726 PHANEROGAMIC. 



not ascertained. Leaflets 7, or sometimes 5, glabrous, as is the whole 

 plant, 2 to 4 or 5 inches long, rounded or oblique at the base, taper- 

 ing to an acute or acuminate apex, usually beset with 3 or 4 salient 

 and callous or glandular-tipped teeth on each margin; the partial 

 footstalks 2 to 5 lines long. Stipules none. Flowers apparently sub- 

 dioecious, in compound and panicled umbels, which in the fertile 

 plant, at least, are racemose-proliferous. Pedicels of the sterile 

 flowers 8 or 9 lines long; of the fruit 3 to 5 lines long. Calyx 

 naked at the base, with a short and truncate, obscurely repand 

 border. Corolla in the bud conical or -ovoid, 2 lines long, falling off 

 without expanding; the 8 or 10 valvate petals cohering with each 

 other, especially at the inflexed tips. Stamens 8 to 10, as in the fore- 

 going species, except that the anthers are only linear-oblong. Cells 

 of the sterile ovary numerous, empty : sterile stigma obscurely many- 

 rayed, crowning the very short stylopodium. Fertile flowers not seen. 

 Fruit a wholly inferior, depressed-globose, baccate drupe, of the size 

 of a pea, abruptly pointed by a very short style or narrow stylo- 

 podium, which bears a depressed, and 15-18-radftoe stigma; the cartila- 

 gineous and smooth pyrenos 15 to 18, or sometimes perhaps even 20 

 in number. Seed suspended. Embryo minute, at the apex of the 

 hard fleshy albumen : radicle superior. 



Plate 93. — Reynoldsia pleiosperma : foliage, portion of inflores- 

 cence, unexpanded sterile flowers, and also fruit from a different speci- 

 men, of the natural size. Fig. 1. A flower-bud, the corolla detached 

 as a calyptra, taking with it the stamens. 2. A separate petal, 

 inside view. 3, 4. Stamens. 5. Vertical section of a sterile pistil. 

 6. A drupe. 7. Transverse section of the same. 8. A drupe, verti- 

 cally divided. — The details variously magnified. 



8. GASTONIA, Gommers. 



1. Gastonia ? Oahuensis, Sp. Nov. 



(?.? foliis pimiato-5-9-foliolatis ■; foliolis carnosis oblongis seu ovalibus 

 obiusis integerrimis; umbellis compositis cymosis ; petalis 5; stami- 

 nibus 10^ ovario sterili quadri-quinqueloculari 



