (in Ver- 

 hand. Naturl. Gesch. Nederl. Overzeesch. Bezitt. p. 115, t. 17), from 

 Borneo; but that has cuspidate-pointed anthers, an ovoid and pointed 

 ovary with much fewer ovules, a larger fruit, and longer styles, which 

 are united for more than half their length. 



Subgen. EURYODES. — -Flores masculi pentandri, rarius hexandri. (Samoenses, flo* 

 ribus subsessilibus solitariis.) 



3. EURYA (EURYODES) PlCKERINGII, Sp. Nov. 



E. glaberrima; foliis obovatis seu ovalibus basi acutis crebre serratis 

 coriaceis supra nitidis. 



Hab. Tutuila, one of the Samoan or Navigators' Islands; on moun- 

 tains, at an elevation of about 2,000 feet. 



Shrub "4 to 10 feet high," very glabrous; the ultimate branchlets 

 scarcely if at all pubescent, even when young. Leaves obovate, oblong- 

 obovate, or oval, acute at the base, obtuse or obtusely pointed, closely 



