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filamenta subulata; anther 2-loculares, muticee, in tubos duos apice liberos producti, antice ad 
apicem foraminibus dehiscentibus, basi sursum curvate. Ovarium inferum, 5-loculare, so-ovula- 
tum, disco 10-gibbo limboque calycino coronatum. Stylus elongatus; stigma.... Bacea pul- 
posa, ovato-oblonga, lievis, 5-locularis, oo-sperma.—Frutex 4—6-pedalis, ramis angulatis junioribus 
puberulis, foliis alternis ovato-cllipticis acuminatis in petiolum angustatis integerrimis y. denticu- 
latis, pedunculis axillaribus solitariis pendulis medio bibracteatis, bracteis alternis ovato-lanceolatis 
ciliatis, floribus pulchris magnis (2 unc. long.), baccis purpurascentibus. 
The corolla of this new and beautiful genus is somewhat like that of Pentapterygium, Klotzsch, but it 
is more decidedly funnel-shaped, and in this respect it also differs from Epigynium, to which 1 provisionally 
referred the plant from the fruiting specimens I collected. The fruit of Paphia differs from that of Penta- 
pterygium, im being smooth, not 5-angular, and the anthers of my plant have at the base an appendix bent 
upwards. Inthe flowering specimen at my disposal, collected by Dr. Graeffe, the stigma has been broken off. 
1, P. Vitiensis, Seem. 1. c. (Tab. XXVIII.)—Epigynium (2) Vitiense, Seem. in Bonplandia, 
vol, ix. p. 257; Viti App, p, 438.—Voma Peak, Viti Levu, 4000 feet above the sea (Seemann! n. 
284). Viti Levu (Dr. Greeffe! n. 45), 
The first leaves of the growing branches are disproportionately small, linear-lanceolate, and toothed. 
ExpPnanation or Prats XXVIII, representing Paphia Vitiensis, from specimens collected by Dr. 
Greefie and myself. Fig. 1, calyx and stamens; 2, 3, and 4, different views of stamens; 5, ovary and style; 
6, cross-section of ovary :—all magnified. 
If. Leucopogon, R. Brown, Prodr. 541; Endl. Gen. n. 42, 48. Calyx 5-partitus, 2-bracteo- 
latus. Corolla hypogyna, infundibuliformis, limbi 5-partiti laciniis patentibus, plumoso-harbatis. 
Stamina 5, medio v. summo corollz tubo inserta, inclusa; filamenta filiformia; anthera dorso supra 
medium inserte, ovate v. oblong, simplices. Discus hypogynus, cyathiformis, integer v. lobatus, 
interdum obsoletus. Ovarium 2-5-loculare, loculis 1-ovulatis; ovulis pendulis. Stylus simplex. 
stigma subcapitatum, sulcatum. Drupa baccata y. exsucca, nune crustacea, 2—-5-locularis. Semina 
in loculis solitaria, inversa.—Trutices ; foliis sparsis v. interrupte confertis, spicis axillaribus v. termi- 
nalibus, rarius pedunculis axillaribus solitariis, 2- aut abortu 1-floris. 
1. L. Cymbulz, Labill, Austr. Caled. p. 36. t. 89; foliis oblongo-lanceolatis acuminatis obtu- 
sisve ; Spicis erectis, subterminalibus, folio brevioribus ; bracteis ciliatis ; drupis obovatis, 5-locularibus. 
—DC., Prodr. vol, vii. p. 745.—Styphelia Cymbule, Spreng. Cur. Post. p. 67.—Mountains of Kadavu 
(Seemann! n, 285), Aneitum, New Hebrides (M‘Gillivray!). Also collected in New Caledonia 
(Labillardiére), 
Asa Gray thought the Vitian species distinct from the New Caledonian, but without comparing La- 
billardiére’s authentic specimens it is difficult to decide the point. 
Orvo LY. MYRSINEA. 
The typical Primulacee, of which this is merely a suborder distinguished by its baccate fruit,—for there 
are several shrubby Primulacee,—have not yet been met with in Viti, though we have in tropical Polynesia 
Lysimachia decurrens, Forst, Prodr. n. 65, leon, (ined.) t. 56, from Tana (Forster!) and the Isle of Pines 
(M‘Gillivray !); Lysimachia Hillebrandi, Hook. fil., from the Sandwich Islands ; Samolus litoralis, R. 
Brown, from the Isle of Pines (M‘Gillivray !) ; and Lubinia pacifica, Seem, sp. nov. in Herb, Mus. Brit., 
trom the Isle of Pines (M‘Gillivray!). The latter has quite the habit of L. spathulata, Vent. ; spathulate, 
entire, dotted and membranaceous leaves, axillary solitary flowers, and calyx segments densely covered with 
black dots. The flowers seem to be white. Calyx seements ovate-oblong, acute. 
I. Mesa, Forsk. Plant. Arab. p. 66; DC. Prodr. vol. viii, p, 77. Calyx basi 2-bracteolatus, 
5-lobus, lobis estiyatione 5-cunciali, 2 exterioribus, 3 interioribus. Corolla 5-fida, subeampanulata ; 
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