20 Mk. W, В. TURRILL : А CONTRIBUTION 
oblongo-conicum, 3 mm. altum, 1:25 mm. diametro, glabrum ; styli duo, 
9 mm. longi. 
Nandarivatu, in flower March 7th, 1906, im Thurn, 137. It is this tree 
on which the little crimson paraquets are fond of feeding. The native name 
is “common vunga." 
In a пою on Geissois ternata, А. Gray, Seemann (Fl. Vit. p. 109) says 
“the native name I had for this is * Vuga, identical with that of Metrosideros 
polymorpha, but either in the one case or the other I must have been 
misinformed.” 
Sir Everard im Thurn’s notes taken in conjunction with Seemann’s state- 
ment, seem to show that the name * vunga ' 15 used for at least two species of 
Geissois, and also, with the addition of qualifying adjectives, for Metrosideros 
polymorpha and Agapetes vitiensis. 
WEINMANNIA RHODOGYNE, Gibbs in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxix. (1909) p. 145. 
Nandarivatu, common everywhere thereabouts, in flower Feb. 4th, 1906, 
im Thurn, 13. 
Distr, Fiji (Viti Levu). 
The flowers are yellow orange in colour. 
The axes of the racemes in both the type and Sir Everard’s specimens are 
puberulous. 
MYRTACEÆ. 
METROSIDEROS VILLOSA, Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. iii. (1797) p. 268 ; 
Gibbs, l. c. p. 146. Metrosideros polymorpha, Gaud., Bot. Voy. Freyc. pp. 99 
et 482, tt. 108, 109 ; Seemann, Fl. Vit. p. 83. 
Nandarivatu, common, in flower, im Thurn, 129. 
The flowers of this specimen are yellow but red-flowered plants are 
common. 
Distr. Pacific Islands generally. 
The native name is * Orange Vunga” (ex im Thurn). 
The specimens collected by Sir Everard belong to Seemann's var. В and 
to Gaudichaud’s var. 8. The species, however, varies so much in the shape 
and size of its leaves, in the pubescence of the inflorescence and in the colour 
of the flowers, that it is useless to found varieties on these characters. 
*EUGENIA (SYZYGIUM) DIFFUSA, Turrill, sp. п. Е. nivulari, Seemann, 
affinis, sed floribus majoribus, foliorum nervis lateralibus paucioribus et 
magis distantibus facile distinguenda. 
Arbor, ramis teretibus glabris. Folia opposita, lanceolata vel elliptico- 
lanceolata, apice acuminata, basi acuta, usque ad 10 em. longa et 3:5 cm. 
lata, chartacea, utrinque glabra, integra, nervis l:teralibus utrinque circiter 
