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Ungues lati, purpurei, calycis fundo adnati marginibus liberis, solutis inflexis. Filamenta nulla. Anthere 
sex, oblongz, flave cucullo corollæ intus prope sinum adnate, ita ut apex deorsum spectet. Germen infe- 
rum, turbinatum, triquetrum ; supra receptaculum parum extumescens, ibique alte tricarinatum. Stylus 
filiformis, crassiusculus, erectus, strictus, brevis (1 lin. longus), albus. Stigma orbiculato-explanatum, 
magnum (diametro 13 lin.), stellatum, radiis obtusiusculis, ex albo pellucidis, supra convexis, subtus con- 
cavis, per paria connatis, etsi omnes distincti videantur. Bacca? ovato-globosa, magnitudine nucis ju- 
glandis, glabra, ealyce marcescente persistente coronata, sex-angulata, seu potius sex-carinata, carinis 
acutiusculis, unilocularis (forte bivalvis P). „Semina numerosa, ovata, compressa, obtusa, profunde striata, 
vix duas lineas longs: substantia alba, fungosa, singulum semen arcte adheret precipue ad apices, hee late- 
ribus planis inzqualibus gaudet ut semina primo intuitu polyhedra apparent.’ Ob substantiam semina 
adhsrentem, fructum baccatum judicamus, nec suturas ullas observare potuimus. Radices hujus suppedi- 
tant incolis escam illis gratissimam: illam eodem modo in farinam preparant, ac Ambonienses Zaccam 
suam setivam, eonf. Rumph. Amb. vol. v. p. 325, scilicet Radices primum raspate, dein in aqua ter vel 
quater mutanda macerantur, quo acredine liberantur et in farinam redigantur.” —Sol, Prim. Fl. Ins. Pacif. 
_ 9. T. maculata, (sp. nov.) Seem.; petiolis scapisque sordide maculatis; foliis 3-partitis, ramis 
dichotomo-multifidis, segmentis longe linearibus apice subulatis integerrimis levibus; involucro 
cc-phyllo, phyllis ovato-lanceolatis v. lanceolatis integerrimis v. rarius 2-fidis.— 7. pinnatifida var. 
sylvesiris, Forst. Plant. Escul. p. 59? Nomina vernac. Vitiensia, *  Yabia" v.“ Yabia sa."—On 
hill-sides in heavy soil, Moturiki and other islands (Seemann! n. 632, 909), north coast of New 
Holland (F. Mueller !). 
. If my conjecture be correct, that Forster's pinnatifida var. sylvestris is identical with this species, my 
T. maculata is also found in Tahiti, though I have not seen specimens of it from there; and as Forster 
quotes the Tahitian name of Amorphophallus campanulatus (e- Vé) for his T. pinnatifida var. sylvestris, and 
as that Arotdea has also speckled petioles, I am not very sanguine about it. Dr. F. Mueller collected it, 
together with T. Brownii, Seem., on the north coast of New Holland, and distributed both under the name 
T. pinnatifida var. aconitifolia. Leaves one or two on petioles, which are 23-3 feet long, speckled with 
dirty-white spots, and not grooved as those of T. pinnatifida are, but smooth. Blade primarily divided into 
three branches; these branches repeatedly dichotomously split into narrow linear and quite entire segments, 
tapering into a subulate apex. Scape longer than the petiole, but shorter than the entire leaf. Involucral 
leaves oo, ovate-lanceolate, quite entire or occasionally 2-fid. Pedicels shorter than the involucral leaves. 
Bracts (sterile pedicels) very long, thread-like. Calyx 6-partite, the segments in one whorl, though in 
æstivation the points of three are overlapping the others. Ovary spuriously 3-celled, ovules many. Ripe 
fruit not seen. 
Oxvo XLVI. CUCURBITACEZE. 
The Cucurbitacee of tropical Polynesia are involved in considerable confusion, owing to Forster having 
admitted into his ‘ Prodromus’ several species named by Solander, but of which no description has been 
published. The authentie specimens and manuscript descriptions of Solander, together with Sidney Par- 
kinson’s drawings, all preserved at the British Museum, have enabled me to clear up the synonymy of these 
plants. To set this matter finally at rest, I thought it advisable to enumerate, in the ‘ Journal of guid 
1864, p. 47, all the Cucurbitacee hitherto found in the region alluded to, including the species gener ly 
cultivated, and amounting to eighteen species, distributed over the genera Melothria, Zehneria, Karivia, 
Citrullus, Momordica, Luffa, Lagenaria, Cucumis, Cucurbita, and Sycios. 
I. Karivia, Arn. in Hook. Journ. of Bot. vol. iii. p. 275; Endl. Gen. Suppl. ii. p77. 
Flores monoici v. dioici. Calyx urceolato-campanulatus. Corolla vix exserta, lobis 5 minutis. 
Filamenta 3-adelpha, perigonii basi inserta; anthers 2-loculares. Stylus indivisus, basi glandula 5- 
loba lacerata cinctus; stigma magnum, pileiforme, 3-fidum. Fructus obtusus v. crasse et breviter 
rostratus, subpeponideus.— Herb:e, radice tuberosa, perennantes, glabre; cirrhis simplicibus; foliis 
cordatis 3—5-lobatis; floribus masculis racemosis, foemineis solitariis v. ternis. 
. 1. K. Samoensis, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 643; dioica; foliis cordatis acuminatis denticulatis 
modice petiolatis; floribus masculis racemosis, pedicellis subverticellatis ; foemineis solitariis ternisve, 
pedunculo bacca ovoidea co-sperma breviore; seminibus levibus compressis.—Cucumis Maderaspa- 
tanus ?, Sol. Prim. Fl. Ins. Pacif. p. 337 (ined.) ; Parkins. Drawings of Tahit. Plants, t. 111 (ined.). 
