Tas. 7797. 
HXORRHIZA Wenptanprana. 
Native of the Fiji Islands. 
Nat. Ord. Parma.—Tribe ARECEX, 
Genus Exorruiza (Beccari in Ann. Jard. Buitenz. vol. ii. (1885) p. 128.) 
Exorruiza Wendlandiana ; trunco excelso erecto stricto annulato basi radicibus 
epigewis spinulosis sustentato, foliis breviuscule petiolatis lineari-oblongis 
10-12 ped. longis patenti-recurvis pinnatisectis petiolo rhachique dorso 
rotundatis facie acute angulatis, segmentis 2-pedalibus squidistantibus 
anguste lineari-lanceolatis costatis 8-10-nerviis, nervo marginali 0, 
spadice longe infra-foliaceo erecto breviter crasse pedunculato pedali 
ovato-oblongo stricto confertim ramoso, ramis 8-10 pollicaribus erecto- 
patulis strictis albis basi abrupte in globum pollicem diam. incrassatis, 
laxifloris fructiferis kermesinis, floribus bracteatis et 2-bracteolatis ternis 
2 g,intermedio ?, superioribus in ramis solitariis ¢, spathis 2 oblongis 
crasse coriaceis diu persistentibus, fl. ¢ symmetricis ovoideis, sepalis 
3-gonis, petalis oblongis obtusis valvatis, staminibus 6, filamentis petalis 
brevioribus subulatis, antheris lineari-oblongis, pistillodio ovoideo apice 
trifido, fl. 2 multo minoribus subglobosis, sepalis maris persistentibus, 
petalis orbicularibus imbricatis, ovario oblongo 1-loculari stigmate crasso 
ovoideo coronato, ovulo solitario parietali, fructu globoso 3 pull. diam. 
levi, stigmate laterali, albumine wquabili. 
E. Wendlandiana, Beccavi, l.c. 
Kentia exorhiza, H. Wendl. in Bonpland. vol. ‘x. (1862) p. 191 (excel. deser. 
Sruct.) etin Seem. Fl. Vitiens. p. 269, t. 73. 
Areca ? exorhiza, H. Wendl. in Bonpland vol. ix. (1861) p. 260 (nomen). 
Exorrhiza Wendlandiana is a native of the Fiji Islands, 
where it was discovered by Dr. Seemann, when accom- 
anying Col. Smythe in his mission to that archipelago in 
1860-1. It appears to bea very local Palm, its only known 
habitat being in humid forests, at a considerable elevation 
on the mountains of Somososo, in the islet of Taviuni. In 
his account of Col. Smythe’s Mission, p. 370, Dr. Seemann 
mentions Kentia ? exorrhiza as being also a native of New 
Caledonia ; but this is an error, the palm alluded to being 
probably Cyphosperma Vieillardit, Benth. & H.f.; so also 
with regard to Tonga, as another habitat, there is no 
evidence whatever of the palm alluded to being a Fiji one. 
For living plants of Hzorrhiza Wendlandiana the Royal 
Gardens, Kew, are indebted to the late Sir J. B. Thurston, 
K.C.M.G., who, when Governor of the Fijis in 1881, sent 
to Kew living plants in a Ward’s case, one of which, 
OctoxseR Ist, 1901. 
