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co-floris; bracteis amplis; calyce pedicello longiori tubuloso fere zequaliter 5-dentato persistente 
fructum ovatum includente.— Taviuni (Seemann! n. 281). 
A remarkable species, of which the corollas are unknown. The very shaggy petioles, 3 or 4 inches 
long; the blade of the leaf conspicuously veiny. Fructiferous calyx 7 to 10 lines long, cylindraceous or 
tubular-cyathiform, glabrate, longer than the included even full-grown fruit. 
10. C. dolichocarpa, A. Gray, l. c. ; frutescens ; ramis gracilibus junioribus cum petiolis pedun- 
culis calycibusque pilis longis rufescentibus multiseptatis (modo C. Milnei) barbatis; foliis oppositis 
subzqualibus lanceolato-oblongis acuminatis denticulatis supra hispidulis subtus breviter fulvo- 
pubescentibus; pedunculis axillaribus l-floris; calyce longe tubuloso fructu cylindrico siliqueeformi 
(14-2-pollicari) acuto 1 breviore, sero deciduo.— Woods of Sandal-wood or Bua Bay and Nady, 
Vanua Levu (U. S. Expl. Exped., Milne !). 
“ Evidently allied to C. Milnei, by the pubescence, tubular calyx, etc. The latter is made out from 
vestiges which remain upon one side of one of the fruits, showing that it attains fully an inch in length. 
Yet it is exceeded by the singularly elongated fruit, which, except in form, resembles that of other species 
of Cyrtandra, i. e. is corticate, probably fleshy when fresh, but juiceless and indehiscent. The stamens must 
determine whether its relationship is with Mieldia or Whitia (the latter probably no good genus) ; but 
other Polynesian species exhibit a similar, only less elongated fruit.” —Asa Gray. 
11. C. involucrata, Seem. (sp. nov.) ; erecta, fruticosa; ramulis petiolis pedunculisque ferru- 
gineo-subsericeo-tomentosis ; foliis oppositis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis basi obtusis dentatis, supra 
demum glabris, subtus ferrugineo-subsericeo-tomentosis; pedunculis axillaribus 3-floris ; pedicellis 
basi bracteis 2 foliaceis connatis involucratim suffultis; calycis tubo ovoideo-campanulato, lobis 
ovato-subulatis; bacca oblonga (alba)J.— Woods of Namosi, interior of Viti Levu (Seemann! n. 
279). 
An erect shrub, 6 feet high. Branches obscurely 4-angular. Petioles about an inch long. Blade of 
leaf 4—6 inches long, 2-23 inches broad. 
Orvo LXIX. ACANTHACEJE. 
Besides the species enumerated or alluded to below, this Natural Order is represented in tropical 
Polynesia by :— i : 
l. Dilivaria ilicifolia, Juss. (Acanthus ilicifolius, Linn.), which has been found in New Caledonia 
(W. Anderson !) and Tana (Forster !). ; : i 
2. Ruellia reptans, Forst. Prodr. n. 242, and Icon. (ined.) t. 181,—a plant with white flowers, appa- 
rently different from Dipteracanthus lanceolatus, to which the Linnæan Ruellia reptans is referred by Nees, 
and collected in Tana, Eromanga, and Aneitum, New Hebrides (Forster!, W. Anderson !, Barclay A 
M‘Gillivray !). 
3. Dicliptera pubescens, Juss. (Dianthera cerulea, Forst. Prodr. n. 14, et Icon. (ined.) t. 9), from 
the Isle of Pines and Botanist’s Island off New Caledonia (Forster!, W. Anderson !, M‘Gillivray !) 
4. Dicliptera clavata, Juss. (Dianthera clavata, Forst. Prodr. n. 15. t. 10), from the Society Islands 
(Banks and Solander!, Nelson!), and having white flowers, subulate bracts, and spathulate involucral 
bracts. js 
5. Dicliptera frondosa, Juss. (Dianthera floribunda, Sol. Prim. Fl. Ins. Pacif. ined.) p. 203), from 
Tahiti (Forster!, Wiles and Smith!), and of which Solander says: “ Suffrutex Dianthere bracteata, Kol., 
simillimus quoad caulem; ramos, folia, e& modum florendi, immo flores et fruetum ; differt autem: bracteis 
angulatis, cuneiformibus, stipulis subdivisionum peduneuli subulatis. A Dianthera velata differt pedunculis 
numerosis seu pluries sub ivisis et angustia bractearum. Stipule sub singula divisura peduneulorum 
bine, opposite, subulate. Bractee cuneiformes, obtuse, basi attenuate, integræ, altera minore. Capsule 
obcordatz, basi attenuate. Dianthera velata, bracteata, floribunda, et leta yalde affines. 2 pn 
6. Dicliptera velata, Seem. ( Dianthera velata, Sol. Prim. Fl. Ins. Pacif. p. 201; Parkins. Drawings 
of Tahit. Plants t. 3 (ined.)), Society Islands (Banks and Solander D: Suffrutea 3- pedalis, ramosus. Caules 
erecti, glabri, obtuse tetragoni; lateralibus alternis suleatis, alteris carinatis; carina obtusa. Rami bra- 
chiati, supra genieula tumidi seu substantia molli farcti, unde in speciminibus exsiccatis ibidem coarctati. 
Folia caulina et ramea, opposita, petiolata, patentia, ovato-elliptica, acuminata, obsolete crenata, sinubus 
erenarum puncto glandulaceo albido notatis, glabra, tenuia, venosa; venis remotis apicem versus flexis ; 
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