226 PHANEROGAMIA. 



Hab. Muthuata, one of the smaller Feejee Islands. (In fruit only.) 



"A small tree, 15 to 20 feet high," glabrous throughout. Leaves 

 coriaceous in texture, but not thick, alternate, much crowded at the 

 summit of the branches, oval-oblong or elliptical, obtuse, or a few of 

 them obtusely somewhat pointed, all acute at the base, smooth, scarcely 

 shining above, dull, but little paler underneath, copiously feather- 

 veined, entire, 3 i to 5 inches long, 1§ to 2 inches wide; the petioles 

 from half to two-thirds of an inch in length. Flowers not seen: the 

 specimens all with mature fruit. Peduncles (in fruit) 2 or 3 together, 

 terminal, simple, apparently only one-flowered, 6 or 7 lines long, not 

 exceeding the petiole. Capsule globular, apparently a little flattened 

 parallel wath the two valves, smoothish, but minutely tuberculate- 

 wrinkled under a lens, apiculate with the short persistent style, very 

 many-seeded ; the valves thick and rather woody, 9 or 10 lines in length 

 and breadth, convex on the bach. Seeds obovoid-globose, in several 

 series, with a smooth and blade testa. 



Plate 17, A. — Pittosporum Brackenridgei : branch in fruit.. Fio\ 

 1. Transverse section of a capsule. 2. A seed, enlarged. 



11. Pittosporum tobiroides, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 17.) 



P. glabrum; foliis coriaceis elliptico-obovatis obtusissimis subretusis basi 

 acutis; pedunexdis (fructiferis) terminalUms solitariis unifloris petw- 

 lum bis superantibus ; capsula globoso-subtetragona Icevi polysperma 

 bivalvi, valvis crassissimis coriaceo-lignosis dorso convexis; seminibus 

 subglobosis atris. 



Hab. Somu-somu, Feejee Islands. (In fruit.) 



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Apparently a small tree, glabrous, except the peduncle, which is 

 somewhat pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, somewhat shining above, 

 scarcely paler underneath, elliptical-obovate, 2 or 3 inches long, li to 

 nearly 2 inches wide, with a very obtuse and rounded or slightly retuse 

 apex, acute at the base, but not so tapering as in P. Tobira, entire, 

 copiously but not prominently feather-veined. Flowers not seen. 

 Fructiferous peduncle terminal, and to all appearance solitary and only 



