216 FLORA VITIENSIS. 
(rarius luteo) turgidz, interdum carnose. Folia sparsa v. opposita, rarius verticillata, stipulata v. 
stipulis destituta, floralia (involucella auctorum) opposita v. ternata. Inflorescentia definita, cymosa ; 
cymis axillaribus v. terminalibus 2—5-tomis sæpe in pseudumbellam dispositis interdum abortu 
l-lateralibus, racemiformibus spiciformibus v. ad involucrum solitarium reductis.— Tithymalus, 
Tournef. Inst. p. 85. t. 18. Poinsettia, Grah. Edinb. Phil. Journ. 1836. Anthacantha, Lem. 
Illustr. Hort. 1855, p. 69. 
Besides the .Euphorbias described below, we have, in tropical Polynesia, the following species, viz. 
1. E. diversifolia, Hook. et Arn., from the Hawaiian Islands; 2. E. celastroides, Gaud., from the Hawaiian 
Islands (Nelson!) ; 8. E. multiformis, Gaud. (E. annulata, Nutt. Herb.), from the Hawaiian Islands (Men- 
zies! Nelson! Nuttall !); 4. E. Remyi, A. Gray, from the Hawaiian Islands ; 5. E. Hookeri, Steud. (E. myr- 
tifolia, Hook. et Arn., non Linn.), from the Hawaiian Islands, where it is vernacularly termed “ Akoko,” 
and used for bird-lime (Barclay!) ; 6. E. Aubryana, Baill., from New Caledonia; 7. E. obliqua, F. Bauer 
(E. origanoides, Forst. Prodr. n. 206, non Linn.), from the Tongan Islands (Forster !), Aneitum, Eromanga, 
and Isle of Pines (M'Gillivray !), and Norfolk Island; 8. E. cordata, Mef., from the Sandwich Islands 
(Nelson! Macrae !) ; 9. E. Pancheri, Baill., from New Caledonia; 10. Æ. Neo-Caledonica, Boiss., from New 
Caledonia; 11. E. Kanalensis, Boiss., from New Caledonia; and 12. EZ. Cleopatra, Baill., from New Cale- 
donia.—There is besides, at the British Museum, a new species from the Hawaiian Islands, collected by 
Nuttall, and named E. pauciflora by him. The branches are articulate, the leaves cordate-ovate, acutely 
serrate, and the flowers isolated. - E. Helioscopia, Linn., has been introduced into the Sandwich Islands. 
1. E. Atoto, Forst. Prodr. n. 207, et Icon. (ined.) t. 149; Boiss. in DC. 1. c. p. 12; glabra, 
pallide virens; caule ascendente v. procumbente, ramis dichotomis ad articulationes nodosis; foliis 
internodio sublongioribus breviter petiolatis oblongis obtusis integerrimis ; stipulis interpetiolaribus 
minimis triangularibus fimbriatis; cymis ex axillis supremis longiuscule peduneulatis oligocephalis 
folioso-bracteatis; involucri turbinati glabri fauce hirtuli lobis triangularibus; glandularum appen- 
dice angustissimá ; stylis 2-fidis non incrassatis; capsule coccis vix carinatis; seminibus ovatis lævi- 
bus.—E. develata, Sol. Prim. Fl. Ins. Pacif. (ined.) p- 262, et in Parkins. Drawings of Tahit. Plants 
(ined.) t. 53. E. ovaria, F. Muell. mss. in Herb. Hook.—Nomen vernac. Tahitense, “ Atoto ” 
(Vitiense, ** Totolu ” v. ** Totoyava ?").—Common on the seabeach of most Vitian islands (Seemann ! 
n. 406; Storck! n. 904; Sir E. Home!). Also collected in the Society (Banks and Solander! 
Forster !), Tongan (Capt. Cook! Barclay !), Samoan (U. S. Expl. Exped., and Sandwich Islands 
(Macrae! Nuttall! Barclay !). Diffused over North-eastern Australia, the East Indian Archipelago, 
and Ceylon. : 
2. E. Chamissonis, Boiss. in DC. Prodr. l.c. p. 14; glabra, caulibus einerascenti-nigricanti- 
bus; foliis integerrimis petiolatis e basi subeordata obovatis obtusis v. retusis subtus glaucis nervu- 
losis; eymis terminalibus bis terve dichotomis preter folia floralia squamiformia nudis; involucri 
turbinati majusculi dentibus ovato-triangularibus hirsutis; glandularum appendice alba eis duplo 
latiori integra v. lobulata; semine ovato-quadrangulo transverse et obsolete rugoso tuberculato.— 
Anisophyllum Chamissonis, Garcke et Klotzsch.— Viti Islands, locality not specified (Harvey). Also 
collected in Radak, Romanzow Archipelago, 
Allied to E. Taitensis, Boiss. (E. Atoto, Guill., non Forst.). 
3. E. pilulifera, Linn. Am. Ac. vol. iii. p. 114; Boiss. l.c. p. 21; tota crispule pubescens, 
caulibus erectis v. ascendentibus simplicibus v. parce ramosis superne plus minus patule flavido- 
setulosis ; foliis e basi breviter petiolata valde inzequali cuneata v. truncata ovato-rhombeis v. oblongo- 
lanceolatis acutis argute serrulatis dentatisve; stipulis minimis linearibus fimbriatis ; cymis axillari- 
bus sessilibus v. breviter pedunculatis globoso-capituliformibus co-cephalis; involucris minimis tur- 
binatis hirtis intus glabris, lobis triangularibus fimbriatulis, glandulis orbiculatis concaviuseulis, ap- 
pendice obsoleta v. angustissima ; stylis brevissimis 2-lobis, apice capitatis ; capsule ad presse flavido- 
hirt: coccis compresso-carinatis ; semine rubello acute oblongo-tetragono transverse ruguloso, rugulis 
irregulariter anastomosantibus.—£E. hirta, Linn. Am. Ac. vol. iii. p. 114. E. capitata, Lam. Dict. 
