256 PHANEROGAMIA. 



A shrub "10 to 12 feet high," nearly glabrous, except the young 

 shoots, inflorescence, and petioles, which are tomentulose with a close 

 and soft, more or less deciduous, rusty down. Leaves, including the 

 petiole, one or 2 feet long, usually abruptly pinnate. Leaflets 14 to 20, 

 opposite or alternate, lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, rounded at the base, 

 entire, from 3 to 7 inches long, 1£ to 2 inches wide, membranaceous, 

 loosely veiny, glabrous, of the same green hue both sides; the slender 

 partial petioles half an inch or more in length. Panicles very long and 

 slender, usually equalling the leaves, axillary, sparingly branched, loosely 

 flowered ; the floioers racemose, on pedicels of 2 or 3 lines in length, 

 polygamo-moncecious. Calyx minutely ferruginous-tomentose exter- 

 nally, five-parted, 3 lines broad when expanded; the lobes orbicular- 

 obovate, concave, nearly equal, imbricated in aestivation, persistent at 

 the base of the unripe fruit. Petals minute and scale-like, many times 

 shorter than the calyx, shorter than the almost sessile oblong anthers of 

 the male flowers, not unguiculate, glabrous, except a beard on the 

 minutely bi-appendiculate base within. Stamens 10, at least in the 

 male flowers (the female flowers not seen), inserted within the small 

 and thin disk. Capsule obcordate-tliree-lobed, three-celled, tipped with 

 a very short style in the sinus, tomentulose with a ferrugineous pubes- 

 cence, of a corky texture, somewhat wrinkled when dry, nearly an 

 inch long, including the stipe of 2 lines in length, the lobes somewhat 

 carinate, loculicidal; the valves densely pubescent within. Seeds 

 solitary, ascending from near the base of the cell, enclosed in a mem- 

 branaceous arillus. 



5. CUPANIA LENTISCIFOLIA, Pers. 



Cupania lentisci folia, Pers. Ench. 1, p. 413; DC. Prodr. 1, p. 614; Cambess. 



Sapind. 1. c. 

 Guioa lentisci folia, Cav. Ic. PI. 4, p. 49, t. 373. 

 Guaiacicm dubium, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 32. 



Hab. Tongatabu, Friendly Islands. Upolu, Navigators' Islands. 



The specimen from Tongatabu has neither flowers nor fruit : that 

 from the Samoan Islands has a few flower-buds. If I mistake not it 

 is likewise the Guaiacum dubium of Forster, whose specimen, in the 

 herbarium of the British Museum, is in fruit only. 



