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At Upolu, Navigators' Islands, leafy specimens were collected of an 

 apparently Sapindaceous shrub, without flowers or fruit ; the leaves 

 with about five pairs of ovate-lanceolate and acuminate leaflets, of a 

 thin texture, smooth and green on both sides. 



* * Philippenses. 



6. Cupania? Richii, Sp. Nov. 



C? ramulis pubescent ibus ; foliis paripinnatis 2-Z-jugis; foliolis ova- 

 libus membranaceis glabris concoloribus ; paniculis in axillis fascicu- 

 latis, fructiferis petiolum cequantibus ; capsula suhcompressa obovata 

 glabra biloculari liaud angulata apice retusa. 



Hab. Near Caldera, Mindanao, Philippine Islands. (In fruit only.) 



For the want of flowers the genus of this plant cannot be ascer- 

 tained ; but the fruit accords with that of several species of Cupania. 

 The stem is glabrous ; but the young branches, &c, are pubescent. 

 Leaflets 2 or 3 pairs, oval, more or less acuminate, rounded at the base, 

 on very short partial petioles, glabrous, membranaceous in texture, 

 green and of the same hue both sides, very veiny, from 4 to 7 inches 

 long. Fruiting panicles fascicled in the axils, not exceeding tlie petiole, 

 pubescent, apparently many-flowered. The vestiges of a minute five- 

 parted calyx are distinguishable at the base of the fruit. This is a 

 smooth and glahrous, moderately compressed, obovoid, ttco-celled capside, 

 8 or 9 lines in length, with a stipe a line and a half long, retuse at the 

 apex, and apiculate with a short style, the edges rather acute, but not 

 angled nor produced, loculicidal ; the valves crustaceous, and w T ith a 

 thin and separable cartilaginous endocarp, which is tomentose inside. 

 Only unripe seeds occur : these are solitary in each cell, ascending, 

 inserted above the base, with a fleshy arillus forming around the 

 hilum. 



There is another Sapindaceous plant from Caldera, with male 

 flowers only, its inflorescence similar to the foregoing species, and 

 with very large bijugate leaflets. It is undeterminable from the 

 present materials. 



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