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ring above the nodes; Leaves shortly petioled, 2-8 in. long, 1- 
li in. broad, moderately firm in texture, green and glabrous on 
both surfaces, with main veins distinct nearly to the edge, 4—4 in. 
apart. Flowers solitary in the axils of the leaves, on slender 
ascending peduncles 3-3 in. long. Calyx of three lanceolate 
foliaceous segments about 4 in. long, which unite so as to 
form a companulate tube j in. long above the globose ovary. 
Corolla white, fragrant, with a subcylindrical tube 4 in. long, 
which is pilose inside at throat, and 5 oblanceolate-oblong seg- 
ments an inch long. Fruit not seen. ! 
Hab. Common in some parts of the island of Rabi, high up the 
mountains, Horne 452! Named after the proprietor of that 
island. 
PrEcTRONIA MacGuaont (Horne, ‘A Year in Fiji, p. 266). 
Fruticosa, glabra, stipulis minutis, foliis breviter petiolatis ovato-oblongis 
acuminatis subcoriaceis, floribus minutis in axillis foliorum fasciculatis 
breviter pedicellatis, calycis tubo brevi, dentibus 5 deltoideis, corollz intus 
pilosze tubo campanulato, segmentis lanceolatis. 
A shrub, about 8 feet high, with slender terete woody branch- 
lets, glabrous in all its parts. Stipules minute, deltoid. Leaves 
shortly petioled, 2-3 in. long, 1-13 in. broad, rounded at the base, 
subeoriaceous in texture, green on both surfaces, with distant 
fine ascending main veins. Flowers in copious axillary umbellate 
fascicles ; pedicels slender, 4-3 in. long. Calyx iline long; 
with a short tube and 5 deltoid segments. Corolla three times 
as long as the calyx, with a short tube and 5 spreading segments 
hairy inside. Style clavate, nearly as long as the corolla. Fruit 
not seen. 
Hab. Common on the mountains of Ovalau, Horne 227! 
Preorronta MaccoxwsELI (Horne, ‘A Year in Fiji,’ p- 266) 
proves, on dissection, to be the well-known Pisonia inermis of 
Forster, of which a full account will be found in Seemann’s ‘ Flora 
Vitiensis,’ p. 195. 
Ixora Josxer (Horne, A Year in Fiji, p. 263). 
Fruticosa, glabra, stipulis minutis, foliis petiolatis oblongo-lanceolatis, 
acutis, floribus in corymbos paucifloros laxos axillares dispositis, pedicellis 
flori zquilongis, calycis tubo campanulato, dentibus 5 minutis, corolle 
tubo cylindrico quam calyx duplo longiore, limbi segmentis 5 lanceolatis 
quam tubus triplo longioribus, antheris ad tubi faucem sessilibus quam 
segmenta brevioribus. 
