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Wilkes's Expedition. But having examined a specimen of Seemann's 

 no. 2272, and of Remy's no. 375, fx'om Oahu, I cannot regard the 

 plant as other than, a close congener of the plant which it most resem- 

 bles, viz. Erythrcea spicata. The leaves are broader and rounder, 

 being broadly oval, the tube of the corolla proportionally shorter and 

 its lobes broader ; the sepals are less narrow and more carinate, or, if 

 you please, winged on the back. But this varies somewhat, even in the 

 sepals of the same flower, and at most is only a matter of degree, the 

 sepals being carinate, at the base sharply so, in E. spicata. So other 

 American species effect a transition in this respect to Gyrandra, Griseb. 

 {Erythrcea chironioides, Torr.). Grisebach describes the stigma of his 

 SchenHa as " capitulatum," or " crassiusculum " ; but there must be 

 some mistake or confusion here. For in Seemann's own specimens, 

 which I have examined, as also in those of Remy, the stigma is very 

 large and just as in E. spicata, that is, appearing as this organ is char- 

 acterized by Grisebach in the section Spicaria, but upon maceration 

 separating ^completely into two nearly orbicular flat divisions. 



In Erythrcea generally I cannot verify the character " corolla supra 

 capsulam con^or^o-marcescens." 



LiMNANTHEMUM Kleinianum, Griseb. var. ? Imperfect specimens 

 of a Limnanthemum from the Feejee Islands, said to be " common in 

 Taro ponds, and probably introduced," (and similar ones were collected 

 there by Dr. Harvey,) accord, except in their smaller leaves, with Dr. 

 Seemann's 323, referred by him to L. Kleinianum. But they differ 

 from my only Indian specimen of the latter (from Maisor or the Car- 

 natic, coll. Thomson and Hooker) in not having thi-ee ribs prominent 

 underneath, in their smaller flowers (the corolla in all too poor for 

 investigation), and in their flat and acute-edged, perfectly smooth 

 seeds. Those of the Indian specimen referred to are not badly repre- 

 sented in Hook. Bot. Misc. 3, suppl. t. 30, in the figures which Grise- 

 bach excludes from the species,' being turgid, obtuse at the margin, 

 and their face minutely muricate by fine spiculae, which, however, may 

 be readily rubbed off. 



SolanacecB. 



SoLANTJM Nelsoni (Dunal in DC. Prodr. 13, p. 123 ?) : inerme, 

 pube stellata fulvo- seu fiavido-tomentosum ; caulibus fruticosis pro- 

 cumbentibus ; foliis cordatis vel rotundo-subcordatis integerrimis utrin- 

 que moUiter tomentosis saepius cum axillari parvo ; racemo paucifloro 



