372 PHANER0GAM1A. 



pendent, samaroid fruits, of a peculiar structure, the pericarp being 

 borne on the apex of a long and linear wing (2£ inches in length and 

 half an inch wide), its base narrowed into a short peduncle. The 

 fruit may be likened to that of an Ash inverted. The structure of 

 the pericarp itself, which is involved in the apex of the wing, cannot 

 be made out in the specimens, farther than that it is dry, and appears 

 to be by abortion one-celled and one-seeded. A specimen of the same 

 plant, in nearly the same condition, and collected in the same district, 

 is preserved in the herbarium of Sir William Hooker, where it is 

 referred to the genus Juliana of Schlechtendal. It was collected by 

 Mr. Matthews, who sent with it the following note : — " Small tree, 

 covering the sides of the base of the Cuesta of Purruchuca, province 

 of Canta, Peru; April, 1831." Another specimen, from Lima, 

 McLean, is ticketed " Huaucui of the natives : a dioecious shrub, 

 seldom seen with leaves, and always black as if burned or blasted." 

 Not having at the time collated the materials in the Hookerian her- 

 barium with the character and description of Schlechtendal's Juliana 

 (or Hypopterygium) adstringens, of Mexico, I cannot say whether our 

 plant is correctly referred to that genus. It can hardly be the same 

 species, since the wing of the fruit is straight and equal-sided, and an 

 inch longer than that of the Mexican plant is said to be. 



11? CORYNOCARPUS, Forst. 



1. CORTNOCAEPUS LAEVIGATA, Forst. 



Corynocarpus laevigata, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 19; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 

 4397 ; Hook. f. Fl. N. Zeal. p. 48. 



Hab. Bay of Islands, New Zealand. 



The specimens consist of foliage only. — A genus of very doubtful 

 affinity, which Dr. Hooker has recently appended to the Anacar- 

 diacece. 



