80 FLORA VITIENSIS. 
Memecylon pasted on it. But I now find that my suspicion was ill-founded. Milne’s Vitian specimens 
have but very young flower-buds. , 
13. E. rubescens, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 525. t. 63; arborea; foliis oblongis seu lanceolato- 
ellipticis utrinque acuminatis subcoriaceis opacis crebre ac tenuiter penninerviis; cymis terminalibus 
paniculato-decompositis patentibus folia multo superantibus; pedunculis primariis et partialibus gra- 
cilibus teretiusculis ; calyce clavato-turbinato rufescente, margine tenui repando-subquadrilobo ; fruct. 
ignot.— Nomen vernac. “ Yasi dravu."—Ovalau (U.S. Expl. Exped.; Seemann! n. 154). Also 
collected in Aneitum (M‘Gillivray !) and Eromanga (M‘Gillivray !). 
. 13. E. rivularis, (sp. nov.) Seem. in Bonplandia, vol. ix. p. 256; arborea, glabra; ramulis 
teretibus; foliis brevipetiolatis lanceolatis v. oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis ; floribus axillaribus ter- 
minalibusque eymoso-paniculatis; pedunculis primariis secundariisque acute 4-gonis; calycis limbo 
4-lobo, lobis obtusis; ovario 2-loculari.— Nomen vernac. Vitiense, “ Yasi ni wai."—0On the banks of 
rivers and rivulets, Gau (Milne!), Viti Levu, on the Rewa (Milne!), and Navua river (Seemann! 
n. 162). 
A tree 40 feet high, growing, like our Willows, on the banks of rivers, and having somewhat the look 
of them. Leaves 3—4 inches long, }-1 inch broad, dark-green above, paler below; veins close together; 
flowers white; petals falling off in anthesis. 
14. E. corynocarpa, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 526. t. 64; arborea?; foliis elliptico-lanceolatis 
oblongisve subacuminatis basi acutis breviter petiolatis fere membranaceis laxe penninerviis, venis 
intra marginem arcuato-anastomosantibus ; cymis paniculatis decompositis folia superantibus; pedun- 
culis partialibus gracilibus divaricatis; calyce clavato limbo subintegro; fructu clavato-fusiformi, 1- 
loculari; semine oblongo.— Viti Islands, exact locality not recorded (U. S. Expl. Exped.) Also 
collected in Uvea or Wallis Island (Sir E. Home!) and the Samoan group (U. S. Expl. Exped.). 
II. Nelitris, Gertn. Fruct. vol. i. p. 134. t. 27; Endl. Gen. n. 6318. Calyx tubo obovato; 
cum ovario connato, limbo supero, 4—5-dentato. Petala 4 v. 5. Stamina co; filamenta filiformia, 
libera; antherz 2-loculares, dorso insert:e, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. ^ Ovarium inferum, 4-5- 
loculare, loculis 2-ovulatis, ovulis collateralibus adscendentibus. Stylus filiformis; stigma capita- 
tum. Bacca calycis limbo coronata, spurie 8-10-locularis, loculis l-spermis. Semina teretiuscula 
v. compressa, testa ossea, Embryonis exalbuminosi rectiusculi cotyledones minute, ovato-lanceo- 
late ; radicula elongata, crassa.—Arbuscule v. frutices; foliis oppositis ovatis v. ovato-lanceolatis, 
nitidis impunctatis l-nerviis integerrimis; floribus axillaribus 2-bracteolatis albis.— Decaspermum, 
Forst. Char. Gen. p. 74. t. 37. 
l. N. Vitiensis, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 548. t. 60; fruticosa v. arbuscula; foliis ovatis v. 
ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis basi acutis v. attenuatis glabratis supra lucidis venis obliquis obsoletis 
penninerviis, junioribus ramulisque tenuiter sericeo-pubescentibus; cymis laxifloris foliolosis folio 
equilongis; calycis tubo cano-sericeo, lobis 5 ovatis obtusis; masculis ovario abortivo.—Nomen 
vernac. Vitiense, “ Nuqanuqa."—Common in Lakeba, Moturiki, Kadavu, and Viti Levu (Seemann ! 
n. 166; Storck! n. 888), Ovalau and Macnata coast of Vanna Levu (U.S. Expl. Exped.). Also 
collected in Uvea (Greffe! n. 24) and Aneitum, New Hebrides (M‘Gillivray !). vi 
This species closely resembles a plant which Forster called Decaspermum fruticosum, from Tahiti, but 
"it may at once be known by its pink filaments and its free-flowering habit. 
2. N. fruticosa, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 547. t. 60 n. exclus. syn.; foliis ovatis v. ovato- 
lanceolatis acuminatis; pedunculis axillaribus 1-floris folio multum brevioribus; limbo calycis 5- 
dentato; fructu 10-spermo.—Viti islands, but exact locality not mentioned (U. S. Expl. Exped.). 
- Also collected in the Tongan islands (U. S. Expl. Exped.). 
I admit this species with some hesitation, believing it to be founded upon an imperfect specimen of 
