160 MISS L. S. GIBBS: A CONTRIBUTION TO 
VERBENACEJE. 
STACHYTARPHETA DICHOTOMA, Vahl, Enum. i. 207. 
Nadarivatu, 2700, on waste and cultivated land. FI. Aug.-Oet. 812. 
Distrib, Tropical and sub-tropical countries. 
Of tropical American origin this weed has spread through the Pacific 
Islands. It has not previously been recorded for Fiji and Drake del Castillo 
only gives it for Hawaii, but it is abundant in Samoa and the Tonga Islands. 
popularly called “ Rats’ tails.” 
PREMNA TAITENSIS, Schau. in DC. Prod. xi. 638. 
Mataculi, 2800, fringe of forest. Fl. Oct. 834. 
Distrib. Fiji (Viti Levu, Ovalau, Nairai, Moala), Tahiti, Samoa, Tonga, 
Marquesas and Admiralty Islands, New Hebrides. 
CLERODENDRON AMICORUM, Seem. Bonplandia, x. (1862) 249. 
Nadarivatu, 2700, liane, running up forest trees, general. Fl. & Fr. Aug.- 
Oct. 576, 559, 872. 
Distrib. Fiji (Viti Levu), Samoa, Tonga. 
This liane is the most ornamental plant in Fiji. The flowers are of a 
waxy consistency, resembling Stephanotis in texture, and gleaming white in 
colour. Owing to the extreme reduction of the peduncles, the flowers form 
thick clusters in the axils of the leaves, but the terminal inflorescence is 
cymose paniculate, The flowers are polymorphic, style and stamens varying 
in length, those with exserted stamens having a broader and shorter tube with 
larger lobes to the perianth (576), while others with the stamens flush with 
the mouth of the corolla, have a longer and narrower tube with smaller 
corolla-lobes (559). Kach form is restricted to individual plants. 
On consulting the Herb. Kew. I found that Mr. Burkill had noted the same 
faet in the Herbarium specimens, and had appended two rough sketches of 
extreme corolla forms to one of the specimen sheets, Faradaya vitiensis, 
Seem., founded on a specimen collected by Storck in Vitu Levu, is probably 
also C. amicorum, showing axillary flower clusters, as noted above, the 
corollas of the type matching those of my no. 872 exactly in shape and size. 
LABIATÆ, 
PLECTRANTHUS FORSTERI, Benth. Lab. Gen. et Sp. 38. 
Nadarivatu, 2500-3000 dry open ground, on exposed vole: 
, ‚ агу open g l 
Fl. & Fr. Sept, 650. 
Distrib, Fiji (Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Taviuni), New Hebrides. 
ипе agglomerate, 
