Ord. chrysobalanace^. 



1. PAEINAEIUM, Juss. 



Parinarium (Parinari, Aubl.), Juss. Gen. p. 842; DC. Prodr. 2, p. 526; Benth. 

 in Hook. Jour. Bot. 2, p. 211, & Niger Fl. p. 335. 



1. Parinarium (Petrocarya) insularum, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 54.) 



P. foliis lanceolato-ovatis seu oblongo-lanceolatis basi subcordatis vel 

 obtusissimis supra nitidis subtus incanis; stipidis lanceolatosubidatis 

 petiolo eglandidoso duplo longioribus ; floribus cymoso-panicidatis ; 

 staminibus fertilibus 6-8, sterilibus 2-4 ; drupa bUoculari scepius 

 disperma. 



Hab. Feejee Islands : Sandalwood Bay, Vanua-levu, and Ambau. 

 Samoan or Navigators' Islands : the habitat not recorded. 



A "tree 50 feet high, with spreading branches; the trunk 2£ feet 

 in diameter." Branchlets tomentose, at length glabrate; the older 

 ones very warty. Leaves lanceolate-ovate, varying to oblong-lanceolate, 

 usually acuminate, subcordate or very obtuse at the base, 3 to 5, and on 

 sterile shoots 6 to 8 inches long, thickish, copiously feather-veined, 

 and beneath with rather conspicuously reticulated veinlets, the 

 nascent ones clothed on both sides with a rusty or whitish wool, 

 the upper surface soon glabrous and shining, the lower canescent or 

 whitened with a fine and close pubescence. Stipules lanccolate-suhu- 

 late or linear, fuscous, about half an inch long, twice the length of the 

 petiole, which, as well as the base of the leaf, is glandless. Inflores- 

 cence terminal, cymose-paniculate, tomentose, only seen with unde- 



