252 PHANEROGAMIA. 



Leaves with a wingless rhachis, abruptly pinnate. Leaflets 3 or 4 pairs, 

 or the uppermost fewer, opposite or alternate, ovate-oolong, or lanceolate- 

 oblong, tapering to a more or less acuminate or acute point, 3 to 5 

 inches long, li to 2 inches wide, somewhat oblique, entire, chartaceous 

 in texture, veiny, green and rather shining above, dull but little paler 

 underneath, rounded at the base, or contracted into a short partial 

 petiole (of 2 lines in length). Panicle terminal, large, and decom- 

 pound; the flowers thickly clustered along its racemose branches, 

 polygamo-dioecious. Pedicels very short. Calyx petaloid, apparently 

 yellowish-white, 2 lines or more in diameter; the 5 sepals unequal, 

 distinct, roundish-obovate, concave, imbricated in aestivation, glabrous, 

 with ciliolate margins ; the 2 exterior only half as large as the others. 

 Petals 5, ovate, or deltoid-ovate, rather shorter than the larger sepals, 

 white, cucullate, destitute of an appendage, unguiculate; the claw rather 

 long, and, as well as the base of the lamina, ciliate with villous hairs. 

 Disk complete, crateriform, 7-8-toothed. Filaments 7-8, villous below 

 the middle, at length longer than the calyx in the sterile flowers, 

 which alone occur in the collection. Abortive ovary three-lobed, 

 three-celled, with a short and undivided style. Fruit not seen : the 

 genus therefore doubtful. 



At Eimeo, Society Islands, was collected the foliage apparently of a 

 Sapinclus, with a winged rhachis, and 6 to 8 narrowly oblong leaflets. 

 It may be the Sapindus saponaria of Forster, from Easter Island, of 

 which nothing farther is known. 



8. CUP AN I A, Plunder. 



* Oceanic -ae. 

 1. CUPANIA? (MlSCHOCARPUS) FALCATA, Sp. Nov. 



C. foliis 4-5-foliolatis glabris; foliolis lanceolatis basi rotundatis sensim 

 acuminatis falcatis ; racemis spiciformibus densifloris pubescentibus ; 

 petalis calycem parvum adcequantibus hastato-trilobis intus inuppen- 

 dicidatis, lobis lateralibus incurvis margine villoso-barbatw ; stami- 

 nibus glabris; capsula obovoidea subtrigona glabra haud stipitaia tri- 

 loculare. 



