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the connective produced posteriorly into a short and thick tubercle, 

 almost spur-like, apparently all similar and equally polliniferous ; 

 but they have been examined only in young buds. Style filiform, 

 short : stigma minute, punctiform. Ovary four-celled, with thick and 

 multiovulate placentae, affixed to the middle of the columella. Fruit 

 not seen. 



M. Naudin, who has obligingly examined the incomplete specimens 

 of the collection, inclines to refer the plant to Blume's genus Aplec- 

 trum; notwithstanding that the anthers are probably all similar 

 and perfect, and the calyx is not adnate to the whole surface of the 

 ovary. 



13. MEDINILLA, Gaud. 



1. Medinilla heterophylla, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 75.) 



M. alte scandens; ramis teretibus ad nodos scepius radiciferis ; foliis 

 cujusque jngi valde dwparibm quintuplinerviis, majoreovato seu ovato- 

 oblongo subcordato subacuminato, petiolo ejus folium alterum cordato- 

 rotundum adwquante vel superante; racemis paniculatis elongatis ; 

 bracteis verticUlatis bracteolisque obovatis magnis petaloideis albis; 

 florihus tetrameris ; calycis limbo fere integer rimo ; antJieris basi bre- 

 viter tricalcaratis. 



Hab. Feejee Islands; in forests of Ovolau. 



Stem shrubby, thick, climbing over tall trees; the branches terete, 

 slender, commonly rooting copiously at the nodes, nearly glabrous, as is 

 the whole plant. Leaves exceedingly unequal and dissimilar, one of 

 each pair usually almost abortive ; the larger one ovate or ovate-oblong, 

 subcordate, acute or slightly acuminate, quintuple-ribbed or almost five- 

 ribbed, besides an obscure pair of intramarginal nerves, from 2 J to 

 4:h inches long, and with its slender petiole half an inch to an inch 

 long : the smaller leaf is rounded-cordate, short-petioled or subsessile, 

 either acutish, obtuse, or emarginate, 3-5-ribbed, from 3 to 9 lines in 

 diameter, shorter than or barely equalling the petiole of the larger 



