212 PHANEROGAM I A. 



serrate with inflexed callous teeth, 2 to 2 i inches long, thick and 

 coriaceous, the upper surface shining, much resembling those of Thea. 

 Flowers solitary in the axils, subsessile, small and inconspicuous ; the 

 sterile pentandrous. Sepals round-ovate, mucronulate, coriaceous. 

 Petals broadly ovate. Fruit globose, dry, indehiscent, smooth, much 

 larger than the calyx, 2 lines in diameter, 4-5-celled. Seeds several 

 in each cell, globular-reniform, with a cellular scrobiculate-reticulated 

 testa. Embryo curved, in the axis of fleshy albumen. 



The specimens of this and the subjoined species afford only scanty 

 materials for elucidating their floral characters. This, however, fur- 

 nishes some mature fruit ; the other has male flowers. Both appear 

 to differ from Eurya only in the reduction of the stamens to five, or at 

 most to six. This single character probably should not suffice to sepa- 

 rate them from that genus, several species of which are only decan- 

 drous. 



4. Eurya (Eurtodes) Richii. Sp. Nov. 



E. foliis oblongo-lanceolatis serrulatis, novellis subtus (prwcipue ad 

 costam) ramulisque idtimis pilosulis. 



Hab. Upolu, one of the Samoan or Navigators' Islands. 



A shrub, much like the preceding ; but the young branchlets and 

 the lower surface of the young leaves are pilose with slender and 

 silky fine hairs, which are mostly persistent on the midrib. The 

 leaves, too, are much narrower, being oblong-lanceolate, 2 to 2 i inches 

 in length by 6 to 10 lines in width, more finely serrulate, less coria- 

 ceous, and the upper surface not so shining. Flower-buds silky- 

 pubescent externally, solitary (rarely, perhaps, in pairs) and almost 

 sessile in the axils of the leaves, a line and a half in length ; the 

 sepals and petals broadly ovate. Stamens 5 (or in one instance 6), 

 wholly free from the corolla : filaments very short : anthers linear- 

 sagittate, mucronate. A mere subulate rudiment takes the place of 

 the pistil in the staminate flowers. The fertile flowers have not been 

 noticed. 



