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rich soil in the brushes at the sea-level, and- close to the sea, 

 while it is common as high in the mountain as I ascended. It 

 forms large tubers which form excellent pig-feed. When pigs 

 were allowed to roam at will over the island, they used to largely 

 feed on both the tubers and foliage of this plant. In Moore's 

 list (1869) the name of the species is given as E. nemorosum, 

 Seem., (see tab. Ixi. F(. Vitiensis), and certainly the two plants 

 are very closely allied. 



BoEHMKRiA CALOPHLEBA, F.v.M. — This plant is often associated 

 with the Elatostemma, and its range is precisely the same, so far 

 as I observed it, although it is far less common. It is strikingly 

 like Pipturus aryenteus of our northern rivers, and in the absence 

 of books I noted it in my pocket-book as Pipturus. I am of 

 opinion that the reference to Pipturiis in Moore's paper {Trans. 

 Roy. Soc. N.S.W. V. 31) was suggested by this plant, in spite of 

 the fact that the list in this paper and also in Moore's 1869 list 

 contains Bcehmeria sp. I can hardly agree with Hemsley (op. 

 cit. p. 284) that Pipturus is a slip for Elatostemma, as the appear- 

 ance of the two plants is so widely different, particularl}^ when 

 growing. 



Genus 1 (Plate in.) 



Black Plum. — I came across a tall tree with smooth bark, 

 and purplish-black fruit (hence the name of the tree). It does 

 not descend below a thousand feet, growing where Hedyscepe 

 Canterbury ana grows. 



The plant is not in Hemsley's list, nor in Endlicher's Prod. 

 Ins. Norfolk. 1 do not doubt that it is the tree referred to by 

 name only by ^yilkinson (Duff) in Wils. Rep., p. 22, as "Black 

 Plum, Achras australis." The fruit certainly does bear a super- 

 ficial resemblance to that of Achras anstraJis of the mainland, but 

 only a superficial one. 



Unfortunately I collected only leaves and fruit, and as it will 

 be some time before I can obtain flowering specimens, I describe 

 the material I have got, leaving the naming of the plant for a 

 future occasion. 



