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N. Vitiensis. It is certainly not the Tahitian Decaspermum fruticosum of Forster, of which there are at the 
British Museum numerous specimens eollected by Banksand Solander, and Forster, in the Society Islands, 
a coloured drawing by Parkinson and a pencil sketch by Forster himself, and which I should like to name 
NV. Forsteri. The peduncles of WN. Forsteri are generally 3-, and only by abortion 1-florous, and the fila- 
ments white. It has not yet been found out of the Society Islands, De Uandolle was wrong to combine 
Forster’s plant with Gertner’s WV. Jambosella from Ceylon, and Labillarditre’s New Caledonian species ; 
the latter { have named after its discoverer (WV. Billardiert).* 
Il. Calyptranthes, Swartz, Flor. Ind. Occ. vol. i. p. 917. t. 15; Endl. Gen. n, 6819. Calyx 
tubo obconico, limbo clauso opereuliformi, anthesi cireumscisso deciduo. Petala 4-5, libera vy. 
operculo intus adnata, Stamina oo, calycis fauci oo-seriatim inserta; filamenta filiformia, libera ; 
anthere 2-loculares, ovate, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium inferum, 2-loculare, loculis so- 
ovulatis, Stylus cylindricus, simplex; stigma obtusiusculum. Bacca ovata, calycis tubo inclusa, 
2. y, abortu 1-locularis. Semina o.—Frutices v. arbores; ramis ultimis angulatis v. compressis ; 
foliis oppositis integerrimis penninerviis; florihus terminalibus cymoso-paniculatis.—Acicalyptus, 
A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 551. t. 67. 
In Acicalyptus myrtoides the operculum is quite subulate, and different from anything known in the 
older species of Calyptranthes. But in A. Seemanni, afterwards discovered by me, which ig so close to the 
just-mentioned species as to be scarcely distinguishable in habit and foliage, the operculum ‘is conical, and 
shortly apiculate. This, as A. Gray pointed out in the ‘Bonplandia,’ weakens Acicalyptus. In a third 
Vitian species, also discovered by me, the operculum is just as it is in the ordinary American Calyptranthes. 
We have therefore no option but to unite Acicalyptus with Calyptranthes, a genus of which no repre- 
sentative was previously Races to exist beyond the limits of the New World. 
1. C. myrtoides, Seem. ; foltis ellipticis v. ovatis acuminatis basi aeutis; floribus terminalibus 
corymboso-cymosis plerumque pedicellatis; alabastris elongato-oblongis acute 4-angulatis; operculo 
subulato.—Acicalyptus myrtoides, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 551. t. 67, et in Bonplandia, vol. x. 
p. 35.—Mountains of the Macuata coast of Vanua Levu (U. 8. Expl. Exped.). 
2. C. Seemanni, Seem. (sp, nov.); ramis teretibus; foliis ovatis acuminatis, basi acutis ; 
floribus terminalibus in eyma subthyrsoidea plerumque sessilibus; pedunculis primariis secunda- 
riisque angulatis; alabastris clavatis inferne tantum 4-gonis; operculo conico breviter apiculato.—" 
Acicalyptus Seemanni, A, Gray in Bonplandia, vol. x. p. 35.—Maeuata coast of Vanua Levu (See- 
mann! n. 168). - 
The two species are extremely similar in foliage, but seem to be well distinguished by the characters 
pointed out by the great American botanist. My specimens are in bud only. 
3. “C. eugenioides, (sp, nov.) Seem.; ramis ultimis angulatis v. compressis; foliis oyatis 
* The synonymy of these species would be as follows :— 
1. N. Forsteri, Seem. Decaspermum fruticosum, Forst. Char. Gen. t. 87. Psidium decasperium, 
Porst., Linn. fil.; Forst, Prod, n. 2194 Forst. Icon. (ined.) t. 159. Psidiwm myrtifoliwm, Soland, Prim, 
Fl. Ins. Pacif. p. 264, et in Parkins. Drawings of Tahit. Plants, t. 55 (ined.). Nomen vernac. Tahitense, 
teste Solander, “Aranoa.’’—Society Islands (Banks and Solander! Forster! Bidwill!). The following de- 

. scription is taken from Solander’s manuscript Flora, and may be compared with that of Forster in Guillemin’s 
Geph. Tait.:—Frutex altus 20-pedalis, ramosissimus. Aamuli villis tenuissimis sericeis albis tomentosis. 
Folia opposita, breyissime petiolata, oblonga, apice attenuata, ittegerrima, glabra, supra nitida, protunde 
yiridia, subtus (precipue superiora) yillis minutissimis vix conspicuis conspersa, pallidiora, plana, obso- 
lete yenosa, venis tenuibus obliquis subparallelis, sesquiuncialia et biunciaha. Petioli vix lmeam unam 
longi, superiores villosi. Pedunculi axillares, oppositi, teretes, villosiusculi, foliis triplo breviores, triflori, 
yaro uniflori. Pedicelli divaricati, vix semiunciales, intermedio breviore, interdum sub pedicellis quasi inyo- 
lucri loco foliola duo, parva, lanceolata. Calycis urceolus yillosus. Petala alba, inodora, cireiter duas 
lineas longa. -Bacca subglobosa, magnitudine Pisi. Sgquna eirciter 12. 
2. N. Jambosella, Gertn. Fruct, vol. 1. p. 184, t. 27,—Ceylon. 
ert, 8 me hillardiére! in Herb. Hook.), Pedunecles 1 
3, N. Billardieri, Seem. sp. nov. New Caledonia (Labillardiere! m Herb. Be neles 1- 
florous, and leaves glaucous below, 
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