74 NEW SOUTH SEA ISLAND. PLANTS. 
A. semicostatum, Bl. (alatum, Brack), ye Levu (n. 3). 
Doodia connexa, Kunze, Viti Levu (n. 
Dicksonia Berteroana, Hook., Viti simi (n. 7). 
Diplazium bulbiferum, Brack., Uvea (n. 18). 
ver cuspidatum, Ehrh., Viti Leyu (n. 37). 
Hypnum? sp., Viti Levu (n. 59). 
; ‘MartkanGe pileata, Mitten., Viti Levu (n. 54). 
_ Bacxea. zelitrioides, Seem. n. sp.; fruticosa ; ramulis foliis, pe- 
dunculis calycibusque cano-tomentellis demum glabris ; foliis oppositis, 
ellipticis, obtusis, subtus punctatis ; pedunculis axillaribus, 3—5-floris, 
bracteolatis ; calycis laciniis oblongis, obtusis; petalis (albis) 5, obo- 
vatis, obtusis; puberulis; staminibus 10; filamentis basi hirsutis, apice 
eglandulosis ; ovario villoso, 3-loculari; stylo basi villoso; capsula 3- 
loeulari.—New Caledonia (Sir E. Home !, in Brit. Minim). collected 
in 1846. 
Has very much the look peculiar to Neliéris, and has leaves larger 
than any other species of Beckea known to me, 1 inch long, and 4 of 
an inch broad.  Petiole very short. 
. .MEDUSANTHERA, gen. nov. Icacinearum.—Char. Gen, Flores poly- 
gami v.? hermaphroditi. Calyz cupuliformis, obscure 5-dentatus. Pe- 
tala 5, hypogyna, obovata, incurva, zstivatione valvata, Discus incon- 
, Spicuus. Stamina 5, hypogyna, petalis alterna ; filamentis compressis, 
apice ad latus interius in ramos 8 longissimos clavatos dilatatis. æn- 
there erect, biloculares. | Ovarium ovato-conicum (1-ovulatum ?). 
Stigma sessile. Fructus . . . .—Arbor Vitiensis, mediocris, subglabra, 
ramis pendulis ; foliis SS. exstipulatis, petiolatis ovato-oblongis, 
longe acuminatis, integerrimis, penninerviis; floribus axillaribus, cy- 
mosis, albidis; cymis 2-3-chotomis, pedunculis bracteis lanceolatis 
minutis instructis. Species unica :-— 
1. MEDUSANTHERA Vitiensis, Seem. mss. ; Stemonurus ?, sp. Bonpl. 
x. p. 296.—Bureta, Island of Ovalau (J. ‘Sle /, n. 877), where, ac- 
cording to its discoverer, it is called ** Duv 
Medusanthera is closely allied to Toa but the anthers, instead 
of having numerous thin and long hairs on the base of the inner side, 
have in this genus only eight long clavate threads, which cover them in 
æstivation in the same way as the hairs do in Lasianthera, and they seem 
to be branches of the filaments. . The calyx, also, is not 5-lobed, as in 
Lasianthera, but cup-shaped, and with five obscure teeth, and -on the 
whole margin ciliolate; the inflorescence is more truly cymose. Un- 
