154 FLORA VITIENSIS. 
oppositis l-foliolatis, articulo petioli manifesto; foliolo ovato-elliptico v. ovato-acuminato; panicula 
terminali trichotoma—cc-flora ; calycis lobis 5 acutis brevibus ; coroll; (albze) lobis 5-8 oblongis tubo 
brevioribus ; bacca ovata (atro-cerulea). J. simplicifolium, Forst. Prodr. n. 7; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 
980, non Roxb. J. gracile, Andr. Rep. t. 127; Ker, Bot. Reg. t. 606. J. geniculatum, Vent. 
Choix, t. 8. J. volubile, Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. t. 321; Fragm. t. 44. fig. 2.—Nomen vernac. Vi- 
tiense, “ Wa Vatu.”—Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, and Ovalau (Seemann! n. 298) ; Totoga and Moala 
(Milne!). Also collected in the Tongan Islands (Forster! D. Nelson! Sir E. Home! Harvey !), 
Norfolk Island (King! Bauer! Cunningham !), and Aneitum, New Hebrides (M‘Gillivray!) East 
coast of Australia (Bidwill! M*Gillivray ! F. Mueller!). 
After carefully comparing the Norfolk Island specimens upon which J. gracile was founded with the 
authentic specimens of J. simplicifolium, Forst., and finding that the leaves vary in shape and the calyx- 
teeth are not as different in the two as they are described in books, I have united the two supposed 
species. - 
3. J. didymum, Forst. Prodr. n. 8; Soland. Prim. Fl. Ins. Pacif. p. 200 (ined.), et in Par- 
kins. Drawings of Tahitian Plants (ined.), t. 2; glabrum v. glabriusculum; ramis teretibus scan- 
dentibus; foliis suboppositis 3-foliolatis, foliolis subovatis ovato-lanceolatisve obtusis acuminatisve, 
lateralibus sæpius minoribus ; racemis axillaribus et terminalibus ; calycis dentibus minutis; corollæ 
(albæ) limbo 4-6-lobo ; seminis integumento imperforato.—Jasminum, e Nov. Caled. Forst. Prodr. 
n. 490 (fide spec. Forsteriano in Herb. Mus. Brit.). J. divaricatum, R. Brown, Prodr. p. 521; La- 
bill. Sert. Austr. Caled. t. 27. J. parviflorum, Decaisne, Herb. Timor. p. 77. J. Azoricum, Hook. 
et Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 66! non Linn.—Nomen vernac. Tahitiense, teste Soland., * Tia tia mana."— 
Viti Levu (Seemann! n. 299), Gau (Milne!). Also collected in Tahiti (Herb. Mus. Brit.! 
Bidwill! Lay and Collie!), New Caledonia (Forster! Nelson !), and east coast of New Holland (R. 
Brown !). 
The New Caledonian plant, figured by Labillardiére and collected by Forster and Nelson, represents 
the narrow-leaved form, which often occurs together with the broad-leaved on the same individual. I 
have followed Asa. Gray in referring here Decaisne's J. parviflorum, from Timor, as a synonym; and I 
subjoin Solander’s detailed description of the Tahitian plant above quoted. “ Caules lignosi, flexuoso- 
volubiles (omnino uti Clematidem), longi, teretes, glabri, ramosi. Rami villosiusculi, breves, ad angulum 
rectum divaricati. Folia sepius opposita, interdum tamen alterna, petiolata, ternata. oliola oblongo- 
ovata, acuta, integerrima, glabra, brevia, compacta, plana, petiolata; terminale- lateralibus duplo majus 
(sepe 23 unciam longum), longiusque petiolatum. Peéioli ad rectangulum divergentes, teretes, supra 
canaliculati, filiformes, glabri, unciales ; petiolellis figura et consistentia petiolorum.— Obs. Interdum foliola 
equalia, tum petiolelli etiam longitudine equales. Flores albi, suaveolentes, odore florum Jasmini ofici- 
nalis, Linn. Sp. Pl. 9, illisque parum minores, eymosi. Cyma pedunculata, composita, subtrichotoma ; 
pedicellis 3-floris, — Petioli axillares, solitarii, foliis breviores, teretes, villosiusculi. Stipule minute, subu- 
late, opposite, ad singulam subdivisionem cymæ. | Cal. perianthium monophyllum,-urceolato-cylindraceum, 
. breve (vix lineare), 5-dentatum (variat dentibus 4 et 6), persistens, fructu maturescente, latere rumpens. 
Dentes a lata basi subulati, brevissimi, sspe insquales. Corolla monopetala, hypocrateriformis. Tubus 
cylindraceus, crassitie penne passerine, calyce 6-tuplo longior (longitudine semiunciam parum excedens), 
parum incurvus ex albido-virescens. Limbus planus, patens, 5-partitus. Lacinie oblonge, acute, albe. 
Stam. filamenta 2, medio tubi inserta, subulata, brevia. Anthere lineares, acute, erectz, infra faucem 
occultatze. Pist. germen superum, subrotundum, supra planiusculum. Stylus subulatus, tubo paulo bre- 
vior. Stigma simplex. Pericarp. bacce 2, receptaculo elevato bracteato latere affixe, divaricate, globose, 
magnitudine Cerasi minoris, glaberrime, levigate, dum virides e pulpa subpellucida uvis viridibus simil- 
lime, dum mature mnigro-purpurem, uvas nigras non absimiles. Cutis tenuis, pellucida, membranacea. 
Pulpa mollis. Semina solitaria, globosa, magna, alba, arillata; arillo duriusculo.” 
II. Olea, Tournef. Inst. t. 370; Linn. Gen. n. 20; DC. Prodr. vol. viii. p. 288. Calyx brevis, 
campanulatus, 4-dentatus, rarius truncatus. Corolle tubo brevi, limbo 4-partito plano patente, 
rarius nulla. Stamina 2, in corollatis imo tubo inserta opposita exserta, in apetalis hypogyna. 
Ovarium 2-loculare. Ovula in loculis 2, ex apice septi pendula. Stigma 2-fidum aut subcapitatum, 
sessile v. stylo brevi impositum. . Drupa baccata, carne oleosa, putamine osseo, abortu 2- et seepius 
l-spermo. Semina inversa. Albumen carnosum. Embryo inversus, rectus, cotyledonibus folia- 
