MR. J. G. BAKER ON THE FLORA OF FIJI. 359 
and brought home to England a large collection of specimens. 
This was classified at the Kew Herbarium; but there has been 
no time or opportunity for a careful critical examination of such 
of the Flowering plants * as were not identified at once by com- 
parison with the Herbarium and Seemann’s ‘Flora.’ In his report, 
which was published as a book in 1881, under the title of ‘A Year 
in Fiji Mr. Horne has given a catalogue of Fijian plants, in 
which he has entered a considerable number of these under new 
names. Ineed not, of course, point out to the Members of the 
Linnean Society that to publish new names without descriptions 
is entirely contrary to the accepted rules of nomenclature. 
As in the present case there is no possible means of ascertaining 
what these names mean except by consulting the Kew specimens, 
I have, at Sir Joseph Hooker’s wish, drawn up the report upon 
them which I now lay before the Society. A few of the species 
I have been able to identify, and of the others I have given such 
characters as the material at command will allow. At the time 
that the collection was compared, Mr. Hiern examined the Ebe- 
nace, and Mr. Le Marchant Moore the Orchids. The former 
characterized one, and the latter two species they regarded as new, 
and an abstract of their notes is included. "The seven Cyrtan- 
draceæ newly named by Mr. Horne have been already similarly 
dealt with by Mr. C. B. Clarke in the Monograph of the order 
now in course of printing, which he has prepared for the conti- 
nuation of DeCandolle's * Prodromus ;’ and for a note on a new 
Pandanus found and named by Mr. Horne I am indebted to Prof. 
I. Bayley Balfour [see page 416]. 
PanKr1A Parrit (Horne, ‘A Year in Fiji; p. 266). 
P. folis glabris, pinnis 6-7-jugis, foliolis oblongis 12-16-jugis rigide 
coriaceis, bracteis apice sericeis, legumine semipedali duro glabro. 
A large tree, with a dark-coloured trunk, 40 to 70 feet in height, 
the branchlets furnished with copious brown lenticels. Leaf a 
foot long, the rhachis quadrangular, dark purplish brown; petiole 
2 in. long, with a few brown lenticels, but without any patelle- 
form glands; pinnæ 4-5 in. long; leaflets sessile, oblong, easily 
disarticulating, 1—2 in. long, 4 in. broad, nearly square on the 
lower side at the base, more rounded on the upper. Peduncles 
glabrous, nearly black, attaining a length of half a foot or more. 
Heads turbinate, 11-2 in. long; bracts of the fertile flowers 1-1 
* A paper of mine on the Ferns of the collection will be found in Trimen's 
‘Journal of Botany,’ 1879, pp. 292-300. 
