SAXIFRAGACEvE. 



675 



A shrub or small tree, glabrous, except a fine microscopic pubes- 

 cence on the rhachis of the inflorescence and the pedicels. Leaves 

 mostly simple, oblong, from 1J to 4 inches long, an inch or more in 

 width, sometimes elliptical or oval, rather coriaceous, usually punctate 

 with brown dots underneath, perfectly glabrous, obtuse or obtusely 

 acuminate, obtusely callose-serrate, abruptly narrowed into a short 

 margined petiole (of 3 to 5 lines in length), apparently not lucid. In 

 one instance the petiole, becoming two-thirds of an inch in length 

 and broadly margined above, bears a pair of sessile leaflets, otherwise 

 resembling the leaves, articulated with its summit. In var. ($., of 

 which there is only an imperfect specimen, all the leaflets are in threes 

 and more or less petiolulate. Stipules deciduous, only seen on a shoot 

 of var. (3., where they are oblong-ovate. "Flowers rose-colour," 

 according to Dr. Pickering's memoranda, if rightly identified, but all 

 the specimens are in fruit. Racemes terminal and from the upper 

 axils, usually in pairs or threes on a flattened common peduncle, and 

 accumulated so as to form a kind of corymb, 2 or 3 inches long in 

 fruit, very dense ; the pedicels crowded or fascicled, only a line long. 

 Calyx deciduous from the fruit, four-parted. Capsule ovoid, obtuse, 

 lh to 2 lines long, minutely puberulent under a lens, but glabrous to 

 the naked eye, two-valved, few-seeded, twice the length of tfie short 

 styles. Seeds oval, glabrous, except the conspicuous tuft of long hairs 

 at each end. 



This species (of which the flowers are still a desideratum) is allied 

 on the one hand to W. pai-viflora, which has still shorter styles and 

 more pubescence ; on the other to the New Zealand species, which 

 have elongated styles and (at least W. sylvicola) the perfect seeds 

 hairy all over, though most so at the extremities. — There is a mise- 

 rable fruiting specimen, ticketed as from the Samoan Islands (perhaps 

 by some transposition), which I am uncertain whether to refer to the 

 present species, or to W. parviflora. Its styles, however, are rather 

 longer than in the plant of Tahiti. 



5. Weinmannia Richii, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 85.) 



W. arborescens; ramulis junioribus petiolis costisque subtus pube brevi 

 vslutinis cinereisve; foliolis uni-quadrijugis cum impari oblongis 



