NEW SOUTH SEA ISLAND PLANTS. 71 
PAPHIA Seem., gen. nov. Vaccineacearum.—Calyz adnatus, tubo 
urceolato levi, limbo 5-partito. “Corolla infundibuliformis, 5-costata, 
laeiniis 5 acutis. Stamina 10, distincta; filamenta subulata ; ant, 
-loculares, mutiez, in tubos duos apice liberos product, antice ad 
apicem foraminibus dehiscentibus, basi sursum curvatz. ^ Ovarium 
inferum, 5-loculare, multiovulatum, disco 10-gibbo limboque calycino 
coronatum. Bacca pulposa, ovato-oblonga, levis, 5-locularis, polysperma. 
—Frutex Vitiensis, 4—6-pedalis, ramis angulatis junioribus puberulis, 
foliis alternis ovato-elliptieis acuminatis in petiolum angustatis integer- 
rimis v. dentieulatis, peduneulis axillaribus solitariis pendulis medio 
bibracteatis, bracteis alternis ovato-lanceolatis ciliatis, floribus pulchris 
magnis (2 une. long.), baccis purpurascentibus. 
Paphia Vitiensis, Seem. mss.—Evigynium(?)  Vitiense, Seem. in 
Bonpl: ix. p.257 ; Viti App. p. 438.—Voma Peak, Viti Levu, 4000 
feet: sane the sea (Seemann I, n. 284). Viti Levu (Dr. is AL /, n. 
45). 
The m of this new and beautiful genus is somewhat like that of 
Pentapterygium, Klotzsch, but it is more decidedly funnel-shaped, 
and in’ this respect it also differs from Zpigynium, to which I pro- 
visionally referred the plant from the fruiting specimens I collected. 
The fruit of Paphia differs from that of Pentapterygium, in being smooth, 
not 6-angularj and the anthers of my plant have at the base an appen- 
dix bent upwards. | The’ first leaves of the growing M are dis- 
proportionately ‘small, linear-lanceolate, and toothed. : 
»Vacornium Maegillivrayi, Seem. n. sp. ; fruticosum, erectum, ramu- 
lis foliis peduneülis bracteis calycibus baecisque pruinosis demum viridi- 
bus; rainulis angulatis, foliis obovatis v. elliptieis acutis in petiolum - 
brevem angiüstatis acute serratis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis medio 
bibraéteatis; bracteis linearibus acutis, calycis laciniis obtusis, corolla - 
(alba) campanulata’ apice paulo constricta, bacca globosa.—Island of 
ARN) foka — ases deny a !, in Mus. Brit), collector Y in 
1854, 2 
Ditters from Y^ cereum, Forst., which it resembles in general look, ' 
in the glaucous bloom of the young parts of the plant, the shape of 
the leaves, the obtuse calyx-lobes, and the corolla less constricted at 
the móuüth.'' Leaves thick, coriaceous, evergreen, 1} inch long and t 
of an inch broad, acute, but never acuminate. 
