12 PHYTOGRAPHY OF THE 
CARUMBIUM PEDICELLATUM (Miquel, Flor. Ind. Batav., 
vol. I., part Il, page 414.) 
TANA, where it forms a shrub about five feet high. Easily dis- 
tinguished from C. populifolium (Reinwardt in Blume’s Catalogues, Van 
Gervassen, Buitenzorg, p. 105) a plant also extending to some of the 
Pacific isles, in having its staminiferous racemes provided with minute 
gland-like bracts, which generally occupy the middle of the more elongated 
and singly dispersed pedicels, in having the calyces far less conspicuous, 
the stamens more numerous, and the basal glands of the leaves arising 
from the lower page. Moreover, the fruit is pointed at the base and 
apex, though it is not longer than broad. The Rev. S. T. Whitmee has 
found theidentical speciesin Samoa, where the large-fruited C. acuminatum 
also exists. 
URTICACEAE. 
TREMA CANNABINA (Loureiro, Flor. Cochinchinens, ed. 
Willd., 689.) 
Abundant in TaNA. A lithogram of this plant has been issued in my 
work, ‘‘The Plants of the Colony of Victoria,” plate xc. This bush 
has shown itself poisonous to pastoral animals, who in dry seasons will 
eat it with avidity, but die (according to Mr. T. Maitland’s observations) 
a few hours afterwards. The specific name is derived from the textile 
bast, which might yet be drawn into extensive use on localities where the 
plant spontaneously vegetates. Sent from Samoa by the Rev. S. T. 
‘Whitmee. : 
PIPTURUS ARGENTEUS (Weddell in Candolle prodr. xvi., 235) 
Tana, on hill-sides in woods. The bast-fibre resembles that of the 
Ramee, according to experiments in my laboratory. Mr. Campbell 
found this plant to attain a height of about twenty-five feet, and the fruit 
to be white and watery-succulent. 
BoEHMERIA SPICATA (Thunberg in the Zransact. of the Linn. 
Soc. of Lond., 11., 330.) 
SANTo. Frequent in forestland. A bush about five feet high. Mr. 
Campbell’s collection contains a small branchlet without fruits, which 
does not admit of specific recognition; but the very variable B. spicata is 
recorded as occurring in the New Hebrides. Moreover, it was desirable 
that this plant should not be passed altogether on this occasion, especially 
as it yields a fibre similar to that of the Rhea or Rhamee. The fibre of 
the Santo-Boehmeria would likely become an article of extensive export, 
if its value was once recognised by the native inhabitants, and it would 
probably be obtainable also as an indigenous product from many of the 
adjoining isles. This plant requires still comparison with B. acuminata 
(Weddell in De Candolle, prodr. xvi., 209) from New Caledonia. It is 
identical with a species from Wagap, in Dr. Veillard’s collection, dis- 
tributed under number 1226, so far as, in the absence of fruit, it is possi- 
ble to judge. ‘ 
