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Canthium Valetonianum S. Moore, sp. n. Arbuscula ; ramulis sub- 
teretibus bene foliosis cortice cinereo circumdatts; foliis lanceolato- 
oblongis vel oblongo-oblanceolatis breviter acuminatis apice obtusis 
(acumine circa 7 x 25 mm.) basi in petiolum 2-3 mm. long, cuneatim 
coarctatis membranaeeis glabris in sicco griseolo-viridibus 8-10x3-4 
cm. costis lateralibus tenuibus utrinque 5 pag. inf. prominentibus 
siepe in axillis domatia minnta foventibus reticulo baud visibili; 
stipulis fugaceis a basi lata linearibus glabris usque 7 mm. long.; 
floribus in fasciculos sessiles perpaucitioros dispositis; pedicellis 
quam petiolos paullulum longioribus (3-4 mm. long.) basi bracteolis 
minutis stipatis ; ovcirio subgloboso glabro P25 mm. long. ; calycis 
limbo *4 mm. long., minute 5-dentato; corollce tubo extus glabro 
intus albo-pubescente ore villoso 5 mm. long, lobis ovato-oblongis 
obtusis vel obtusiusculis ima basi exempta glabris 3 mm. long. ; 
antheris sessilibus ori ipso insertis ovatis obtusis aegre 1 mm. long.; 
stylo glabro 6 mm. long.; stigmate peltato breviter exserto 1*5 mm. 
diam. 
Sogere, 2500 ft., 61. Flowers greenish yellow. 
Valeton (Nov. Guin. viii. 477) mentions this Forbes specimen as 
probably referable to Plectronia barbata lx. Sebum. ( Canthium 
barbatum Bentli.), a Polynesian species with leaves which dry black, 
peduncled inflorescences, and corollas with a considerably longer tube 
among its chief peculiarities. He was apparently led to this by 
noting that Schumann (FI. Deutscli. Schutzgeb. 509) gives this plant 
for N.E. New Guinea; but this, as represented in the British 
Museum (. Lauterbcich 873, according to Schumann 2873), does not 
turn black in drving, and has small flowers in sessile fascicles, thus 
being evidently conspecitic with C. Yciletonianum , although its 
somewhat broader leaves often reach 5 cm. in width. From the fact 
of Eastern Australia being included by Schumann within the distri¬ 
bution area of P. barbata , he would appear to have regarded the 
Australian C. coprosmoides F. Muell. as unworthy of specific rank; 
but, as Bentham (FI. Austral, iii. 422) has shown, without good 
reason. The Australian plant, it may be added, dries black, and 
although its fascicles are sessile, the corollas are much larger than 
those of C. Valet onianum. Valeton (Ic. Bogor. ii. tab. cxliv) figures 
and describes a var. keyensis of P. barbata from Kei island which, 
however, is different in several points from C. Valet onianum. 
Pavetta tarennixoka Wcrnh. ( op . cit. 76). Sogere, 454. 
Moiuxda leptocalama Wernh. op. cit. 77. Mt. Gawada, 4000 ft., 
864. 
Morinda triandra S. Moore, sp. n. Frutex scandens, glaber; 
ramulo unico scrutato bene folioso striatulo cortice cinereo circumdato ; 
foliis brevipetiolatis (pet. +5 mm. long.) oblongo-lanceolatis acumi¬ 
natis apice acutis basi obtusis tenuiter coriaceis 7-12 x 2*5-4 cm. nitidis 
in sicco pag. sup. fuscis pag. inf. griseis costis lateralibus utrinque 5-6 
ascendenti-arcuatis utrobique sat perspicuis ; floribus (anne semper P) 
unisexualibus ad apieem ramuli in umbellam 6-cruram digestis 
cruribus quam folia multo brevioribus (fere 2 cm. long.) quoque llores 
tres capitulatim confluentes fulciente; calyce cupulari truncato circa 
1 mm. alt.; corollce rotatse tubo brevi intus villoso superne levissime 
