THE FLORA OF VAVAU. 29 
WALTHERIA AMERICANA, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 673. 
Fiji and Samoa; eastward to Tahiti; Sandwich Islands; 
westward in the New Hebrides and New Caledonia. Tropics 
generally. 
TIMIACER. 
Grewia Maxococca, Linn. f.; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 
xxx.(1894) p. 170; Reinecke, in Engl. Jahrb. xxv. (1898) p. 652. 
Tongatabu ; Fiji and Samoa; eastward to Tahiti; westward 
in New Caledonia. 
TRIUMFETTA PROCUMBENS, Forst.; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. 
Soc., Bot. xxx. (1894) p. 170. 
Tongatabu, Eua; Fiji and Samoa; eastward to the Low Archi- 
pelago ; Sandwich Islands; westward in the New Hebrides, New 
Caledonia, and the Solomon Islands: and to the Mascarene 
Islands. 
TRiuMFETTA RHOMBOIDEA, Jacq. Enum. Pl. Carib. p. 22. 
Samoa; eastward to Tahiti; Sandwich Islands; westward in 
the New Hebrides and New Caledonia; and to Africa. 
Evzocarpus toneanus, Burkill ; species ex affinitate EL. flori- 
dant, Hemsl., et E. glandulifert, M. T. Mast., differt precipue 
petalis ; etiamque ab EZ. Greffei, Seem., foliis distinguitur. 
Rami glabri, foliorum cicatricibus inconspicue notati, crassi- 
usculi. Folia glabra, dense ad apices ramorum conferta ; lamina 
ovata ve] elliptica, breviter acuminata, basi obtusissima, 3-4 
poll. longa, 13-2 poll. lata, margine integra vel dentibus per- 
paucis et parvis instructa, nervis lateralibus utrinque 6-7 ad 
costam infra foveola singula iis E. glanduliferi minora formant- 
ibus ; petiolus 3-1 poll. longus, ad laminam pulvinatus. Hacemus 
simplex, foliis equilongus, flores ad 25 gerens ; bractex decidue. 
Flores in alabastris ovatis in anthesi 13 lin. diametro. Sepala 
dorso pilis argenteis minutis pubescentia, supra carinata, lanceo- 
lata, 3 lin. longa. Petala intra et extra fulvo-pubescentia, intra 
carinata, carina pilis reflexis densissime vestita, apice leviter 
7-9-fida, basi 2-foveolata. Stamina 2 lin. longa; anthere 
apice appendiculate ; filamenta sparse hirsuta. Discus crenatus. 
Ovarium glabrum, 3-4-loculare ; ovula ad 6 in loculo quoque. 
Fructus oliviformis, 7 lin. longus; nucleus osseus, sxpissime 
triangularis, lateribus verrucosus; semen solitarium ; embryo in 
albumine corneo oleiferi immersus. 
Hab. Tonga Islands. Vavau, Crosby, 15. 
