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oyario basi rotundato.—Buke Levu, island of Kadavu, and Voma Peak, Viti Levu, 4000 feet above 
the sea (Seemann! n, 210). . 
~ This Zoranthus was seeu only on the highest mountains of Viti, and is a more beautiful species 
than Z. insularum, to which it approaches very éloscly. The branches are straight and stiff, the leaves 
2-24 inches long (including petiole) and 4-1 inch broad. The petals are bright crimson, tipped with dark 
purple, and the anthers yellow. The berry is dark purple. 
Exrnanation oF Prats XXIII,—1, a flower-hbud; 2, flower, open; 5, stamen; 4, upper part ot 
anther; 5, calyx andgpistil; 6, a peduncle, with ripe fruit; 7, 2 single ripe frnit; 8 and 9, sections of ripe 
fruit :—all, except fig. 6, magnified. 
Orvo LI. _ RUBIACEZ. 
Susorpo I. CHINCHONACE#,—Semina in loculis co. 
Trisus I, CHINCHONE@.—Fructus capsularis, Semina alata. 
Of this Tribe there are in Polynesia, besides the three species of Dolicholobium, Nauclea Forster, 
Seem. (NV. orientalis, Worst. Prodr. n. 85, non alior., Soland. Prim. Fl, Ins. Pacif. p. 225, et in Parkins. 
Drawings of Tahit. Plants, t. 20), from the Society Islands (Banks and Solander! Wiles and Smith !), and 
Badusa corymbifera, A, Gray in Proceed, Am, Acad. vol. iv. (Chinchona corymbifera, Forst. Prodr. n. 88, et 
Icon. (ined.) t. 49), from the Tongan Islands (Forster! Nelson! Sir H, Home! in Mus. Brit,! Mathews! 
Harvey !). 
I. Dolicholobium, A. Gray in Proceedings of Amer, Acad. vol. iv. p. 508. Calyx tubo 
eylindrico clongato; limbo amplo submembranaceo ecyathiformi truncato integerrimo (rarius sub- 
lobato) persistente. Corolla hypocraterimorpha; limbo 4—5-partito, lobis oblongis obtusissimis oc- 
nerviis sestivatione contortis, Stamina 4-5, tubo infra fauecem imserta, glabra, inclusa; filamenta 
brevissima ; anthers lineares, basifixee, introrsum adnate, Stylus 2-fidus, ramis subspathulatis sur- 
sum petaloideo-dilatatis intus secus costam stigmatosis. Ovarium 2-loculare, Ovula in placentis 
elongatis crassis ©, minuta, sursum imbricata, acicularia, Capsula siliqueeformis, cylindrica, longis- 
sima (4—6-pollicaris), calycis limbo crateriformi (fructu multoties latiori) plerumque coronata, démum 
septicida? Semina creberrima, nucleo ovali, ala angusta utringue in candam simplicem longissi- 
mam sensim attenuata, Embryo in albumine pareo carnoso rectus; cotyledonibus oyatis radicula 
infera parum brevioribus.—Frutices erecti; foltis petiolatis membranaceis, recte penmmerviisy venulis 
pulchre reticulatis; stipulis interpetiolaribus membranaceo-foliaceis distinctis obtnsis planis plerum- 
que caducis; pedunculis brevibus ex axillis superioribus 8-pancifloris; floribus majusculis; tubo 
ealycis et coroll albe: extus pube appressa mdutis, 
A genus allied to Cosmibuena, and as yet not found out of the Viti Islands. 
1. D. oblongifolium, A. Gray in Proceed. Amer, Acad. vol, iv. l.¢.; foliis oblongis scu elon. 
gato-oblongis utringue acutiusculis (24-5 poll. longis) ; flore 5-mero.—Bua or Sandalwood Bay and 
Nady, Vanua Levu (U.S. Expl, Exped.; Milne!), Viti Levu (Milne!). 
2. D. latifolium, A, Gray, he. ; ramulis stipulis petiolisque rufo-villosis; foliis latissime ob- 
ovatis basi rotundatis y. obtusissimis (5-7 poll. longis) ; flore 4-mero (an semper?),—Ovalau (U, 8. 
Expl. Exped), 
3. D. longissimum, Seem, in Bonplandia, vol, ix. p. 256 (Tab. XXY.) ; foliis @valibus v. ob- 
ovatis obtusis basi acutis supra glabriusculis subtus pubescenti-hirsutis et ad costas venasque villosis ; 
flore 5-mero.— Viti Leyu (Seemann! n. 215). 
Asa Gray thought this might possibly be a variety of D. latifolium, with less ample leaves and more 
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