48 FLORA VITIENSIS, 
V. Pometia, Forst, Char. Gen. t. 55; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. p. 407. Flores regülares, 
polygamo-dioici. Calyx parvus, cupularis, 4—5-fidus, dentibus erectis valvatis. Petala 4—5, esquamata. 
Discus completus. Stamina 4-8, centrica, filamentis elongatis exsertis; anthere parve. Ovarium 
profunde 2-3-lobum, 2~3-loculare; stylus sepissime elongatus, tortus, stigmate obtuso; ovula in 
loculis solitaria, e basi axis adscendentia. Fructus corticatus v. drupaceus, 1—2-coccus, coccis globosis 
ovoideis indehiscentibus. Semina arillo mucoso inclusa; embryo conduplicatus.—Arbores excelse, 
glabre v. tomentose ; folis alternis, sessilibus, pinnatis, elongatis, foliolis alternis subsessilibus 
oblique oblongis basi cordatis serratis, infimis minoribus orbiculatis stipuleformibus nervis validis ; 
racemis simplicibus v. paniculatis, gracilibus, elongatis; floribus parvis, fasciculatis, pedicellatis.— 
Irina, Bl. Bijdr. 230. Eecremanthus, Thw. in Hook. Journ. vol. vii. p. 272. t. 9. 
l. P. pinnata, Forst. Char. Gen. p. 110. t. 55; Forst. Icon. Ined. t. 279 (Tab. X.) ; foliis 
5-7-jugis puberulis demum glabris, foliolis ovato-oblongis acuminatis basi cordatis, summis panicu- 
latis, pedunculis pedicellis ealycibusque hirsuto-pubescentibus, laciniis calycis 5 ovatis acutis, petalis | 
‘5 suborbiculatis breviter unguiculatis glabris, staminibus 5, filamentis basi pilosis, antheris glabris ; 
ovario hispido, 2-loculari; stylo versus basin piloso; drupa pomiformi, eduli, 1-sperma.— Aporetica 
pinnata, DC. Prodr. vol. i. p. 610, non Hook. et Arn. Nephelium pinnatum, Camb. in Mem. Mus. 
vol. xviii. p. 80. Nomen vernac. Vitiense, * Dawa."— Very common throughout the group, both 
wild and cultivated (Seemann! n. 71; Storck! n. 875). Also collected in Tana (Forster !), Tongan 
Islands (Forster !), and noticed by G. Bennett in Rotuma.* 
The Dawa is very plentiful in Viti, frequently forming entire forests, and there appear to be several 
varieties, It is sixty feet high, and shares with most Fijian fruit-trees the property of yielding a useful 
timber. The leaves are pinnate, the leaflets serrate, and when first opening, display a brilliant red tinge, 
which at a distance looks as if the tree were in bloom. The flowers, arranged in terminal panieles, are 
whitish and of diminutive size. The fruit, ripening in January and February, has rather a glutinous 
honey-like taste, and attains about the size of a pomegranate. "The Fijians deem the Dawa peculiar to 
their islands. 1t certainly does not occur to the eastward in a wild state, as the Tonguese are said to have 
obtained it from Fiji; but it seems to be quite common in all the groups lying westwards, the New 
Hebrides, New Caledonia, and others. A native of Were assured me it was plentiful in his island, and 
Dr. Bennett, of Sydney, found it cultivated under the name of “ Thay,” at Rotuma, a little island to the 
north of Fiji, as recorded in his * Gatherings of a Naturalist.’ I succeeded in carrying living plants to the 
botanie garden at Sydney, where they were left in charge of Mr. Moore, and whence they may perhaps find 
their way to Queensland, and prove acceptable additions to the fruits of that new eolony. 
EXPLANATION or PrArE X.—Fig. 1, one of the large leaflets; 2, an entire flower; 3, the same laid 
open; 4, section of ovary; 5, the ripe fruit; 6, the seed surrounded by the arilus. Figures 2,3, and 4 
magnified; figs. 1, 5, and 6 natural size. Figs. 5 and 6 from a water-colour drawing made by the late 
Miss Mary Pritehard. i 
VI. Dodonæa, Linn. Gen. 855; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. p. 410. Flores unisexuales v. 
polygamo-dioici. Sepala 2-5, imbricata v. valvata. Petala 0. Discus in fl. g obsoletus, in 9 
parvus. Stamina 5-8, centrica, filamentis brevissimis; anthere lineari-oblongz, obtuse 4-gonze. 
Ovarium sessile, 38-6-gonum, 3-6-loculare; stylus 3—6-gonus, apice 3-6-fidus; ovula in loculis 2, 
collateralia v. superposita, adscendentia v. superiore pendulo. Capsula membranacea v. coriacea, 
2-6-gona, loculis 1-2-spermis, angulis obtusis acutis v. alatis, septicide 2-6-valvis, valvis dorso alatis 
sepissime a columna septifera persistente media seminifera solutis. Semina lenticularia v. subglobosa, 
compressa, exalbuminosa, exarillata, hilo interdum excavato, funiculo incrassato, testa crustacea v. 
coriacea; embryo spiraliter convolutus.— Arbores v. frutices, siepe viscose ; foliis alternis, exstipulatis, 
* Forster's second species of Pometia is a species of Schmidelia, viz. S. ternata, Camb. in Mem. Mus. 
vol. xviii. p. 24 (Aporetica ternata, Forst. Char. Gen. t. 66. Pometia ternata, Forst. Prodr. n. 393 et 
Icon. Ined. t. 280. Ornitrophe panigera, Labill. Austr. Cal. t. 52). New Caledonia (Forster! Anderson b 
Wallis Island (Sir E. Home !). 
