124 : FLORA VITIENSIS. 
judging from the authentic specimens at Kew, and Forster’s Coffea odorata is a Canthium, judging from the 
authentie materials existing at the British Museum. As Forster gave the mss. name Coffea cymosa to this 
plant, A. Gray's name, S. coffizoides, may be retained. Whether Cavanilles’ S. racemosa is absolutely iden- 
_tical I am not able to decide satisfactorily ; but the figure published by Cavanilles (making allowance for 
the primitive manner in which it is executed) is sufficiently like 8. coffeoides to justify us in retaining it 
as a synonym. 
2. S. sambucina, A. Gray in Proceed. Amer. Acad. vol. iv. ; ramis tetragonis; foliis ovali- v. 
oblongo-ellipticis acutiusculis, basi angustatis submembranaceis; panicula terminali corymbosa bre- 
vissime pedunculata laxe co-flora; calycis laciniis latis obtusis ; corollze puberulæ lobis 5 tubo brevio- 
ribus.—Coffea sambucina, Forst. Prodr. n. 92, et Icon. (ined.) 51. Pavetta sambucina, DC. Prodr. 
vol. iv. p. 492. Chiococca sambucina, Spr. Syst. vol. i. p. 756. Stylocoryne pepericarpa, Benth. in 
Hook. London Journ. of Bot. vol. ii. p. 223. Stylocoryne racemosa, Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 64, 
non Cav. , Rondeletioides, Sol. in Forst. Prodr. n. 511. Rondeletioides tetragona, Sol. Prim. Fl. Ins. 
Pacif. p. 377 (ined.). Rondeletia tetragona, Parkins. Drawings of Tahit. Plants, t. 23 (ined.). Nomen 
vernac. Tahit., teste Solander, * Manono."—Common throughout Viti (Seemann! n. 242; Barclay ! 
Harvey !). Also collected in the Tongan (Forster! Barclay!) and Society Islands (Banks and So- 
lander! D. Nelson! Lay and Collie !). 
Parkinson figures and Solander describes fruiting specimens only. A tree 40 feet high. Flowers 
white, fetid. 
Very much like S. sambucina in look is Coffea opulina, Forst. Prodr. n. 93 (Pavetta opulina, DC. Prodr. 
vol. iv. p. 492. Chiococca opulina, Spr. Syst. vol. i. p. 756. Stylocoryne corymbosa, Labill. Austr. Caled, 
t. 48. Olostyla corymbosa, DC. Prodr. vol. iv. p. 440. Gardenia corymbosa, Reichb. Icon. Exot. t. 106), 
from New Caledonia (W. Anderson! Forster! Sir E. Home!), Isle of Pines (Sir E. Home!), and Eromanga 
(M‘Gillivray !); but the corolla is quite glabrous, and at the base of the inflorescence there are large bracts, 
which at once distinguishes the plant from Stylocoryne sambucina. 
3. S. Harveyi, A. Gray in Proceed. of Amer. Acad. vol. iv.; glaberrima; folis chartaceis 
oblongis acuminatis basi in petiolum longiusculum contractis; cymis axillaribus terminalibusque 
petiolum vix superantibus subsessilibus; calycis limbo 4-fido, lobis 3-angulari-subulatis tubo vix 
brevioribus; corolle lobis 4 lineari-oblongis tubo longioribus, fauce imberbi.— Viti, locality not 
specified (Harvey !). 
Allied to S. eoffeoides, according to A. Gray. 
V. Pelagodendron, (gen. nov.) Seem. Calyx tubo obovato, limbo clauso, demum irregulariter 
fisso, persistente. Corolla hypocraterimorpha, tubo brevi, limbo 5-partito, lobis æstivatione imbri- 
catis. Stamina 5, intra corollze faucem inserte; filamenta brevissima; anther lineares. Ovarium 
2-loculare. Ovula in placentis dissepimento utrinque adnatis oo, horizontalia., Stylus brevis; stigma 
crassum, 2-lobum, glabrum. Bacca corticata, 2-locularis. Semina in loculis oo, in pulpa nidu- 
lantia, orbieulata, subcompressa, horizontalia. Embryo intra albumen cartilagineum rectus, coty- 
ledonibus subfoliaceis, radicula longiuscula, tereti.— Frutex glaber, foliis oppositis oblongis v. ovato- 
oblongis acunfinatis, basi obtusis v. acutis; stipulis ovatis acuminatis caducis; floribus axillaribus 
fasciculatis albis; baccis obovatis. 
Allied to Griffithia, Gymnopachys, and Randea, from all of which it differs by its peculiar calyx, stigma, 
and direction of the ovules, ete. There is as yet only one species known. 
l. P. Vitiense, (sp. nov.) Seem.—lIsland of Ovalau (Seemann! n. 240). 
Trisvus III. HEDYOTIDEZE.— Fructus capsularis, loculicide valvatus v. rarissime evalvis. Semina 
aptera. 
Of this tribe we have in tropical Polynesia, besides the species enumerated or incidentally alluded 
to below: Dentella repens, Forst. Prodr. n. 98, et Icon. (ined.) t. 54, from New Caledonia (Forster !), 
Bikkia tetrandra, A. Gray in Proceed. Amer. Acad. vol. iv. (B. grandiflora, Reinw. Portlandia, Forst. 
Prodr. n. 86, et Icon. ined. t. 48; Hoffmannia Amicorum, Spreng. Syst. vol.i. p. 416; Petesia carnea, 
