128 FLORA VITIENSIS. 
conniventibus. Capsula disco coronata, 2-locularis, 2-partibilis, coccis dehiscentibus.—Frutices hu- 
miles; foliis oppositis membranaceis; stipulis interpetiolaribus integris; cymis condensatis v. spica- 
tim elongatis; floribus parvis. : 
To R. Brown is due the merit of having recovered this genus when, owing to the insufficient definition 
given of it by Linneus and a misplacement of Linnæus’s authentic specimens, it was on the point of being 
altogether lost to science. There is only one species from Java known besides the following :— 
l. L. calycina, A. Gray in Proceed. Amer. Acad. vol. iv.; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis 
basi attenuatis, junioribus (praesertim costis venisque subtus cum stipulis integerrimis ovato-lanceo- 
latis caudato-acuminatis ramulis floribusque) ferrugineo-sericeis; cymis condensatis; lobis calycis 
lineari-spathulatis foliaceis tubo corolla parum brevioribus.— Woody districts of Ovalau (U. S. Expl. 
Exped.), Viti Levu (Milne! in Herb. Hook.). 
“A shrub, 6-12 fect high.” —Milne. 
X. Lindenia, Benth. mss. in Endl. Gen. Plant. Suppl. vol. ii. p. 53; Seem. in Bonplandia, 
1862, p. 33. t. 8. Calyx tubo turbinato 5-costato, limbi 5-partiti laciniis angustis erectis. Corolla 
hypocraterimorpha, tubo longissimo tenui æquali, limbi 5-partiti laciniis oblongis patentibus, æsti- 
vatione contorto-imbricatis. Antherz 5, lineares, in limbi corollini sinubus sessiles. Ovarium 
2-loculare. Ovula in trophospermiis dissepimento insertis, co. Stylis filiformis, glaber, apice incras- 
satis; stigma 2-fidum. Capsula calycis limbo coronata, 2-locularis. Semina oo, angulata.— Frutices 
rivulares; foliis oppositis ad apices ramorum approximatis, breviter petiolatis, oblongo-lanceolatis ; 
stipulis utrinque solitariis in vaginam brevem connatis ; corymbi terminales, condensati, pauciflori, 
bracteis oblongo-linearibus.— Siphonia, Benth. Plant. Hartwegianee, p. 84. 
. This genus was thought to be confined to tropical America until I discovered a second species in Viti, 
which, like the original one (Z. rivalis, Benth.), grows on the banks of rivers, and has exactly the same 
habit as its congener. 
l. L. Vitiensis, (sp. nov.) Seem. in Bonplandia, 1862, p. 33. t. 8 (Tab. XXIV.); foliis ob- 
longo-lanceolatis utrinque glabris; calycis pubescentis costis acutis; coroll sericeo-tomentelle laci- 
niis ovato-oblongis obtusis. Nomen vernac. Vitiense, “ Bore ni wai” (i.e. Bore rivularis).—On the 
banks of rivers and rivulets, islands of Ovalau and Viti Levu (Seemann! n. 217). 
_ A highly ornamental shrub, 3—4 feet high. Leaves glabrous, 4-6 inches long, 1-13 inch broad; 
petioles and lower part of costa purplish; blade of leaf dark-green above, paler below; antherg and pistil 
projecting beyond the tube of the cream-coloured corolla. The popular name “ Bore ni wai" signifies “the 
Bore which grows on the river.” i 
EXPLANATION oF PrarE XXIV.—1, upper portion of corolla, with the lobes cut off; 2, an anther; 
3, calyx and pistil; 4, cross-section of ovary, —all magnified. 
Susorvo II. COFFEACEÆ.—Semina in loculis solitaria v. rarissime gemina. 
Trisus IV. GUETTARDEÆ.—fFlores distincti v. connati. Ovarium 2—oc-loculare, loculis 1l- 
ovulatis. Drupa 2-co-pyrena. Albumen carnosum. Stipulæ utrinque solitariz. 
Besides the Guettardee alluded to below, there are in tropical Polynesia, Bobea elatior, Qaud., Bobea | 
brevipes, A. Gray, and Chomelia (?) Sandwichensis, A. Gray, from the Sandwich Islands, and all of them 
in the British Museum collection. There are flowering specimens of Oh. (?) Sandwichiensis, collected in 
Captain Cook's voyages in Hawaii, which are ticketed-* Cestroides. Arbor parva; fl. sordide flavescentes. 
Hawaii, prope sylvas." The corolla is hypocraterimorphous, and outside covered with adpressed hair. 
 Myonima umbellata of Hook. et Arn. non Bartl., also from the Sandwich Islands, is Straussia Mariniana, 
A. Gray (Coffea Mariniana, Cham. et Schlecht.). . NC. ME. 
XI. Morinda, Vaill. in Act, Acad. Par. 1722. p. 275; Endl. Gen. n. 3183. Flores in capi- 
tulum globosum conferti, sepissime mediantibus tubis calycinis connati, Calyx tubo obovato v. 
