THE MONTANE FLORA OF FIJI. 161 
SALVIA COCCINEA, Juss. ev Murr. in Comm. Gotting. i. (1778) 86, t. i. 
Nadrau valley, 1000. Fl. & Fr. Sept. 761. 
Distrib. North America, West Indies, Africa, Madeira, India. 
The specimen was from Mr. Adolf Joske's garden at Nadarivatu, the seeds 
having been collected by him in an undoubtedly wild situation, under the 
impression that it was a native. It is a new introduction for Fiji, but there 
isa specimen at Kew from Tonga (Vavau), and Maiden records it as one of 
the prineipal weeds on Norfolk Island *. 
NYCTAGINACEZÆ. 
PISONIA UMBELLIFERA, Seem, Fl. Ги. 195. 
Between Yasoqo and Navai, 3000, in mixed forest. Fl. 9 Aug. 546. 
Distrib. Fiji (Viti Levu, Kadavu), Tonga, Rarotonga, Tahiti, and Hawaii. 
East trop. Australia to Ceylon. 
АМАКАМТАСЕ 2. 
ALTERNANTHERA NODIFLORA, №. Br. Prod, 417. 
Nadarivatu, 2700, on road to Waikubakuba. Fl. Sept. 688. 
Distrib. Tropical weed of Old World. Not previously recorded from 
Fiji. 
IRESINE Неввзти, Hook. in Gard. Chron. 654 (1864). 
Between Yasoqo and Navai, 3000, clearings in forest, on the Suva road, 
$. Aug. 865. 
Distrib. Brazil. 
This beautiful plant has taken possession of many of the broad telephone 
cuttings through the forest which intersect the Suva road, as it winds up the 
spurs of Mt. Victoria between Yasoqo and Navai. It would be difficult to 
exaggerate the magnificent effect of these straight lines, about 5 m. wide, one 
dense mass of brilliant carmine foliage, bordered by the dark green forest. It 
runs up through the bordering trees and shrubs to a height of 3 or 4 m., and 
each branch is terminated by a delicate feathery panicle of white flowers, 
which enhances the general effect. It is of recent introduction, and its 
extraordinary rapid increase had been noted by Mr. Adolf Joske, whose 
unrivalled knowledge of the neighbourhood is united with a keen eye and 
interest in the local flora. Could people only see such a plant growing 
naturally and unrestricted, with the added grace of the flowers, it would 
sound the death knell of horticultural traditions, which would restrict every- 
thing to bedding-out limits. 
I am indebted to Mr. Spencer Moore for the identification of this plant, 
which was first flowered in this country by Mr. Herbst, of the Kew Nursery, 
Richmond, in 1864, and figured in the Bot. Mag. t. 5439. 
* Maiden, J. H., in Droe, Linn. Soc. N. 8. Wales, xxviii. (1904) 768. 
