608 PHANEROGAMIA. 



short and obtuse. The petals are wanting in the specimen. Persis- 

 tent stamens 8 : filaments subulate-filiform. Ovary, &c, apparently 

 as in Blume's figure of G. axillaris. 



2. HAPLOPETALON, Nov. Gen. 



Calyx profunde quadriftdus; lobis triangularis cestivatione valvatis. 

 Petala 4, obovata, calyce inserta, fere exunguicidata, integerrima, 

 carinata, cestivatione involuta, decidua. /Stamina, 16-20, brevissima, 

 uniserialia, margini disci perigyni tenuis inserta: antherce ovales, 

 introrsce, biloculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes, filamentis subulatis 

 cequilongce. Stylus brevis, apice quadrifidus, raro quinquefidus ; lobis 

 Unearibus demum patentibus apice stigmatosis. Ovarium depressum, 

 calycis tubo (mediante disci) semiadnatum, unilocxdare. Ovula 8, 

 raro 10, anatropa, e columna centrali geminatim appensa. Frutex 

 Vitiensis ; foliis CaralliaB; stipulis interpetiolaribus caducis ; pedi- 

 cellis in axillis laxe fasciculatis. 



1. Haplopetalon Richii, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 76.) 



Hab. Feejee Islands : at Sandalwood Bay, Vanua-levu. 



Shrub (or small tree, the height not recorded) glabrous, except the 

 young shoots ; which are hirsute with a fine, rusty, deciduous pubes- 

 cence. Leaves opposite, chartaceo-coriaceous, somewhat shining, 

 oblong or obovate-elliptical, obscurely serrulate above the middle, 

 obtusely acuminate or obtuse, tapering at the base into a petiole (of 

 4 to 6 lines in length), pinnately-veined and irregularly reticulated, 

 very obscurely pellucid-punctate, from 2 J to 5 inches long, and one 

 or 2 inches wide. Stipules inter petiolar, like those of the family, con- 

 volute in vernation, fuscous, half an inch long, caducous. Flowers 

 in simple and sessile axillary fascicles, which are at first enclosed by 

 an involucre of two or three fuscous, early caducous scales. Pedicels 

 lax, 7-10 in a cluster, about 2 lines long, not articulated in the 

 middle. Flower-buds naked, a line or a line and a half in diameter, 

 globose-four-angled. Calyx deeply four-cleft; the lobes thickish, 



