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Hab. Feejee Islands. At Sandalwood Bay, Vanua-levu, with the 

 preceding, according to the ticket annexed to the specimens : but in 

 Dr. Pickering's manuscript notes both are said to have been gathered 

 on Ovolau. 



Only a wretched specimen occurs in the collection, with fruit, but 

 without flowers ; which I am forced thus to characterize, being unable 

 to identify it with any described species. It is glabrous and trifoliolate, 

 with rather fleshy, ovate or oval, and acuminate leaflets, from 2 to 3 

 inches long and from one and a half to 2 inches wide, sparingly and 

 coarsely toothed, petiolulate. The fruiting cymes are very short-pedun- 

 cled: the berries are obovoid, in their dried state, and nearly half an 

 inch in length. 



8. ClSSUS ACUMINATA, Sp. Nov. 



O. glabella; foliis pedato-quinquefoliolatis nunc fere trifoliolatis ; foliolis 

 membranaceis ovatis seu ovaliroblongis basi acutis apice eximie acumi- 

 natis ina^qualiter serratis ; pedunculis gracilibus laxifloris. 



Hab. Ovolau, Feejee Islands. 



A rather slender and nearly glabrous vine, with pedately five-foliolate 

 leaves ; or sometimes one or both the lateral leaflets are undivided. 

 Petioles slender, one and a half to 3 inches long. Leaflets membra- 

 naceous in texture, one and a half to 2£ inches long, ovate or oval- 

 oblong, inclining to rhomboidal, with an acute base, and a long-acumi- 

 nate apex, irregularly serrate, the teeth mucronate-tipped : the middle 

 leaflet is borne on a partial petiole of half an inch in length; the 

 lateral are less petiolulate. Peduncle slender, 2 inches long; the cyme 

 small and loosely flowered. Flower-buds less than a line in length. 

 Fruit not seen. 



There is in the collection, besides, an imperfect specimen, which I 

 cannot identify, of a Cissus with pedate leaves, which is ticketed as 

 from the Bay of Islands. But no other collectors, so far as I am 

 aware, have met with any plant of this family in New Zealand. 



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