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CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOTANY. 
paniculatij vel intra bracteas solitarii^ subracemiformes, 
axillares, parvi. 
1. Friesia peduncularis^ DC. Prodx. i. 520; Bot. Mag. Ixxii. 
tab. 4246 ; — El^ocarpus peduncularis, Lab. Nov. HoU. ii. 
15, tab. 155. — In Tasmania. 
2. Friesia racemosaj A. Cunn. in Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 1 . vol. i v. 
p. 23 ; Hook. Icon. vii. tab. 601 ; — Elaeocarpus dicera, 
Hymb. iii. 67; — Dicera? serrata, Foi'st. Prodr. 227; DC. 
Prodr. i. 520 ; A. Rich. FI. Nov. Zel. 304 : — Aristotelia ra- 
cemosa, Hook. jil. FI. N. Zel. i. p. 33. — In Nova Zelandia. 
3. Friesia fruticosa ; — Aristotelia fruticosa, Hook. Jil. l.c. p. 34. 
— In Nova Zelandia. 
4. Friesia Chinensis., Gardn. & Champ, in Hook. Kew Joum. 
i. 243. — In ins. Hong Kong. 
3. Vallea. 
This genus, proposed by Mutis, was first established by 
Linnaeus, in the Supplement to his ‘ Systema.’ Its floral 
characters were flgm'ed and described in the ‘ Flora Peruviana ;’ 
and the genus was afterwards better illustrated by Kunth. 
Most botanists have placed Vallea in the EUeocarpece ^ but 
the authors of the new ‘ Genera Plantarum ’ have arranged it 
in their tribe Sloaneccy on account of the “ subligneous muri- 
cated capsule.” But there is very little resemblance in the 
pericarp of this genus to that of Sloanea and its allied genera, 
where, in a dry capsular fruit, the valves are thick, ligneous, 
and densely covered with long spines or rigid hairs. It is not 
coirect to say that the pericarp of Vallea is muricated ] on 
the contrary, the fmit is baccate, the mesocarp being thick, 
soft, and fleshy, covered by a thin membranaceous epicarp, 
which is corrugated in the fonn of many fleshy obtuse tuber- 
cles ; this dries upon the testaceous endocarp after the fall of 
the fruit, when it becomes imperfectly dehiscent at its summit. 
I have seen the fruit in an unripe state only, when the seeds 
ha^"e not been sufliciently perfected to ascertain the nature of 
the integuments ; but a longitudinal section through the centre 
shows that the edges of the dissepiments are firmly aggluti- 
nated upon a solid central column that rises to three-quarters 
of the length of the cells, the remaining upper portions being 
separated by a hollow space ; and it is this which limits the 
?mall extent of the apical dehiscence of the fruit when it be- 
comes quite dried. This structure is analogous to that in 
Tricuspidaria ; but there the axile column scarcely rises above 
the base ; so that the edges of the dissepiments, being un- 
•estrained, admit of a considerable extent of divarication of the 
