26 PHYTOGRAPHY OF THE 
ERIANTHUS JAPONICUS (Beauvois, Agrostographie, p. 14; 
Eulalia Japonica, Zrinius Acta Soctet. Petropolit. 1833, 
page 333-) 
ANEITYUM, near the sea-shores. The stalks attain a length of five 
feet. Steudel (Synopsis Plantarum glumacearum, 1., 412) and Seemann 
(Flora Vitiensis, p. 321) describe the leaves as linear-filiform, and 
Bentham also (flora ofHong Kong, p. 420) calls them narrow. This ap- 
plies, however, scarcely even to the uppermost leaves, and almost pre- 
vents the recognition of this species from description alone; inasmuch as the 
lower leaves, not only of specimens from the New Hebrides, but also 
from the Fiji Islands and from Whampoa (the latter front Dr. Hance’s 
collection) are over half an inch or even fully one inch broad. Such, 
indeed, are shown likewise in Turpin’s plate 18 of La Billardiére’s 
Sertum Austro-Caledonicum. 
APLUuDA MuTIca (Linné, Spec. Plant, 1486.) 
ANEITYUM. One of the two lateral peduncles bears not rarely a two- 
flowered spikelet, articulated with it, one of its flowers being staminifer- 
ous, the other separately pistilliferous; but the latter seems not to perfect 
any grain. The ultimate peduncles or pedicels are at the base 
laterally dilated, to form a receptacle for the sessile fertile spikelet. The 
flowers of the latter are not always advancing to their normal develop- 
ment. A. geniculata (Roxburgh, Flor. Jnd., 1., 327) seems not specific- 
ally distinct from A. mutica. This is the first record of Apluda in Poly- 
nesia; nor is this genus found hitherto represented in Australia. Asa 
whole the grassflora of the South-Sea Islands seems remarkably scanty.. 
Beside the few graminez alluded to in Dr. Seemann’s work, and those 
mentioned in these pages, our museum collections here contain only 
Lepturus acutiglumis (Steudel, Glwmac., 1., 359) from the almost unex- 
plored Gilbert’s group, procured there by the Rev. S. J. Whitmee; 
Setaria glauca (Beauvois, Zssai d’une nouvelle Agrostographie, p. 51) 
from New Caledonia; Aira sabulorum (La Bill., Sert. Austro-Caled., 
p. 51, tab. 21,) Andropogon cortortus (L., Spec. Plant, 1480) both from 
the same island; Andropogon pertusus (Willd., Spec. Plant, Iv., 22) 
in its efoveolate form from Fiji, where it was gathered by Mr. 
Swanston, and two other Andropogons, are allied to A. fragilis (R. Br., 
202) from New Caledonia, the other belongin gto the section Spodi- 
opogon, and from the Loyalty Islands. : 
‘ 
LYCOPODIACEAE. 
LycopoDIUM CERNUUM (Linné, Sec. Plant. 1566.) 
New HEBRIDES, 
FILICES. 
SELAGINELLA WaLticuit (Spring, Monograph. Lycopod., 
page 86.) 
New Hesripes. Lycopodium phlegmaria (Linné, Sec. Plant, 
