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128 FLORA VITIENSIS, 
eonniventibus, Capsula disco coronata, 2-locularis, 2-partibilis, coccis dehiscentibus.—Frutices lin- 
miles; foliis oppositis membranaceis; stipulis interpetiolaribus integris; cymis condcnsatis v. spica- 
tim elongatis; floribus parvis. 
To R. Brown is due the merit of having recovered this genus when, owing to the insufficient definition 
given of it by Linngus and 4 misplacement of Linneus’s authentic specimens, i was on the point of being 
altogether lost to science. There is only one species from Java known besides the following :— 
1, L. calycina, A, Gray in Proceed. Amer. Acad. vol. iv.; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis 
basi attenuatis, junioribus (preesertim costis venisque subtus cum stipulis integerrimis ovato-lanceo- 
latis caudato-acuminatis ramulis floribusque) ferrugineo-sericeis; cymis condensatis; lobis calycis 
Imeari-spathulatis foliaceis tubo coroll parum breyioribus.—Woody districts of Ovalan (U.S. Expl. 
Exped.), Viti Levu (Milne! in Herb. Hook.), 
“A shrub, 6-12 feet high.’—Milne. 
X. Lindenia, Benth. mss, in Endl. Gen. Plant. Suppl. vol. ii. p. 53; Seem. in Bonplandia, 
1862, p. 33. t. 8. Calyx tubo turbimato 5-costato, limbi 5-partiti laciniis angustis erectis. Corolla 
hypocraterimorpha, tubo longissimo tenui eequali, limbi 5-partiti laciniis oblongis patentibus, zsti- 
vatione contorto-imbricatis. Anthere 5, lineares, in limbi corollini sinubus sessiles. Ovarium 
#-loculare. Ovula in trophospermiis dissepimento insertis, co. Stylis filiformis, glaber, apice incras- 
satus; stigma 2-fidum, Capsula calycis limbo coronata, 2-locularis. Semina oo, angnlata.—lrntices 
rivulares ; foliis oppositis ad apices ramorum approximatis, breviter petiolatis, oblongo-lanceolatis ; 
stipulis utrinque solitariis in vaginam breyem connatis ; corymbi terminales, condensati, pauciflori, 
bracteis oblongo-linearibus.—Siphonia, Benth. Plant, Hartwegiane, p. 84. 
This genus was thought to be confined to tropical America until I discovered a second species in Viti, 
winch, like the original one (Z. vivalis, Benth.), erows on the banks of rivers, and has exactly the same 
habit as its congener, 
1. I, Vitiensis, (sp. nov.) Seem. in Bonplandia, 1862, p. 33. t. 8 (Tab. XXIV.) ; foliis ob- 
longo-lanceolatis utrinque glabris; calycis pubescentis costis acutis; corolle sericeo-tomentelle laci- 
niis ovato-oblongis obtusis. Nomen vernac. Vitiense, “ Bore ni wai” (i.e. Bore rivularis),—On the 
banks of rivers and rivulets, islands of Ovalau and Viti Levu (Seemann! n. 217). 
A highly ornamental shrub, 8-4 fect high. Leaves glabrous, 4-6 inches lony, 1-14 inch broad; 
petioles and lower part of costa purplish; blade of leaf dark-green above, paler below; anthers and pistil 
projecting beyond the tube of the eream-coloured corolla, ‘The popular name “ Bore ni wai” signifies “the 
Bore which grows on the river.” 
EXPLANATION oF Phare XXIV.—1, upper portion of corolla, with the lobes cut off; 2, an anther: 
3, calyx and pistil; 4, cross-section of ovary,—all magnified. 
Surorvo IJ, COFFEACE#®.—Semina in loculis solitaria v. rarissime gemina, 
Trrevs LV, GUETTARDER.—Flores distincti y. connati. Ovarium 2—2x-loculare, loculis 1- 
ovulatis, Drupa 2-co-pyrena. Albumen carnosum,  Stipulze utringue solitariz. 
Besides the Guetturdee alluded to below, there are in tropical Polynesia, Bobea elutior, Gaud., Bobea 
brevipes, A. Gray, and Chomelia (7) Sandwichensis, A. Gray, from the Sandwich Islands, and all of them 
in the British-Musenm collection, There are flowering specimens of Oh, (7) Suadwichiensis, collected in 
Captain Cook’s voyages in Hawaii, which are ticketed “Cestraides. Arbor purya; fl. sordide flavescentes. 
Hawaii, prope sylyas.” he corolla is hypocraterimorphous, and outside covered with adpressed hair, 
AMyonima umbellata of Hook, et Arn. non Bartl., also from the Sandwich Islands, is Stravssia Mariniana, 
A, Gray (Coffea Mariniana, Oham. et Schlecht.) : 
XI. Morinda, Vaill, in Act. Acad. Par. 172%, p. 275; Endl. Gen. n. 5183. Flores in capi- 
tulum globosum conferti, sepissime mediantibus tubis calycinis connati, Calyx tube obovato y, 
