576 PHANEROGAMIA. 



acuminatis subserratls glabris ; stipulls orbicularis integer r imis ; rcr 

 cemis geminis vel ternis confertis; floribus tetrameris parvis; petalis 

 obovatis calyce persistente duplo longioribus ; stylis gracilibus cap- 

 sula di-tetrasperma paullo brevioribus ; seminibus oblongis utrinque 

 comosis. 



Hab. Feejee Islands : on mountains at Sandalwood Bay, Yanua- 

 levu, at the altitude of 2,000 feet. 



An arborescent species ; the younger branches, petioles, and midrib of 

 the leaflets underneath clothed with a soft and fine, cinereous-velvety 

 pubescence, which is to a good degree persistent. Leaves all pinnate. 

 Leaflets from 3 to 9 on the same branch oblong or elliptical, on sterile 

 shoots verging to oblong-lanceolate, serrate with small teeth, acuminate, 

 glabrous (except the midrib), inconspicuously veiny, lucid above, not 

 punctate, acute or pointed at the base, sessile or slightly petiolulate, 

 11 to 2£ inches long. Petiole terete, not margined. Stipules orbi- 

 cular, entire, half an inch in diameter, tardily deciduous. Inflores- 

 cence minutely pubescent. The specimens all in fruit, but with some 

 vestiges of the floral organs remaining. Racemes in pairs or threes 

 from the uppermost axils, and terminal, numerous and croicded so as 

 to appear paniculate-corymbose, very densely-flowered, 2 or 3 inches 

 long in fruit ; the pedicels barely a line long. Calyx glabrous, four- 

 parted, persistent in fruit. Petals obovate, twice the length of the calyx, 

 about a quarter of a line long, white. Glands of the disk 8, oblong- 

 linear, alternate with the stamens. Ovary minutely pubescent, two- 

 celled : ovules 2 to 6 (usually 4) in each cell, anatropous. Capsule 

 ovoid-fusiform, minutely pubescent under a lens, barely a line and a 

 half in length ; the slender styles fully a line long. Seeds solitary or 

 often in pairs in each cell, oblong, anatropous, marked with a slender 

 complete, rhaphe, comose at each end: the testa otherwise ghabrous or 

 nearly so at maturity, not reticulated. Embryo clavate-cylindrical, 

 nearly as long as the albumen. Cotyledons thick, oblong, shorter 

 than the radicle. 



This species is closely related to Weinmannia Arnoldia, viz., the 

 Arnoldia pinnata of Blume (of which I possess a flowering specimen) 

 and perhaps scarcely less so to W. Blumei (Arnoldia heterophylla, 

 Blume). Hasskarl, in his PI. Jav. Rariores, p. 324, has justly re- 



