24 PHYTOGRAPHY OF THE 
remarkable strength. The Pacific plants of this genus require yet a 
fuller description from ampler material. 
FLAGELLARIEAE. 
JOINVILLEA ELEGANS (Gaudichaud, Voyage autour du Monde 
sur la Bonite, Botanique, Atlas, pl. 39, fig. 7, 26. 
ANEITYUM; very abundant on flat open ground. Mr. Campbell 
observes that the plant is up to ten feet high, and very useful to the 
Natives, it being used for trellises, thatches, fences and other require- 
ments. The material before me consists of a flowering panicle, and 
another with unripe fruits. I note some discrepancies from the 
descriptions given by Jos. Hooker (Kew Miscellany, 1855, p. 200, pl. 6) 
The anthers are attached to the filament near their base, and the 
latter are not as long as or even longer than the anthers, but so short 
as to render the anthers almost sessile. Brogniart and Gris (Annales 
des Scienc. Natur., 1864, p. 332) also found the “filets assez courts.” 
These diversities of structure, in all probability, may be reconciled to 
dimorphism ; or perhaps the stamens become.elongated in advancing 
age. The sepals are more or less acuminate, and the three inner ones 
are sometimes hardly shorter than the rest. In Fiji specimens, re- 
corded by Seemenn (Flor. Viti., p. 315) the stigmata are mostly yet 
persistent in the ripe fruit, while the berries of the Aneityum plant 
are generally deprived of the stigmata already ina young state. When 
not all three seeds are ripening, then the berry becomes oblique. 
This stately somewhat palm-like plant would probably prove hardy 
here, like the allied Flagellaria Indica, and would for scenic effect be 
valuable in our gardens. 
CYPERACEAE. 
RHYNCHOSPORA AUREA (Vahl, Enumer. Plant. u., 291.) 
ANEITYUM; also in Samoa. Whitmee. 
SCLERIA MARGARITIFERA (Willdenow, SP. PZ, Iv., 321.) 
SANTO, on open flats. Found by Mr. C. H. Walter, during the 
Victorian Eclipse Expedition on Fitzroy Island. 
The brown disk, divided into three acute deltoid lobes, protrated 
downward and encircling the thus hollow base of the fruit, distinguishes 
this species from Scleria laevis (Retzius, Observ. Bot., 1v., 13) and from 
Scleria Sumatrensis (Retzius, Observ., v., 19.) 
FIMBRISTYLIS COMMUNIS (Kunth, Znumerat. Plantar., 
IL, 234.) 
ANEITYUM, on hill-sides near the coast. Farvensis (Vahl, Exumer., 
