158 MISS L. S. GIBBS: A CONTRIBUTION TO 
CON VOLVULACEZÆ. 
CUSCUTA DENSIFLORA, Hook. f. Fl. №. Zeal. i. 186. 
Nadarivatu, 2700, on Stachytarpheta dichotoma. Fl. & Fr. Oct. 814. 
Distrib. Fiji (Viti Levu), New Zealand. 
SOLANACEÆ. 
SOLANUM REPANDUM, Forst. f. Prod. 18. 
Nadarivatu, 2700, common everywhere on cultivated land. ГІ. Oct. 840. 
Distrib. Fiji (Viti Levu), Samoa, Tahiti, Hawaii, Marquesas, Solomon 
Islands, Rarotonga, and Pitcairn Island. 
SoLANUM TETRANDRUM, А. Br, Prod. 445. 
Nadarivatu, 2700, in forest. Fl. & Fr. Sept. 615. 
Distrib. Fiji (Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Ovalau, Ngau, Nairai, Totoya, 
Kadavu). E. tropical Australia. 
SOLANUM VITIENSE, Seem. Fl. Vit. 176, t. 36. 
Nadarivatu, 2700, forest. Fl. & Fr. Aug. 568. 
Distrib. Fiji (Viti Levu, Ovalau), Samoa, Solomon Islands. 
PHYSALIS PERUVIANA, Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 1670. 
Nadarivatu, 2700, road to Navai. Fl. Sept. 707. 
Distrib. Tahiti, Hawaii, Marquesas. New Zealand, N.E. tropical Australia. 
Tropical Asia, America, and Africa. 
CESTRUM NocTURNUM, Linn. Sp. Pl. 191. 
Nadarivatu, 2000, open slopes of N.W. escarpment. FIL Sept. 686. 
Distrib. Central America, West Indies, Madeira, Siam, Surinam. 
Evidently a recent introduction in Fiji. I was told it was also common in 
other places on the Leeward side of Viti Levu, but cannot find it recorded 
for Polynesia. 
GESNERACEZÆ. 
CYRTANDRA VITIENSIS, Seem. Fl. Vit. 182. 
Summit of Mt. Victoria, 4000, in moss forest. Fl. & Fr. Sept. 797. 
Distrib. Fiji (Vitu Levu). 
A shrub, 6 m. in height, with large dark green leaves lighter on the under- 
side, the largest 5—6 dm. in length. Flowers green, the very caducous 
corolla 2-3 em. long, barely exceeding the large membranous, persistent 
calyx, which is 2 em. long and 9 mm. broad. The fruit is creamy green in 
