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these are wanting in this. The young branchlets, the nascent foliage, 

 and the inflorescence are similarly cinereous-canescent : but the adult 

 leaves [oblong and obtuse at both ends) are green both sides, wholly 

 glabrous above, and beneath densely villous-bearded with very long 

 hairs along the midrib, with some scattered and more deciduous ones 

 over the lower surface. They are coriaceous, but thin, pellucid-punc- 

 tate, the dots black by reflected light : in the specimens they are all 

 curved; the upper surface convex, the lower concave. Petioles 

 about an inch long, similarly margined, longer than the fruiting 

 peduncle, which appears to have been 1-3-flowered at the apex. In 

 one instance a partly persistent calyx is seen; the sepals ovate, 

 obtuse, canescent externally. The vestiges of the hypogynous disk 

 and of barren ovaries accord with those of the preceding species. 

 The fruit consists of 4, or by abortion fewer, dry, glabrous, coriaceous, 

 somewhat, veiny and glandular, -lenticular-ovoid follicles, which are 

 divaricate, sessile, half an inch in length, dehiscent down the inner 

 suture, at length perhaps two-valved, containing one or two black 

 seeds, which resemble those of M. ternata. 



Plate 39, B. — Melicope barbigera: a branch, in fruit, of the 

 natural size. Fig. 5. Section of a carpel and seed. 6. A seed. — 

 Both enlarged. 



4. Melicope spathulata, Sp. Nov. 



M. glabra; foliis elongatis spathulato-oblongis sen oblanceolatis obtusis 

 basi acutis; pedunculis axillaribus bi-trifloris ; sepalis petalisque 

 glabris orbicidatis. 



Hab. On the mountains of Kauai, Sandwich Islands. 



The single specimen of this species, bearing two flower-buds only, 

 belongs to an apparently sarmentose shrub. There is, however, no 

 record of the size or habit of the plant. The slender branch is com- 

 pressed-angled, glabrous, as is the foliage, &c. Leaves opposite, coria- 

 ceous, elongated (from 3 to 6 inches long, and one or two broad), 

 spakdate-oblong, or the smaller ones oblanceolate, obtuse, entire, tapering 

 to an acute base, pale green and rather dull both sides, inconspicuously 



