152 FLORA VITIENSIS. 
pistilli rndimento piloso basi accreta ; filamentis gracilibus, 
12 per paria basi connata, hypogyna, 
er dehiscentibus, polline late ellipsoideo, Femin, : 
antheris linearibus, seepius apiculatis, lateralit 
Stamina 0. Ovarium 3-loculare, hirsutum, loculis 2-spermis. Stigma 8-partitum. Bacca ellipsoi- 
dea, raro globosa, levis, 3-2-locularis, carne parc’, Semina abortiente ovulo altero seepius in loculis 
solitaria, pendentia, oblonga, prope basim transversim sulcata, nigricantia,—Arbores v. frutices ; 
foliis alternis, parvis, integris; floribus solitariis geminisve, axillaribus, parvis, subsessilibus; corolla 
extus plerumque pilosa, pilis longis albidis medio loborum preecipue densis; filamentis antheras 
longitudine subequantibus.—Ferreola, Roxb. Cor. vol. i. p. 35. t. 49. 
]. M. foliosa, Rich, mss. ex A. Gray in Proceed. Amer. Acad. vol. v.; folis confertis lato- 
ellipticis utrinque rotundatis basi cordatis brevissime petiolatis elabratis (pollicaribus v. sesquipol- 
licaribus), novellis cum ramulis fructibusque olivzeformibus ferrugineo-tomentulosis ; peduneulis fruc- 
tiferis brevibus 1-3-floris; calyee 8-lobo.—Mountains of Ovalau, and Macuata coast of Vanua 
Levu (U. 8. Expl. Exped.). 
2, M. elliptica, Forst. Char. Gen. 61; Prodr. n, 366.; Icon. (ined.) t. 267; DC. Prodr. vol. 
viii. p. 240; ramulis foliisque recentissimis hirsutis demum glabratis fuscis; foliis ellipticis obtusis 
basi acutis coriaceis margine revolutis; pedunculis 3-5-floris petiolo duplo triplove longioribus ; 
calyce piloso, lobis ovato-rotundatis, staminibus 8; bacca (rubra) ellipsoidea.—M, rufa, Uabill. Sert. 
Austr. Caled. p. 33. t. 36?—Kandayu, Vanua Levu, and other Islands of Viti (Seemann! n, 295, 
296, 297, Storck! n. 298). Also collected in the Tongan Islands (Forster! Capt. Cook! Harvey ! 
Matthews !), Isle of Pines, and New Caledonia (Labillardiére!), 
I suspect that AM. rufa of Labillarditre is merely a form of Forster’s WZ. elliptica. I have seen speci- 
mens which have the foliage of the common form of A. elliptica, together with the shape of the fruit 
deemed peculiar to A. rufa, and vice versd. Whether JL major, Forst. Plant. Hscul, p. 21, 1s a synonym of 
M. elliptica cannot be determined from the materials at hand, There are no authentic specimens of it at 
the British Museum, unless what is marked “ Maba Andersonii—Arbor—Tongan Islands (Capt. Cook!),” 
and has very large leaves, should prove to be that plant. My nos. 295, 296, and 297, and Storck’s n. 898, 
ae be distinguished as a variety glabrescens of I. elliptica, as the nasceut branches very quickly become 
glabrous 
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Orpvo LVIIl. STYRACEAL. 
I. Symplocos, Jacq, Amer. p. 166.t.175. fig. 68; DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 246. Calyx 5-fidus, 
lobis zestivatione quincunciali, post anthesin erectis, sepius ciliatis, Corolla vix gamopetala, petalis 
5 1-serialibus vel rarius 10 2-serialibus, basi parum connatis, ex staminibus interne adnatis potius 
coalitis, tubo brevissimo vel lobos zquante, lobis patentibus zstivatione 5-unciali. Stamina imo 
corolle inserta, 15-co; nune pentadelpha, adelphiis cum lobis corolle alternantibus ; nunc poly- 
adelpha; nunc 1-serialia, sublibera, ubi lobis corolla alterna majora; sepius monadelpha, 3—4- 
sevialia, exterioribus nempe in monadelphia longioribus, tubo staminum plus minus longo corollzque 
accreto. Filamenta filiformia vel ligulata et apice constricta. Autherze ovoideo-globose, filamen- 
tis multo minores, 2-loculares, longitudinaliter dehiscentes, loculis pariete subdivisis. Pollen late 
ellipticum, subglobosum, in aqua globosum, leve, exsiccatione corrugatum. Ovarium inferum vel 
semi-inferum, 5—2-loculare, loculis Jobis calycinis (ubi isomeri) oppositis. Ovula 2-4 ex angulo 
superiore cujusque loculi pendentia, anatropa. Glandule interdum ovario insidentes. Stylus fili- 
formas, glaber vel pilosus. Stigma capitellatum, simplex et trizgonum, vel 5-3-partitum. Bacca 
calycis limbo coronata, ellipsoidea, raro subglobosa, 5-3-locularis, 4-2 loculis seepe abortientibus, 
