SAXIFRAGACE^E. cno 



late inflorescence, will hardly serve to distinguish it as more than a 

 subgenus of Weinmannia. 



Plate 84. — Weinmannia (Ackama) ros^folia : a branch, in fruit, 

 of the natural size. Fig. 1. Flowers (a portion of the inflorescence), 

 from a specimen gathered by Cunningham, of twice the natural size. 

 2. Two flowers, from the same, magnified. 3. Vertical section of a 

 flower. 4. A petal. 5. Stamens. 6. Transverse section of the 

 ovary. 7. Ovules. 8. Capsule and persistent calyx. 9. Transverse 

 section of a capsule. 10. Capsule, dehiscent. 11. A seed. 12. Ver- 

 tical section of the same. 13. Transverse section of a seed through 

 the cotyledons. 14. Embryo. — The details variously magnified. 



* * PoJynesicce. 



3. Weinmannia parviflora, Forst. (Tab. 85.) 



W. arbor escens ; ramulis pedtmculisque pubescentibus ; foliis simplicibus 

 ovatls oblonglsve glabris calloso-serratis ; racemis terms vel subpluribus 

 paniculatis; floribus parvis tetrameris; glandulis disci 8 lineari- 

 oblongis calyce vix brevioribus ; stylis brevissimis ; capsida fere glabra; 

 seminibus oblongis utrinque comosis. — Variat; foliis crasso-coriaceis 

 ovatis seu ellipticis breviter vel brevissime petiolatis; et foliis tenuio- 

 ribus oblongis vel elongato-oblongis grosse sinuato-dentatis utrinque 

 acutis vel acuminaiis mod ice petiolatis. 



Weinmannia paroijiora, Forst. Prodr. Fl. Ins. Austr. p. 29 ; Willd. Spec. PL 2, 



p. 438. 

 Leiospermum parviflorum,, Don, in Edinb. Phil. Jour. 1. c; Guill. Zeph. Tait. p. 55. 



Hab. Tahiti : on mountain ridges. (Elizabeth Island, Cuming.) 



A shrub or small tree; the young branches and inflorescence pubes- 

 cent or cinereous-hirsute. Leaves all simple, on petioles of from II to 

 3 lines long, ovate or oblong, from an inch to 2 or 3 inches long, 

 serrate with callous and incurved teeth, which are sometimes acute, 

 sometimes very obtuse and separated by large sinuate sinuses, gla- 

 brous, or the midrib at first pubescent underneath, thick and coria- 

 ceous, or sometimes rather thin, in the more elongated forms mostly 



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