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2 ст. longo suffulti; pedicelli 05-1 cm. longi, robustiores, glabri ; bracteae 
opposite, persistentes, suborbiculares, apice rotundatæ, 2 mm. longo, 1-5 mm. 
latze, sessiles, glabræ ; bracteolæ 2, opposite, vel 4, opposite et decussate, 
bracteis similes. Calyx indistincte 4-lobatus, lobis apice rotundatis glabris. 
Petala 5, in calyptram connata, late orbicularia, apice rotundata, circiter 
5 mm. longa et 7 mm. lata, coriacea, glabra. Stamina numerosa, polyadelpha, 
glabra, filamentis (parte connata inclusa) usque ad 1-2 em. longis, antheris 
0:75 mm. longis. eceptaculum turbinatum, 5-6 mm. altum, 5-6 mm. 
diametro, glabrum. | Ovarium biloculare, ovulis in quoque loculo circiter 12 ; 
stylus cylindricus, 6 mm, longus, glaber, stigmate subcapitato. 
Nandarivatu, “ Single-tree Hill ? in flower Nov. 21st, 1906, im Thurn, 262. 
MELASTOMATACH А. 
MELASTOMA DENTICULATUM, Labill., Sert. Austr. Caled. p. 65, t. 64; 
Seemann, Fl. Vit. p. 89; Gibbs in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxix. (1909) р. 147. 
Melastoma vitiense, Naudin, Melastomac. р. 141; A. Gray, Bot. U.S. Expl. 
Exp. p. 601. 
Navai, in flower March 28th, 1906, im Thurn, 199. 
Distr. Fiji (Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Ovalau, Totoya) and Pacific Islands 
generally. 
This was gathered because of its few large white flowers which seemed to 
distinguish it from the common form, which is a troublesome weed in the 
coastal cattle pastures. 
MEDINILLA LONGICYMOSA, Gibbs, l. с. p. 147, pl. 14. 
Nandarivatu, side of wood by first mile-post on road to Da, in flower 
Nov. 25th, 1906, im Thurn, 284. 
Distr. Fiji (Viti Levu). 
A tall tree, 40 feet high, with white flowers sheathed in two deep pink 
bracts. 
MEDINILLA RHODOCHLÆNA, A. Gray, Bot. U.S. Барі. Кер. р. 600; 
Seemann, Fl. Vit. p. 88; Gibbs, l. с. p. 147. 
Nandarivatu, im Thurn, sine numero. 
Distr. Fiji (Viti Levu, Ovalau), Samoa. 
MEDINILLA spp. 
Two specimens from Nandarivatu without numbers, undoubtedly belong 
to this genus, but the material is insufficient for specific determination. 
