PITTOSPORACEiE. 225 



obtuse quinquefido ; capsula subglobosa Iceviuscula bivalvi polysperma, 

 valvis coriaceo-lignosis dorso convexis; seminibus ovalibus atris. 



Hab. Vanua-levu, one of the Feejee Islands, 



Apparently a small tree, glabrous throughout, except the inflorescence 

 which is minutely pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, but not very thick, 

 alternate, crowded towards the end of the branches, of nearly the 

 same green hue both sides, not shining, lanceolate-oblong, acute at both 

 ends, or the apex sometimes obtuse, tapering into a petiole of half an 

 inch or less in length, entire, inconspicuously feather-veined, 2h to 3£ 

 inches long, an inch to lh wide. Peduncles many -flowered, axillary 

 and terminal, 6 to 12 lines long ; the flowers cymose-clustered, small, 

 on very short pedicels, subtended by minute bracts. Calyx nearly 

 glabrous, scarcely a line in length, obtusely five-cleft; the lobes very 

 short, roundish. Corolla in bud barely li lines long; the petals 

 oblong, imbricated, scarcely if at all coalescent. Stamens, pistil, &c, 

 nearly as in the foregoing species. Oapside globular, apparently not 

 baccate nor fleshy, smootMsh (the surface minutely wrinkled), two- 

 valved, many-seeded; the thick valves rather woody in texture, about 

 8 lines long and 10 lines wide, not grooved but convex on the back. 

 Seeds oval, turgid, sessile, fully 2 lines long, with a rather fleshy, 

 black and shining, smooth testa. 



I have combined a fruiting specimen (from Vanua-levu) with two 

 flowering specimens (the locality of which is not recorded), as in all 

 probability belonging to the same species : and there is another imper- 

 fect specimen with young fruit, which is most probably to be referred 

 here. The expanded flowers I have not seen. The species differs 

 from the foregoing principally in the characters given in the specific 

 phrase. 



10. Pittosporum Brackenridgei, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 17.) 



P. glabrum ; foliis coriaceis ovali-oblongis seu ellipticis obtusis basi 

 acuiis; pedunculis (fructiferis) binis ternisve terminalibus unifloris 

 petwlum haud super antibus ; capsula subglobosa Iceviuscula bivalvi 

 polysperma, valvis coriaceo-lignosis dorso convexis; seminibus subglo- 

 bosis atris. 



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