168 MR. W. B. HEMSLEY ON THE FLORA 
sonetia papyrifera), and a number of varieties of banana are cul- 
tivated; but the only one of these plants that struck him as 
being also wild was the cocoa-nut. Cotton was formerly culti- 
vated and has become colonized, but he is unable to say from 
actual observation whether the cultivation is still continued. 
With regard to the bamboo, its presence in the island has not 
been impressed on his memory ; yet there is one, Schizostachyum 
glaucifolium, Munro, which might be expected to occur, as it 
inhabits the Fiji, Navigator, Society, and Marquesas Islands. 
ANONACEX. 
Cananga odorata, Hook. f. et Thoms.—Greffe; Moseley. 
Ava, Tenasserim, Java, and Philippines. Cultivated widely in 
the tropics. 
Anona squamosa, Linn. — U.S. Expl. Exped. 
Introduced from America. 
MENISPERMACES. 
Stephania hernandiefolia, Walp. (including S. Forsteri, A. 
Gray).—U.S8. Expl. Exped.; Harvey. 
Samoa, Tahiti, and Marquesas Islands, Australia northward 
through tropical Asia to China and Japan; also in tropical 
Africa. 
CRUCIFERS. 
Cardamine sarmentosa, Forst.— Barclay ; Cartwright. 
New Caledonia, Fiji, Union, Samoa, Society, and Marquesas 
Islands; also recorded from Peru, about Lima, where it was 
doubtless introduced. 
Senebiera didyma, Pers.—Cartwright. 
A widely-spread weed, the native country of which is un- 
certain. 
[Lepidium piscidium, Forst., a characteristic sea-side plant 
from New Caledonia to the Society and Sandwich Islands, in- 
cluding many of the small coral islands, is not represented in the 
Kew Herbarium from the Tonga Islands, nor have I found any 
record of its occurrence. ] 
VIOLARIER. 
Melicytus ramiflorus, Forst.— Lister. 
Norfolk Island, the Kermadec group, and New Zealand. 
