8 PHYTOGRAPHY OF THE 
TILIACEAE. 
TRIUMFETTA ANGULATA (La Marck, Lycyclop. Method, 
IIL, p. 421.) 
ANEITYUM and Tana. Abundant on clear flats. Height, two to 
three feet. Not previously recorded from any of the islands of the 
Pacific ocean, nor from Australia. Sepals conspicuously hairy. 
Stamens, twelve to sixteen. Fruit-awns sometimes beset with 
minute bristles. 
GREwiIa MaLLococca (Linné fil. Supplem. Plant., p. 402.) 
Santo and Tana, in forests. Height to twenty feet, and per- 
haps more. Leaves attaining a length of eight inches. Peduncles 
one to three-flowered, solitary or two together. Flower-buds first 
globular, soon egg-shaped. Bracts two to three lines long, ovate 
lanceolate, very early deciduous. Sepals four to six lines long, white 
inside, not distinctly nerved. Petals acute. This species approaches 
in many respects to G. orientalis (L., Sp. Pl. 964) and to G. laevigata 
(Vahl, Symbol, 434.) Irrespective of some other differences, its longer 
leaves with deeper indentations distinguish it. 
It may here passingly be observed, that Trichospermum Richii 
(Seemann, in Bonplandia, p. 254) has been found also in the Samoan 
group by the Rev. S.T. Whitmee. The leaves of this remarkable tree 
attain a length of over six inches. 
MALVACEAE. 
SIDA RHOMBIFOLIA (Linné, Sp. Plant, 961.) 
SanTo. This herb might be utilised for the sake of its beautiful 
fibre—especially as the plant is perennial, and occurs probably in abun- 
dance on all the islands of the group, Captain Cook himself (as recorded 
by Dr. Seemann) having gathered it already at Tana. The leaves are 
more frequently lanceolar than rhombiformed, and on the specimens 
transmitted from Santo, they are scarcely paler beneath. The sides of 
the fruitlets are distinctly reticular to above the middle. 
Higiscus ABELMOSCHUS (Linné, sf. Z/., 980.) 
Santo. A purple-flowered variety, according to Mr. Campbell’s 
note. In respect to colour, the flowers of this plant seem to be variable ; 
although in no instance this capability of variation among Malvaceae isas 
great as in the Hollyhock, while in most species of this extensive order no 
play of colours seems to occur. ; 
Higiscus Rosa Sinensis (Linné, sf. A/., 977.) 
ERAMANGA, The number of segments of the surrounding bracteal 
involucre varies from six to ten, 
