254 PHANEROGAMIA. 



2. Cupania (Dimereza) rhoifolia, Sp. Nov. 



C.foliis 8-12-foliolatis glabris; foliolis oblongo-lanceolatis subacuminatis 

 basi scepius acutis subtus glaucescentibus ; paniculis puberulis laxi- 

 floris; petalis orbicularis exunguiculatis intus squamula bipartita 

 villoso-barbata auctis; filamentis inferne pilosis; capsula prof uncle 

 triloba. 



Hab. Ovolau, Feejee Islands. 



" Tree about 30 feet high," glabrous, except the young branchlets, 

 &c., which are puberulent. Petiole with the rhachis 3 to 6 inches 

 long, slender. Leaflets from 8 to 12, or rarely fewer, lanceolate or 

 oblong-lanceolate, more or less acuminate, mostly acute at the base, or 

 tapering into a short partial footstalk, green and rather shining above, 

 with the midrib and veins tinged with purple, glaucescent underneath, 

 chartaceous in texture, usually alternate, from li to 3 inches long, 

 and from 5 to 12 lines wide. Panicles loosely flowered, nearly equal- 

 ling the leaves, somewhat compound, axillary and subterminal, 

 minutely puberulent. Pedicels a line long. Flowers polygamous. 

 Calyx petaloid (white ?) ; the 5 orbicular-obovate sepals rather un- 

 equal, imbricated in estivation, glabrous, a line long. Petals 5, orbi- 

 cular, shorter than the sepals, sparingly ciliate, not unguiculate, rather 

 longer than their deeply two-parted appendage or squamula, which is 

 villous-bearded on the inside, and especially on the margins, each lobe 

 bearing a gland at its tip. Disk complete, fleshy, undulate. Stamens 

 in the sterile flowers 8 ; the filaments sparsely hairy below, exserted, 

 slender, bearing oval anthers. Fertile flowers not seen. Capsule 

 deeply three-lobed, glabrous, abruptly stipitate (the stipe about a line 

 and a half long) ; the lobes wing-like, wider than long (4 or 5 lines 

 in breadth), chartaceo-coriaceous in texture, loculicidal, glabrous 

 within. Seeds subglobose, 3 lines in diameter, enclosed in a fleshy 

 arillus. 



This species is evidently related to Dimereza glauca, Labill. (the 

 Cupania glauca of Cambessedes) ; the structure of the flowers being 

 wholly similar. 



