724 PHANEROGAMIA. 



the combination of the two species here described with the American 

 Sciodaphylla. From Brassaia, Endl., they are excluded by the want 

 of an involucel at the base of the calyx, and by the wholly inferior 

 ovary, as well as by the pinnate and exstipulate leaves. — I dedicate 

 the genus to J. N. Reynolds, Esq., who merits this commemoration 

 for the unflagging zeal with which he urged upon our Government 

 the project of the South Sea Exploring Expedition, and also for having 

 made, under trying circumstances, an interesting collection of dried 

 plants in Southern Chili, many years ago. 



1. Reymxldsia Sandwicensis, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 92.) 



E. foliolis subcordatk ; corolla clausa oblonga; stigmate S-10-radiato ; 

 driipa &-10-pyrena. 



Hab. Sandwich Islands : in a ravine near Waianae, Oahu. 



" Tree 30 feet high," glabrous, or the nascent parts slightly pubes- 

 cent. Stipules none. Leaves alternate, simply pinnate, mostly of 7 

 leaflets. Petiole slender, angled, dilated at the insertion. Leaflets 

 subcordate, broadly ovate, or somewhat deltoid, either obtuse, acutish, 

 or somewhat acuminate, sparingly toothed especially towards the 

 base, thin, pinnately veined, 11 to 2 inches long; the partial foot- 

 stalks 6 or 9 lines in length. Inflorescence terminal or lateral, form- 

 ing an open compound or decompound panicle ; the pedicels (3 to 5 

 lines long) racemose along its* divisions, as well as umbellate at their 

 extremity. Bracts minute, caducous. Sterile and fertile flowers 

 intermixed in the same inflorescence, and apparently similar, except 

 that the stigma is imperfect or nearly obliterated in the sterile 

 flowers. Calyx naked (not involucellate at the base) ; the tube tur- 

 binate or obconical, wholly adnate to the ovary ; the limb very short, 

 truncate and entire, or slightly undulate. Corolla in the hud oblong, 

 or cylindraceous, epigynous, 3 lines in length, somewhat angular, 

 composed of usually 10 linear petals, which are valvate in aestivation, 

 and with their inflexed tips more strongly coalescent, separating 

 from the insertion in anthesis, and falling away together as a calyptra. 

 Stamens as many as the petals and alternate with them, epigynous, 

 deciduous : filaments subulate, short : anthers linear, longer than the 



