PLANTES PEU CONNUES DE LA NOUVELLE-CALÉDONIE. 369 
Inflorescentia terminalis paniculata, 20-25 centim. longa, 
erecla ; racemis compositis in axilla foliorum superiorum nas- 
centibus seu bractea brevi ovata stipatis racemoque terminali ; 
ramis parle nuda compressis sulcatis glabratis, parte florifera 
angulosis sulcatis hinc illine ferrugineo-velutinis ; rachi com- 
muni bracteas racemos foventes ovatas brevissimas vel foliaceas 
pinnatisectas 6-8 cent. longas (lobis subalternts linearibus obtu- 
sis 1-41 cent. longis, lobo terminali subsimili 2 cent. longo) vel 
lineares integras apice obtusas, suprà conecavas, nervo medio. 
percursas, 3-4 cent. longas, vel etiam lanceolato-subulatas 
obtusiusculas vel acutas concavas plus minusve glabratas ge- 
rente ; bracteolis superioribus pedunculos foventibus triangula- 
ribus acutis concavis subglabratis brevissimis ; ramis secundaris 
adscendentibus, superioribus simplicibus, id est racemosis, in- 
fenoribus quaternario ordine ramosis ; florum pedunculis bre- 
vissimis approximatis. 
Fructus obovoideus, 7-8 mill. longus, nitidus. 
Habitat in Nova-Caledonia (Vieillard, n° 3094 ; specimen a clar, Pan- 
cher, anno 1870, Uberaliter divulgatum). 
D, BEAUPREA BALANSÆ. 
Frutex 2-8 metr. altus, ramuis teretibus, rugosis, glabris. 
Folia alterna imparipinnata, subcoriacea, glaberrima, ni- 
tida, 25 cent. longa plerumque tri-juga ; rachis gracilis usque 
ad medium nuda, suprà plana vel pauld concava nervoque me- 
dio ultra partem inferiorem notata, infrà convexa; segmenta 
alterna vel subopposita oblongo-ellipliea, 8-10 cent. longa, 
2 5-3 cent. lata, margine crenata, basi in petiolulum brevem, 
planum sensim attenuata, apice emargipata, infra punctulis 
minulissimis creberrime conspersa, plus minusve inæquila- 
teralia areuataque, nervo medio nervis secundaris pinnatis 
ahisque reticulatis utriique prominulis; segmentum terminale 
integrum alisque plerumque subsimile vel aliquoties inæqua- 
liter 2-3-lobatum. 
Enflorescentia terminalis paniculata, 25 cent. longa, erecta ; 
racemis simplicibus vel plerumque compositis in axilla foliorum 
° série, Bot. T, XUT, (Cahier n° 6.) # 24 
