190 FLORA VITIENSIS. 
2. F. Vitiensis, Seem. Journ. of Bot. 1865, p. 258 (Tab. XLIV.); glabra; foliis oppositis v. 
verticillatis ovali-oblongis v. obovato-oblongis acuminatis in petiolum attenuatis; cymis axillaribus 
corymbosis co-floris; corollee tubo subinfundibuliformi calyce subbilabiato duplo triplove longiori; 
lobis oblongis obtusis, staminibus longe exsertis, ovario 4-lobo; drupa . . .—Viti Levu (Storck !). 
A robust-growing shrub, with thick branches, glabrous in all its parts, and in foliage not unlike JF 
splendida, F. Muell.* Largest leaves from 8-10 inches long (including petiole), and from 4-5 inches broad. 
Cymes corymbose, flowers cream-coloured. In estivation the lower lobe of the corolla is innermost and 
the upper is the outer, and overlapping the two lateral ones. 
EXPLANATION OF Prare XLIV., representing Faradaya Vitiensis, from specimens collected by Mr. 
J. Storck. Fig. 1, a flower-bud; 2, a flower open; 3, calyx and pistil; 4, corolla laid open; 5, ovary; 
6, cross-section of ovary,—all slightly magnified. 
IV. Vitex, Linn. Gen. n. 790; Schauer in DC. Prodr. vol. xi. p. 682. Calyx cyathimorphus, 
campanulatus aut tubuloso-infundibuliformis, 5-dentatus aut 5-fidus, dentibus lacinüsve paulo in- 
eequalibus. Corolla 2-labiata, labio superiore 2-fido, inferioris 3-fidi laciniis lateralibus quam supe- 
riores paulo majoribus, lacinià intermediá vero reliquis ampliore atque porrectá; faucibus seepins 
campanulato-inflatis. Stamina 4, didynama, corolle tubo inserta, adscendentia, exserta; anthers 
obceordatz, loculis basi discretis, rimá longitudinali dehiscentibus. Ovarium 4-loculare, loculis 1- 
ovulatis. Stylus terminalis, filiformis, apice 2-fidus, cruribus acutis. Drupa calyci aucto et plerum- 
que dirupto insidens, succosa, l-pyrena, 4-locularis, putamine lignoso. Seminis erecti cotyle- 
dones applicite ; radicula brevis, infera.—Arbores aut frutices, ramulis foliisque novellis cum inflores- 
centiá pube sæpius evanescente indutis ; foliis oppositis, plerumque digitatis, rarissime abortu foliolorum 
lateralium simplicibus, cymis trichotomis vel simplicibus axillaribus vel panieculatis.— J/allrothia, 
Roth, Nov. Plant. Sp. p. 317. Limia, Vandelli in Reem. Script. Hisp. p. 126. t. 7. fig. 21. Ne- 
phrandra, Cothen. Disp. 8. Psilogyne, DC. Rev. Bign. p. 16.  Chrysomallum, Thou. Gen. Madag. 
n. 25. Pyrostoma, F. W. Meyer, Prim. Flor. Essequib. 119. Casarettoa, Wlprs. Rep. vol. iv. p. 91. 
1, V.(Euagnus) trifolia, Linn. Suppl. 293; ramulis foliorumque facie pube pulveracea exili 
subevanescente canescentibus, foliorum dorso paniculaque tomento alphitoideo raro candicantibus; 
folis petiolatis 3-foliolatis simplicibusve, foliolis obovato-oblongis obovatisve acutis obtusisque basi 
plerumque longe attenuata sessilibus integerrimis supra demum subglabratis; panicula terminali 
cymis pedunculatis erectis angusta; calyce cyathimorpho breviter et acute repando-dentato.— V. in- 
tegerrima, Mill. Dict. n. 3. V. ovata, Thunb. Fl. Jap. 257; Hook. et Arn. Bot. Beech. t. 47. 
V. repens, Blanco, Fl. de Filipinas, p. 513.  Lagondium vulgare, Rumph. Amb. vol. iv. p. 48. t. 18. 
Caranosi, Rheede, Hort. Malab. vol. ii. p. 18. t. 10.— Common on the seabeach of all the Viti 
Islands (Seemann! n. 354; Barclay! Sir E. Home!). Also collected in Tonga (Forster !), New 
Caledonia (Anderson! M'Gillivray ), Aneitum, New Hebrides (M‘Gillivray!), and Sandwich Is- 
lands (Macrae!). Common in tropical New Holland, China, the East Indies, and islands of Eastern 
Africa. 
We have in Polynesia both the trifoliolate and the unifoliolate form of this species. 
2. V. (Euagnus) Vitiensis, (sp. nov.) Seem. (Tab. XLV.); foliis omnibus simplicibus longe 
petiolatis ovatis v. ovato-oblongis acuminatis glabrescentibus, panicula; terminali cymis pedunculatis 
triplove longiori; staminibus modice exsertis.—Olerodendron Amicorum, Seem. in Bonplandia, vol. x. p. 
249. Clerodendron (Tetrathyranthus) Amicorum, A. Gray, l.c. Terminalioides, Soland. mss. in x 
Mus. Brit.—Tongan (Banks and Solander! Barclay! Harvey! U. S. Expl. Exped.!) and Samoan Islands 
(U. S. Expl. Exped.! in Herb. Benth.). 
* F. splendida, F. Muell. Fragm. |. c.; Seem. 1.c.; fere glabra; foliis oppositis; floribus paniculatis. 
—Rockingham Bay (Dallachy !). 
