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ON THE GENUS CEODES OF FORSTER. 
By BERTHOLD SEEMANN, PH.D., F.L.S. 
... Ceodes was first made known by Forster in his Char. Gen. p. 11, t. 
71, in the year 1776, having been discovered on the 12th of August, 
1174, on the island of Tanna, during Captain Cook's second voyage ; but 
the genus has been entirely overlooked by Endlicher, Lindley, and even 
Choisy in De Candolle's ‘ Prodromus. I have already stated (Bon- 
plandia, x. p. 154, 1862) that I regard Ceodes umbellifera, as Forster 
first (Char. Gen.), and C. umbellata as he afterwards (Prodromus) 
called it, a species of Pisonia, which I have named P. umbellifera ; but 
until now I have not been able to work up its synonymy. f 
It will be seen from the description and plates in the Char. Gen. 
p. and t. 71, that the specimens at Forster's disposal had only 
male flowers; and that he could give but an imperfect generic cha- 
racter, which has not allowed botanists who had no access to the origin 
specimens to guess even the position of Ceodes in the natural system. 
Fortunately, there is a good set of the original specimens at the British 
useum, and also a characteristic drawing of the whole plant made by 
Forster on the spot. These materials leave no doubt what Forster's 
plant, placed by him in the Linnean Class Polygamia, really is, and 
by comparing them with others from the same region, I became 
convinced that Ceodes had a host of synonyms. To begin the work of 
rectification with my own species, I now hold that the specimens from 
Viti distributed by me under no. 364, and provisionally named Pisonia 
iscida, on account of the viscid nature of the utriculus, must be re- 
ferred here. . What has been figured and described in Meyen's plants P 
(Nov. Act, Nat. Cur. xix. Suppl. p. 403, t. 51), under the name of 
P. Forsteriana, exactly represents the state of my specimens. Choisy 
erroneously referred P. Forsteriana to P. inermis. P. excelsa, Blume, from 
Java, is also a synonym. Nor does P. Sinclairi, Hook. f., from New 
Zealand, Norfolk Island, and New South Wales, of which a branch 
with hermaphrodite flowers is figured in the Flora of New Zealand, | 
prove different. The same applies to P. macrocarpa, Presl, already re- 
ferred to P. excelsa by Choisy and P. Mooreana, F. Mueller. We 
have therefore the following synonymy :— : ee 
Pisonia umbellifera, Seem. in Bonpl. x. p. 154 (1862). Ceodes um- 
