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agrostis lachryma-Jobi, Gertn. Fruct. vol. i. p. 7. t. 1. f. 10. Nomen vernac. Vitiense, “ Sila." 
—In swamps, Taviuni, and other Vitian Islands (Seemann! n. 692; Sir E. Home!). Also collected 
in the Samoan (Wilkes !), Society (Wilkes !), and Tongan Islands (Forster !): Common in the East 
Indies. 
XV. Zea, Linn. Gen. n. 1042; Endl. Gen. n. 742. Flores monoici, d' terminales racemosi, 
.$ axillares dense spicati, vaginis aphyllis involuti. Fl. 4: Spicule 2-florz, floribus 2 perfectis sessili- 
bus. Glumæ 2, concave, inferior 3-nervis, superior 2-nervis. Squamule 2, collaterales, glabre. 
Stamina 3. Fl.9: Spigule 2-floræ, flore inferiore neutro. Glume 2, latissime, inferior emargi- 
nato-subbiloba. Neutr.: Palee 2. Fl. 9 perf.: Palez 2-3, concave. Squamulæ et stamina 0. 
Ovarium sessile, obliquum. Stylus 1; stigmata 2, subulata, pubescentia. Caryopsis reniformis, 
glumis paleisque cincta.—Gramen annuum, culmo crasso farcto; foliis latis planis, ligula brevi 
ciliata, racemo masculo simplici vel basi subramoso; spiculis geminis pedicellatis; spicis femineis 
sessilibus; spiculis multiseriatis, per paria approximatis. 
1. Z. Mays, Linn. Spec. n. 1378; Kunth, Enum. vol. i. p. 19; Lam, Ill. t. 749; Willd. Spec. 
vol. iv. p. 200; foliis integerrimis.—Zea vulgaris, Mill. Dict. Mays Zea, Gertn. Fruct. vol. i. 
p. 6. t. 1. f. 9; Cand. Gall. vol. 3. p. 98. Nomen vernac. Vitiense, “Sila ni papalagi” (i. e. the fo- 
reign Sila (Sila Coix Lachryma). “ Maize or Indian Corn” of the white settlers.—Cultivated by the 
white settlers. 
At the time of my visit, only one kind of Indian Corn,—a small yellow-grained one,—was cultivated 
by the white settlers, the natives not having as yet taken to growing it. The native name, foreign Coiz 
Lachryma, is very expressive, because the Maize much resembles in look the indigenous grass with which 
they have compared it. 
* Orpo CVI. LYCOPODIACEZ:. 
Of the five genera comprising this Order, four are represented in Polynesia, but only three inViti, the 
fourth, Tmesipteris, having as yet been found only in the New Hebrides, Norfolk Island, and New Hol- 
land. Forster's specimen of T. Tunensis, Lab. (Osmundoides sp. nov., Forst.-Herb.), is at the British 
Museum, without locality, and, as his * Prodromus" gives no clue, it is altogether doubtful where the specimen 
s collected. Phylloglossum has not been found beyond the limits of New Zealand, New Holland, and 
asmania. 
I. Lycopodium, Linn. Gen. n. 1185 (pro parte); Spring, Monogr. Lycop. vol. i. p. 17. 
Antheridia l-locularia. Oophoridia 0.— Plurima musciformia, foliis conformibus æquilateris, 8-16- 
raro 4-fariis, caule amorpho. Antheridia reniformia, subdidyma, raro transversim ovalia, rima 
transversali apice, raro prope basin, hiantia, indeque specie 2-valvia, pedicello capitato v. capillari 
brevissimo; gongylis (quaternis) subglobosis, facie contigua 4-quetris. Amenta v. 0 v. teretiuscula. 
—Ad. Brongn. Hist. Végét. Fossil. vol. ii. p. 2; Spring in Bot. Zeit. 1838, vol. i. p. 148; Endl. 
Gen. n. 696; Hook. Gen. Fil vol. ix. t. 88. Selago et Lycopodium, Dillen. Hist. Musc. pp. 435, 
441. Plananthus et Lepidotis, Pal. Beauv. Prodr. ZEthéog. pp. 100, 101. 
Besides the species represented in Viti, I have seen at the British Museum the following from 
tropical Polynesia, viz. 1. Z. verticillatum, Linn. (both varieties), from the Hawaiian Islands (Menzies! 
Macrae!); and 2. L. venustulum, Qaud. (L. fastuosum, Sol. Fl. Ins. Pacif. ined. p. 373), from the 
Hawaiian Islands (Menzies!) and Tahiti (Banks and Solander !) 
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