490 PHANEROGAMIA. 



Hab. Feejee Islands; in the Sandalwood district of Vanua-levu. 

 (In fruit only.) 



This is recorded in Dr. Pickering's notes under its native name of 

 "Margarata" He states that the fruit is " indehiscent, two-celled," 

 and that it is " used to blacken the face and hair." The specimens 

 consist of a leafy branch, entirely glabrous, with oblong, mostly acu- 

 minate, ample leaves (from 7 to 10 inches long), acute at the base, 

 glandless, rather thin, dull, sparsely feather-veined, the veins con- 

 nected by inconspicuous reticulated veinlets ; the petiole about half 

 an inch long; with which are two separate, unripe drupes. The 

 latter are oval, slightly flattened laterally, an inch and a half or more 

 in length, and an inch and a quarter in width : one of them exhibits 

 a thin and evanescent partition ; the other has become one-celled by 

 the obliteration of this partition, and contains a single seed, in which 

 the unripe and partly decayed or injured cotyledons are seen to be 

 strongly conferruminate, thus appearing not unlike the albumen of a 

 Nutmeg. 



Plate 54, A. — Parinarium? Margarata. Fig. 1. A leaf, with a 

 part of the branch. 2. A drupe. 3. Transverse section of the same 

 and of the contained seed. 4. Vertical section of an empty and infer- 

 tile drupe, showing the thin partition. — All of the natural size. 



3. Parinarium (Sarcostegia) laurinum, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 55.) 



P. ramis junioribus subsericeis ; foliis oblong-is acuminatis basi rotundata 

 biglandulosis glabris lucidis; stipulis linear Urns caducis; fioribus 

 racemosis; calyce infundibidiformi subobliquo, ore cequali, lobis obo- 

 vatis obtusis petalis brevioribus ; staminibus fertilibus circiter 15, 

 anticis elongatis, sterilibus 7-10 brevissimis denti/ormibus. 



Hab. Samoan or Navigators' Islands : the particular habitat not 

 identified. 



Apparently a tree, with glabrate branches; the young branchlets 

 and inflorescence silky-pubescent. Leaves oblong, inclining to lanceo- 

 late, more or less acuminate, rounded at the base, where there is a pair 



