FLORA VITIENSIS. 141 
H. B. K. Nov. Gen. Am. vol. iv. p. 73.—Nomina vernac. Vitiensia, “ Wavuwavu ? et “Co ni papa- 
lagi.—Common in cultivated ground throughout Viti (Seemann! n. 261). Also collected in the 
Society Islands (Barclay !). Common in South America. 
. Judging from one of the vernacular names, “ Co ni papalagi” (i. e. foreign weed), this plant has been 
introduced, probably from South America by way of Tahiti, where Barclay in 1840 collected it. It does not 
occur in the older collections. The dried stems tied in a bundle make capital torches. We used them when 
one night we descended Buke Levu, in Kadavu. 
V. Blumea, DC. in Guill. Arch. Bot. vol. ii. p. 514; Endl. Gen. n. 2413. Capitulum %- 
florum, heterogamum, floribus omnibus tubulosis, marginalibus cc-seriatis, femineis, centralibus 
paucis masculis. Involucri pauciserialis squame subimbricatze, lineares, acuminate. Receptaculum 
planum, omnino.nudum v. interdum tenuissime fimbrilliferum, hirsutum. Corolle tubulose, femi- 
nez tenuissime filiformes, truncate v. obsolete 2—3-dentate, masculæ cylindrica, fauce sequali v. vix 
dilatata, limbo 5-dentato. Anthere basi tenuissime caudate. Achenia teretiuscula. Pappus 1- 
serialis, setis capillaribus, vix subscabris.—Herbe v. suffrutices; foliis alternis caulibusque seepissime 
villosis, capitulis paniculatis v. laxe corymbosis, floribus flavis v. purpurascentibus. 
1. B. ($ Apterze) virens, DC. in Wight, Contrib. p. 14; Prodr. vol. v. p. 439; caule herbaceo 
erecto tereti glabro ramoso; foliis rigidulis sessilibus utrinque sparsis puberulis, caulinis elongatis 
basi cuneatis sessilibus 3-fidis, lobis lanceolatis mucronatis regulariter serratis, terminali longiore, 
rameis obovatis basi cuneatis parce serratis; panicula laxa, pedicellis axillaribus folio longioribus 1—5- 
cephalis, capitulis pedicellatis ; involucri squamis inter. linearibus disco longioribus mucronatis.— Viti 
Levu (Seemann! n. 272). 
2, B. ($ Aptera) Milnei, (sp. nov.) (Tab. XXVII); Seem. in Bonplandia, vol. ix. p. 257; 
pube minime conferta vestita; caule suffruticoso erecto tereti ramoso ; foliis ovalibus v. obovatis acu- 
minatis in petiolum attenuatis serratis; panicula divaricata laxa ramis nudis apice subracemosis; in- 
volucri squamis linearibus acuminatis subrecurvis dorso puberulis, exterioribus brevibus, interioribus 
floribus paulo brevioribus, receptaculo fimbrillifero ; floribus fem. 3-dentatis, ovario hirsuto.—Interior 
of Viti Levu, on the road from Navua to Namosi (Milne! Seemann! n. 273). 
A half-shrubby plant, about 4 "feet high, allied to B. aromatica, DC., from which it differs principally 
in its dentated leaves. The lower leaves, one of which is figured at the back of our plate (Fig. 1), are often 
. more than a foot long; towards the top of the plant the leaves gradually decrease in size. Flowers yellow. 
Pappus very light brown. 
EXPLANATION OF Prats XXVII.—Fig. 1, one of the lower leaves; 2,a eapitulum ; 3, scales of invo- 
luere and receptacle; 4, a male flower; 5, one of the setze of the pappus; 6, a female flower; 7, top of the 
corolla of female flower :—all magnified with exception of Fig. 1. 
VI. Eclipta, Linn. Mant. 157; Enfll. Gen. n. 2446. Capitulum oc-florum, heterogamum, 
floribus radii 1-seriatis, ligulatis femineis, disai tubulosis, hermaphroditis. Involucri 2-seriati squame 
ovato-lanceolatze, acuminate. Receptaculum e plano convexum, paleis lineari-filiformibus, apice 
ciliatis, achenia zequantibus. Corolle radii ligulatze, ligula brevissima, angusta, disci tubulos:e, limbo 
4-dentato. Antherw ecaudate. Achenia radii 3-quetra, disci compressa, ad latera muricato-tuber- 
culosa, apice mutica v. brevissime 1—3-denticulata, juniora ad apicem puberula. Pappus nullus.— 
Herbz ramos, erect v. prostrate, plus minus scabre aut hirsute; foliis oppositis, penninerviis, 
integerrimis v. serratis, pedunculis axillaribus, solitariis geminis v. ternis, 1-cephalis, floribus albis. 
1. E. prostrata, Linn. Mant. 286; DC. Prodr. vol. v. p. 490; Forst. Prodr. n. 302 et Icon. 
(ined.) t. 224; caule annuo prostrato aut adscendente adpresse strigoso ramulis subhirsutis; foliis 
ovali- aut oblongo-lanceolatis basi attenuatis subserratis subundulatis scabris; pedunculis 1-2 capi- 
tulo duplo triplove longioribus.— Verbesina prostrata, Linn. Sp. vol. ii. p. 1272.  Colula prostrata, 
