FLORA VITIENSIS. 8l 
N. Vitiensis. It is certainly not the Tahitian Decaspermum fruticosum of Forster, of which there are at the 
British Mifseum numerous specimens collected by Banks and Solander, and Forster, in the Society Islands, 
a coloured drawing by Parkinson and a pencil sketch by Forster himself, and which I should like to name 
N. Forsteri. The peduncles of JN. Forsteri are generally 3-, and only by abortion 1-florous, and the fila- 
ments white. Tt has not yet been found out of the Society Islands. De Candolle was wrong to combine 
Forster’s plant with Gertner’s N. Jambosella from Ceylon, and Labillardiére’s New Caledonian species ; 
the latter I have named after its discoverer (N. Billardiert).* 
III. Calyptranthes, Swartz, Flor. Ind. Occ. vol. ii. p. 917. t. 15; Endl. Gen. n. 6319. Calyx 
tubo obconico, limbo clauso operculiformi, anthesi circumscisso deciduo. Petala 4—5, libera v. 
opereulo intus adnata. Stamina oo, calycis fauci co-seriatim inserta;'filamenta filiformia, libera; 
antherz 2-loculares, ovate, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium inferum, 2-loculare, loculis o0- 
ovulatis. Stylus cylindricus, simplex; stigma obtusiusculum. Bacca ovata, calycis tubo inclusa, 
2. y. abortu l-locularis. Semina oo.—Frutices v. arbores; ramis ultimis angulatis v. compressis ; 
foliis oppositis integerrimis penninerviis; floribus terminalibus cymoso-paniculatis.—Acicalyptus, 
A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 551. t. 67. 
In Acicalyptus myrtoides the operculum is quite subulate, and different from anything known in the 
older species of Calyptranthes. But in A. Seemanni, afterwards diseovered by me, which is so close to the 
just-mentioned species as to be searcely distinguishable in habit and foliage, the operculum is conical, and 
shortly apieulate. This, a& A. Gray pointed out in the ‘Bonplandia, weakens Acicalyptus. In a third 
Vitian species, also discovered by me, the opereulum is just as it is in the ordinary American Calyptranthes. 
We have therefore no option but to unite Acicalyptus with Calyptranthes, a genus of which no repre- 
sentative was previously known to exist beyond the limits of the New World. 
1. C. myrtoides, Seem.; foliis ellipticis v. ovatis acuminatis basi acutis ; floribus terminalibus 
corymboso-cymosis plerumque pedicellatis ; alabastris elongato-oblongis acute 4-angulatis ; operculo 
subulato.—Acicalyptus myrtoides, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 551. t. 67, et in Bonplandia, vol. x. 
p. 85.—Mountains of the Macuata coast of Vanua Levu (U. S. Expl. Exped.). 
2. C. Seemamni, Seem. (sp. nov.); ramis teretibus; foliis ovatis acuminatis, basi acutis; 
foribus terminalibus in cyma subthyrsoidea plerumque sessilibus; pedunculis primariis secunda- 
riisque angulatis ; alabastris clavatis inferne tantum 4-gonis; operculo conico breviter apiculato.— 
Acicalyptus Seemanni, A. Gray in Bonplandia, vol. x. p. 35.—Macuata coast of Vanua Levu (See- 
mann! n. 168). 
The two species are extremely similar in foliage, but seem to be well distinguished by the characters 
pointed out by the great American botanist. My specimens are in bud only. 
3. QC. eugenioides, (sp. nov.) Seem. ; ramis ultimis angulatis v. compressis; foliis ovatis 
* The synonymy of these species would be as follows :— 
1. N. Forsteri, Seem. Decaspermum fruticosum, Forst. Char. Gen. t. 87. Psidium decaspermum, 
Forst., Linn. fil.; Forst. Prod. n. 219; Forst. Icon. (ined.) t. 159. Psidium myrtifolium, Soland. Prim. 
Fl. Ins. Pacif. p. 264, et in Parkins. Drawings of Tahit. Plants, t. 55 (ined.). Nomen vernac. Tahitense, 
teste Solander, * Aranoa."— Society Islands (Banks and Solander! F orster ! Bidwill!). The following de- 
scription is taken from Solander's manuscript Flora, and may be compared with that of Forster in Guillemin's 
Zeph. Tait. :—Frutex altus 20-pedalis, ramosissimus. amuli villis tenuissimis sericeis albis tomentosis. 
` Folia opposita, brevissime petiolata, oblonga, apice attenuata, integerrima, glabra, erc nitida, profunde 
viridia, subtus (prsecipue superiora) villis minutissimis vix conspicuis conspersa, pallidiora, plana, obso- 
lete venosa, venis tenuibus obliquis subparallelis, sesquiuncialia et biuneialia. Petioli vix lineam unam 
longi, superiores villosi. Pedunculi axillares, oppositi, teretes, villosiusculi, foliis triplo breviores, triflori, 
raro uniflori. Pedicelli divaricati, vix semiunciales, intermedio breviore, interdum sub pedicellis quasi invo- 
lucri loco foliola duo, parva, lanceolata. Calycis urceolus villosus. Petala alba, inodora, circiter duas 
lineas longa. Bacca a y hoeg magnitudine Pisi. Semina circiter 12. 
= 9. N. Jambosella, Gærtn. Fruct. vol. i. p. 134. t. 27.—Ceylon. 
3. N. Billardieri, Seem. sp. nov. New Caledonia (Labillarditre! in Herb. Hook.). Peduncles 1- 
florous, and leaves glaucous below. ; 
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