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tube obconical, produced much above the inferior ovary, obscurely 4-lobed, 2 lines long and broad. 

Petals 4, alternate with the lobes of the calyx, imbricate, roundish, minutely, crenulate, concave, pellucid- 
punctate, greenish-white, caducous, 13 lines across, the outermost one reddish tinged at the margin and 
remaining attached longer than the rest. Stamens inserted at the edge of the disk lining the calyx-tube, 
numerous, in about 3 rows, obscurely forming 4 bundles and inflexed in bud; filaments filiform, about 
3 lines long; anthers 2-celled, basifixed, each cell. oblong. Ovary inferior, 2-celled ; style filiform, bent 
at the middle in bud, 3 lines long ; sae terminal, minute. Fruit dry, ovoid, crowned with the per- 
sistent style and calyx-limb, 4 lines long, 3 lines broad. Seed 1, subglobose, exalbuminous ; testa sub- 
cartilaginous ; embryo 1-3 in each cell ; cotyledons thick and fleshy ; radicle short. 
Living specimens of this plant were brought from the Bonin Islands a few years ago, and have been since 
kept in the Botanic Garden of the Imperial University. They flower in August in the Garden. 
t is with some hesitation that I propose this plant as a new species of Augenia. It is to be placed in the 
REO Syaygium, Benth. et Hook. 
Plate XIII. Fig. 1, branch with flowers ; 2, flower-buds ; 3, flower-bud opening : 4, flower; 5, vertical 
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section of flower-bud ; 6, ovule ; 7, dorsal and ventral views of stamen; 8, inner petal ; 9, outermost petal : 10, 
