NEW HEBRIDES AND LOYALTY ISLANDS. 19 
It might still be added, that L. deltoidea, Wight, Illustvat. of 
Indian Bot., 11., 137, tab. 144, has been reduced to L. Japonica by Dr. 
Thwaites (euumeration of Ceylon Plants, p. 172); further, that L. 
quadfiflora (Sims in Botan. Magaz., tab. 660) by priority should take 
precedence of L. longifolia (Pursh Flora of North America, 1., 135,) 
although the excellent Dr. Asa Gray still upholds the latter appella- 
tion. (See Manual of Botany of the Northern United States, fifth 
edition, 1870, p. 316.) ‘ 
L. decurrens is nearest allied to L. lobelioides (Wallich in Roxb. 
Flor. Ind., u., 22) which, according to Himalaian specimens from Dr. 
Falconer, differs already in its capsules valved towards the summit. 
L. Leschenaultii, (Duby in Candolle prody. vii1., 68,) also from upper 
India, of which I have no authentic museum-plants for comparison, 
is distinguished, according to the illustrations given by Wight and 
Klatt, in more distinctly denticulated leaves, and in a more general 
and conspicuous glandular pubesence. It requires closer com- 
parison. 
ASCLEPIADEAE. 
AscLepias Curassavica (Linné, System. Veget., 289 ; spec. 
plant, 1., 314.) 
ANEITYuM; frequent now, though originally immigrated from 
tropical America. 
Hoya austrauis (R. Brown in the Zransactions of the Horit- 
cultural Society of London, vu1., 28.) 
Tana, the original place of discovery of this plant; Dr. Seemann 
having identified it with Asclepias volubilis (G. Forster, prodr. p. 21.) 
In Tana it grows on rocks along the sea. 
APOCYNEAE. 
CeRBeRA Lacraria (Hamilton in De Candolle, prodr. 
VIII... 253.) ; 
Tana, frequent; there a tree about twenty feet high. Mr. Camp- 
bell’s specimens are without fruit, and imperfectly in flower, but seem 
to belong to the above noted species. He describes the fruits egg- 
shaped, green, and abont two inches long. The same species appears 
to occur in Queensland and New Caledonia. It differs from C. 
Odollam (Gaertner, de fructibus, 11., 193, tab. 124) in shorter less 
acute lobes of the calyx, and in smaller and blunter lobes of the 
corolla, which are almost as broad as long, further in smaller fruits. 
