522 PHANER0GAM1A. 



nerviis, venis in venam intrwmarginalem decurrentibus, venulis reti- 

 culatis; cyma terrninali sessili fastigiata, divisionibus repitito-tricho- 

 tomis brevibus incrassatis apice glomeruli floris ; calycis margine 

 repando-quadrilobo. 



Hab. Feejee Islands: on Ovolau, at the elevation of 1,500 feet; 

 also lower. 



A tree, the larger form 30 feet high, glabrous throughout; the 

 flowering brandies stout, obscurely angled. Leaves varying in size in 

 different specimens, from 2 to 6 inches, or on sterile shoots even 9 

 inches in length, thick and coriaceous, somewhat shining above, dull 

 and rather paler underneath, punctate, obovate with a cuneate base, 

 oblong-cuneate, or oblong-oblanceolate, very obtuse or even retuse at the 

 apex, contracted at the base into a petiole half an inch long; the 

 midrib stout : from it proceed from 25 to 50 slender but rather con- 

 spicuous straight veins on each side, which are decurrent into a direct 

 intramarginal vein, and numerous interposed veinlets, which are 

 more or less reticulated. Cyme terminal and sessile, many-flowered, 

 dense, flat-topped, repeatedly trichotomous, its ramifications all thickened 

 and angled ; the primary and secondary rays about half an inch long ; 

 the others much shorter, usually very short, articulated, terminated 

 by several sessile flowers in a cluster. Bracts and bractlets very 

 short, thick, round-ovate, rather persistent. Unexpanded flower-buds 

 (which alone occur on the specimens) a quarter of an inch long, 

 fleshy, glabrous, turbinate. Limb of the calyx repandly four-lobed ; 

 the lobes very short and broad indeed, but distinct, rounded, two of 

 them exterior and two interior in aestivation. After anthesis the 

 short calyx-lobes probably become obsolete, as in S. nitidum and other 

 species. Corolla forming a short umbonate operculum; the petals 

 separable, but evidently falling away in connexion without expand- 

 ing. Stamens very numerous, inflexed in estivation, in the manner 

 of the genus, into the deep throat of the calyx. Style subulate: 

 stigma obtuse. Ovary two-celled, with very thick walls. Ovules 

 numerous (12 or more) in each cell. Fruit unknown. 



Plate 61, A— Eugenia (Syzygium) Brackenridgei j branches, of 

 the smaller and the largest-leaved forms, of the natural size. Fig. 1. 

 Flower-bud, with the operculate corolla detached. 2. Vertical section 



