FLORA VITIENSIS. 103 
Ungues lati, purpurei, calycis fundo adnati marginibus liberis, solutis inflexis. Filamenta nulla. <Anthere 
SEX, oblonges, flavee cucullo corolla intus prope sinum adnatee, ita ut apex deorsum spectet. Germen infe- 
rum, turbinatum, triquetrum ; supra receptaculum parum extumescens, ibique alte tricarinatum. Sfylus 
filiformis, erassiusculus, erectus, strictus, brevis (1 lin, longus), albus, Stigma orbiculato-explanatum, 
magnum (diametro 13 lin.), stellatum, radéis obtusiusculis, ex albo pellucidis, supra conyexis, subtus con- 
cayis, per parila connatis, etsi omnes distincti videantur, Bacca? ovato-globosa, magnitudine nucis ju- 
glandis, glabra, calyce marcescente persistente coronata, sex-angulata, seu potius sex-carinata, carinis 
acutiusculis, unilocularis (forte bivalvis?). Semina numerosa, ovata, compressa, obtusa profunde striata 
vix duas lineas longew: substantia alba, fungosa, singulum semen arcte adhewret precipue ad apices, hee late- 
ribus planis ineequalibus gaudet ut semina primo intuitu polyhedra apparent. Ob substantiam semina 
adhzrentem, fructum baccatum judicamus, nee suturas ullas observare potuimus. Radices hujus suppedi- 
tant incolis escam illis gratissimam: Ulam eodem modo in farinam preparant, ac Ambonienses Zaccam 
suam sativam, conf. Rumph, Amb. vol. v. p. 325, scilicet Radices primum raspate, dein in aqua ter vel 
quater mutanda macerantur, quo acredine liberantur et in farinam redigantur.’”-—Sol, Prim. Fl, Ins. Pacif. 
2, T. maculata, (sp. nov.) Seem.; petiolis scapisque sordide maculatis; foliis 3-partitis, ramis 
dichotomo-multifidis, segmentis longe linearibus apice subulatis integerrimis levibus; involucro 
co-phyllo, phyllis ovato-lanceolatis v. lanceolatis integerrimis v. rarius 2-fidis.—T. pinnatifida var. 
sylvesiris, Forst. Plant. Escul. p. 59? Nomina vernac. Vitiensia, ‘ Yabia” v. “ Yabia sa.’’—On 
hill-sides in heavy soil, Moturiki and other islands (Seemann! n. 632, 909), north coast of New 
Holland (F. Mueller !). 
If my conjecture be correct, that Forster’s pinnatifida var. sylvestris is identical with this species, my 
T. maculata is also found in Tahiti, though I have not seen specimens of it from there; and as Forster 
quotes the Tahitian name of Amorphophallus campanulatus (e-Vé) for his 7. pinnatifida var. sylvestris, and 
as that Aroidea has also speckled petioles, I am not very sanguine about it. Dr, Ff. Mueller collected it, 
together with 7. Brownit, Seem., on the north coast of New Holland, and distributed both under the name 
T. pinnatifida var. aconitifolia. Leaves one or two on petioles, which are 2}-3 feet long, speckled with 
dirty-white spots, and not grooved as those of 7. pinnatifida are, but smooth. Blade primarily divided into 
three branches; these branches repeatedly dichotomously split into narrow linear and quite entire segments, 
tapering into a subulate apex. Scape longer than the petiole, but shorter than the entire leaf. Involueral 
leaves co, ovate-lanceolate, quite entire or occasionally 2-fid. Pedicels shorter than the involueral leaves. 
Bracts (sterile pedicels) very long, thread-like. Calyx 6-partite, the segments in one whorl, though im 
estivation the points of three are overlapping the others. Ovary spuriously 3-celled, ovules many. Ripe 
fruit not seen. 
Orpo XLVI. CUCURBITACES. 
The Cucurbitacee of tropical Polynesia are involved in considerable confusion, owing to Forster haying 
admitted into his ‘Prodromus’ several species named by Solander, but of which ‘no description has been 
published, The authentie specimens and manuscript descriptions of Solander, eee with eg ar- 
kinson’s drawings, all preserved at the British Museum, have enabled me to clear up t ge eEoy 2 ese 
plants. To set this matter finally at rest, I thought it advisable to enumerate, = ne surat Boneh 
1864, p. 47, all the Oweurbitacee hitherto found in the region alluded to, ser, ing dine See ee 
cultivated, and amounting to eighteen species, distributed over the genera MMelothria, Genneria, Larivia, 
Citrullus, Momordica, Luffa, Lagenaria, Cucumis, Cucurbita, and Syeios. 
I, Karivia, Arn. in Hook. Journ. of Bot. vol. iii, p. 275; Endl. Gen. Suppl. il, P- 77. 
Flores monoici v. dioici. Calyx urceolato-campanulatus. Corolla vix exserta, lobis 5 mattis, 
Filamenta 3-adelpha, perigonii basi inserta; anthere 2-loculares. Stylus indivisus, basi waa’: 
loba lacerata cinctus; stigma magnum, pileiforme, 3-fidum. Fructus Gbrberts a ur ‘ a ri 
rostratus, subpeponideus.—Herbe, radice tuberosa, perennantes, glabree cerns simplicibus; fo 
cordatis 3-5-lobatis; floribus masculis racemosis, foemineis-solitarns v. terns. 7. | | 
1. K. Samoensis, A. Gray, Bot. Wilkes, p. 649 ; dioica; foliis cordatis acumiatis denticulatis 
. . ode et atin ata ineis solitariis ternisve 
floribus masculis racemosis, pedicellis subverticellatis ; foemin ane ; 
seminibus levibus compressis.— Cucumes aderaspa- 
); Parkins. Drawings of Tahit. Plants, t. 111 (ined.). 
modice petiolatis ; 
pedunculo bacca ovoidea oo-sperma breviore ; 
tanus ?, Sol. Prim. Fl, Ins. Pacif, p. 337 (ined. 
