_NEW HEBRIDES AND LOYALTY ISLANDS. II 
with a calyx cup-shaped in bud, but not closed, while the fruit is much 
larger—one-and-a-half to two inches long, and so much impressed around 
the pedicel as to form four turgid prominences. In Upola, where it is 
frequent, it passes by the name of ‘‘Falaga,” according to the Rev. S. T. 
Whitmee. Barringtonia speciosa (R. & G. Forster, Charact. Gener., 
p. 76, tab. 38) occurs, doubtless, also in the New Hebrides and adjoining 
islets, it having been traced to Rockingham’s Bay and some other shores 
of North Queensland. Some of the other Indian species of Barringtonia 
may be looked for in the Pacific archipelagus as well as in tropical Aus- 
tralia. The sections Butonica and Stravadium of Barringtonia hold, in 
reference to the forms of their calyx, almost the same relation to each 
other as Busbeckia to Eucapparis in the genus Capparis. 
MELASTOMACEAE. 
MeEtastoMA MatapaTHRicum (Linné, sf. £7,559; M. velu- 
tinum, Seemann., /Zor. Vit., p. go. 
ANEITYUM ; there a bush five feet high. Petals white, as in the 
variety described as M. Taitense (De Cand. prod. I11., 144.) 
The allied order of Lythracez, by an oversight, is passed unnoticed 
in Dr. Seemann’s work, so rich ini original observations. The following 
plants of that order are known to exist in the Pacific islands :—Pemphis 
acidula (R. & G. Forster, Charact. Gener., p. 68, tab. 34); Lythrum 
maritimum (Humboldt, Bonpl. et Kunth. nov. gen. et spec. Amer., V1., 193); 
Sonneratia acida (Linné, fil. spl. A/., 252) ; and to these are probably to 
be added, Lythrum’ hyssopifolium, Lawsonia alba and several species 
of Ammannia. Cupheanthus Neo-Caledonicus (Seemann, Flor. Vit., 
p. 76) requires to be moved from Myrtacez also to Lythracez, as sug- 
gested by its author. 
EUPHORBIACEAE. 
CopIZUM VARIEGATUM (Blumé, Bydrag., p. 606.) 
Tana, in the woods, where it attains a height of fifteen feet. The 
generic name, established by Rumpt (Herbar. Amboin, rv., 65-66) al- 
ready 120 years ago, should be adopted also in horticultural appellations 
for this plant, as it is not a Croton in the scientific meaning of that ex- 
tensive genus. 
EvPHORBIA HIRTA (Linnd, Amoen. Academ., 111., 114.) 
SANTO; frequent near the sea-shore. The above specific name is far 
preferable to that of E. pilulifera, first given on the same page of the 
work quoted. . 
AcALYPHA FosTERIANA (J. Mueller, in De Cand. prodr. XN1., 
pars I1., 870.) 
EFATE, and other islands of the New Hebrides; abundant in woods, 
A shrub up to six feet high. Another species exists in Tana, growing in 
woody localities to the height of twenty feet. It requires further examina- 
tion from more extensive material. 
