350 PHANEROGAMIA. 



I refer to this genus, with some confidence, several simple-leaved 

 Sandwich Island species, of which our materials are very imperfect. 

 Two are in fruit ; of two others only a flower or two is known ; and 

 the specimens of probably a fifth species afford neither flowers nor 

 fruit. 



* Novo-Zelandicce. 



1. Melicope ternata, Forst. 



Melicope ternata, Forst. Char. Gen. t. 28, & Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 166 ; DC. 



Prodr. 1, p. 723; A. Rich. Voy. Astrolab. 1, p. 293 ; A. Cunn. Bot. N. Zeal. 



in Ann. Nat. Hist. 3, p. 315; Hook. Ic. PI. t. 603; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 43. 

 Entoganum lazvigatum, Banks & Soland. in Herb. Banks; Gsertn. Fruct. 1, p. 331, 



t. 68. 



Hab. Tippona, New Zealand. (In fruit only.) 



* * Sayidwicenses ; follis rimplicibus integerrimis, petiolis anguste marginatis. 



2. Melicope cinerea, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 39.) 



M. follis lanceolato-oblongis basi rotundato-retusis pallidis utrinque subtus 

 proesertim ramulisque junioribus puberulo-tomentellis ; peduncidis 

 axillaribus paucifloris ; floribus subracemosis extus canescentibus. 



Hab. Oahu ; district of "Waianae ; in a ravine of the Kaala Moun- 

 tains. 



The specimens, apparently of an arborescent plant (the size not 

 recorded), were just developing the inflorescence, and furnished only 

 two well-formed (apparently hermaphrodite) flower-buds for exami- 

 nation. Branches glabrous, marked with strong approximate leaf- 

 scars; the younger shoots canescent with a fine and soft tomentum. 

 Leaves opposite, petioled, narrowly oblong, entire, more or less obtuse, 

 the rounded base retuse, coriaceous in texture, but rather thin, whitish 

 or pale, puberulent with a fine and soft tomentum when young, of which 

 the closer portion is persistent on the lower surface, the upper gla- 



