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fruit. The specimen in the collection is a fruiting one : the foliage 

 answers well to the character of D. sylvestre, Blume : the fruit nearly 

 accords with the figure of Blume's D. mangiferum. It is said by Dr. 

 Pickering (who mentions the plant under the name of Ganarium? 

 in his volume on the Races of Man, p. 336) to be sour and edible. 



Ord connaraceje. 



1. ROUREA, Aiibl 



1. ROUREA HETEROPHYLLA, Planch. 

 Rourea heterophylla, Planchon, Prodr. Connar. in Linnsea, 23, p. 419. 



Hab. Vanua-levu, Feejee Islands. (In fruit only.) 



The plant characterized by Planchon, from Cuming's Philippine 

 collection, is in flower only. Ours, which appears to be the same, has 

 the fruit. The young pods are usually solitary, oblong, glabrous, 

 scarcely more than 3 lines long, and not twice the length of the 

 calyx ; but when full grown they are 6 or 7 lines long, 



2. CONNARUS, Linn., Planch. 

 1. Connarus Pickeringii, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 45.) 



G ramulis foliisque junioribus pube ferruginea decidua tomentosis ; 

 foliolis 5-7 (rarius 3) lanceolato-oblongis nunc ovato-oblongis subacu- 



