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Eurya (Flowers small sessile)

Flowers small, sessile or shortly pedunculate, fascicled or rarely solitary in the axils; sepals five, imbricated; petals five, imbricated, coalescing at base; stamens fifteen or less, rarely five. Leaves often crenate-serrated and glabrous. To the species described on p. 542, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

E. vitiensis (Fiji). fl. small, axillary, unisexual, the males fascicled, the females usually in pairs. l. elliptic-lanceolate or oblong, serrulate, acuminate at both ends, shining. Fiji, 1887. Stove tree.