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Trinus VI. ANTHOSPERMEJZE.—Flores distincti. Ovarium 2-loculare, loculis 1-ovulatis: Car- 
. pidia sicca, recedentia, l-sperma. Stipuli parvi, petiolo adnexze. 
XXI. Coprosma, Forst. Gen. 169; Endl. Gen. n. 3109. Flores hermaphrodito-polygami. 
Calyx tubo ovato, limbo brevissimo 4—6-dentato, Corolla tubulosa, infundibuliformis v. subcampa- 
nulata, tubo brevi ventricoso, limbo 4-9-lobo, patente. Stamina 4-9, longe exserta; filamenta fili- 
formia; antherze lineares, pendule. Ovarium 2. v. rarius 3—4-loculare, disco epigyno carnoso. Ovula 
in loculis solitaria, e basi erecta, anatropa. Styli 2, v. rarius 3-4, elongato-filiformes, ima basi co- 
aliti undique piloso-stigmatosi. Bacca ovata, umbilicata, pulposa, nuculis 2 evalvibus 1-spermis. 
Semina erecta, dorso convexa, facie plana. Embryo in axi albuminis dense carnosi orthotropus ; 
cotyledonibus foliaceis, radicula elongata, infera.—Frutices v. arbuscule; foliis oppositis; stipulis 
petiolaribus utrinque solitariis, persistentibus; floribus terminalibus v. axillaribus, solitariis aut in 
eodem pedunculo paucis, basi 2-bracteolatis. 
This genus extends from New Zealand, Tasmania, and Australia to Borneo, and is largely represented 
in tropical Polynesia. From the Sandwich group we have C. rhynchocarpa, A. Gray, C. longifolia, A. Gray, 
©. foliosa, A. Gray (Oahu, Seemann! n. 2269), C. pubens, A. Gray, C. Menziesit, A. Gray, and C. erno- 
deoides, A. Gray; from Tahiti C. Taitensis, A. Gray ; from Norfolk Island C. lucida, Forst., C. Baueriana, 
Endl., and C. pilosa, Endl. ; and from the Kermandee group, C. petiolata, Hook. f., and C. acutifolia, Hook. f. 
From Viti only one species has as yet been described. 
1. C. persiczfolia, A. Gray in Proceed. Amer. Acad. vol. iv. ; fruticosa, glabra; stipulis con- 
natis late triangularibus cuspidatis; foliis membranaceis lanceolatis sensim acuminatis, petiolo 
brevi; pedunculis brevissimis paucifloris; calycis limbo vix dentato; corolla profunde 4-fida ; drupa 
oblonga.— Viti, but exact locality not recorded (U. S. Expl. Exped.). 
y 
Orno LII. COMPOSITZE [CAIENTAURAE, Schultz- Bip.). 
... There are in London a good many undeseribed and undetermined Polynesian Composite, which it would 
lead me too far to insert at this place. I may, however, remark, that there are at the British Museum some 
fine specimens of the Cichoraceous genus Fitchia, which were collected in Tahiti during Captain Cook's first 
voyage, and to which I alluded in Bonplandia, vol. x. p. 294. They are labelled, probably in Solander's 
handwriting, “ Bidens, n. 15. Recept. paleaceum. Flores flavi. Frutex 10-pedalis. Habitat in summis mon- 
tibus." Prof. Dana, as A. Gray states, also collected: Fitchia nutans in Tahiti, and I believe that Cuming's 
specimens were likewise obtained there, and not in Elizabeth Island. 
I. Monosis, DC. in Guillem. Arch. Bot. vol. ii. p. 515; Endl. Gen. n. 2220. Capitula l-flora, 
distincta. Involucri oblongi squame imbricate, obtuse, flore multo breviores. Receptaculum 
punctiforme. Corolle tubulose, 5-fide.  Anthere ecaudate. Stigmata longe exserta, Achenia 
glabra, teretiuscula. Pappus 2—3-serialis, setis rigidulis, scabris, equalibus, v. vequilatis sed inzqui- 
longis.—Suffrutices ; foliis alternis, breviter petiolatis, obovato-cuneatis, acutiusculis, subintegerri- 
mis, supra glabris, subtus cum petiolis ramisque tomentosis; panicule nude, ramis apice capitula, 
«o subumbellata, subsessilia, conferta gerentibus. | : 
l. M. insularum, A. Gray in. Proceed. Amer. Acad. vol. v.; fruticosa, laxe ramosa; foliis. 
oblongis acuminatis repando-dentatis, basi cuneatis in petiolum attenuatis, puberulis, supra glabratis, 
subtus ad costam venasque cum ramis adpresso-tomentellis; capitulis corymbosis; pappi setis rigidis 
vix denticulatis, majoribus apice clavellatis.—Strobocalyz insularum, Schultz-Bip. in xviii. et 
xix. Jahresbericht der Pollichia, p. 170.— Viti Islands, locality not recorded (U. S. Expl. Exped.). 
Also collected in the Tongan Islands (U. S. Expl. Exped). 
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