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Shrub or tree with the brancMets, &c, rusty with a fine reddish scurf, 

 becoming smooth with age. Leaves pinnate, 6 to 15 inches long, 

 including the petiole, alternate, occasionally almost opposite. Leaflets 

 5 to 11, oblong-lanceolate, from 3 to 5 inches in length, acuminate, 

 either obtuse, rounded, or acutish at the base, petiolulate, somewhat 

 repand, rather membranaceous in texture, glabrate or, at least when 

 young, rusty underneath with a minute ferruginous scurf Panicles com- 

 pound, ample, axillary, very many-flowered, clothed with a reddish 

 scurf, as is the calyx also. Flower-buds less than a line in diameter, 

 globose. Petals orbicular-obovate, concave or connivent, of a thickish 

 texture, imbricated in aestivation, much longer than the rusty-pubes- 

 cent calyx. Stamineal tube obovoid-turbinate, with scarcely any 

 contracted base, the border obscurely five-toothed, with 5 sessile, 

 nearly included anthers alternate with the teeth. Ovary two-celled ? 

 apparently sterile in the flowers examined. Immature fruit obovoid, 

 half an inch in length, two-celled ; only one cell containing a seed in 

 the single fruit contained in the collection. The immature seed oblong, 

 apparently destitute of arillus, but with a fleshy integument. 



3. Aglaia (Milnea) edulis. 



Milnea edulis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. 1, p. 637, & ed. Wall. 2, p. 430. 



Hab. Samoan and Feejee Islands. (In flower only.) 



Probably the " complete, fleshy arillus, covering the seed" in Milnea 

 is only a fleshy integument of the seed; which would abolish the 

 only character left to distinguish Milnea from Aglaia. The petals in 

 the present species are imbricated (not convolute) in aestivation. 



4. Aglaia? basiphylla, Sp. Nov. 



A. ramulis junioribus petiolis costisque subtus pube rufa furfuraceo- 

 hirsutis; foliolis 5-7 elongato-oblongis membranaceis petiohdatis, in- 

 fimis minoribus s&pissime imae basi petioli adproximatis ; floribus 

 axillaribus glomeratis subsessilibu-s. 



Hab. Ovolau, Feejee Islands. 



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