148 MISS Г, $. GIBBS: А CONTRIBUTION TO 
SAMYDACE. 
САЗЕАВТА Rican, А. Gray, Bot. US. Expl. Exp. 82, t. 5. 
Nadarivatu, 2700, clearings. FI. & Fr. Aug. 588. 
Distrib. Fiji (Ovalau). 
This species has not been collected since it was first found in Ovalau by 
the officers connected with the U.S. Expl. Exp. under Capt. Wilkes, 1838-42. 
In my specimens the leaves are not so markedly distichous, and are also 
more acuminate with longer petioles, than is the ease in the brauch figured 
in the above plate. The flowers are also pedicellate, not sessile, but otherwise 
agree with the excellent figures given. The fruit is green, with red seeds, 
1-5 em. in length and 8 mm. broad. It was quite general about Nadarivatu, 
especially on the Ba road. 
PASSIFLORACE.E. 
PASSIFLORA VITIENSIS, Mast. in Trans. Linn. Soe. xxvii. (1871) 634. 
Vatavula, Nabaeara Hill, 1000, festooning over trees in mixed forest. Fl. 
Aug. 512. 
Distrib. Fiji (Viti Levu). Samoa. 
A very delicate and graceful specles with flowers of a terra-cotta colour ; 
in flower at Nadarivatu in October. The Samoan specimen at Kew is 
described as having white flowers. 
CUCURBITACE. 
MELOTHRIA GRAYANA, Cogn. in DC. Mon. Phan. iii. 591. 
Col i Nadarivatu, 3200, clearing by path in forest. 9. Sept. 595. 
Distrib. Fiji (Viti Levu, Ovalau). Samoa, Tonga, and Tahiti. 
UMBELLIFERÆ,. 
HYDROCOTYLE ASIATICA, Linn. Sp. Pl. 234. 
Nadarivatu, 2700, cultivated land. Fl. Oct. 810. 
Distrib. Tropics of both hemispheres. 
ARALIACELJE. 
SCHEVWFLERA VITIENSIS, Seem. Journ. Bot. iii. (1865) 176. 
Nadarivatu, 2700, in mixed forest, common. Fl. Au 
Distrib. Fiji (Viti Levu, Ovalau). 
g. 580. 
Porvscras JoskEr, sp. nov. 
Arbuscula, glabra; foliis imparipinnatis multijugis, rhachi nodosa ; foliolis 
breviter petiolulatis, ovatis vel elliptico-oblongis, acutis, integerrimis vel 
