SOCIETY ISLANDS. 
[RubiacecB. 
Found on aU the Coral Islands, according to ]Mr. Collie’s Notes, but the only specimen in the Collection 
was from Whitsunday Island, gathered by Mi’. Lay. 
Ord. XX. UMBELLIFER^. Juss. 
1. Eryngium aquaticum. Linn. — De Cand. Prodr. v. L p. 95. 
Ord. XXI. LORANTHEtE. Juss. 
1. Viscum opimtioides. Linn. — De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 284. 
Ord. XXII. RUBIACE^. Juss. 
1. Nauclea rotundifolia ; glabra, ramulis tetragonis, foliis petiolatis cordato-subrotundis 
breviter aciiminatis subtus pallidioribus, pedunculis axillaribus oppositis solitariis compressis 
medio articulatis, capitulis globosis canescenti-tomentosis, calycis laciniis ovatis obtusis. De 
Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 346. 
Our specimens are only in bud, and may prove a distinct species. In one instance the peduncle is tei-minal 
and not jointed, so that it perhaps ought to be described as tei-minal on a short axillary branch, which is 
furnished about the middle with two small opposite deciduous leaves. 
1. Cephaelis? fragrans; tetrandra, ramulis compressis, foliis late ovalibus obovatisque 
obtusis coriaceis glabris reticulatim venosis breve petiolatis, stipulis ovatis acuminatissimis, 
pedunculis bibracteatis, bracteis cordiformibus basi bibracteolatis, floribus tei’nis sessilibus. 
(Tab. XIII.) 
Caulis altissimus, gracilis, lignosus, ramique teretes. Ramuli ancipiti-compressi, glabri. Folia fere 3 imcias 
longa, obovata, vel late ovaUa, coriacea, obtusa, venosa atque reticulata, integerrima, glabra, supra priecipue 
nitida. Petioli 2 Uneas longi, hinc plani, dorso convex!, crassiusculi. Stipulm parvae, lato-ovatie, mucrouato- 
acuminatae, deciduae, in axiUis parum pilosae. Peduncidi axiUares et termiiiales subsesquiimciam longi, apice 
bracteas 2 lato-cordatas 6-8 lineas longas erectas acutas foliaceas ad basin bibracteolatas gerentes. Bracteolce 
stipulariun forma et magnitudine. Flores 3, sessiles intra bracteas, vel brevissime pediceUati, odorati. Calyx 
urceolato-cylindraceus, superne liberus, brevissime 4-dentatus. Corolla hypocraterifoi-mis, rubra. Tubus 
elongatus, gracilis, 6-7 lineas longus, limbo (aestivatione spiral!) patentissimo 4-partito, laciniis lanceolatis 
tubo subbrevioribus. Stamina 4, fauci inserta. Anthera hneares, acutae. Germen ovali-cyhndraceum. 
Stylus glaber, filiformis, superne glandulosus, tubo longior. Stigma clavatum, bipartitum. 
Hab. Elizabeth Island. — “ This,” Mr. Collie observes, “ forms a tree or shrub, the trunlc of which is 
very slender, about two inches (feet?) in circumference, and twenty feet high. The wood is whitish, 
very hard, and close-grained, udth a reddish inner bark.” It seems to approach the Cephaelis speciosa of 
Sprengel, (from Tahiti,) but the leaves are not “ oblongo-lanceolate.” 
Tab. XIII. Fig. 1, Bracteas, with flower and two germens; fig. 2, Stamen; fig. 3, Pai-t of the style and 
stigma. 
1. Stylocoryna racemosa; foliis elliptico-oblongis basi acutis apice acuminatis glabris, 
paniculis axillaribus dichotomis laxis folio dimidio brevioribus, corolla hypocrateriformi 
lobis tubo longioribus. DC. — Cav. Ic. v. 4. t. 368. De Cand. Prodr. v. 4. p. 377. 
1. Petesia carnosa; foliis oppositis oblongo-obovatis obtusis basi attenuatis glabris car- 
uosis, pedunculis axillaribus 1-floris. 
Caulis dichotome ramosiLS. Folia versus apicera ramulorum crebra, oblonga v. obovata, obtusa, in petiolum 
attenuata, camosa. Stipula interpetiolaris lata brevis mucronulata. Pedimmli axiUares foliis dimidio 
