1100 DICOTYLEDONEJX. ASTRONIA, 
Folia subeoriacea, 6-8 em. longa, 3-4'/, em. lata. Paniculæ late pyra- 
midatæ, multiflorze, 5-6 cm. longæ. Calyx hemisphzerieus, brevissime 
4-lobatus, 1 '/, mm. latus. 
In ins. Viti (Wilkes, Seemann n. 173). 
Sect. II. NAUDINIA, Triana, l. c. 152 (Gen. Naudinia Decne, l. c.). 
— Calyx in alabastro ealyptratus, demum circumscisse deciduus 
vel irregulariter 3-5-lobatus. — Spec. 20-24. 
A. Calyx transverse regulariter cireumsceissus. 
20. A. Samoensis (S. Le M. Moore! in Journ. of Bot. 1880, 
p. 3); ramis obscure tetragonis; foliis oblongis, acutis, basi obtusius- 
culis, distinete 3-nerviis; alabastro subgloboso, basi rotundato. 
rutex glaberrimus, ramis satis gracilibus. Petiolus 2 '/, em. lon- 
gus. Folia subcoriacea, 12 em. longa, 4';, cm. lata. Cymæ corymbi- 
formes, multiflore, interdum pauecifoliate, */,-1 dm. longs. Calyx 
5 mm. latus. Petala late ovata, subacuta, 4 mm. longa. Stylus 6 mm. 
longus, stigmate vix incrassato. 
In ins. Samoa (Whitmée, Luerssen).. 
21. A. glabra (Triana ! l. c. 152); ramis teretiusculis ; foliis obo- 
vato-oblongis, acuminatis, basi acutis, fere uninerviis; alabastro obo- 
vato-oblongo, basi longe attenuato. — Melastoma glabra Forst. 
Prodr. n. 194; Willd. Spec. IL, 534. — Conostegia glabra D. Don in 
Mem. Wern. Soc. IV, 317; DC. 1. c. 176. — Astronia Forsteri Naud.' 
l. e. 258; A. Gray, l. c. 721 (part.). — Astronia fraterna Seem. 
Vit. 85 et 86 (non A. Gray). — Naudinia Forsteri Decne ex Triana, 
A 
Frutex dumiformis, 1 */,-2 m. altus, glaberrimus, ramis gracillimis. 
Petiolus 1-1*/, em. longus. Folia coriacea, 4-6 cm. longa, 17-22 mm. 
lata. Cymæ corymbiformes, submultiflorze, 3-4 cm. longse; pedicelli 
5-8 mm. longi. Alabastrum obtusum, 7-8 mm. longum, 4 mm. 
crassum. 
In ins. Societatis (Forster, Ribourt). 
B. Calyx profunde 3-5-lobatus. 
22. A. pileolata (Triana! l. c. 152, — nomen); ramis acutiuscule E 
tetragonis; foliis breviuscule petiolatis, ovato-oblongis, acute acum" p 
