150 MISS L. 8. GIBBS: A CONTRIBUTION TO 
bracts, bearing buds in their axils ; the bracts of the peduncles are lanceolate, 
7 mm. long, those bearing heads being very minute; the flowers are 
umbellate, 5 or 6 to the whorl, the pedicels being 2-3 mm. long, with small 
scarious bracts at their base ; the calyx is 5-dentate, 2 mm. in length; the 
petals are 3 mm. long and 1:5 mm. broad, and the almost sessile anthers are 
2 mm. long ; the ovary is bilocular, and the styles erect in flower. 
This species is nearest to P. Murrayi, Harms, from which it differs in the 
larger and entire leaflets, the woody spreading inflorescence, ash-grey in 
colour, and the bracteate peduncles. 
PLERANDRA ($ EU-PLERANDRA) VICTORIÆ, sp. nov. 
Arbuscuia inermis, glabra ; foliis digitatis, stipulatis, dilatatis, foliolis 7, 
oblongis, obovatis, obtusis vel acutis, basibus in petiolum attenuatis, coriaceis, 
integerrimis ; umbellis multi-radiatis, umbellulis 12-16-floris ; calycibus post 
anthesin repando-undulatis ; petalis 5, valvatis, ovato-triangularibus, liberis, 
mox deciduis; staminibus 35, bi-seriatis ; ovario 7-loculari ; stylis 7, brevibus, 
distinctis, stigmatibus simplicibus. 
Hab. Summit-ridge of Mt. Victoria, 4000, in moss forest. ЕІ. & young fr., 
Sept. 784. 
A small tree, with dense crown, of which it was impossible to determine 
the height, as the trunk was embedded in the prostrate, decaying, moss- 
clothed logs, which characterize this formation. In the specimen the petiole 
is 2 dm. and the petiolules 2:5-3:2 cm. long; the leaflets are 1-15 dm. in 
length. The length of the peduncle is 9*5 cm., while the small umbel is 
+8 cm. long and 1-2 dm. across ; the flowers are most striking, the calyx 
and outer surface of the petals are black, whereas the thickened inner 
portion of the latter is gleaming white. The calyx-tube is 3 mm. long and 
4 mm. broad. The stamens, in all the buds dissected, numbered 35, in two 
series, and in flower do not equal the petals, the anthers being 3 mm., while 
the filaments are 25 mm. in length. The fruiting peduncle does not 
elongate very much, being 9 cm. in length. This plant is nearest to 
P. Nesopanax, Harms, from which it differs in the much smaller leaves and 
umbels, the notable black and white colouring of the flowers, and the definite 
number of stamens in two series. 
ВОВТАСЕЖ. 
XANTHOPHYTUM CALYCINUM, Benth. § Hook. f. Gen. п. 53. 
Nadarivatu, ridge of Matani Siga, 3200, in mixed forest. Fr. Sept. 704. 
Distrib. Fiji (Viti Levu, Ovalau). 
I am indebted to Dr. Stapf for the determination of this plant. 
