mn FLORA VITIENSIS. 5 
Unona odorata, Dun. Anon. 108; DC. Syst. vol. i. p. 492; Prodr. vol. i. p. 90. Uvaria Cananga, 
Vahl. U. farcta, Wall. Cat. 6460. U. axillaris, Roxb. Fl. Ind. vol. ii. p. 667. U. Gertneri, Dun. 
Anon. 89; DC. Syst. vol. i. p. 482; Prodr. vol. i. p. 88. Unona leptopetala, Dun. Anon. 114; 
DC. Syst. vol. i. p. 496; Prodr. vol. i: p. 91; Delessert, Icon. Select. t. 88. U. velutina, Blum. Fl. 
Jay. Anon. 31, non Dun. nec Roxb.; Geertn, Fr. vol. ii. t. 114. f. 2. Nomen vernac. Vitiense, 
“ Makosoi."—Common throughout the group (Seemann! n. 5), 
This is a useful timber-tree, frequently planted in Fijian villages on account of its fragrant flowers, 
extensively used for scenting cocoa-nut oil, with which the natives oil their naked bodies. In the Samoan 
(Navigator) Islands the oil is applied to the hair (according to U. S. Expl. Exped.), as is the case in the 
Moluccan and Malayan islands (according to Blume). Cananga odorata is frequently cultivated as an orna- 
mental tree in the tropics of the Old and New World. “It does not appear to be a native of Bengal or 
Madras,” say the authors of the ‘ Flora Indica,’ “though it is certainly indigenous to the eastward,’’—Ava 
and Tenasserim. Blume found it in Java, Greffe in Uvea, and Cuming in the Philippine Islands. 
IV. Richella, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 28. t. 2.—Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. p. 26. Sepala 3, 
arevissima, valvata, basi connata. Petala 6, biseriatim valvata, exteriora patentia, interiora multo 
minora, circa genitalia conniventia. Stamina oo, linearia-cuneata, connectivo ultra loculos truncato- 
dilatato. Torus latus, apice concavus. Carpella oc, stylo longiusculo, ovulis prope basin 2 super- 
positis, matura indehiscentia exsucca breviter stipitata. Semina abortu solitaria, triquetra, angulis 
. 2 in alam productis.—Arbor Uvarie facie; floribus lateralibus pedicellatis. 
1. R. monosperma, A. Gray, l.c. p. 28. t. 2.—0Ovalau (U. S. Expl. Exped.). 
Anona squamosa, Linn. Spec. 757, the *Soursop," has been introduced from South America by way 
of Tahiti; in 1860 it was only seen in a few isolated specimens on the estate of Captain Wilson and 
M. Jaubert at Somosomo, and in the garden of a French settler at Levuka, Ovalau. As one of the finest of 
the Custard-apples, it is a great acquisition to Viti as a dessert fruit. The leaves, it is well known, have a 
heavy disagreeable odour, and the seeds contain a highly acrid principle, fatal to insects, on account of 
which the natives of India use them powdered and mixed with the flower of the Gran (Cicer arietinum), for 
oecasionally washing their hair. xe Tk UMS : 
Orbo IV. CRUCIFERE. 
I. Cardamine, Linn. Gen. n. 812; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. p. 70. Sepala basi equalia. Petala 
unguiculata. Staminum longiorum filamenta recta. Siliqua elongata, linearis, compressa; valvis 
planis, subenerviis, elastice desilientibus; septo hyalino; stylo brevi v. elongato; stigmate simplici 
v. bilobo. Semina 1-seriata, immarginata, compressa.— Herb: habitu varie, sepissime flaccide et 
glabre ; rhizomate nunc squamoso v. bulbifero; foliis simplicibus v. seepius pinnatisectis, interdum 
oppositis v. ternatim verticillatis; floribus racemosis v. subcorymbosis ebracteatis erectis v. nutan- 
tibus, albis purpureis v. violaceis, nunquam (?) flavis; siliquis sepe erectis gracilibus planis, valvis 
enerviis v. obscure 1—3-nerviis. 
l. C. sarmentosa, Forst. Prodr. n. 529; caule subnudo basi flagellifero ; foliis petiolatis glabris 
pinnatisectis, segmentis 5 ovatis inferne dentatis, infimis petiolulatis; floribus parvis (albis), pedicellis 
filiformibus demum patentibus; siliquis patentibus.—DC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 153.— Common throughout 
the group on roadsides and waste places (Seemann! n. 8; Sir E. Home!). Also found in Tongan 
(Barclay !), Samoan (U. S. Expl. Exped.), Society (Banks and Solander! Forster!) and Marquesas 
Islands (Barclay !), and in Peru, about Lima (U. S. Expl. Exped.). s 
In New Caledonia this species and Lepidium piscidium (which may be expected in Viti, though not 
yet collected) are eaten instead of Cress, and as antiscorbutics. ded M sb. 
inapis nigra, Linn. Spec. 933, the Mustard-plant, was collected by me at Tavuki, island of Kadavu, 
where it had escaped from the gardens of the white settlers, and may in time become naturalized; but I 
noticed it only in this one spot. pud o. i 
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