GUTTIFERjE. 



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Hab. Ovolau, Feejee Islands; at the altitude of 1500 feet above 

 the level of the sea. 



" Tree 35 feet high," glabrous, with terete branches ; the slender 

 branchlets somewhat angled. Leaves opposite, approximate, short- 

 petioled, oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at both ends, 2 to 2i 

 inches long, about two-thirds of an inch wide, coriaceous, both sides 

 smooth and nearly similar in aspect, not shining, appearing nearly 

 veinless: the base is acute and decurrent into the short petiole; the 

 apex is conspicuously acuminate, but with a rounded point. The 

 only flowers known are fertile, probably only female ones, from which 

 the floral envelopes are deciduous: they are axillary and solitary, 

 rarely in pairs, on pedicels of 3 lines in length, which are bibracteolate 

 near the middle; the bractlets opposite and minute. The hypo- 

 gynous torus appears to have borne very few sepals or other floral 

 envelopes, and probably no stamens. Ovary ovoid, glabrous, fleshy, 

 very obtuse, the apex covered with a very broad and depressed, disk- 

 shaped, fleshy stigma, which is entire or nearly so ; within it is two- 

 celled, and with a single, oblong, amphitropous ovule in each cell ; 

 the micropyle apparently inferior. Fruit not seen, probably it is 

 baccate. 



Of the original species, Discostigma caudatum, as of ours, only the 

 fertile flowers are known : these are said to be in small and lateral 

 or axillary racemes. Even the floral envelopes of our plant are 

 unknown ; but there is hardly a doubt that it is a genuine species of 

 Discostigma. 



Plate 16, A. — Discostigma Vitiense : fertile plant, with forming 

 fruit. Fig. 1. Fertilized pistil, enlarged. 2. Vertical section of the 

 same. 



4. GARCINIA,Xmn. 

 1. Garcinia Mangostana, Linn. 

 Hab. Mangsi Islands. (Foliage only collected.) 



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