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et L3 em. late, apice rotundate. Perianthi tubus 4 cm. longus, infra 
cylindricus, 1 mm. diametro, superne leviter et sensim ampliatus, extra 
glaber, intra pubescens; limbi lobi 4, elliptico-oblongi, apice rotundati, 
8 mm. longi, 4:5 mm. lati, extra glabri, intra dense pubescentes ; squamæ 
lobis alternatæ, truncate, fere 1 mm. longæ. Stamina 8, filamentis 1 mm. 
longis glabris, antheris 1°75 mm. longis. Discus cupuliformis, irregulariter 
lobatus, 2 mm. altus, glaber. Ovarium turbinatum, glabrum, 2-loculare, 
loculis uniovulatis; stylus 5 cm. longus, glaber, stigmate capitato indistincte 
bilobato. 
Kandavu, in flower March 1912, im Thurn, 12. 
Common about Nandarivatu. 
EUPHORBIACE®. 
*MACARANGA GRANDIFOLIA, Turvill, sp. п. M. macrophylle, Muell.-Arg. 
affinis, sed foliis longioribus nervis lateralibus numerosioribus distinguenda. 
Arbor parva (ex im Thurn), ramis teretibus glabris vel leviter puberulis. 
Folia oblongo-ovata, apice obtusa vel rotundata, basi peltata, usque ad 5 dem. 
longa et 3 dem. lata, margine integra vel leviter et plus minusve irregulariter 
crenata, supra nervis hispida, infra juniora nervis hispida, omnia glandulis 
minutis sessilibus dense tecta, nervis primariis circiter 7, nervo principali 
nervis lateralibus utrinque 15 instructo, nervis transversis numerosis parallelis, 
nervis omnibus pagina superiore subprominentibus vel impressis, inferiore 
prominentibus ; petiolus cireiter 25 em. longus, sparse hispidus vel glaber; 
stipulee oblongo-lanceolatæ, 4 cm. longæ, 1:5 cm. late, acute, integra, extus 
glandulis sessilibus dense tectæ. Flores $, numerosi, sessiles, 4-8 in fasci- 
culos aggregati ; fasciculi in paniculas ramosissimas dispositi, panieulæ ramis 
glabris; bracteæ florales subrotundatæ, sessiles, glabra, flores 4-8 subten- 
dentes. Calya 3—4-lobus, rufus, glaber. Stamina circiter 7-12, typica. 
Nandarivatu, on the edge of the forest; flowers young; March 6th, 1906, 
im Thurn, 134. 
A small tree, like a huge nettle, with crimson flowers. 
LORANTHACE A. 
LORANTHUS INSULARUM, А. Gray, Bot. U.S. Expl. Exp. р. 738, t. 98; 
Seemann, Fl. Vit. р. 120; Gibbs in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxix. (1909) p. 168. 
Nandarivatu, in flower Nov. 19th, 1906, m Thurn, 255. 
Distr. Fiji (Viti Levu, Nairai, Matuku), Loyalty Islands, Tonga Islands, 
Society Islands, Rarotonga. 
The flowers are scarlet and black. 
