224 PHANEROGAMIA. 



glohosa bacciformi bivalvi polysperma, vdlvis crassissimis dorso sul- 

 catis; seminibus lenticular ibus pallide purpureis. 



Hab. Tongatabu. Also Feejee Islands. 



"Tree 25 feet high/' glabrous throughout, except a minute and 

 deciduous pubescence on the inflorescence. Leaves chartaceoys in 

 texture, alternate, occasionally approximated as if in whorls, obovate- 

 oblong, oblong, or sometimes narrowly elliptical-oblong, 3 or 4 inches 

 in length, one or 2 inches in width, obtuse at the apex, acute at the 

 base, tapering into a petiole of half an inch or more in length, smooth, 

 scarcely shining above, paler and dull beneath, rather conspicuously 

 feather-veined, the margin minutely undulate. Inflorescence terminal 

 and in the upper axils. Peduncles many-flowered, short; the flowers 

 glomerate in crowded cymules, small ; the pedicels not more than a 

 line and a half long, subtended by minute ovate-subulate bracts. 

 Calyx 4:-5-cleft to the middle, not longer than the pedicel, glabrous; 

 the lobes ovate, obtuse. Petals 4 or 5, linear, more or less coalescent 

 into a tube (especially about the middle), their obtuse apices imbri- 

 cated in jestivation, 3 or 4 lines long. Stamens 4 or 5. Filaments 

 subulate, short. Anthers introrse, linear-sagittate. Pistil glabrous: 

 style short : stigma truncate, obsoletely two-lobed. Ovary sessile, im- 

 perfectly two-celled, many-ovuled. Capsule fleshy or berry-like, " orange- 

 coloured," smooth, and glabrous (the surface minutely wrinkled in 

 the dried state), globular, half an inch long, two-valved, many-seeded: 

 the valves very thick, woody-coriaceous when dry, grooved on the back 

 opposite the placenta. Seeds sessile and two-ranked on each valve, 

 a,ng\ed-lenticular, barely 2 lines in diameter; the smooth and purplish 

 testa thin, not shining. Albumen and embryo as in the genus. 



The materials consist of one poor specimen with flowers, chiefly 

 unexpanded, and one with dehiscent fruit from Tongatabu; with a 

 similar fruiting specimen from the Feejee Islands, the particular 

 habitat not recorded. The inflorescence is like that of the following 

 species. 



9. PlTTOSPORUM RlCHII, Sp. Nov. 



P. glabrum; foliis coriaceis lanceolato-oblongis u(ri?iqiie acutis vel acu- 

 tiusculis; peduncidis multifloris, floribus glomerato-cymosis ; calyce 



