FLORA VITIENSIS. à 121 
ovario basi rotundato.—Buke Levu, island of Kadavu, and Voma Peak, Viti Levu, 4000 feet above 
the sea (Seemann! n. 210). 
This Loranthus was seen only on the highest mountains of Viti, and is a more beautiful species 
than L. insularum, to which it approaches very closely. The branches are straight and stiff, the leaves 
2-23 inches long (including petiole) and $-1 inch broad. The petals are bright crimson, tipped with dark, 
purple, and the anthers yellow. The berry is dark purple. r 
EXPLANATION oF Prats XXIII.—1, a flower-bud; 2, flower, open; 3, stamen; 4, upper part ot 
anther; 5, calyx and pistil; 6, a peduncle, with ripe fruit; 7, a single ripe fruit; 8 and 9, sections of ripe 
fruit :—all, except fig. 6, magnified, 
Orpo LI. RUBIACEZE. 
Susorvo I. CHINCHONACEZE, —Semina in loculis cc. 
Trisus I. CHINCHON EZE.— Fructus capsularis. Semina alata. 
Of this Tribe there are in Polynesia, besides the three species of Dolicholobium, Nauclea Forsteri, 
Seem. (N. orientalis, Forst. Prodr. n. 85, non alior., Soland. Prim. Fl. Ins. Pacif. p. 225, et in Parkins. 
Drawings of Tahit. Plants, t. 20), from the Society Islands (Banks and Solander! Wiles and Smith !), and 
Badusa corymbifera, A. Gray in Proceed. Am. Acad. vol. iv. (Chinchona corymbifera, Forst. Prodr. n. 88, et 
Icon. (ined.) t. 49), from the Tongan Islands (Forster! Nelson! Sir E. Home! in Mus. Brit.! Mathews! 
Harvey !). | 
I. Dolicholobium, A. Gray in Proceedings of Amer. Acad. vol. iv. p. 308. Calyx tubo 
cylindrico elongato; limbo amplo submembranaceo cyathiformi truncato integerrimo (rarius sub- 
lobato) persistente. . Corolla hypocraterimorpha; limbo 4—5-partito, lobis oblongis obtusissimis oc- ` 
herviis wstivatione contortis. Stamina 4-5, tubo infra faucem inserta, glabra, inclusa; filamenta 
brevissima ; antheræ lineares, basifixæ, introrsum adnate. Stylus 2-fidus, ramis subspathulatis sur- 
sum petaloideo-dilatatis intus secus costam stigmatosis. Ovarium 2-loculare. Ovula in placentis 
elongatis crassis ©, minuta, sursum imbricata, acicularia. Capsula siliquzeformis, cylindrica, longis- 
sima (4—6-pollicaris), calycis limbo crateriformi (fructu multoties latiori) plerumque coronata, demum 
septicida? Semina creberrima, nucleo ovali, ala angusta utrinque in caudam simplicem longissi- 
mam sensim attenuata. Embryo in albumine parco carnoso rectus; cotyledonibus ovatis radicula 
infera parum brevioribus.— Frutices erecti; foliis petiolatis membranaceis, recte penninerviis, venulis 
pulchre reticulatis; stipulis interpetiolaribus membranaceo-foliaceis distinctis obtusis planis plerum- 
que caducis; pedunculis brevibus ex axillis superioribus 3-paucifloris; floribus majuseulis; tubo 
calycis et coroll; albze extus pube appressa indutis. 
À genus.allied to Cosmibuena, and as yet not found out of the Viti Islands. : 
1. D. oblongifolium, A. Gray in Proceed. Amer. Acad. vol. iv. l.c.; foliis oblongis seu elon- - 
gato-oblongis utrinque acutiusculis (21-5 poll. longis) ; flore 5-mero.—- Bua or Sandalwood Bay and 
Nady, Vanua Levu (U. S. Expl. Exped.; Milne!), Viti Levu (Milne !). ; | 
3. D. latifolium, A. Gray, l.c.; ramulis stipulis petiolisque rufo-villosis; foliis latissime ob- 
ovatis basi rotundatis v. obtusissimis (5-7 poll. longis) ; flore 4-mero (an semper ?).—Ovalau (U. S. 
Expl. Exped.). - aires MEN 
3. D. longissimum, Seem. in Bonplandia, vol. ix. p. 256 (Tab. XXV.) ; foliis ovalibus v. ob- 
ovatis obtusis basi acutis supra glabriusculis subtus pubescenti-hirsutis et ad costas venasque villosis ; 
flore 5-mero.— Viti Levu (Seemann! n. 215). uu an 
Asa Gray thought this might possibly be a variety of D. latifolium, with less ample leaves and more 
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