674 PHANEROGAMIA. 



acute or pointed at both ends. Stipules rather persistent, oval, as 

 long as the petioles. Racemes terminal in threes, or several and pani- 

 cled, erect, from one to 3 inches long. Pedicels crowded or fascicled, 

 a line and a half long; the minute bracts deciduous. Flowers small, 

 a line and a half long, including the exserted stamens, tetramerous. 

 Lobes of the calyx ovate, half the length of the elliptical petals, in 

 fruit deciduous. Glands of the disk 8, alternating with the stamens, 

 erect, linear-oblong, fleshy, truncate, little shorter than the calyx. 

 Ovary ovoid, obtuse, strigose-puberulent, abruptly tipped with the 

 very sh(yrt styles. Capsule nearly glabrous, ovoid, obtuse, not 2 lines 

 long, septicidal, few-seeded. Seeds oblong, anatropous ; the thin testa 

 not reticulated, conformed to the nucleus in the manner of the genus, 

 appendaged with a loose tuft of hairs at each end. 



The characters given by Forster and by Willdenow differ conside- 

 rably, but each accords with different specimens in our collection ; the 

 species being almost as polymorphous in foliage as is the allied W. syl- 

 vicola of New Zealand. Don assigned the habitat of New Zealand to 

 this species; and his description is not a good one: but the original 

 specimen before him was from Tahiti, and is only in flower. If he 

 had ripe seeds to examine, the tufts of hairs could hardly escape 

 notice. 



Plate 85, A. — Weinmannia parviflora. Fig. 1. A flower. 2. 

 Vertical section of the same. 3. A capsule with the persistent styles. 

 4. A seed. 5. Vertical section of the same. — Magnified. 



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4. Weinmannia affinis, Sp. Nov. 



W. glabra; foliis simplicibus oblongis seu ovalibus calloso-serratis basi in 

 petiolum brevem contractus rarissime bifoliolatis, foliolis in petiolo 

 super ne marginaio sessilibus; racemis geminis ternisve corymboso- 

 paniculatis ; "floribus roseis;" calyce deciduo; stylis capsula ovoidea 

 glabella dimidio brevioribm ; seminibus ovalibus utrinque comosis. 



Var. /?. foliis trifoliolaiis ; foliolis basi attenuatis plerumque peliolulatw. 



ITab. Feejee Islands : on the mountains of Ovolau, at the altitude 

 of 1,200 feet. (Samoan Islands ?) 



