GENERAL INDEX 



627 



bution, 68, 563 ; seeds dispersed by 

 currents, 57 ; seed-buoyancy, 56, 

 1 06, 529 ; seeds in beach-drift, 

 437-8, 558-9 ; seeds in river-drift, 

 435, 489 (species in last case un- 

 identified) 



Viola ; in Hawaiian mountain-flora, 

 253, 272 ; modes of dispersal, 277 ; 

 seed-buoyancy, 533, 536 ; seed- 

 mucosity, 278, 567-8 

 Viscum, 355, 358, 377, 536 

 Vitex ; relation between littoral and 



inland species, 134, 137 

 Vitex trifolia ; station and distribu- 

 tion, 50, 551-2, 563-4; growing 

 inland, 42, 547-8, 560 ; dispersal 

 by currents, 56, 57, 564; buoyancy 

 of fruits, 108, 122, 5 30; their occur- 

 rence in river-drift, 435, and in 

 beach-drift, 559 ; dispersal by 

 birds, 57, 122, 564 ; see Additions 

 and Corrections 

 Variety, unifoliolata, 108, 547-8, 552, 



556, 559, 560 



Vitex agnus castus, 109, 431 

 Viti Levu, 207-8 



Vivipary (germination on the plant;, 

 78, 84-7, 132, 191, 468, 521, 564, 

 574-6 ; a lost habit with many 

 plants and only indicated by ano- 

 malies in seed-structure, 79, 132, 

 470,473, 521,575 

 Vries, Prof. H. de, 573 



WALKER, Mr. F. P., 490, 495, 597 

 Wallace, Mr. A. R., 7, 242, 247, 259, 



400 



Wallis Island, 349, 551 

 Walsh, Canon, on the Cordyline of 



the Maoris, 420 

 Waltheria americana, 375, 416, 427, 



533, 553-4,604 

 Waltheria pyrolsefolia, 375 



Warburg, Dr., 54 ; on Pandanus, 



J 55-S> 580 ; on Freycinetia, 319-22, 



510; on the Samoan species of 



Ficus, 387 



Warming, E., on Rhizophora, 450, 453 

 Webster, Mr. H., on Ecuador, 495 

 Wedelia, 108, 116, 529, 551, 563 

 Weed, Prof., 277, 364 

 Weeds of Polynesia, 415, 427, 604 

 Weinmannia, 290-1, 292-4, 297, 305 

 Whymper, Mr., on insects at great 



altitudes, 510, 583 

 Wichmann, A., on the submergence 



of the Western Pacific islands, 304 

 Wiglesworth, Mr., on Polynesian 



birds, 66, 296 



Wikstrcemia, 45, 333, 348, 357, 53 

 Wilkes, Commodore ; meteorological 



observations on the summit of 



Mauna Loa, 210, 583, 585, 586 

 Wilkesia, 236-7, 240, 243-4 

 Willow-leaved river-side plants, 395, 



603 

 Wilson, Mr. S. B., on the vegetable 



food of Hawaiian birds, 151, 321 

 Winds ; in plant-dispersal, 226, 259, 



511 ; on the summit of Mauna Loa, 



583 ; see Drying-winds 

 Wolff, Dr., on Ecuador, 476, 486, 



494-5 

 Wolffia, found by the author in Fiji, 



408 



Wollastonia, 109 

 Woodford, Mr. C. M., 66 



XEROPHYTES, 32, 39, 201, 515 

 Ximenia americana, 107, 113, 115, 122, 

 128, 529, 563 



YAMS, 412-4 



ZANNICHELLIA PALUSTRIS, 537 

 Zippelius, on Scirpodendron, 406 



