THE FLORA OF VAVAU. dl 
PLANTAGINACES. 
PrantTaco Masor, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 112. 
Fiji and Samoa ; eastward to Tahiti; Sandwich Islands. Very 
widely spread by man from Europe and Tropical Asia. 
NYCTAGINACER. 
BoERHAAVIA REPENS, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 3. 
Fiji and Samoa ; eastward to the Low Archipelago; Sandwich 
Islands; westward in New Caledonia. Tropics generally. 
Pisonra GRranpis, 2. Br. (P. inermis, Forst.; Hemsl. in. Journ. 
Linn. Soc., Bot. xxx. (1894) p. 188). 
Nomuka, Lifuka; Fiji and Samoa; eastward to the Low 
Archipelago; Sandwich Islands; westward in Norfolk Island ; 
and to the Mascarene Islands. 
AMARANTACER. 
CYATHULA PROSTRATA, Blume; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc., 
Bot. xxx. (1894) p. 189; Reinecke, in Engl. Jahrb. xxv. (1898) 
p- 630. 
Fiji and Samoa: eastward to the Marquesas Islands ; westward 
in the New Hebrides and Solomon Islands. Tropies generally. 
ACHYRANTHES ASPERA, Linn.; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. 
Xxx. (1894) p. 189; Reinecke, in Engl. Jahrb. xxv. (1898) p. 630. 
Tongatabu; Fiji and Samoa; eastward to the Marquesas 
Islands; Sandwich Islands ; westward in the New Hebrides and 
New Caledonia. Tropics generally. 
POLYGONACES. 
Potygonum guaBrum, Willd.; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc., 
Bot. xxx. (1894) p. 189. 
Nomuka; Fiji; eastward to the Marquesas Islands ; Sandwich 
Islands; westward in the New Hebrides and New Caledonia. 
Tropics generally. 
PIPERACES. 
Preer mernysticum, Forst.f.; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc., 
Bot. xxx. (1894) p. 189; Reinecke, in Engl. Jahrb. xxv. (1898) 
p- 609. . 
Fiji and Samoa ; eastward to the Marquesas Islands: Sandwich 
Islands ; westward in New Guinea. 
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