TO THE FLORA OF FIJI. 35 
*SOLANUM TORVUM, Swartz, Prodr. 47. 
Nandarivatu, in flower and fruit Nov. 22nd, 1906, im Thurn, 213. 
Distr. India, China, Malaya, Tropical America. 
A shrub 8 to 10 feet high, flowers white, sometimes with a purplish tinge ; 
very common in waste places all over the colony. 
VERBENACEZÆ. 
Premsa Tarrensis, Schauer in DC. Prod. xi. p. 638 ; Seemann, Fl. Vit. 
p. 186 ; Gibbs in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxix. (1909) p. 160. 
Nandarivatu, in the forest, in flower Nov. 27th, 1906, im Thurn, 295. 
Distr. Fiji (Viti Levu, Ovalau, Moala, Nairai) and most of the Polynesian 
groups. 
A tree 30 feet high, with Viburnum-like flowers. 
PIPERACEZÆ. 
PIPER MACGILLIVRAYI, Casim. DC. in Seemann, Fl. Vit. p. 262, t. 15, et 
in DC. Prodr. xvi. p. 335. 
Nandarivatu, in flower March 23rd, 1906, im Thurn, 176. 
Distr. Fiji (Viti Levu, Taviuni, Kandavu, Matuku), Samoa, Tonga 
Islands. 
Var. FASCICULARIS, Warb. in Engl. Jahrb. xxv. (1898) р. 609. 
Nandarivatu, in flower and fruit Dec. ord, 1906, im Thurn, 304. 
Distrib. Fiji (Viti Levu), Samoa. 
“ False yagona,” short fruit. 
The leaves and petioles are glabrous and the spikes about 2 сш. long, 
excluding the peiluncle, which is about 1 cm. in length. From one to four 
spikes arise in the axil of each leaf. 
PEPEROMIA PALLIDA, А. Dietr. Sp. Pl. i. p. 153. 
Mount Victoria, 1500 m., in flower May 15, 1905, im Thurn, 29, 30; 
Nandarivatu, by the water supply, in fruit Nov. 26th, 1906, /m Thurn, 285. 
Distr. Fiji (Viti Levu, Ovalau), Tahiti, Samoa. 
LAURACEA. 
* LITSEA Гитновхи, Turrill, sp.n. L. firme, Hook. f., affinis, foliis glabris 
vel fere glabris, nervis pagina inferiore minus prominentibus distinguenda. 
Arbor (ex im Thurn), ramis teretibus primo puberulis mox glabrescentibus, 
Folia alterna, oblongo-elliptica, apice rotundata vel leviter retusa, basi 
rotundata, usque ad 12 em. longa et 4°75 cm. lata, integra, subcoriacea, 
glabra vel pagina inferiore leviter puberula, nervis lateralibus utrinque 
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