146 FLORA VITIENSIS. 
Exped.), and Sandwich Islands (Macrae!), and in Savage Island (Forster!), Kanala, New Cale- 
donia (M‘Gillivray !), and east coast of New Holland (R. Brown !). 
Forster’s original specimens have deeply-crenate or repand leaves, which, besides the hairy cover- 
. Pokvar eS i ies fr allied S. Kenigii. Brown’s and M‘Gillivray’s specimens 
ing, at once distinguishes this species from the allied 8. g y's sp 
also have this character pre-eminently ; and it seems hardly safe to follow Bentham (Fl. Hongk. p. 198), 
in uniting S. sericea with the first six species of De Candolle’s ‘ Prodromus. 
3. S. floribunda, A. Gray in Proceed. Amer, Acad. vol. v.; fruticosa, orgyalis ; ramis pube- 
rulis mox glabratis, axillis vix barbatis; foliis lanceolato-oblongis, subspathulatis, submembranaceis, 
repando-dentatis, obscure penninerviis, glabris, basi attenuatis, sessilibus v. subpetiolatis; cymis 
oo-floris ex axillis supremis et terminali thyrsum amplum efficientibus ; ealycis lobis ovatis oblongisve 
ovario brevioribus; corolla extus incana, lobis interne glabris oblongis; stylo glabro; indusio ciliato 
externe piloso.—Viti Levu, on the sea-beaches of the Southern coast (Seemann! n. 274; Storck ! 
n. 896; Greeffe! n. 41), Also collected in Viti by Harvey! and U.S. Expl. Exped. 
Orvo LIV. ERICACEA., 
This Order, including Epacridee as a suborder, is represented in tropical Polynesia by the genera Vac- 
cinium, Paphia, Cyathodes, and Leucopogon. Vaccinium may be expected to occur in the Viti Islands, as 
we know of one species (V. Macgillivrayi, Seem.,*) from the New Hebrides, one (V. cereum, Forst. = V. ala- 
ternoides, Sol.)+ trom the Society Islands (Banks and Solander! Wiles and Smith? N elson! Forster!), and 
two (V reticulatum, Smith, = V. cerewm, Cham. et Schlecht. et Hook. Icon, t. 87, and V. penduliflorum, 
Gaud. Freye. t. 68) from the Hawaiian Islands (Nelson! Macrae! Menzies!). Paphia is confined to Viti. 
Oyathodes has been met with in the Society (C. Pomare, A. Gray, and C. Tameiamehe, Cham., var. Societatis, 
A. Gray) and the Hawaiian Islands (V7. Douglasit, A. Gray, and C. Tameiamehe, Cham., and its numerous 
varieties). Leucopogon has as yet been found only in the western islands. 
T, Paphia, (gen. nov.) Seem. in Journ, of Bot. 1864, p.77. Calyx adnatus, tubo urceolato levi, 
limbo 5-partito. Corolla infundibuliformis, 5 costata, laciniis 5 acutis. Stamina 10, distincta; 


* V. Macgillivrayi, (sp. nov.) Seem. Journ, of Bot., 1864, p. 77; fruticosum, erectum; ramulis foliis 
pedunculis bracteis calycibus baccisque pruinosis demum viridibus; ramulis angulatis; foliis oboyatis v. 
ellipticis acutis in petiolum brevem angustatis acute serratis; pedunculis axillaribus solitariis medio bibrac- 
teatis; bracteis linearibus acutis; calycis laciniis obtusis; corolla (alba) campanulata apice paulo con- 
stricta; bacca globosa.—Island of Aneitum, New Hebrides (M'‘Gillivray! in Mus. Brit.), collected in 1854. 
Differs from V’. cerewm, Forst., which it resembles in general look, in the glaucous bloom of the young 
parts of the plant, the shape of the leaves, the obtuse calyx-lobes, and the corolla less constricted at 
the mouth. lLeayes thick, coriaceous, evergreen, 14 inch long, and } of an inch broad, acute, but never 
acuminate, 
+ “VF. alaternoides, Soland. Prim. FL Ins. Pacif. p. 250, et in Park. Drawings of Tahit. Plants, t. 
43. Hab. in Tahiti locis montosis. Frutex altus, ramosissimus, erectus, totus glaber. ami teretes. 
Ramuli secundum petiolos semidecurrentes angulati. Folia alterna, petiolata, ovata, acuta, serrata, ser- 
raturis glandulosis, glaberrima, supra saturate viridia, pulchre venulosa, subcoriacea, plana, sesquiuncialia, 
raro2-uncialia. Petioli brevissimi, lineares. Peduwnewli axillares, solitarii, teretes, 1-flori, foliis duplo bre- 
viores. Bractee 2, foliacee, paulo supra basin in singulo peduneulo, interdum lineari-lanceolatee, vix 
bilineares, interdum multo majores, semper integerrimex. Calya 1-phyllus, subcampanulatus, 5-partitus ; 
laciniz ovate, acute, erecte. Corolla 1-petala, alba, ovata, ventricosa, obsolete 5-gona, vix semiun- 
cialis, apice 5-fida; laciniw oblong, obtusiuscule, revolute, tubo triplo breviores. F’lamenta 10, recep- 
taculo ad basin corolle inserta, subulata, corolla triplo breviora, simplicia. -Anthere erecte, flave, 
lineari-oblonge, longitudine filamentorum, bicornes seu apice bifide ibique dehiscentes, infra apicem ex- 
serentes aristas duas subulatas, breves, nune erectas, nunc reflexas. Germen inferum, subrotundum, de- 
pressum, umbilicatum, Stylus filiformis, erectus, longitudine corolle. Stigma simplex, crassiusculum. 
Bacca globosa, umbilicata, calyee corunata, levis, 5-locularis, matura obseure rubra vel forte cerulea. 
Semina oo, circa conceptacula singuli loculamenti nidulantia. Quis expectat speciem genuinam hujus 
familia intra tropicos legere ?”’ 
