THE MONTANE FLORA OF FIJI. 159 
colour, glabrous and shining. The flowers are glandular and mucilaginous, 
and like the fruit very deliquescent, which makes the plant most difficult to 
dry. The original description was founded on incomplete specimens. 
CYRTANDRA INVOLUCRATA, Seem. FT. Vit. 183. 
Nadarivatu, 2700, slopes of N.W. escarpment. Fl. & Fr. Aug.-Sept. 640, 
696 bis. 
Distrib. Fiji (Viti Levu). 
This shrub is very common in fringing woods by streams where the forest 
growth gradually thins out towards the open Leeward country. The calyx 
is membranous, yellow-green to white, the corolla is cream-coloured, and the 
fruit white and glabrous. 
CYRTANDRA GLABRATA, Sol. [ Dryander], MS. in Herb. Mus. Brit.* ex 
C. B. Clarke, in DC. Monogr. Phan. v. 277. 
Nadarivatu, 2700, on edge of forest. ЕІ. & Fr. Aug. 572. 
Distrib. Tahiti. 
This species was first collected in Tahiti by Banks and Solander, and since 
by Vesco and Lépine, but has not previously been recorded for Fiji. 
CYRTANDRA PRITCHARDIT, Seem. Fl. Vit. 181, t. 39. 
Vatavula, 500, in forest, general. Fl. & Fr. Aug. 537. 
Distrib. Fiji (Ovalau). 
АСАХТНАСЕЖ. 
ERANTHEMUM LAXIFLORUM, A. Gray, in Proc. Am, Acad. у. (1861) 349. 
Nadarivatu, 2000, on road to Nudrau, scandent in forest. Fl. Sept. 744. 
Distrib. Fiji (Vanua Levu, Ovalau, Moturiki), New Hebrides. 
A lovely species, from its abundance of fine, mauve-grey flowers. 
GRAPTOPHYLLUM SIPHONOSTENA, F. Muell. Fragm. vi. 87, in obs. T. 
Vatavula, Nabacara Hill, 800, in mixed forest. Fl. Aug. 535. 
Nadarivatu, 3000. FI. Sept. 597. 
Distrib. Fiji (Ovalau), Tonga. 
Collected in 1852 in Ovalau (Milne, Herb. Kew.), this plant is not recorded 
by Seemann for Fiji, nor is the genus or species given for Polynesia by Drake 
del Castillo. 
* Vide Britten, in Journ. Bot. xlv. (1907) 314. 
+ See Hemsley, “Flora of the Tonga or Friendly Islands," Journ, Linn. Soc., Bot. xxx 
(1894) 214, for full description of this plant by Dr. Stapf. 
