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sufficiently specto it is still a question what names these species 
i us called his plant ** Acorum ;" Rheede used the 
native name, “ secta ;" Petit (Gen. 49; 1710) thought it desirable 
to retain the old appellation, Calamus aromaticus. 
Thus, in 1763, Linneus enumerated 6 genera and 38 species; to-day, 
just one hundred years later, we have 116 genera, and from 1044-50 
species of Aroidea. 
THE SOLANA OF TROPICAL POLYNESIA. 
Bx BERTHOLD Seemann, Pu.D., F.L.S. 
On finally determining the Solana of Viti for my forthcoming Flora, 
I was led to examine all the other Nightshades inhabiting the tropical 
parts of Polynesia, and preserved at the British Museum and in the 
herbaria of Sir W. J. Hooker and Mr. Bentham. They amount to 
fifteen species, only seven of which were given in Professor A. Gray E 
recent Polynesian list.* 
* Armata. 
1. S. incompletum, Dunal, in De Cand. Prod. xiii. sect. i. p. 311.— 
Hawaii (Nelson / in Mus. Brit. ; Remy, n. 451, fide A. Gray). 
There are two specimens of this, without flower and fruit, at the 
British Museum, which Dunal provisionally named 5. Sandwichianum, 
a name a cancelled. 
S. xanthocarpum, Schrad. et Wendl. Sert. Hanov. i. p. 8. t. 2.— 
Oahu, Sándwidh ers Mieten ! in Mus. Brit. ; Seemann! n. 1121), 
where it is called “ d 
Probably d cim India. The plant is about two feet high, 
and in my notes I call the berries scarlet. The calyx is clad with large 
straw-coloured spines. 
** Inermia. 
3. S. Vitiense, Seem. Flora Vit. ined. (sp. nov.) —Fiji Islands (Seem. 
n. 340). 
* There is a generic term for these plants ttt the Polynesian rem is 
m including n pom ** Boro,” ** Por * Poro the dif- 
ferent dialects have oe "— 
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