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Preparing for Publication, in Ten Quarterly Parts, each containing Forty Page* 

 of Letter-press, and Ten Plates, Price 1 5,s. coloured, 



FLORA VITIENSIS: 



A DESCRIPTION OF THE PLANTS OF THE 



VITI OR FIJI ISLANDS. 



With an Account of their History, Uses, and Properties. 



BY 



BERTHOLD SEEMANN, PH.D., F.L.S., F.R.G.S., 



Commissioned by H.B.M. Government to explore those Islands ; Author of the 

 Botany of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald. 



THIS Work is to consist of 400 pages of letter-press, size royal 

 quarto, and 100 Coloured Plates by FITCH, illustrating the botanical 

 results of the Fijian mission undertaken by command of Her Majesty's 

 Government. It will also embrace all the plants of that country ac- 

 cumulated by previous expeditions, including those of 



Admiral Sir E. BELCHER, B.N., in H.M.S. Sulphur. 

 Sir E. HOME, Bart., K.N., in H.M.S. North Star. 

 Captain DENHAM, R.N., in H.M.S. Herald. 

 Captain WILKES, in U.S. Exploring Expedition. 

 Professor HARVEY, of Trinity College, Dublin. 



The Fijian Flora comprises about 1000 species, of which 200 (nearly 

 a fourth part of those collected by me) are new to science. Of some 

 entire natural orders not a single member had been previously known ; 

 for instance, the Cyrtandracece and Palms, the latter embracing three 

 new genera ; whilst the peculiarities of the whole Flora will be brought 

 in bold relief by adding a complete enumeration of all Polynesian 

 plants known to exist between lat. 30 south and 30 north. 



The Flora is rich in plants of economic value and ethnological 

 importance, and due prominence will be given to them, thus rendering 

 the work interesting also to other than systematic botanists. 



