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bellifera, Forst. Char. Gen. p. 11, t. 71 (1776). C. umbellata, Forst. 
Prodr. p. 93, n. 569 (1186); Forst. Icon. ined. t. 300! Pisonia ex- 
. celsa, Blum. Bijdr. p. 185 (1825); Choisy, in, De Cand. Prodr. xiii. 
sect. 9, p. 441 (1849). P. macrocarpa, Presl, Symb. t. 56 (1833). 
P. Forsteriana, Endl. in Herb. Meyen, ex Schauer et Walp. Nova Acta 
Nat. Cur. xix.; Suppl. p. 403, t. 51 (1843). P. Sinelairi, Zook. f. 
Fl. New Zeal. i. p. 209, t. 50 (1853). P. Mooreana, F. Mueller, 
Fragm. i. p. 20 (1858—59). Nomen vernaculum Javanicum, teste 
Blume, * Kitjauro ;" Novo-Zelandicum, teste Hook. f., * Parapara.” 
. The geographical range of this species is, like that of most of its 
congeners, very extensive. We have it from Java (Horsfield ! in Mus. 
Brit., Teijsmann !, Lobb ! n. 29), Philippine Islands (Cuming ! n. 523), 
Timor (Spanoghe), Tanna (J. R. and G. Forster }, W. Anderson! in 
Mus. Brit.), Viti (Seemann ! n. 364), New South Wales (Cunningham ! 
FE. Mueller ! Macarthur ! Harvey! Bidwill?), Norfolk Island (Cun- 
ningham !), Oahu, Sandwich Islands (Seemann / m. 2995, Beechey /), 
and Northern Island of New Zealand (Sinclair! Colenso ! Bauer). 
No locality is quoted for Meyen’s specimen ; it was probably picked 
up in the Philippine Islands. i i 
Choisy (De Cand. Prodr. 1. c.) says that this species is easily distin- 
guished from Pisonia Brunoniana, Endl., by the leaves always being 
acute, not rounded at the base, which is certainly correct ; but a much 
better distinction. is, that in P. Brunoniana the fruit is covered, with 
‘spines, and all the leaves are opposite, whilst in P. wmbellifera the fruit 
is without spines and the upper leaves of the branches are in whorls. 
are no specimens of Forster's plant at the British Museum, but there 
1$ a very good drawing of it by his own hand; and we have besides his 
manuscript notes, published by Guillemin in his * Zephyrites Taitensis,' 
p.39. Amongst Parkinson's coloured drawings of Tahitian plants, 
preserved at the British Museum, there is an excellent figure of this 
plant under the name of P. grandis, a name which R. Brown has 
adopted for the New Holland species, with which the Tabitian is per- 
fectly identical. As Jacquin’s P. inermis is a mere synonym of P. 
mitis, Linn. (nigricans, Swartz*), there is no reason why Forster’s 
* P. mitis of Linnaeus has hitherto been looked upon as a very doubtful species 
