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2-4-)loculare, stigmate sessili capitato 3—4-lobo; ovula in loculis 2. Drupa ovoidea y, ellipsoidea, 
sepe 3-gona, carne parca, putamine osseo abortu 1-loculari l-spermo, Semen loculo conforme, testa 
membranacea ; cotyledones (interdum fissie) contortuplicatze ; radicula brevis, recta, supera.—Arbores 
elatie, halsamiflue ; foliis amplis alternis exstipulatis v. pinnulis inferioribus sessilibus stipuleefor- 
mibus, imparipinnatis, rarissime 1—3-toliolatis, foliolis oppositis yalde coriaceis integerrimis v. crenu- 
latis; paniculis axillaribus ramosis, ramulis robustis ; floribus parvis v, mediocribus, 
1. C. Vitiense, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 8373; glaberrimum ; stipulis subulatis parvis caducis ; 
foliolis 5-7 oblongo-ellipticis utrinque obtusis nune subacuminatis nitidis ; paniculis parvifloris ; pedi- 
cellis (semipollicaribus et ultra) clayatis; calycis lobis triangularibus acutis ; drupa ellipsoidea ros- 
trata, vertice pilosa,—Mountains of the Macuata coast of Vanua Levu (U, S. Expl. Exped.), Ovalau 
(Seemann ! n. 97). 
Var, 8.+ foliolis 5-9 seepims apice v. utrinque plus minus acuminatis. A, Gray, 1, c.—Macuata 
coast of Vanua Levu (U. 8, Expl. Exped.). 
Harvey collected an allied species (O. Harveyi, Seem, ; glaberrimum ; foliolis 6-7 ovyato-oblongis acumi- 
natis nitidis; paniculis paucifloris ; laciniis calycis obtusis ; drupa ovoidea, glabra) in the Tongan Islands. 
Orvo XXII. MELIACEA. 
I. Waveea, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. vol. ii. p. 212; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. p. 331. 
Calyx 4-7-fidus, persistens, leviter imbricatus. Petala 4-7, oblongo-ligulata, patentia, contorta. 
Tubus stamineus in lacinias 8-30 lineares villoso-barbatas fissus, basi cum disco carnoso confluens ; 
anther muticz, exserte. Discus cylindricus. Ovarium ovoideum y, globosum, hirsutum, 3—4-locu- 
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lare, in stylum gracilem attenuatum, stigmate capitato 3—1-lobulato; ovula in loculis 2, collateralia. 
Bacea globosa, indehiscens, 3-4-locularis, loculis 1-2-spermis. Semina ovalia, adscendentia, exaril- 
lata, testa lsevi, hilo lineari; cotyledones plano-convexe, cordate; radicula gracilis, retracta,— 
Arbores; foliis simplicibus alternis petiolatis; floribus parvis corymbosis, corymbis longe peduncu- 
latis, pedicellis basi bracteolatis ; bacca globosa. 
» I have not seen Fijian specimens of the species upon which this genus was founded (V, amicorwm, 
Benth.), and I believe that it is confined to the Tongan or Friendly Islands, where it was first collected by 
Forster, though not named by him, and subsequently by Barclay and other collectors. Two additional new 
species occur in the Vitian Islands, and it is very probable that they were known to A. Gray, whose analysis 
of Favea amicorum rust be referred to my V. Harveyi; whilst the flowering branch he figures on Plate 
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16 of Wilkes’s Botany, agrees with Forstcr’s Tongan specimens. Barclay’s specimens of V. amicorwm, 
from the same locality, have smaller leaves, though they do not differ im any other respect. 
1. V. Harveyi, (sp. nov.) Seem.; foliis obovatis acuminatis in petiolum angustatis integer- 
rimis, supra demum glabris, subtus villosis ; laciniis calycis ovato-triangularibus acatis pubescentibus ; 
petalis ovato-oblongis acuminatis v. acutis villosiusculis; filamentis (12-14) versum apicem attenuatis, 
extus glabris, intus villosis; ovario villoso.—Viti (probably Vanua Levu), Harvey! in Herb. Hook. 
Leaves 5-8 inches long, 4 inches broad, A much more robust-looking plant than either V. amicorum 
ov Vitvensis. 
2. V. Vitiensis, (sp. nov.) Seem.; ramis elabris; foliis obovatis acutis v. obtuse acuminatis, in 
petiolum attenuatis, utrinque elabris, subtus subglaucis; pedunculis pedicellisque glabris, bracteis 
-lanceolatis, laciniis calycis ovato-triangularibus acutis mox elabratis; petalis oblongo-ligulatis 
lineari UE NOX § at . : 
ceo-puberulis; filamentis utrinque villosis; ovario villoso.— acuata coas 
obtusis extus intusque seri 
of Vanua Levu (Seemann! n. 63). ) J 
This is a middle-sized tree, with smaller and more membranaceous leaves than V. Harveyi. Petiole 
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