280 PHANEROGAMIA. 



3. A stamen, seen from within, more magnified. 4. Branchlet, with 

 fruit, of the natural size : one of the cupules, from which the cocci 

 have fallen away, showing a seed, enclosed in its aril] us, still attached. 



5. Fruit, with one of the cocci entire, and covered with the remains 

 of the pulp ; the other fallen, leaving the seed in its arillus, magnified. 



6. One of the dehiscent cocci, equally magnified. 7. Seed, enclosed 

 in its arillus, more magnified. 8. Same, with the arillus split down 

 anteriorly. 9. Vertical section of the seed and embryo, magnified. 



2. Alphitonia franguloides, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 22.) 



A. foliis ovato-oblongis sea oblongo-lanceolatis cuspidato-acuminatk supra 

 nitidis subtus primum rufo-tomentulosis delude glabratis albescentibm 

 inter venas primarias crebras rectos reticulata ; alabastris albo-tomen- 

 tosis. 



Var. ? p. obtusa : foliis ellipthis apiculatis vel miicronulatis nunc retusis 

 subtus albidioribus. 



Hab. Sandalwood Bay, &c, Vanua-levu, Feejee Islands. Var. ? j3. 

 Tongatabu : in fruit only. 



The Feejee plant is said to be a shrub, for the most part. Although 

 nearly allied to the preceding species, it appears to differ specifically 

 in its smaller leaves (varying from one and a half to 3 inches in 

 length, either ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate), which taper to an acute 

 point, are tipped with a slender mucronate cusp, and when young 

 are clothed with a rusty-red tomentum underneath : when this disap- 

 pears a whitish but almost glabrous surface is left : while the upper 

 surface is very smooth and shining. The primary veins are closer 

 and straighter than in A. zizyphoides; the fine reticulation of the 

 lower surface is similar. The small and many-flowered cymes are ter- 

 minal, or from the uppermost axils. The flower-buds are ivhite-to?nen- 

 tose, while their pedicels are ferrugineous. The flowers, although 

 rather smaller, accord in structure with those of A. zizyphoides, except 

 that the crest of the inside of the sepals is still more salient. The 

 drupe, seeds, &c, are similar in structure, but rather smaller. — The 

 specimens from Tongatabu (in fruit only) here doubtfully appended 



