Ord. burseracea 



1. CANAKIUM, Linn. 



1. Canabium Vitiense, Sp. Nov. 



C. glaberrimum; stipulis subulatis parvis caducis; foliolis 5-7 oblongo- 

 ellipticis utrinque obtusis nunc subacuminatis nitidis ; paniculis axil- 

 laribus paucifloris ; pedicellis (semipollicaribus et idtra) clavatis. 



Var. /?. foliolis 5-9 scepius apice vel utrinque phis minus acuminatis. 



Hab. Feejee Islands : on Muthuata, at an elevation of 2,000 feet. 



A shrub or tree, perfectly glabrous in every part ; the leaflets 5 or 

 7, smooth and shining, mostly obtuse or obtusish at both ends, some- 

 times rather acuminate (or the terminal one acute at the base), coria- 

 ceous, about 3 inches long and 2 in width, veiny. Neither the 

 flowers nor the ripe fruit are known; the specimens bearing only 

 immature drupes (less than an inch long), in small, evidently few- 

 flowered, axillary (or slightly supra-axillary) panicles or racemes, 

 which are shorter than the leaves. Fructiferous pedicels half an inch 

 or more in length, stout, clavate, bearing the persistent, three-angled, 

 spreading calyx (about 5 lines in diameter), which surrounds the 

 acute base of the fusiform, somewhat triangular, sharp-pointed, gla- 

 brous, immature drupe : the latter contains a single forming seed. — 

 The variety has more numerous and thinner, as well as acuminate 

 leaflets ; but it is probably merely a state of the species, growing in a 

 more shaded situation. 



The species appears to be abundantly distinct from any of those 



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