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liformis, tubo calyce paulo longiore sensim ampliato in limbum 5-partitum patentem, lobis ovatis 
acutis, zestivatione dextrorsum convolutis, fauce barbata. Stamina 5, tubo inserta, filamentis brevis- 
simis. Stylus filiformis; stigma crassiusculum, didymum aut subbilobum. Capsula oblonga aut 
ovata, valvis 2 coriaceo-lignosis, margine introflexis arcte junctis et constituentibus dissepimentum de- 
mum utrinque seminiferum et a valvulis demum divaricatis distinctum. Semina oo, ovato-angulata, 
aptera. Embryo (ex G. ovato) in medio albuminis carnosi, erectus, long. seminis; radicula cylin- 
drica, cotyledonibus oblongis sublongiore.— Frutices szpius glabrz, habitu fere Rubiacearum frutes- 
centium, fructus fere Bursarie, ramis teretibus; foliis oppositis, ovatis, integerrimis, persistentibus ; 
stipülis intrapetiolaribus in vaginam concretis; floribus albis, in umbellas corymbos paniculasve dis- 
positis, pedicellatis—DC. Prodr. vol. ix. p. 26. Anasser et Geniostoma, Juss. Gen. pp. 150 et 420. 
Anassera, Pers. Ench. n. 602. — Aspilotum, Banks et Soland. ms. ex Cunn.  Hemospermum, Blume, 
Bijdr. p. 1018; Benth. in Linn. Journ. vol. i. 
Asa Gray has referred G. crassifolia, Benth., to G. rupestre, Forst., as a variety, so that the number 
of species of this genus indigenous to tropical Polynesia amounts to three, viz. G. astylum, A. Gray, from 
the Society Islands, and the two following. 
l. G. rupestre, Forst. Prodr. n. 103, et Icon. (ined.) t. 58; foliis ovatis oblongis v. oblongo- 
lanceolatis acuminatis v. obtusis, basi attenuatis, vagina stipulari truncata brevissima ; cymis axillari- 
bus 3—7-floris petiolo demum longioribus; pedicellis medio 2-bracteolatis ; calyce breviter 5-fido lobis 
ovato-acutis ciliolatis; corolle lobis medio et basi intus villosiusculis ; stylo basi villoso; stigmate 
indiviso; ovario glabro; capsula obovoidea 2-mucronulata levi.— G. Hemosperma, Steudl. Nom. 
Hemospermum arboreum, Blume, Bijdr. p. 1018.—Common throughout Viti (Seemann! n. 300 et 
301). Also collected in Tana (Forster! W. Anderson!), Tonga (Nelson! Capt. Cook! Barelay ! 
Harvey !), Tahiti (Capt. Cook !), Wallis Island (Greffe! n. 42), New Caledonia (Anderson !), and 
Isle of Pines (Sir E. Home! M‘Gillivray !). 
Asa Gray is inclined to arrange all the forms of this species under the varieties ellipticum, macrophyl- 
lum, and puberulum. 
2. G. (?) microphyllum, (sp. nov.) Seem. in Bonplandia, vol. x. p. 37 ; ramulis subfiliformibus . 
sarmentosis glabris; foliis breviter petiolatis ovatis longe acuminatis subtus albido-punctatis ; 
vagina stipulari truncata; floribus ignotis.— Woods of the southern parts of Viti Levu (Seemann ! 
n. 804). : 
I ean find nothing like this in our herbaria. The leaves are about $ of an inch long and 2-3 lines 
broad,—the thin rooting branches adhering to the trunks of trees, like Ficus stipulata and Hedera Helis. 
II. Fagraa, Thunb. Nov. Gen. vol. ii. p. 34; DC. Prodr. vol. ix. p. 28. Calyx basi 2-brac- 
teolatus, 5-partitus, lobis imbricatis obtusis. Corolla infundibuliformis, tubo superne subampliato, 
lobis obliquis per zestivationem contortis, demum patentibus. Stamina 5, medio tubo inserta, fila- 
mentis subulatis subexsertis, antheris 2-locularibus subincumbentibus. Ovarium 2- v. marginibus 
carpellorum axim non attingentibus. fere 1-loculare. Stylus filiformis; stigma peltato-depressum. 
Bacca corticata ovalis, 2-locularis, septo e valvis induplicatis duplici. Placentz pulpose. Semina 
oo, pulpa immersa, parva, crustacea. Albumen corneum. Embryo minutus, in dimidia inferiore 
parte seminis; radicula infera v. subobliqua, eotyledonibus obtusis longiore.— Frutices v. arbores, 
glabri; ramulis seepius tetragonis; foliis petiolatis oppositis, ovalibus, integris coriaceis; stipulis in- 
trapetiolaribus; floribus albis, in corymbum racemumve trichotomum terminalem dispositis.— 
Kuhlia, Reinw. (non Kunth) et ipso monente Blume, Bijdr. 777. 
l. *F. Berteriana, A. Gray, ms., ex Benth. in Linn. Journ. vol. i. p. 98; arborea; foliis 
longiuseule petiolatis obovato-oblongis obtusissimis v. breviter acuminatis coriaceis crassis obsolete 
