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PHANEROGAMIA. 



et partialibus gracilibus teretiusculis ; calyce clavato-turbinato rubes- 

 cente, margiae tenui repando-subquadrilobo. 



Hab. Ovolau, Feejee Islands; in woods, at the height of 1,500 feet. 



Probably a tree (the size not recorded), glabrous throughout, with 

 slender terete branches and branchlets. Leaves oblong or elliptical- 

 lanceolate, move or less acuminate at both ends, about 3 inches long by 

 12 to 20 lines in width, rather coriaceous, opaque, pale beneath, dull 

 above, slightly punctate, closely feather-veined as in the preceding 

 species, but the slender veins less oblique and reticulated ; the intra- 

 marginal false vein inconspicuous. Petiole 3 or 4 lines long. Cyme 

 terminal, decompound, panicidate, spreading, very many-flowered, about 

 6 inches in length and breadth ; the peduncles and their divaricate 

 divisions slender, almost terete; the pedicels slender, one-flowered, or 

 oftener three-flowered at their apex. Bracts and bractlets minute, 

 very caducous. Calyx turbinate-club-shaped (dilated at the summit, 

 the tube tapering down to the articulation at its pedicelliform base) , 

 tinged with red or purple, 2b lines long, produced beyond the ovary 

 into a campanulate cup; the thin margin repandly four-lobed ; the lobes 

 very short, at length deciduous. Petals flesh-colour, small, lightly 

 coherent into a lid which fells off without expanding. Stamens flesh- 

 colour, nearly 3 lines long. Ovary two-celled. Ovules 8 or 10 in each 

 cell. Fruit not seen. 



In the form of the calyx, as well as in foliage and habit, this species 

 bears no slight resemblance to Eugenia Smithii, the Acmena Jloribunda 

 of DeCandolle, with which it is certainly congeneric, although the 

 petals are lightly coherent and are thrown off without expanding. 



Plate 63. — Eugenia (Syzygium) kubescens : flowering branch, of 

 the natural size. Fig. 1. Flower-bud. 2. Expanded flower, with the 

 corolla, 3, detached. 4. Vertical section of a flower. 5. Transverse 

 section of the ovary. — The details magnified. 



27. Eugenia (Syzygium) corynocarpa, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 64.) 

 E. foliis elliptico-lanceolatis oblongisve subacuminatis bast acittis breviter 



