REPORT OX THE BOTANY OF THE ADMIRALTY [SLANDS. 239 



Medinilla halogeton, S. Moore. 



Medinitta halogeton, S. Moore in Journ. Bot, 1880, p. 3. 

 Admiralty Islands. -A previously undescribed species; and there is a very imperfect 

 specimen of what may be another new species from the same islands. A ^enus of about 

 fifty species confined to the Old World, and principally concentrated in the Malayan 

 Archipelago. 



ONAGRARIE^]. 

 Jussisea sufrruticosa, Linn. 



Jussicea suffrutieosa, Linn.; Benth., Fl. Austr., iii. p. 307; Mi.!., El. End Bat., i. 1, p. 628- Hook 



f., Fl. Brit. IikL, ii. p. 587 ; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 273. 

 Jussia-a villosa, Lam. ; Mann in Proc. Amer. AcacL, vii. p. 166. 



Admiralty Islands.— This herbaceous plant is now very widely diffused in warm 

 countries in both hemispheres, but often existing only as a colonist. Seemann does not 

 mention it in the Flora Vitiensis, but there are specimens in the Kew Herbarium from 

 Samoa and Tahiti, and Mann records it from the Sandwich Islands, and places it in the 

 category of plants probably introduced into the islands by the aborigines. Bentham treats 

 it as indigenous in Australia. 



GAMOPETAL,E. 

 RUBIACE^E. 



Hydnophytum moseleyanum, Beccari. 



Hydnophytum moseleyanum, Beccari, Malesia, ii. p. 125 (conspectus specierum). 



Description. — Tuber magnus, globosus. Caules plurimi succulenti, articulis cylindra- 

 ceis, in extremitatibus vix compressis. Folia elliptica, vel ovato-elliptica, vel oblongo- 

 lanceolata, apice parum attenuata et obtusa, basi in petiolum brevem, crassum, abrupte 

 attenuata. Injlorescentice valde contracts, tuberculiformes. Flores sessiles, fasciculati. 

 Cctlyx cupularis, glaber, limbo brevissimo, integro, truncato, haud ciliato. Corolla in 

 alabastro clavata, lobis ovatis, apiculo brevi introflexo praxlitis, basi inter stamina piloso- 

 barbatis ; fauce annulo barbato destituta. Stamina antheris basi sagittatis, loculis pro- 

 funde diremptis, filamento brevi, supra medium affixis. Stylus filiformis, stigmate 

 bipartito, in alabastro antheris brevior. Fructus . . . Pyrenia . . . Beccari MSS. — 

 Hydnophytum, n. sp. % Oliver in H. N. Moseley's Notes on Plants, &c, in Journ. Linn. 

 Soc, xv. p. 74. 



Admiralty Islands. 



Oldenlandia paniculata, Linn. 



Oldenlandia paniculata, Linn.; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., iii. p. 69; Seem., Fl. Vit, p. 126. 



Admiralty Islands. — Widely dispersed in Asia, and in Polynesia ranging from the 

 New Hebrides to the Fiji and Tongan Islands. 



