THE MONTANE FLORA OF FIJI. 149 
sinuato-undulatis, basi cordatis : racemis masculis compositis paniculatis, 
brunneis, rhachi nigrescente, bracteis minutis; floribus masculis solitariis, 
pedicellis infra medium articulatis ; pyrenis obovatis, nigrescentibus. 
Hab. Nadarivatu, 2700, on edge of forest. Fl. $ Sept, 893. Fr. 
Sept., 750. 
A small tree, 3 m. high, with the leaves aggregated towards the ends of 
the branches, below the terminal inflorescence. The leaves vary from 2:5 
to 5 dm. in length, those on the fruiting specimen being the smallest, and 
only 3-5-jugate. The leaflets vary in shape from obovate, 7 em. long in 
the 9 to 1:5 dm. long in the d plant, both being -F3:5 em. in breadth. 
The inflorescence is a compound raceme, 4- 1:5 dm. long and 2:3 dm. across ; 
the 4-partite d flowers are scattered on the rhachis of the 3rd order, the 
pedicels, jointed below the middle, being about 2 mm.long. The calyx of the 
d flower is 1 mm. long, with triangular lobes; the petals are valvate, 3 mm. 
long ; the anthers 2:5 mm. and the filaments 1 mm. in length. The fruiting 
panicle is 8 em. long and 1:3 dm. in breadth ; the fruit is compressed, splitting 
into 2 pyrenes ; the dense fruiting panicles are very handsome, crowning the 
terminal rosette of leaves. This species is allied to P. multijugum, Harvey, 
from which it differs in the brown compound raceme, 4-partite g flowers 
and the compressed fruit. 
І have named this plant after Mr. Adolf Joske, the Resident Commissioner 
of Cholo North, as it is very general about Nadarivatu, where his long 
residence and sympathetic kindness has endeared him to the natives under 
his rule. It is also to his initiative and energy that the one bridle-road 
across Viti Levu from Suva and also the road from Nadarivatu to Ba are 
due, the responsibility for surveying, cutting, and making falling entirely 
on his shoulders in both cases. 
POLYSCIAS CORTICATA, sp. nov. (РІ. 18. figs. 14-17.) 
Arbuscula; foliis multijugis, imparipinnatis, foliolis petiolulatis oblongo- 
ovatis, integerrimis, acutis; paniculis terminalibus, pedunculis ultimis 
racemose dispositis, rhachi lignosa, longitrorsum necnon transversim striata, 
lenticellis sat crebro indute; floribus 5-meris, calycibus obscure dentatis, 
petalis valvatis incrassatis ; staminibus 5 ; stylis recurvis patentibus, basi 
paulo coalitis ; ovario biloculari, in quoque loculo uni-ovulato. 
Hab. Nadarivatu, 2700, edge of forest. Fl. and immature fruit, Oct. 769. 
А small tree with slender stem, and round bunchy top, 3 m. high. The 
large (in specimen 8-jugate) leaves are 6 dm. or more in length, aggregated 
at the apices of the branches. The leaflets are 1:4 dm. in length and 5 ст. 
broad, with petiolules 1 ст. long. The terminal, compound, racemose 
inflorescence is very spreading, about 2 dm. long and 4'5 dm. across ; the 
angular woody rhachis, ash-grey in colour, is evidently persistent, the 
peduncles, 2-3 mm. long, being surrounded at the base by 3 or 4 scarious 
