NEW HEBRIDES AND LOYALTY ISLANDS. 17 
PRIMULACEAE. 
LYSIMACHIA DECURRENS (G. Forster, Flor. Insul. Anstral. 
prodr. p. 12; L. Javanica, Blume, Biydragen tot de Flora 
van Nederlandsch, Indie, p. 736; L. multifiora, Wallich in 
Candolle prodr. vi1., 62, non Klatt, fide Miquel Aznad. 
Mus. Bot. Lugdun, Batav., w., 145; . sinica, Miquel 
in Fourn. de Botan., Neerland, t., 110.) 
Herbaceous, glabrous; leaves scattered, membranous, almost 
lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed into a conspicuous and decurrent 
petiole, mainly towards the margin glandulous; racemes terminal, 
many-flowered; bracts subulate-linear, shorter than the pedicels ; 
flowers small; corolla white, little longer than the lanceolate segments 
of the calyx; its lobes twice as long as the tube, blunt, entire, almost 
oblong; stamens disconnected, exserted; anthers almost oval, many 
times shorter than the capillary filaments; staminodia none; style 
rather long, filiform; capsule globose, valveless, slightly excelling the 
calyx in length; seeds smooth, almost tetrahedrous, numerous, 
wingless. 
In open flats of Tana. A herb, about one foot high, not much 
branched. Stems fistulose, prominently angular. Leaves, when fully 
developed, from two to three inches long, entire, somewhat paler be- 
neath. Racemes attaining a length of eight inches, but occasionally 
few-flowered, and then hardly above one inch long. Pedicels thin, 
very spreading, at first about two lines, subsequently four lines long, 
angular, beset with exceedingly minute glands. Calyces about one 
and a-half lines long; the segments broadly or oftener narrowly 
lanceolate, at the inner side marked with four streaks. Corolla, chiefly 
in its lower part, dotted with minute dark glands ; its lobes overlapping 
in bud. Stamens inserted on the base of the lobes of the corolla. 
Filaments one and a-half to two lines long, downward beset with 
minute black prominent glands. Anthers versatile, about one-fourth 
ofalinelong. Style also glabrous, thinly filiform, slightly thickened 
upwards, about two lines long, persistent. Stigma depressed, exceed- 
ingly minute. Capsule extensively surrounded by the appressed calyx, 
thinly ‘cartilagineous or slightly crustaceous, measuring one and a-half 
to two lines, breaking at last irregularly, outside opaque, inside very 
shining. Placenta thinly and conspicuously stalked, globular, densely 
covered with the seeds. The latter dark brown or black, smooth, of 
about a quarter line measurement, flat at the vertex, thus forming, 
with the placenta, an even globular mass. 
From the material, brought by Mr. Campbell, I am now enabled to 
bring this plant, which was buried in obscurity for almost a century, 
anew into fuller light; and therefore I offer now a somewhat extensive 
description of it. The two Forsters discovered it in Tana during 
Cook’s second voyage, and the younger Forster gave, in 1786, the 
