Tas. 7299, 7300. 
TACCA PINNATIFIDA. 
Native of Polynesia. 
Nat. Ord. Taccacez. _ 
Genus Tacca, Forst.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii, p. 741), 
Tacca pinnatifida; foliis trisectis, segmentis pinnatifidis v. pinnatisectis, 
lobis undulatis superioribus amplis inequaliter lobatis v. laciniatis lobulis 
acutis v. acuminatis, inferioribus infimisque sepe interruptis, majoribus 
ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis minoribus parvis difformibus obtusis basi 
late decurventibus, involucri foliolis erectis sessilibus amplis cucullatis 
late ovatis hemisphericisve viridibus apicibus integris incisis pinnati- 
fidisve, perianthii lobis incurvis. 
T. pinnatifida, J. & @. Forst. Char. Gen. p. 69, No.35. G. Forst. Prodr. Fl. 
Ins. Austral, p. 86; Plant. Esculent. p. 59, No. 28, et Ic. ined. in Mus. 
Brit. t. 151. Ie. Parkinson ined. 1.c. t. 40. Linn, Syst. Veg. = 455. 
Willd. Sp. Pl. vol. ii. p. 200. Guillem. Zeph, Tait, p. 133. Seem. Fl. Vit, 
. 102. AH. Mann in Proc. Am. Acad. Aris & Sc. vol. viii. (1866-8) p. 205. 
illebr. Fl. Hawaii Islds. p. 437. Castello Fl. Polynes.-Frane, p. 224. 
Pancher in Quzent Tahiti, p. 172. 
T. pinnatifolia, Gertn. Fruct. vol. i. p. 43 (excl. Syn. Rheede, ubi pro vol. ii. 
lege xi.) t. 14, f. 2. 
T. oceanica, Nutt. in Am. Journ. Pharm. vol. iii. (1838) p. 305-308, ewm Ie. 
Seem. Journ. Bot. iv. (1866) p. 261. 
Chaitwa Tacca, Soland. Primit. Fl. Ind. Pacific (mss. ined, in Mus. Brit.) 
p. 246. Ellis Polynes. Res. vol. i. p. 360. 
The flowering of the Polynesian Tacca pinnatifida in 
the Royal Gardens, affords the opportunity of giving a 
representation of what must be considered as the type. of 
that species, and which differs widely from the Indian 
plant which has hitherto been cultivated in England under 
that name; though whether the latter will prove to differ 
specifically must, until more of the forms of each are 
brought under close observation, be considered doubtful. 
For the means of identifying the figure here given with 
Forster’s plant, I am indebted to authentic specimens of 
the latter presented to the Kew Herbarium by the Corpora- 
tion of Liverpool, a body which had for long been the 
Jone Ist, 1893, 
