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breviter fulvo-pubescentibus; calyce longe tubuloso fructu cylindrico 

 siliqujfiformi (1^- 2-pollicari) ucuto -^ breviore sero deciduo. — Sandal- 

 wood or Mbua Bay, Vanua-levu, Feejee Islands. A solitary speci- 

 men, in fruit only. Evidently allied to C. Milnei, by the pubescence, 

 tubular calyx, &c. The latter is made out from vestiges which remain 

 upon one side of one of the fruits, showing that it attains fully an inch 

 in length. Yet it is exceeded by the singularly elongated fruit, which, 

 except in form, resembles that of other species of Cyrtandra, i. e. is 

 corticate, probably fleshy when fresh, but juiceless, and indehiscent. 

 The stamens must determine whether its relationship is with Fieldla 

 or Whitia (the latter probably no good genus) ; but other Polynesian 

 species exhibit a similar, only less elongated fruit. 



Cyrtandra involucrata. Seem. 1. c. A very imperfect speci- 

 men, from Ovolau, appears to belong to this species (the involucre 

 fallen) ; but my specimen from Dr. Seemann wants the flowers, that 

 of the Expedition the fruit, and both the corolla, — so that I cannot 

 properly identify them nor furnish a specific character. In ours, the 

 calyx is rostrately acuminate in the bud, the lobes subulate from a 

 broad base and about the length of the ovoid-campanulate tube. 



Cyrtandra anthropophagorum (Seem. 1. c.) : frutescens, minu- 

 tim fusco-pubescens ; foliis oblongis acuminatis subserratis (3-5-poll.) ; 

 pedunculis petiolo brevioribus paucifloris, pedicellis flore longioribus ; 

 calyce ad medium 5-fido, lobis subulato-lanceolatis corolla (semipol- 

 licari) dimidio brevioribus ; fructu ovato-oblongo. — Ovolau. The 

 flower is described from scanty materials in the collection of the Ex- 

 pedition, the young fruit from that of Dr. Seemann. 



Cyrtandra Pritchardi, Seem. 1. c. Ovolau. Dr. Seemann's 

 materials are probably much better than ours. 



The Feejee Islands are apparently as rich as the Sandwich Islands 

 in species of Cyrtandra. Besides those above mentioned. Dr. Seemann 

 has the following undescribed ones, which are not in the Exploring 

 Expedition's collection : C. aciitangida, with square branches ; G. Viti- 

 ensis, with a tubular calyx ; C. coleoides, and C. ciliata. None of these 

 wholly accords with one collected by Prof. Harvey, nor with the char- 

 acters of Bentham's G. calycma and C. latifolia. The former must, 

 by its calyx, be of the same group with C. Vitiensis, C. Milnti, tV;c. 



GentianacecE. 



ErythrjEA sab^oides. Schenkia sahceoides, Griseb. in Bon- 

 plandia, 1, p. 226. This plant was not met with by the naturalists of 

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