FLORA VITIENSIS, 139 
Trrevus VI. ANTHOSPERME.—Flores distincti. Ovarium 2-loculare, loculis 1-ovulatis, Cuar- 
pidia sicea, recedentia, l-sperma. Stipulz parvee, petiolo adnexee. 
XXI, Coprosma, Forst. Gen. 169; Endl. Gen. n. 3109. Flores hermaphrodito-polygami. 
Calyx tubo ovato, limbo brevissimo 4-6-dentato. Corolla tubulosa, infundibuliformis v. subcampa- 
nulata, tubo brevi ventricoso, limbo 4-9-lobo, patente. Stamina 4—9, longe exserta; filamenta fili- 
formia ; anthers lineares, pendulz. Ovarium 2- v. rarius 8-4-loculare, disco epigyno carnoso. Ovula 
in loculis solitaria, e basi erecta, anatropa. Styli 2, v. rarius 3-4, elongato-filiformes, ima basi co- 
aliti undique piloso-stigmatosi. Bacca ovata, umbilicata, pulposa, nuculis 2 evalvibus 1-spermis. 
Semina erecta, dorso convexa, facie plana. Embryo in axi albuminis dense carnosi orthotropus ; 
cotyledonibus foliaceis, radicula elongata, infera.—Frutices v. arbusculie; foliis oppositis; stipulis 
petiolaribus utrinque solitariis, persistentibus; floribus terminalibus v. axillaribus, solitariis aut in 
eodem pedunculo paucis, basi 2-bracteolatis, 
This genus extends from New Zealand, Tasmania, and Australia to Borneo, and is largely represented 
in tropical Polynesia. From the Sandwich group we have ©. rhynchocarpa, A. Gray, ©. longifolia, A. (Garay, 
C. foliosa, A. Gray (Oahu, Seemann! n. 2269), C. pudens, A, Gray, C. Menziesit, A. Gray, and OC. erno- 
deowdes, A. Gray; from Tahiti O. Taitensis, A. Gray; from Norfolk Island ©. lucida, Forst., C. Baueriana, 
Endl., and C. pilosa, Bndl.; and from the Kermandee group, C. petialata, Hook, f., and C. aeutifolia, Hook. f. 
From Viti only one species has as yet been described. 
1, ©, persiceefolia, A. Gray in Proceed. Amer. Acad. vol. iv.; fruticosa, glabra; stipulis con- 
natis late triangularibus cuspidatis; foliis membranaceis lanceolatis sensim acuminatis, petiolo 
brevi; pedunculis brevissimis paucifloris; calycis limbo vix dentato; corolla profunde 4-fida; drupa 
oblonga.—Viti, but exact locality not recorded (U, S. Expl. Exped.). 
Orxvo LIl. COMPOSITZ® (Casstntacem, Schultz-Bip.). 
There are in London a good many undescribed and undetermined Polynesian Composite, which it would 
lead me too far to insert at this place,’ I may, however, remark, that there are at the British Museum some 
fine specimens of the Cichoraceous genus Fitchia, which were collected in Tahiti during Captain Cook’s first 
voyage, and to which | alluded in Bonplandia, vol. x. p. 294. They are labelled, probably in Solander’s 
handwriting, “ Bidens, n.15. Recept. paleaceum. Flores flavi, Frutex 10-pedalis. Habitat in summis mon- 
tibus.”’ Prof. Dana, as A. Gray states, also collected Pitchia nutans in Tahiti, and I believe that OCuming’s 
specimens were likewise obtained there, and not in Elizabeth Island, 
I, Monosis, DC, in Guillem. Arch. Bot. vol. ii, p.515; HEudl. Gen. n, 2220. Capitula 1-flora, 
distincta. Involucri oblongi squamze imbricatze, obtuse, flore multo breviores. Receptaculum 
punctiforme. Corolle tubulose, 5-fide. Anthere ecaudate. Stigmata longe exserta. Achenia 
glabra, teretiuscnla. Pappus 2—3-serialis, sctis rigidulis, scabris, equalibus, v. equilatis sed insequi- 
longis.—Suffrutices; foliis alternis, breviter petiolatis, obovato-cuneatis, acutiusculis, subintegerri- 
mis, supra glabris, subtus eum petiolis ramisque tomentosis; panicule nude, ramis apice capitula, 
26 subumbellata, subsessilia, conferta gerentibus. 
1, M. insularum, A, Gray in Proceed. Amer. Acad. vol. v.; fruticosa, laxe ramosa; foliis 
oblongis acuminatis repando-dentatis, basi cuneatis in petiolum attenuatis, puberulis, supra glabratis, 
subtus ad costam venasque cum ramis adpresso-tomentellis; capitulis corymbosis; pappi setis rigidis 
vix denticulatis, majoribus apice clavellatis—~S¢trobocalyw insularum, Schultz-Bip. in xviii. et 
xix. Jahresbericht der Pollichia, p, 170.—Viti Islands, locality not recorded (U, 8, Expl. Exped.). 
Also collected in the Tongan Islands (U.S. Expl. Exped.). 
