14 PHYTOGRAPHY OF THE 
On wooded ridges. Height to about fifteen feet. Corolla white. Style 
glabrous. It varies with leaves rounded at the base, and also with 
rounded capsules. The Rev. S. T. Whitmee has sent the same plant 
from Samoa. c ; 
ACANTHACEAE. 
ERANTHEMUM REPANDUM (R. Brown, according to Roemer 
and Schultes’ Systema Vegetabilium, 1., 175.) 
MARE, Loyalty Islands. To the brief definition published in 1786, by 
George Forster (Fusticia repanda, Flor. Insul. Austral., prodr., page 3) 
which appears as yet to be the only record of this species, the Maré-plant 
sufficiently responds. Tana being about 150 geographical miles distant 
from Maré, it may very readily be assumed that Forster’s original 
Tana-species extends also to the Loyalty Islands. Mr. Campbell’s plant 
forms a bush about three feet high. The leaves are two inches long, or 
less, ovate or verging into a rhomboid form, chartaceous, lightly or im- 
perfectly repand, not acuminate, but provided with conspicuous petioles. 
The number of flowers on the short axillary peduncles is either three or 
it is reduced to two, or even occasionally one. The bracteoles at the base 
of the short pedicels are only two-thirds line long and cymbeo- 
semilanceolar. Segments of the calyx subulate-semilanceolate, hardly 
one and a-half lines long. Corolla white, fragrant, its tube nearly or 
fully one and a-half inches long, slender, slightly curved; lobes broadly 
oval, blunt, one-third to one and a-half inches long. Anthers enclosed 
within the summit of the tube. Style with its upper part exserted. 
Stigma distinctly two-lobed. Fruit unknown. 
This Eranthemum may have a cyclus of forms as wide as that of 
E. variabile. The precise relation of two other congeneric plants of Mr. 
Campbell’s collection to E. repandum remains to be investigated. One 
of these from Eramanga has narrower oblong or lanceolar leaves, with 
not distinctly repand margin, the tube of the corolla shorter in respect to 
the lobes and the anthers exserted. The other Eranthemum alluded to 
came from Santo, where it forms a shrub five feet high, with showy white 
flowers sprinkled with red. The leaves are almost membraneous, the 
lower ones about four inches long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, on com- 
paratively short petioles, repand at the margin; the upper leaves are al- 
most sessile, broadly ovate, gradually narrowed into the pointed apex and, 
not repand; the lower peduncles are usually only one-flowered, while the 
flowers of the summit form a small corymb; the bracteoles are longer and 
so also the segments of the calyces; the tube of the corolla is hardly one 
inch long. Fruit-capsules of none of these three plants are extant for 
comparison, and it may thus on this occasion be passingly remarked, that 
on carpologic characteristic in most in most instances the safe limitation 
of specified forms of plants can be perfected, when floral characters fail to 
effect an exact discrimination. Indeed, the truth of the Bible words, 
“A fructibus eorum cognoscetis eos,” (Evangelium Matthaei, caput V1., 16) 
is also here significant. 
Beyond the species recorded by the late Dr. Seemann as Polynesian, 
the writer is acquainted with Eranthemum variabile (R. Brown, Prodr. 
