228 PHANEROGAMIA. 



at the apex: pedicels 4 or 5 lines long, subtended by small subulate 

 bracts. Calyx short, barely a line in length, five-deft scarcely to the 

 middle; the lobes obtuse. Corolla 3 or 4 lines long; the petals dis- 

 tinct, oblong-linear. Filaments linear-subulate, thrice the length of 

 the sagittate and mucronulate anthers. Ovary ovoid or fusiform, 

 pubescent (the pubescence apparently deciduous), five-celled, narrowed 

 at the base, so as to be slightly stipitate, tapering at the apex into a 

 very short style (of not more than half a line in length) : stigma 

 obscurely five-lobed. Ovules 6 in each cell, crowded in a single series 

 at the middle portion of the axis, on short but distinct funiculi. 

 Fruit not seen. 



This would belong to the section Senacia of Blume (Mus. Bot. 

 Lugd.-Bat. 1, p. 159) ; but it is manifestly different from any described 

 species. 



13. PlTTOSPORUM RHYTIDOCARPUM, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 18.) 



P. glabrum; foliis coriaceis oblanceolatis seu obovato-oblongis breviter 

 acuminatis basi attenuatis ; floribus in umbellulas sessiles terminales 

 congestis; calyce abbreviato quinquesepalo ; petalis coalitis; ovario 

 tomentidoso hand stipitato; stylo longiusculo; capsxda ohlonga lig- 

 nosa crassissima tuberato-rugosissima bivalvi polyspermia; seminibm 

 compressis. 



Hab. Ovolau, Muthuata, and north coast of Viti-levu, Feejee 

 Islands. 



Three or four forms, or varieties, occur in the collection, most of 

 them in fruit, probably all of them referable to one species, which is 

 remarkable for its warty-tuberculate capsule. It is " a shrub, or small 

 tree, from 6 to 20 feet high," glabrous, except the inflorescence, which 

 is pubescent. Leaves coriaceous, green, and of nearly the same hue 

 both sides, oblanceolate, varying to obovate-lanceolate and obovate- 

 oblong, acute or acuminate with a short point, usually tapering from 

 the middle to a slender base, decurrent into the petiole (which is an 

 inch or 1J inches long), feather- veined, with entire or slightly undu- 

 late margins, from 4 to 7 inches in length, and li to 2 inches in 



