NEW HEBRIDES AND LOYALTY ISLANDS, 7 
Murraya Exotica (Keenig, in Linn. Mantiss. Alt, Plant. 
P- 554:) 
Santo. There only four feet high, when in flower. The older and 
restorable name, Chalcas paniculata (Lin. Mantiss., p. 68; Chalcas 
cammuneng, Burmann’s Flor. Ind., p. 104) is referable to this plant. 
Known also from New Caledonia. 
CLAUSENIA CRENULATA; Murraya crenulata (Oliver, in the 
Proceed. of the Linn, Soc. vol. 5, sup. p. 29.) 
Tana. A tree attaining a height of thirty feet, and perhaps more. 
Leaflets chartaceous, the lower ones sometimes hardly above an inch 
in length ; all often only very faintly crenulate. Cymes forming a 
dense corymbose terminal panicle. Peduncles and pedicels thinly 
downy; the latter when flower-bearing about one line long, when 
fruit-bearing lengthened to three or four lines. Calyces five—cleft, 
hardly above half a line high, nearly one line wide ; its lobes deltoid— 
semi-orbicular. Petals almost oblong, overlapping at the lateral 
margins, white, sessile, nearly a quarter of an inch long. Stamens 
ten; five alternately somewhat shorter; the longer filaments about 
two lines long, downward more dilated than the others; all nearly 
subulate. Anthers one-third of a line long, erect, with two parallel 
- oval cells. Pistil glabrous. Style about one line long, deciduous, 
rather thick. Stigma visibly exceeding the width ofthe style. Berry 
depressed—globular, slightly raised on an extremely short stipes, about 
two-thirds of an inch broad, four celled, not rarely perfecting all its 
seeds. Pericarp thin. Septa membranous. Seeds smooth, ovate— 
trigonous. Cotyledons plan—convex, not folded. 
This plant connects the genera Clausena and Murraya, which 
eventually might be united, should even no additional members of the 
genera hereafter be discovered. Clausenia claims antecedence as be- 
ing published in 1768 (Burmann, Flor. Ind., p. 87); whereas Murraya, 
or, as it was originally written, Murraea, became promulgated in 1771. 
But, with still greater justice, Burmann’s generic name would have to 
give way to that of Calchas, established by Linné in 1767 (both in his 
first Mantiss. pag. num. 1261; and in the twelfth edition of the 
Syst. Nat. vol. 2, p. 293,) Chalcas paniculata being referable to 
Murraya exotica. 
Mr. Campbell’s plant agrees with that from Queensland, at least 
as far as foliage and fruit are concerned, the flowers of the East 
‘Australian congener having as yet not been collected. Those of the 
Tana plant accord, however, with the short description given by 
Oliver of the original species from the Phillippine Islands. The 
corymbosely depressed inflorescence separates Clausenia or Chalcas 
crenulata already from all other species of that genus known to me. 
In the shape of its berries it differs, likewise, from most, if not all, of 
its congeners. This is a new plant for Polynesian records. 
Evopia HorTENSIS (R. and G. Forster, Charact. Gener., 
p- 14, tab. 7.) ; 
Santo, EraTe, and Tana. Flowering already at a height of two 
feet. Both the narrow and broad-leaved varieties were collected by 
Mr. Campbell. ’ 
