732 PHANEROGAMIA. 



fleshy and horny. Embryo minute, next the hilum : radicle cylin- 

 drical, longer than the cotyledons, superior. 



According to Dr. Hooker, the petiole is articulated with the lamina 

 in the New Zealand species : but there is no trace of such articu- 

 lation in this and the following species. 



Plate 96. — Botrtodenbrum Taitense: fruiting branches of the 

 narrow and the broader-leaved forms, of the natural size. Fig. 1. A 

 staminate flower. 2. A pistillate flower. 3. Vertical section of the 

 same. 4. Transverse section of a drupe. 5. Vertical section of a 

 drupe, and of one of the contained seeds. 6. Embryo. — The details 

 variously enlarged. 



2. Botryodendrum macrophyllum, Rich, in Herb. (Plate 97.) 



B. foliis obovato-lanceolatis basi attenuatis membranaceis ad apicem 

 ramorum confertis. 



Hab. Samoan or Navigators' Islands : in forests. Also, according 

 to Dr. Pickering's notes, at Tongatabu, Friendly Islands, where it 

 was likewise gathered by Mr. Matthews. 



This is said to be "a simple shrub, from 10 to 25 feet high." 

 Whether it is really distinct from the preceding species cannot be 

 satisfactorily determined from the present materials, which consist 

 of foliage, some badly preserved fertile flowers, a detached portion of 

 male inflorescence (which perhaps belongs to B. Taitense), and 

 mature fruit. The leaves are much larger than those of the former 

 species, being from 2 to 2 h feet in length, and 3 to 5, or towards the 

 apex 6 inches wide, obovate-lanceolate or oblanceolate in form, rather 

 abruptly acuminate, tapering downwards to the acute base, membra- 

 naceous when dry, perhaps rather succulent when fresh, on petioles of 

 3 to 5 inches in length, croioded at the summit of the stem or 

 branches. The capitula of fertile flowers are sessile along an appa- 

 rently simple rhachis. Teeth or lobes of the calyx of the fertile 

 flowers 6 or 8, irregular, or becoming so after opening, valvate in 

 aestivation, shorter than the 8 recurved stigmas. Ovary eight-celled. 



