472 PHANEROGAMIA. 



broader and thinner leaflets, and large scaly leaf-buds. Fig. 1. A 

 detached flower from B, with its pedicel, bract, and bractlets. 2. A 

 bractlet, magnified. 3. Calyx and pistil. 4. Vertical section of a 

 flower, enlarged. 5, 6. Stamens, enlarged; the former seen poste- 

 riorly, the latter anteriorly. 



2. Cykomeiha falcata, Sp. Nov. 



G. foliolis unijugis glaberrimis ovato-lanceolatis obliquis falcatis coria- 

 ceis; floribus sine pedunculo; fasciculatis decandris ovario lunato 

 pubescente stylo recurvo longiore. 



Hab. Feejee Islands, at Ba, on the western coast of Viti-levu. 



Branches slender, minutely verrucose. Petioles at most 2 lines in 

 length, bearing a single pair of leaflets. These are ovate-lanceolate, 

 oblique, and falcate, gradually acuminate, with the apex rather blunt, 

 2 or 3 inches long, coriaceous, very glabrous, and somewhat shining 

 both sides, minutely feather-veined. The scaly flower-buds are ovoid, 

 axillary, only 2 or 3 lines long ; the scales orbicular and striate. In 

 the solitary specimen most of these are undeveloped : but the single 

 undeveloped flower in the axil of the scales is seen to be laterally 

 enveloped by a pair of diaphanous and ciliate-fringed bractlets ; and 

 the sepals appear to be obscurely puberulent, but not tipped with a 

 tuft of hairs. They enclose only 10 stamens, or sometimes perhaps 

 fewer. The scaly buds that have expanded display a sessile fascicle, 

 or rather a small corymb (the axis 2 or 3 lines long), bearing a number 

 of pubescent pedicels (2 or 3 lines long), from which all but the ovary 

 has fallen. The ovary is lunate, tomentulose-pubescent, a line and a 

 half long, and rather longer than the recurved style by which it is 

 pointed. Fruit unknown. 



This species belongs to Wight & Arnott's first subgenus, or Cyna- 

 metra proper, although the sepals are not "tipped with a tuft of 

 hairs." I have not the means of comparing it with the C. rami- 

 flora, of Linnaeus. The flowers are very small, as compared with 

 the preceding species, and apparently much smaller than those of C. 

 polyandra. 



