THE FLORA OF VAVAU. 39 
leque caduce nec vise; pedicelli brevis, aliquo modo angulati. 
Alabastra ad anthesin 23 lin. longa, 14 lin. diametro. Sepala 
parva, inconspicua, obtusa, margine hyalina. Petala ad anthesin 
caduca. Staminum filamenta 1 lin. longa. Stylus 14 lin. 
longus. 
Hab. Tonga Islands. Vavau, Crosby, 61, flowering in June. 
Eveenta sp. aft. EB. newrocalyci, A. Gray. 
BaRrineronia speciosa, Linn. f. (B. Butonica, Forst.; 
Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. xxx. (1894) p. 178 ; Reinecke, 
in Engl. Jahrb. xxv. (1898) p. 660). 
Fiji and Samoa; eastward to the Low Archipelago ; westward 
in the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and Solomon Islands ; and 
to the Mascarene Islands. 
MELASTOMACES. 
Memecrton Harvert, Seem.; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc., 
Bot. xxx. (1894) p. 178. 
Eua. Endemic to the group. 
LYTHRACEX. 
PEMPHIS ACIDULA, Forst.; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 
xxx. (1894) p. 178. 
Samoa; eastward to the Low Archipelago ; Sandwich Islands ; 
westward in the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and Solomon 
Islands ; and to East Africa. 
PassIFLORACEZ. 
*Cartca Papaya, Linn.; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 
xxx, (1894) p. 178. Recorded in Mr. Crosby’s notes. 
Introduced from America into all parts of the tropics. 
CucURBITACEE. 
Momorpica Cuarantra, Linn. ; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc., 
Bot. xxx. (1894) p. 179. . + 
Spread by cultivation throughout the tropics, probably native 
of the Old World. 
Cucumis Mexo, Linn.; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. xxx. 
(1894) p. 179. . . | 
Spread by cultivation throughout the tropics; a native of t' 1e 
Old World. 
