araliacej:. 723 



The specimen consists of a detached leaf and a compound raceme 

 (with the flower-buds not full-grown) of an apparently arborescent 

 plant, which is doubtless a congener of Paratropia nodosa, DC., but is 

 at once distinguished by the entire leaflets. The leaves are glabrous, 

 very large, the terete nodose rhachis 2 feet long or more, and the 

 petiole 6 or 8 inches long, pinnate. Leaflets elliptical-oblong, 9 pairs 

 with an odd one, slightly coriaceous, about .6 inches long, green both 

 sides, entire, short-petiolulate, the base slightly cordate, with the sinus 

 closed. Inflorescence as long as the leaf, compound-racemose, the 

 primary divisions bracteate, bearing a large number of small and few- 

 flowered umbels on short and bracteate peduncles. Flowers minute, 

 pentandrous. Stigmas sessile. 



There is in the collection some indeterminable digitate foliage of 

 what is probably an undescribed Paratropia, from Ovolau, Feejee 

 Islands, and of another from Luzon. 



7. REYNOLDSIA, Nov. Gen. 



Flores poly garni. Calyx basi nudus ; tubo cum ovario connato; limbo 

 brevissimo integerrimo vel subrepando. Petala 8-10, epigyna, val- 

 vata, apice in calyptrce formam coalita, sub anthesi dejecta. Stamina 

 8-10, cum petalis inserta, iisdem alterna: fllamenta brevia: antliera? 

 lineares. Ovarium infer am, S-lS-loculare : stylus nxdlus vel sub- 

 nullus: stigma indivisum, S-lS-radiatum. Ovula in loculis solitaria, 

 suspensa, anatropa. Drupa baccata, globosa, 8-18-pyrena; pyrenis 

 mrtilagineis. Embryo in apice albuminis dense carnosi minutus ; 

 radicula supera cylindrica. — Arbores insularum Pacifici, glabra?., 

 inermes, exstipulatce ; foliis simpliciter pinnatis scepissime trijugis cum 

 impari, foliolis subdentatis ; umbellis racemisve compositis panicxdatis 

 laxifloris. 



Whether certain species referred by Blume and DeCandolle to 

 Sciodapliyllum, on account of their calyptneform corolla, really belong 

 to the present genus, I have not the means to determine. But the 

 perfectly consolidated stigmas, the larger number of pyrenae, the lax 

 and open inflorescence, and the pinnate leaves, taken together forbid 



