146 FLORA VITIENSIS. 
Exped.), and Sandwich Islands (Macrae!), and in Savage Island (Forster!), Kanala, New Cale- 
donia (M‘Gillivray !), and east coast of New Holland (R. Brown!). 
Forster’s original specimens have deeply-crenate or repand leaves, which, besides the hairy cover- 
ing, at once distinguishes this species from the allied S. Kænigii. Brown's and M‘Gillivray’s specimens 
also have this character pre-eminently ; and it seems hardly safe to follow Bentham (Fl. Hongk. p. 198), 
in uniting S. sericea with the first six species of De Candolle's * Prodromus." 
9. S. floribunda, A. Gray in Proceed. Amer. Acad. vol. v.; fruticosa, orgyalis; ramis pube- 
rulis mox glabratis, axillis vix barbatis; foliis lanceolato-oblongis, subspathulatis, submembranaceis, 
repando-dentatis, obscure penninerviis, glabris, basi attenuatis, sessilibus v. subpetiolatis ; cymis 
co-floris ex axillis supremis et terminali thyrsum amplum efficientibus; calycis lobis ovatis oblongisve 
ovario brevioribus; corolla extus incana, lobis interne glabris oblongis; stylo glabro; indusio ciliato 
externe piloso.— Viti Levu, on the sea-beaches of the Southern coast (Seemann! n. 274; Storck ! 
n. 896; Græffe! n. 41). Also collected in Viti by Harvey! and U. S. Expl. Exped. 
Orvo LIV. ERICACEZE. 
This Order, including Epacridee as a suborder, is represented in tropical Polynesia by the genera Vac- 
cinium, Paphia, Cyathodes, and Leucopogon. Vaccinium may be expected to occur in the Viti Islands, as 
we know of one species (V. Macgillivrayi, Seem.,*) from the New Hebrides, one (V. cereum, Forst. = V. ala- 
ternoides, Sol.)} from the Society Islands (Banks and Solander! Wiles and Smith! Nelson! Forster D, and 
two (V reticulatum, Smith, = V. cereum, Cham. et Schlecht. et Hook. Icon. t. 87, and V. penduliflorum, 
Gaud. Freye. t. 68) from the Hawaiian Islands (Nelson! Macrae! Menzies D). Paphia is confined to Viti. 
Cyathodes fa been met with in the Society (C. Pomare, A. Gray, and C. Tameiamehe, Cham., var. Societatis, 
A. Gray) and the Hawaiian Islands (V. Douglasii, A. Gray, and C. Tameiamehe, Cham., and its numerous 
varieties). Leucopogon has as yet been found only in the western islands. 
I. Paphia, (gen. nov.) Seem. in Journ. of Bot. 1864, p. 77. Calyx adnatus, tubo urceolato levi, 
limbo 5-partito. Corolla infundibuliformis, 5 costata, laciniis 5 acutis. Stamina 10, distincta ; 
* V. Macgillivrayi, (sp. nov.) Seem. Journ. of Bot., 1864, p. 77; fruticosum, erectum; ramulis foliis 
pedunculis bracteis calycibus baecisque pruinosis demum viridibus; ramulis angulatis; foliis obovatis v. 
elliptieis aeutis in petiolum brevem angustatis acute serratis ; peduneulis axillaribus solitariis medio bibrac- 
teatis; bracteis linearibus acutis; calycis laciniis obtusis; corolla (alba) eampanulata apice paulo con- 
stricta; bacca globosa.—Island of Aneitum, New Hebrides (M‘Gillivray! in Mus. Brit.), collected in 1854. 
Differs from V. cereum, Forst., which it resembles in general look, in the glaucous bloom of the young 
parts of the plant, the shape of the leaves, the obtuse calyx-lobes, and the corolla less constricted at 
the mouth. Leaves thick, coriaceous, evergreen, 1$ inch long, and 4 of an inch broad, acute, but never 
acuminate. 
t “V. alaternoides, Soland. Prim. Fl. Ins. Pacif. p. 250, et in Park. Drawings of Tahit. Plants, t. 
43. Hab. in Tahiti locis montosis. Frutex altus, ramosissimus, erectus, totus glaber. Rami teretes. 
Ramuli secundum petiolos semidecurrentes angulati. Folia alterna, petiolata, ovata, acuta, serrata, ser- 
raturis glandulosis, glaberrima, supra saturate viridia, pulchre venulosa, subcoriacea, plana, sesquiuncialia, 
raro2-uncialia. Petioli brevissimi, lineares. Pedunculi axillares, solitarii, teretes, 1-flori, foliis duplo bre- 
viores. Bractee 2, foliacew, paulo supra basin in singulo peduneulo, interdum lineari-lanceolate, vix 
bilineares, interdum multo majores, semper integerrims». Calyx l-phyllus, subeampanulatus, 5-partitus ; 
laciniæ ovate, acute, erecte. Corolla l-petala, alba, ovata, ventricosa, obsolete 5-gona, vix semiun- 
cialis, apice 5-fida; laeinie oblonge, obtusiuscule, revolute, tubo triplo breviores. Filamenta 10, recep- 
taculo ad basin corolle inserta, subulata, corolla triplo breviora, simplicia. Anthere erectz, flavee, 
lineari-oblonge, longitudine filamentorum, bicornes seu apice bifide ibique dehiscentes, infra apicem ex- 
serentes aristas duas subulatas, breves, nune erectas, nune reflexas. Germen inferum, subrotundum, de- 
pressum, umbilicatum. Stylus filiformis, erectus, longitudine corolle. Stigma simplex, crassiusculum. 
Bacca globosa, umbilicata, calyce coronata, levis, 5-locularis, matura obscure rubra vel forte cerulea. 
Semina oo, cirea conceptacula singuli loculamenti nidulantia. Quis expectat speciem genuinam hujus 
famili: intra tropicos legere ?"* 
