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CALYCIFLORAL 
minutely puberulous and coloured. Leaves impari-pin- 
nate ; leaflets 3- , rarely 4-paired, sessile, oval, glabrous, 
shining above, about an inch in length : petiole winged, 
jointed, with a line of hairs at the joints on the under sur- 
face. Stipules small, roundish, about 3 lines in diameter, 
glabrous, caducous. Racemes subterminal, axillary, two 
towards the end of each branchlet, 2-3 inches in length : 
peduncles angulose, puberulous : flowers shortly pedi- 
celled, numerous, small, white, 3-4-5 together. Sepals 4, 
minute, ovate, acute. Petals 4, nearly twice the length 
of the sepals, alternating with them, oblong, obtuse. Sta- 
mens 8, twice the length of the petals : anthers roundish. 
Ovary conical, slightly compressed, bipartabile, surround- 
ed at the base with a minute urceolate crimson disk : 
styles 2: stigmata simple. Capsule small, subacuminate, 
birostrate with the persistent styles, 2-celled : seeds few, 
minute, elliptic, glabrous, with a longitudinal hilum on one 
side. 
I have no doubt but that this is the W. iiirta of Swartz, 
as it is the only species to be found in the district which 
he specifies, being there very common. I have changed 
the specific designation as it cannot claim the designation 
of hairy. It may have possessed that character at one 
time, when the climate in which it grows was damper 
and visited with frequent rains. Within the last few 
years, since the mountains have been greatly cleared of 
forest trees, the climate has become dry, and doubtless the 
characters of the plants growing in it have been influenced 
thereby. 
There is no evidence that W. glabra has been found 
in the Island. It is distinguished from the preceding by 
the leaflets being 5-7-paired, obovate with the petioles and 
branches hispid. 
ORDER LXXXIX. UMBELLIFERiE. 
Calyx adherent to the ovary and hence supe- 
rior, 5-toothed or with the limb obsolete. Petals 
5, often with the point indexed. Stamens 5 al- 
ternate with the petals incurved in mstivation. 
Ovary crowned with a disk on which the petals 
