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cordata, wide majora distincte petiolata, usque 9-12 poll. 
longa, acute acuminata, basi cuneata vel subcordata, 7-plinervia. 
Racemi axillares, pauciflori, 2-4 poll. longi, dense furfuraceo-hirsuti ; 
bracteæ cordato-oblonge vel oblongm, pedice ellos squantes. Flores 
rosei, oppositi, pedicellati, pedicellis circiter semipollicaribus ; brac- 
teolæ petaloideæ, albæ, ovoideæ vel ellipticæ, fere pollicares, juxta flores 
sessiles, et per paria flores solitarios includentes ; calyx truncatus, dense 
furfuraceo-hirsutus, circiter 2 lineas longus; petala ea circiter 
semipollicares ; scone! postice longe l-calearate. Bacc a globosa, 
seminibus numerosissim 
Fragments of what I take to be the same species as this were collected 
in the Solomon Islands both by the Rev. R. B. Comins and Mr. i 
Guppy ; but the description has been drawn up entirely from a specimen 
collected by the officers of H.M.S. * Penguin," except the reference to 
the habit and the colour of the flowers. 
his plant is named after Mr. J. E. V. Morton, Paymaster, R.N., 
who collected most of the plants herein enumerated. 
CUCURBITACEÆ. 
Benincasa cerifera, Savi.— We previously possessed unnamed speci- 
mens of this from Samoa ; and Seemann collected it in the Fijis, though 
he did not identify it. It is the Cucurbita pruriens, Solander ; and "it 
ias a wide range in tropieal and sub-tropieal Asia and Polynesia, 
extending eastward to the Marquesas. 
RUbIACEE. 
Uncaria ferrea, DC. (Nauclea ferrea, Blume ; Uncaria rb apne 
Benth.).— This is an eastward extension for this plant, which 
in the Malay Peninsula and Archipelago, and is also found in Mew Quin 
and Australia. It has been alternately placed in Vauclea and Uncaria ; 
and it has the decidedly imbricate petals and sessile flowers of the 
former genus, the pedicels developing in the fruiting stage. 
Bikkia gaudichaudiana, Ad. Br ongn. in Bull. Soc. Bot. de France, 
i i i on 
point of New Guinea; and Tahiti; and, assuming the determination to 
be correct, there are specimens in the Kew Herbarium from Tubuai 
Island, collected by Barclay, as well as from the Solomon Islands. 
Brongniart describes several species of Bikkia in the place cited, 
including one from the Marianne Islands ; but Drake del — (Flore 
de la Polynésie d and other writers on the Flora o f Polynesia 
have overlooked them. Bikkia grandi deed Reinw., has been collected 
in the Solomon Islands by several person 
Randia coffeoides, Benth. et Hock. f. (Sty dient, m s den ides, A. 
Gra The Solomon Tslands specimen pees xactly with specimens 
from Tahiti (Wilkes) ; but the Friendly Island Pig so named look 
somewhat different, and have dried quite a different colour. 
Ophiorrhiza rupestris, Hemsl. n. sp. 
Species ex oe O. Mungo sed minor foliis ovalibus obtusis 
rotundatis, et 
Ed ba a miie plus minusve puberulus, 6-12 poll. altus, simplex 
l ramos Folia breviter petiolata, tenuia, fere membranacea, ovalia 
Mn ldiconto-ubfongs, eum petiolo usque ad 33 poll. longa, apice rotan- 
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