238 PHANEROGAMIA. 



The specimens of this tree or shrub, having young fruit only, are 

 not in a state for determination. I can only conjecture that the plant 

 may be an Aglaia. The branchlets, petioles, and the midrib of the 

 leaflets underneath, at least when young, are thickly clothed, not only 

 with the scurf which is common in the genus, but with a stellate hir- 

 sute pubescence, of a rusty-red colour. The leaflets, 5 to 7 in number 

 are elongated-oblong, membranaceous, glabrous, mostly obtuse at both 

 ends, rather long-petiolulate, the larger, especially the superior ones, 

 from 3 to 5 inches in length ; the lowest pair usually closely approxi- 

 mate to the base of the petiole, so as to appear like a pair of leafy sti- 

 pules ; they are smaller and shorter than the others, an inch or two 

 in length, often subcordate at the base. A short spur in the axils 

 bears apparently a small number of flowers, in a nearly sessile cluster. 

 The young fruits are cylindraceous or club-shaped, 5 lines long, ferru- 

 ginous-tomentose, incompletely two-celled, the base surrounded by the 

 five-toothed, ferruginous-hirsute, persistent calyx. 



Two other plants, apparently congeners of the last, occur in the 

 collection from the Feejee Islands, in a state too imperfect for identi- 

 fication or description; the specimens having only one or two half 

 grown (one-celled, or at first two-celled) fruits. They do not accord 

 with the brief characters of any of Blume's species of Aglaia. 



2. HAKTIGHSEA, A. Juss., ex parte. 

 1. Hartighsea spectabilis, A. Juss. 



Hartighsea spectabilis, A. Juss. Meliac. (in Mem. Mus. Par. 9,) p. 76 & 111 ■ 



Hook. Ic. PI. t. 615, 616; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 39. 

 Trichilia spectabilis, Forst. Prodr. p. 33; A. Rich. Fl. N. Zel. p. 306. 



Hab. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. (With young flower-buds 

 only.) 



Dr. Hooker has overlooked Mr. Bennet's remark (in PI. Jav. Bar. 

 p. 170), that this is not a true species of Hartighsea, but differs from 

 the typical species "in the entire want of cohesion between the petals 

 and the stamineal tube, and consequently of the petals inter se (not- 



