RUTACEil. 347 



" A tree, 40 feet high ; the trunk a foot and a half in diameter :" 

 young branches with the petioles, &c, tomentose ivith a hirsute pubescence, 

 which disappears with age. Leaves opposite, oval, 4 to 6 inches long 

 and 2 to M wide, mostly obtuse at both ends, coriaceous, but not so 

 thick nor so strikingly reticulated as in the foregoing species, gla- 

 brous above, glabrate beneath, the strong and salient midrib more or 

 less pubescent, punctate with more or less translucent dots, not 

 shining: the petioles long (II to 2 inches) and stout, apparently 

 lignescent. Peduncles axillary and solitary, half an inch to an inch 

 and a half long, tornentose-pubescent, branching into a trichotomous, 

 loosely several-flowered, paniculate cyme. Bracts subulate, caducous. 

 Pedicels stout, a line or two in length. The apparently hermaph- 

 rodite flowers only are known. Lobes of the calyx ovate, mucronu- 

 late, canescently pubescent, imbricated in cestivation, early caducous, 

 as in the preceding species, less than half the length of the ovate- 

 lanceolate petals. The latter are about 3 lines long, glabrous, valvate 

 in aestivation, early deciduous. Stamens 8, nearly as long as the 

 petals, or in some flowers shorter (and imperfect ?) : filaments subu- 

 late : anthers oblong, retuse, introrse. Disk short and thick, some- 

 what crenulate, minutely tomentose. Ovary tomentose, four-lobed 

 from the summit, four-celled, its umbilicate apex bearing a slender 

 style as long as the ovary itself, from which it early falls away entire. 

 Stigma four-lobed ; the lobes oblong. In our fruiting specimen only 

 one fruit matures on each cyme, which therefore appears as if borne 

 on a simple and articulated axillary peduncle. Capsule larger than 

 in any other known species, being an inch and a half in diameter when 

 fully formed ; but one or two, and sometimes three of the lobes or cocci 

 are often abortive or infertile: cocci glabrous, somewhat lignescent, 

 united in the axis, but recurved, so-that a vertical section would be 

 kidney-shaped, more or less flattened laterally, acute or carinate at the 

 sutures ; the papery endocarp glabrous inside. Seed ovoid, with a black 

 and shining, drupaceous testa. Embryo nearly the length and breadth 

 of the albumen. Cotyledons oval : radicle very short, superior. 



Of most of the species of this genus here characterized complete 

 materials are still needed. There are indications of still others in the 

 Sandwich Islands, unless these plants vary greatly in their forms, 

 which (as is justly remarked by Bory and Dr. Hooker), is apt to be 

 the case in insular floras. 



