FLORA VITIENSIS. 815 
umbilicum attingente, infera.— Herb: perennes, caule erecto v. sarmentoso ; foliis sparsis, basi 
vaginantibus; vaginis connatis, caulem velantibus; lamina lanceolata, nervosa, basi contracta, apice 
interdum in cirrhum spiralem desinente; floribus paniculatis, bracteolatis, viridibus v. albis.—Join- 
villea, Gaud. Bonit. t. 39, 40. 
Besides the two Polynesian species enumerated below, there is in the Hawaiian Islands F. ascendens, 
Seem. (Joinvillea ascendens, Gaud. Bonit. t. 39, 40, f. 1-7), and, from a communication received from Mr. 
Storck, an additional species in Viti, of which, however, no specimens have come to hand. 
1. F. elegans, Seem.; erecta; foliis late elongato-lanceolatis, longe acuminatis, creberrime 
plicatis et longitudinaliter nervosis; nervis primariis minute scaberulis, venulis transversis convexis ; 
vagina fissa, marginibus membranaceis superne in auriculas obtusas utrinque dilatata; paniculee 
ramis puberulis; perigon. segmentis ovato-subulatis ; drupis coccineis.—F. (Chortodes) plicata, J. D. 
Hook. in Kew Mise. vol. vii. p. 200. t. 6. Joinvillea elegans, Gaud. Bonit. t. 39, 40. f. 7-26 (sine 
descript.).—Viti Levu (Seemann! n. 645). Also collected in Aneitum, New Hebrides (M'Gilli- 
vray !), Kanala, New Caledonia (M‘Gillivray !), and Isle of Pines (Milne and M‘Gillivray !) 
2. F. Indica, Linn. Sp. p. 475; caule scandente ; foliis lanceolatis, basi in petiolum brevem con- 
tractis, apice cirrhiformi-spiralibus, integerrimis, glabris, nitidis, oc-nerviis (4-12 poll. long.), vegetio- 
ribus, supra basin subcordato-rotundatis (3-2 poll. lat.) ; paniculis terminalibus.— Palmijuncus levis, 
Rumph. Amb. vol. v. t. 59. f. 1; Rheede, Malab. vol. vii. t. 53. Nomina vernac. Vitiensia, “ Wa 
Sila? (v. *Sili "?) et * Duruka” (v. * Turuka ??).—Forests of Taviuni and Viti Levu (Seemann ! 
n. 644; Ovalau (Storck! n. 910). 
The ears of this plant are eaten by the natives. 
Orpo CIV. CYPERACEZE.* 
There is a great number of undetermined Cyperacee from tropical America in the British herbaria. 
Schenus arundinaceus, Sol. in Forst. Prodr. n. 491 (sine descript.), from New Caledonia (Forster !, Capt. 
Cook, anno 1774), is identical with Asterochete arundinacea, Kunth; whilst Sehanus elevatus, Sol. in 
Forst. Prodr. n. 494 (sine descript.), from Tahiti (Banks and Solander!), is identical with Cladium leptosta- 
chyum, Nees. 
I. Lepironia, Rich. in Pers. Ench. vol. i. p. 70; Endl. Gen. n. 986.  Spicule co-flore, 
co-game. Palez co, in rhachilla brevissima imbricato-fasciculate, l-andre. Flores ¢; stamina 
3-6. Ovarium stylo 2-fido, deciduo. Caryopsis crustacea, globosa v. compressa, poroso-rugulosa. 
—Herb:e paludose, Juncorum habitu ; culmis simplicissimis, foliis teretibus farctis, septis transversis 
nodosis, spiculis infra culmi apicem in capitulum bracteolatum v. nudum aggregatis, nune in spicam 
lateralem squamis cartilagineis arctissime imbricatis bracteatam, strobiliformem dispositis. 
1. L, mucronata, L. C. Rich. in Pers. Syn. vol. i. p. 70; Kunth, Enum. vol. ii. p. 366; A. 
Rich. in Dict. Class. vol. ix. p. 297.—Scirpus coniferus, Poir. Encycl. vol. vi. p. 7 56; ejusd. Suppl. 
vol. v. 90 (v. s.). Restio articulatus, Retz. Obs. vol. iv. p. 15. Chondrachne, articulata, Brown, 
* 
* An Eriocaulon, closely allied, if not identical with Æ. australe, R. Brown, was collected by M‘Gil- 
livray ! in the Isle of Pines, off New Caledonia. 
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