312 FLORA VITIENSIS. 
a white and a purple flowered variety of the genuine C. terminalis, of both of which Parkinson has made 
excellent coloured drawings. In the Hawaiian Islands (as stated in my ‘Narrative of the Voyage of 
H.M.S. Herald, vol. ii. p. 83), C. terminalis is used for hedges, and the leaves for thatching and for 
wrapping up bundles of food, charcoal, ete.; the leaves also serve among the native women as a medium 
for communicating ideas, which appears to be somewhat similar to the system of quipos employed by 
the ancient Incas. 
II. Geitonoplesium, A. Cunn. in Bot. Mag. t. 3131; Endl. Gen. n. 1163. Perigonium co- 
rollinum, 6-partitum, patens, quale, glabrum: Stamina 6, basi laciniarum inserta ; filamenta fili- 
formia, apice curvata, conniventia ; anthers basifixe, sagittate. Ovarium 3-loculare. Ovula pauca, 
amphitropa. Stylus filiformis, 3-sulcus; stigma simplex. Bacca globosa, l-sperma. Semina sub- 
globosa, testa coriacea, atra, umbilico ventrali nudo. Embryo subexcentricus, curvatus, extremitate 
radiculari incrassata infera.—Suffrutices volubiles, foliis elliptico-lanceolatis nervoso-striatis, flori- 
bus cymosis v. umbellatis, terminales axillaresque, pedicellis cum perigonii basi attenyata articulatis, 
baccis nigris.—ZLuzuriaga, R. Brown, Prodr. p. 281, non Ruiz et Pav. 
1. G. cymosum, A. Cunn. in Bot. Mag. t. 3131; ramis teretibus, ramulis striatis levibus ; 
cymis terminalibus 2-partitis—Luzuriaga cymosa, R. Brown, Prodr. p. 282.—Nomen vernac. Viti- 
ense, “ Wa Dakua ” (i.e. the Dammara creeper, because the leaves of the plant are somewhat like 
those of Dammara Vitiensis, the Vitian * Dakua.)"—Kadavu, Viti Levu (Seemann! n. 638). Also 
collected in New Holland, Norfolk Island, and the Isle of Pines, off New Caledonia (Sir E. Home !). 
C. Koch (Walp. Ann. vol. vi.) holds the narrow-leaved form of this plant to be specifically distinct, 
and names it G. angustifolium. 
III. Dianella, Lam. Illustr. t. 250; Endl. Gen. n. 1160. Perigonium corollinum, 6-partitum, 
æquale, patens. Stamina 6, imo perigonio inserta; filamenta curvata, apice incrassata, stuposa; 
antherze basifixæ, lineares, stricte. Ovarium 3-loculare. Ovula oo, anatropa. Stylus filiformis; 
stigma simplex. Bacca globosa, oo-sperma. Semina ovalia, testa crustacea atra splendente, umbi- 
lico nudo. Embryo rectus, minimus, in basi albuminis.—Herb: perennes v. suffrutices, radice 
fibrosa, foliis gramineis elongatis, basi semivaginantibus, floribus panieulatis, baccis czeruleis, pedi- 
cellis cernuis, juxta apicem articulatis, basi bracteola unilaterali stipatis. 
Besides the species enumerated below, we have in tropical Polynesia, D. ensifolia, Red., Wight, Icon. 
t. 2053; (D. odorata, Blume; D. Sandwichensis, Hook. et Arn.), from the Society (Banks and Solander!) 
and Hawaiian Islands (Barclay! Macrae!), and an undescribed species from New Caledonia and Isle of 
Pines (Capt. Cook! M‘Gillivray!), viz. D. Austro-Caledonica, Seem., mss. in Herb. Mus. Brit.; caules- 
cens; foliis sublanceolato-linearibus planis (8 lin. lat.), marginibus carinaque levibus; panicule ramis 
dichotomis patulis ramulisque arcuato-recurvatis; floribus longe pedicellatis; foliolis perigon. inter. 5- 
nerviis; filamentis villosis.— Leaves short for the genus, 6-9 inches long. A scrap collected by Forster, 
and preserved at the British Museum, is pasted on the same sheet which contains his specimen of Anthe- 
ricum Adenanthera. 
]. D. intermedia, Endl. Prodr. Fl. Norf. p. 28; Bauer, Illust. Plant. Norfolk, t. 178; Kunth, 
Enum. vol. v. p. 53; foliis radicalibus congestis lineari-lanceolatis elongatis (1-5 ped. long.), carina 
marginibusque denticulato-asperis, basi complicata scapoque angulato levibus; panicule ramis ramu- 
lisque arcuatis; pedicellis nutantibus, perianthium subsuperantibus, perigon. foliol. interioribus 5- 
nerviis.—D. (2) obscura, Kunth, Enum. vol. v. p. 65. D. (?) Forsteri, Endl. in Ann. Wien. Mus. 
vol. i. p. 162. Anthericum Adenanthera, Forst. Prodr. n. 149, et Icon. (ined.) t. 96. Conanthera 
(2) Forsteri, Spreng. Syst. vol. ii. p. 91. Phalangium Adenanthera, Poir. Encycl. vol. v. p. 252.— 
Island of Kadavu (Seemann! n. 639). Also collected in New Caledonia (Forster! Capt. Cook! 
