20 PHYTOGRAPHY OF THE 
TABERNAEMONTANA ORIENTALIS (R. Brown, Prodr. Flor. 
Nov., Holland, 468.) 
EraTE, together with Ixora Pavetta. Only the fruit gathered. 
CONVOLVULACEAE. 
CONVOLVULUS PARVIFLORUS (Vahl, Syméol, 111., 29.) 
Erate. Mr. Campbell notes the flowers as light-yellow. R.& G.. 
Forster originally found this plant in New Caledonia already during 
Captain Cook’s second great discovery voyage; but it had hitherto 
not been brought from any part of Polynesia, although it is known to 
be amply dispersed over continental and insular India and the more 
littoral parts of tropical Australia. 
CASUARINEAE. 
CASUARINA EQUISETIFOLIA (R. & G. Forster, Charact. 
Gen. p. 103, fig. 52.) 
ANIWA. 
CONIFERAE. 
NAGEIA CUPRESSINA (Podocarpus cupressina, R. Brown in 
Memotr. du Musée, X11., 75.) 
New Hesripes. L’Heritier’s genus Podocarpus was first publicly 
noticed in 1806, by La Billardiere (Nov. Holl. plant spec. t1., 11) ina 
note referring to the South-African Podocarpus elongata, and repub- 
lished by Persoon in 1807 (Synops. Plantar., 11., 580,) whereas 
Gaertner’s genus Nageia was clearly rendered known already in 1788 
(De Fructib. et Seminib., 1, 191, tab. 49.) 
SCITAMINEAE. 
GUILLAINA Novo-EBuDICca. 
Flowers solitary in the axil of the thinly chartaceous very obtuse 
slightly distant bracts, without any special cylindrical bracteole ; lobes 
of the corolla as well as the labellum small and short. 
Santo, somewhat inland, in open places of the forests. 
The finder noticed only one individual plant, which was six feet 
high. Well developed leaves, long lanceolar, one to one and a-half 
feet long, about two inches broad, paler beneath; clasping portion of . 
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