268 PHANEROGAMIA. 



arcuatis; alis fructus obovatis brevibus, crista dorsali quoque in alam 

 producta. 



Var. a, foliis 1-2 poll, longis crassiusculis rigidis haud perspicue venosis. 

 (Tab. 21, A, B.) 



Var. /?. foliis 3-4 poll, longis tenuioribus magis venosis. (Tab. 21, C.) 



Hab. Ovolau and Vanua-levu, Feejee Islands. 



A climbing shrub ; glabrous, except the youngest shoots and espe- 

 cially the inflorescence, which are more or less beset with fine and 

 close-pressed Malpighiaceous hairs; the bark of the branchlets thickly 

 verrucose, like the other species, with lenticels or small warts. Leaves 

 lanceolate-elliptical or oblong, coriaceous, more or less acute at both ends, 

 but scarcely acuminate, often obtuse at the base, sometimes elliptical 

 and very obtuse at both ends, shining, especially the upper surface, 

 pretty thick and rigid and only one or 2 inches long in var. a., the 

 veinlets inconspicuous; in var. ft. rather thinner and veiny, 3 or 4 

 inches long, dotted with a few glands along the margin on the under 

 side : the petiole 2 lines long. Racemes /e?o-(4-8-) flowered, axillary 

 and terminal, short-peduncled, sometimes paniculate by the abortion 

 of the upper rameal leaves. Calyx as in the preceding ; the gland on 

 the posterior sepal very large and decurrent on the slender pedicel. 

 Petals very concave, rose-coloured or light purpel, at least on the inner 

 side, minutely silky-pubescent outside, orbicular, less fringed than 

 those of H. Madablota, but with the margins more or less erose and 

 ciliate, especially those of the exterior petal (which strongly overlaps 

 the others in the bud), 5 or 6 lines in length. Stamens 10, the fila- 

 ments of the 5 anterior and larger ones nearly equal in length and 

 thickness, incurved, at length exserted ; 2 or 3 of the others equally 

 stout but shorter; the remainder still shorter and more slender. 

 Style elongated and circinnate : no abortive styles seen. Ovary 

 deeply three-lobed, three-celled, silky-hirsute. Fruit four-winged; the 

 dorsal crest being produced into a wing of about 3 lines in width, and 

 fully half as large as the lateral ones, the terminal or upright wing 

 larger, broadly obovate, obtuse or retuse, 7 to 9 lines in length, 

 minutely strigose-puberulent. Seed somewhat twisted, as well as 

 reniform-incurved. Cotyledons very unequal; the inner one much 

 smaller. 



