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lingers collection, is destitute both of flowers and fruit. But a loose 

 capsule which occurs in the same sheet would appear to belong to a 

 Celastraceous plant. 



Ord celastrace^. 



1. PUTTERLICKIA, Endl. 



1. PUTTERLICKIA PYRACANTHA, Endl. 



Putterlickia pi/racantha, Endl. (Gen. PL p. 1086) in Walp. Eepert. 1, p. 528. 

 Celastrm pyracanthus, Linn.; DC. Prodr. 2, p. 8 ; Eckl. & Zeyh. Enum. PI. Afr. 

 Austr. p. 119. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope, in the vicinity of Cape Town. 



2. CATHA, Forsh., Webb. 



1. Catha Vitiensis, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 23.) 



C. inermis; foliis ovalibus crenulatls bad in petiolum brevem attmnatis; 

 cymis brembus multifloris; calycis lobis fimbriato-ciliatis ; petalis 

 denticulatis ; capillls inter stamina nullis ; stylis in fl. fert. 3 in/erne 

 connatis; capsula subglobosa; seminibus ovalibus basi arillo carun- 

 culceformi glabro stipatis. 



Hab. Ovolau, Feejee Islands. 



A shrub, apparently of considerable size, with slender and diverging 

 grayish branches, unarmed, glabrous throughout. Leaves oval, crenu- 

 late, or crenate-serrate with small teeth, obtuse or obtusely somewhat 



