136 FLORA VITIENSIS. 
longe apiculatis caducis involucratis ; calyce dentato; corolla hirsuta ; fructibus obovatis 6-angulatis, 
—Viti Levu (Milne! Seemann! n, 255). 
A shrub, 8-16 feet high. Blade of leaf 6-7 inches long, 33-4 inches broad. Allied to P, iwrbinata, 
A. Gray, and haying the larger bracts of Gray’s section Piptilema, though the inflorescence is a compound 
cyme, and as long as or longer than the petiole. 
8. P. tephrosantha, A. Gray, 1.c.; stipulis caducis; foliis ovalibus utrinque abrupte acutis 
vel acuminatis petiolatis ramisque glabris; cyma terminali pedunculata effusa decomposita, pedicellis 
gracilibus fiore brevicribus; calycis limbo subintegerrimo cupulato ovario turbinato breyiore ; corolla 
infundibuliformi extus pruinoso-canescente.—Viti, locality not specified U. 8. Expl. Exped.). 
9, P. serpens, Linn. Mant. 204; glaberrima; ramis gracilibus foliosis sarmentosis; stipulis 
ovatis obtusis caducis ; foliis obovatis obtusis y. acutis in petiolum angustatis (pollicaribus) chartaceis, 
yenis utrinque 5-6 incouspicuis; cymis terminalibus laxifloris; calycis Jimbo parvo acutiuscule 5- 
dentato; corolla extus farinosa intus ad faucem barbata; drupis ovatis v. globosis (albis) ; pyrenis he- 
misphericis dorso 3-2-costatis, costis obtusissimis.—P, scandens, Hook. et Arn, Bot. Beech. p. 193. 
P. parvula, A, Gray in Proceed. Amer. Acad. vol. iv—Voma Peak, Viti Levu (Seemann! n. 245). 
Diffused over the East Indies and Southern China (Seemann !) 
10, P. gracilis, Gray, l.c.; glaberrima; ramis gracillimis; stipulis quadrato-subulatis deci- 
duis; foliis lanceolatis membranaccis attenuato-acuminatis basi in petiolum angustatis; cyma parva 
terminali oo-flora breviter pedunculata; calycis limbo expanso crateriformi ovario subzequilongo 5- 
dentato; corolla brevi 5-fida intus glabra; filamentis gracilibus; antheris longioribus.—Viti Islands, 
locality not specified (U.S. Expl. Exped.). 
11, P. calycosa, Gray, l.c.; erecta; glabra; stipulis caducis; foliis anguste oblongis seu 
oblongo-lanceolatis subacuminatis basi in petiolum brevem attenuatis; cyma terminali foliis breviore 
pedunculata confertiflora; floribus pedicellatis; calycis limbo amplissimo foliaceo e basi infundibuli- 
formi expanso 5-lobo; corolla tubuloso-infundibuliformi breviter 5-fido, lobis apice saecatis extus 
hirtellis intus barbatis.—P, Vitiensis, Seem. in Bonplandia, vol. ix. p. 257 —Voma Peak, Viti Levu 
(Seemann! n. 246), Ovalau (Milne!), 
The fruit of this species is as yet unkuown, 
12. P. macrocalyx, Gray, l.c.; glabra; ramis gracilibus foliosissimis; stipulis ovatis mucro- 
uatis caducis; folus lanceolatis seu oblongo-lanceolatis longe acuminatis chartaceis basi in petiolum 
attenuatis ; peduneculis 1-3 terminalibus 1-5-floris pedicellisque filiformibus ; calycis limbo tubuloso 
angusto breyiter 5-dentato persistente drupe ovoides subsequilongo; pyrenis compressis intus planis 
dorso 1-3-carimatis.— Vanua Levu (Seemann! n. 243). Also collected in the Tongan Islands (U. 8. 
Expl. Exped.). 
13. P. filipes, Gray, l.c.; glabra; stipulis caducis; foliis lanccolato- seu oboyato-oblongis 
acuminatis basi paullo angustata sepias subcordatis longe petiolatis; pedunculis terminalibus 2-5 
filiformibus folia subsequantibus cymam effusam plurifloram gerentibus, radiis 3-4: pedicellisque 
gracilibus; ealycis limbo erateriformi 4-dentato ovario breviore; corolla brevi 4-fida fauce fere 
nuda, fructu immaturo ovato.—Viti, locality not specified (U.S, Expl. Exped.). 
14. P. pelagica, (sp. noy,) Seem.; glabra; stipulis caducis ; foliis longiuscule petiolatis ovato- 
lanceolatis longe acuminatis, basi rotundatis, venis primariis 7-8-jugis; pedunculis terminalibus 
folium subequantibus. et cymam effusam co-floram gerentibus, radiis 4-5 pedicellisque gracilibus ; 
calyce cupuliformi truncato; corolla 4-fida; drupa ovata——Town of Navua, Viti Levu (Seemann ! 
n. 253), 
_ . Near P. filipes, A, Gray, but differs in having a truneate calyx and other peculiarities. Petioles 14-2 
inches lung; blade of leaf 83-4 inches long, 1-14 inch broad. Corolla 3-4 lines long. 
15. PB. hypargyrea, Gray, l.c.; glabra; stipulis bifidis caducis; foliis obovato-oblongis seu 
