1910] WILSON, THE BONIN ISLANDS 117 



von Kittlitz refers to it (Twenty-four views Veget. Pacif . 48) as '' the slender 

 growing Areca." In tlie published accounts of the Islands this Palm is 

 frequently mentioned; and since it proves to be peculiar to the Bonins, it 

 appears to be most fitting that w^e should associate with it the name of one 

 of the pioneers and chief founder of the settlement of Bonin Islands 

 Nathaniel Savorv. 



Ficus lidaiana, sp. no v. 



Arbor tenuis, sparse ramosa, ad 8 m. alta, trunco 0.3 m. circuitu; rami 

 rubro-brunnei; juniores adpresse canescenti-pubescentes pills longioribus 

 villosis intermixtis. Folia membranacea, longe petiolata, ovata, subito 

 breviter acuminata, basi rotundata vel subcordata, 7-15 cm. longa et 5-11 

 cm. lata, margine leviter undulata, supra saturate viridia, initio adpresse 

 pubescentia, niox glaberrima, subtus pallide viridia, sparse et minute ad 

 costam et venas dcnsius puberula, utrinque nervis 5-7 crccto-patentibus 

 secus margincm curvatis et anastomosantibus; petioli 3.5-7 cm. longi, 

 minute adpresse pubescentes; stipulae membranaceae, ovato-lanccolatae, 

 acuminatae, 1.5-3 cm. longae et 5-8 mm. latae. Receptacula axillaria, 

 solitaria vel bina, pedunculo 1.5-3 cm. longo pubescenti, obovoidea vel 

 ellipsoidea, 2-2.5 cm. longa et circiter 1.5 cm. diam., pleraque basi in stipi- 

 tem ad 1 cm. longum contracta, minute adpresse pubescentia, basi bracteis 

 3 membranaceis late ovatis acutis 2-3.5 mm. longis instructa; flores masculi, 

 femlnei et galliferi in eodcm receptaculo; flores masculi perianthio 4-fido; 

 segmenta oblongo-lanceolata, obtusa vel acutiuscula, brunnea; stamina 2, 

 raro 3 vel 1, segmcntis breviora vel subaequilonga, antheris quadrangulari- 

 ellipsoideis quam filamenta longioribus vel rarius subaequilongis; flores 

 feminei, ut videtur, immaturi, segmentis 3-4 anguste lanceolatis; stylus 

 lateralis ovario brevior, stigmate obliquo acuto interdum leviter et inae- 

 qualiter bilobo; flores galhferi segmentis 3-4 inaequalibus lanceolatis ova- 

 rium late obovoideum paullo superantibus vel brevioribus, rudimento styli 

 laterali. Fructus maturus ignotus. 



Bo.vix Islands: Ilaha-jima, Sekimonzan, alt. 300 m., April 2G, 1917, E, IL 

 Wilson (No. 8:510). 



A remarkably distinct species belonging to the section Eusyke and not 

 closely related to any species known to us; well characterized by its leaves 

 and by its relatively large and long-peduncled receptacle. It is apparently 

 rare, for I saw it only on Sekimonzan. 



It is named for ]\Ir. S. lida of Yokohama, Japan, my friend and genial 

 travehng companion to the Bonin Islands. E. H. W. 



Caipidia Nishimurae, comb. nov.—Pisonia Nishimurae Koid-umi in 

 Tokyo Bot. Mag. xxxiii. 120 (1919). 



Bonin Islands: M. Yai and S. Nishunura (type), ex Koidzumi; Haha-jima. 

 common, SekiniDUzau, alt. 0-500 m., April 'iQ, 1917, E. II. Wilson (Xo. 8311; tree 

 10-25 m. tall, ^2-8 m. In girth). 



As we are following Hein:erl (in Oestr. Bot. Zeltschr. lxiii. 279 [1913]) in 



