186 € FLORA VITIENSIS. 
longe apiculatis caducis involucratis ; calyce dentato; corolla hirsuta; fructibus obovatis 6-angulatis. 
— Viti Levu (Milne! Seemann! n. 255). 
A shrub, 8-16 feet high. Blade of leaf 6-7 inches long, 31—4 inches broad. Allied to P. turbinata, 
A. Gray, and having the larger bracts of Gray's section Piptilema, though the inflorescence is a compound 
cyme, and as long as or longer than the petiole. 
8. P. tephrosantha, A. Gray,l.c.; stipulis caducis; foliis ovalibus utrinque abrupte acutis 
vel acuminatis petiolatis ramisque glabris; cyma terminali pedunculata effusa decomposita, pedicellis 
gracilibus flore brevioribus; calycis limbo subintegerrimo cupulato ovario turbinato breviore; corolla 
infundibuliformi extus pruinoso-canescente.— Viti, locality not specified U. S. Expl. Exped.). 
9. P. serpens, Linn. Mant. 204; glaberrima; ramis gracilibus foliosis sarmentosis ; stipulis 
ovatis obtusis caducis; foliis obovatis obtusis v. acutis in petiolum angustatis (pollicaribus) chartaceis, 
venis utrinque 5-6 inconspicuis; cymis terminalibus laxifloris; calycis limbo parvo acutiuscule 5- 
dentato; corolla extus farinosa intus ad faucem barbata; drupis ovatis v. globosis (albis) ; pyrenis he- 
misphzericis dorso 3-2-costatis, costis obtusissimis.— P. scandens, Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 193. 
P. parvula, A. Gray in Proceed. Amer. Acad. vol. iv.—Voma Peak, Viti Levu (Seemann! n. 245). 
Diffused over the East Indies and Southern China (Seemann !) 
10. P. gracilis, Gray, l.c.; glaberrima; ramis gracillimis; stipulis quadrato-subulatis deci- 
duis; foliis lanceolatis membranaceis attenuato-acuminatis basi in petiolum angustatis; cyma parva 
terminali cc-flora breviter pedunculata; calycis limbo expanso crateriformi ovario subsquilongo 5- 
dentato; corolla brevi 5-fida intus glabra; filamentis gracilibus; antheris longioribus.— Viti Islands, 
locality not specified (U. S. Expl. Exped.). : 
ll. P. calycosa, Gray, l.c.; erecta; glabra; stipulis caducis; foliis anguste oblongis seu 
oblongo-lanceolatis subacuminatis basi in petiolum brevem attenuatis; cyma terminali foliis breviore 
pedunculata confertiflora ; floribus pedicellatis; calycis limbo amplissimo foliaceo e basi infundibuli- 
formi expanso 5-lobo; corolla tubuloso-infundibuliformi breviter 5-fido, lobis apice saccatis extus 
hirtellis intus barbatis.—P. Vitiensis, Seem. in Bonplandia, vol. ix. p. 257.—Voma Peak, Viti Levu 
(Seemann! n. 246), Ovalau (Milne !). 
The fruit of this species is as yet unknown. 
12. P. macrocalyx, Gray, l.c.; glabra; ramis gracilibus foliosissimis ; stipulis ovatis mucro- 
natis caducis; foliis lanceolatis seu oblongo-lanceolatis longe acuminatis chartaceis basi in petiolum 
attenuatis; pedunculis 1-3 terminalibus 1-5-floris pedicellisque filiformibus ; calycis limbo tubuloso 
angusto breviter 5-dentato persistente drupæ ovoider subzequilongo; pyrenis compressis intus planis 
dorso 1-3-carinatis.— Vanua Levu (Seemann! n. 243). Also collected in the Tongan Islands (U. S. 
Expl. Exped.). 
18. P. filipes, Gray, l.c.; glabra; stipulis caducis; foliis lanceolato- seu obovato-oblongis 
acuminatis basi paullo angustata sepius subcordatis longe petiolatis ; pedunculis terminalibus 2—5 
filiformibus folia subzquantibus cymam effusam plurifloram gerentibus, radiis 3—4 pedicellisque 
gracilibus; calycis limbo crateriformi 4-dentato ovario breviore; corolla brevi 4-fida fauce fere 
nuda, fructu immaturo ovato.— Viti, locality-not specified (U. S. Expl. Exped.). 
14. P. pelagica, (sp. nov.) Seem.; glabra; stipulis caducis ; foliis longiuscule petiolatis ovato- 
lanceolatis longe acuminatis, basi rotundatis, venis primariis 7-8-jugis; pedunculis terminalibus 
folium subzequantibus et cymam effusam co-floram gerentibus, radiis 4—5 pedicellisque gracilibus ; 
calyce cupuliformi truncato; corolla 4-fida ; drupa ovata.— Town of Navua, Viti Levu (Seemann ! 
n. 253). 
. . Near P. filipes, A. Gray, but differs in having a truncate calyx and other peculiarities. Petioles 11-2 
inches long ; blade of leaf 3-4 inches long, 1-12 inch broad. Corolla 3-4 lines long. 
15. P. hypargyrea, Gray, l.c.; glabra; stipulis bifidis caducis; foliis obovato-oblongis seu 
