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ovata, acuta, cestivatione valvata ? seu (in P. Sandwicensi) imbricata, 

 persistentia. Stamina 5, cum petalis inserta, iisdem alter u a et bre- 

 viora, vet in fl. masc. duplo longiora: antherce didymce, incumbentes, 

 biloculares, muticw, loculls longitudinaliter dehiscentilms. Ovarium 

 Uberum (fl. masc. sterile), biloculare, loculis biovulatis: stylus brevis 

 vel nullus: stigma bifidum. Ovida collateralia, e basi loculi erecta, 

 anatropa (rliaphe in P. Sandwicensi fere dorsali!). Bacca parva, 

 depresso-globosa, bilocidaris, 2-i-sperma. Semina exarillata, obo- 

 voidea, testa Crustacea midticostata. (Embryo ignotus.) — Frutices 

 inermes, glabelli • foliis alter nis oblongis gland uloso-serratis vel denticu- 

 latis ; stipulis deciduis; paniculis axillaribus thyrsoideis parvifloris. 



Perrottetia, II. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Spec. 7, p. 73, t. 622 j Endl. Gen. p. 1089. 



1. Perrottetia Sanwicensis, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 24.) 



P. foliis ovato-oblongis glanduloso-serratis ; stipidis mintitis caducis ; 

 paniculis compositis ; floribus pedicellatis viridulis; petalis triangtdari- 

 ovatis lamdoso-ciliatis calycem vix siqjerantibus; testa seminum costis 

 transversis exsculpta. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands : on mountains behind Honolulu, Oahu 

 (where it was also gathered by Gaudichaud) : also Hawaii ; along the 

 margin of forests. 



A shrub, or small tree, nearly glabrous; the younger branchlets and 

 the lower surface of the nascent leaves more or less pubescent. Leaves 

 alternate, ovate-oblong, abruptly somewhat acuminate, either obtuse or 

 acute at the base, serrate with small and glandular-tipped teeth, rather 

 chartaceous in texture, deciduous, pinnately-veined, somewhat shining 

 above, paler beneath, 2£ to 3i inches long; the petiole from half an 

 inch to an inch in length. Stipules minute, caducous. Flowers small 

 (a line or a line and a half in diameter, when expanded), 'polygamo- 

 dicecious, greenish, pedicellate, very numerous, in compound thyrsoid 

 panicles from the axils of the leaves, especially of those near the base 

 of the branches of the season : the panicles are mostly shorter than 

 the leaves ; the puberulent common peduncle usually shorter than the 

 petiole; its branches divaricate : pedicels crowded or slightly fascicled, 



