araliacej:. 72 k 



filaments, fixed near the middle, incumbent, two-celled; the cells 

 opening longitudinally. Style none. Stylopodium in the sterile 

 flowers small or obsolete; in the fertile conical, and terminated by 

 the undivided, depressed, somewhat 8-lQ-rayed stigma. Ovary 8-10- 

 celled, wholly inferior, in the sterile flowers more or less inane ; the 

 fertile with a solitary anatropous ovule suspended from the summit 

 of each cell ; the rhaphe ventral. Fruit a globose drupe, of 8 or 10 

 pyrenod in a pulpy sarcocarp, 3 or 4 lines in diameter, tipped with the 

 conical stylopodium and persistent stigma. Pyrense compressed, 

 smooth, of a firm or cartilagineous texture, filled by the seed. Testa 

 very thin. Embryo minute at the apex of the dense fleshy albumen : 

 radicle superior, cylindrical, twice the length of the oval thickened 

 cotyledons. — The leaves in the specimen collected are all young and 

 evidently developed at the same time as the flowers : they probably 

 enlarge and acquire a firmer texture. 



Plate 92. — Keynoldsia Sandwicensis : a branch, of the natural 

 size. Fig. 1. An unexpanded flower. 2. Same, with the corolla 

 detached, taking with it the stamens. 3. Vertical section of an 

 unexpanded flower. 4, 5. Stamens. 6. Ovule. 7. Transverse sec- 

 tion of a ten-celled ovary. 8. A mature drupe. 9. Transverse sec- 

 tion of the same. 10. Vertical section of a drupe, showing the 

 embryo in one seed. 11. Embryo, detached. — The details variously 

 magnified. 



2. Eeynoldsia pleiosperma, Sp. Nov. (Tab. 93.) 



R. foliolis ovatis sen lanceolato-oblongis ; corolla clausa conica vel 

 ovoidea; stigmate 15-lS-radiato ; drupa 15-18-pyrena. 



Hab. Forests in the interior of Savaii. one of the Samoan or Navi- 

 gators' Islands. 



Our materials consist of two imperfect specimens, here associated ; 

 but they may hereafter prove to be distinct : one, with broadly ovate 

 leaflets and portions of a compound umbel with flower-buds, which are 

 apparently all sterile; the other, with oblong or lanceolate-oblong 

 leaflets, and with mature fruit only. The size of the tree or shrub 



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