154. FLORA VITIENSIS. 
oppositis 1-foliolatis, articulo petioli manifesto; foliolo ovato-elliptico v. ovato-acuminato ; panicula 
terminali trichotoma—se-flora ; calycis lobis 5 acutis brevibus ; corollee (albze) lobis 5-8 oblongis tubo 
brevioribus ; bacca ovata (atro-ceerulea). J, simplicifolium, Forst. Prod, n. 7 ; Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 
980, non Roxb, J. gracile, Andr. Rep, t. 127; Ker, Bot. Reg. t. 606. J. genculatum, Vent. 
Choix, t. 8. J. volubile, Jacq. Hort. Schoenb. t. 321; Fragm. t. 44. fig. 2.—Nomen vernac. V1- 
tiense, “ Wa Vatu.’—Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, and Ovalau (Seemann! n, 298) ; Totoga and Moala 
(Milne!). Also collected in the Tongan Islands (Forster! D. Nelson! Sir E. Home! Harvey '!), 
Norfolk Island (King! Bauer! Cunningham !), and Aneitum, New Hebrides (M‘Gillivray!) East 
coast of Australia (Bidwill! M‘Gillivray! F. Mueller’). 
After carefully comparing the Norfolk Island specimens upon which J. gracile was founded with the 
authentic specimens of J. simplicifolium, Forst., and finding that the leaves vary in shape and the calyx- 
teeth are not as different in the two as they are described in books, 1 have united the two supposed 
species, 
3, J. didymum, Forst. Prody. n. 8; Soland. Prim. Fl. Ins. Pacif. p. 200 (ined.), et in Par- 
kins. Drawings of Tahitian Plants (ined.), t. 2; glabrum v. glabriusculum ; ramis teretibus scan- 
dentibus; foliis suboppositis 3-foliolatis, foliolis subovatis ovato-lanceolatisve obtusis acuminatisve, 
lateralibus seepius minoribus ; racemis axillaribus et terminalibus ; ealycis dentibus minutis; corolle 
(albze) limbo 4-G6-lobo; seminis integumento imperforato.—Jasminum, e Nov. Caled. Forst. Prodr. 
n. 490 (fide spec. Forsteriano in Herb. Mus. Brit.). J. divaricatum, R. Brown, Prodr. p. 521; La- 
bill, Sert. Austr. Caled. t. 27. J. parviflorum, Decaisne, Herb. Timor. p.77. J. Azortcum, Hook, 
et Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 66! non Linn,—Nomen vernac. Tahitiense, teste Soland., “ Tia tia mana.’’— 
Viti Levu (Seemann! n. 299), Gau (Milne!). Also collected in Tahiti (Herb. Mus. Brit. ! 
Bidwill! Lay and Collie!), New Caledonia (Forster! Nelson !), and east coast of New Holland (R. 
Brown !). 
The New Caledonian plant, figured by Labillarditre and collected by Forster and Nelson, represents 
the narrow-leaved form, which often oceurs together with the broad-leaved on the same individual, I 
have followed Asa Gray in referring here Decaisne’s J. parviflorum, trom Timor, as a synonym; and 
subjoin Solander’s detailed description of the Tahitian plant above quoted, “ Caules lignosi, flexnoso- 
volubiles (omuino uti Clematidem), longi, teretes, glabri, ramosi. Ramzi villosiusculi, breves, ad angulum 
rectum divaricati, Folia pep INS opposita, interdum tamen alterna, petiolata, ternata. oliola oblongo- 
ovata, acuta, integerrima, glabra, brevia, compacta, plana, petiolata; terminale lateralibus duplo majus 
(sepe 23 unciam longum), longiusque petiolatum, Peéioli ad rectangulum divergentes, teretes, supra 
canaliculati, filiformes, glabri, unciales ; petiolellis tigura et consistentia petiolorum.—Obs. Interduim foliola 
sequalia, tum petiolelli etiam longitudine wquales. Flores albi, suaveolentes, odore florum Jasmini offici- 
nalis, Linn, Sp. Pl. 9, illisque parum minores, cymosi. Cyma peduneulata, composita, subtrichotoma ; 
pedicellis 5-floris. Pettoli axillares, solitarii, foliis breviores, teretes, villosiuseul, Stipule minute, subu- 
late, opposite, ad singulam subdivisionem cyme. Cal. perianthium monophyllum, urceolato-cylindraceum, 
breve (vix lineare), 5-dentatum (variat dentibus 4 et 6), persistens, fructu maturescente, latere rumpens. 
Dentes a lata basi subulati, brevissimi, seepe inequales. Corolla monopetala, hypocrateriformis. T'ubus 
cylindraceus, crassitie penne passerine, calyce 6-tuplo longior (longitudine semiunciam parum excedens), 
parum incurvus ex albido-virescens, Limbus planus, patens, 5-partitus. Lacinie oblong, acute, albe. 
Stam. jilamenta 2, medio tubi inserta, subulata, brevia. Anthere lineares, acute, erect, infra faucem 
occultate. Pest. germen superum, subrotuudum, supra planiusculum. Séylus subulatus, tubo paulo bre- 
vior. Stigma simplex, Pericarp. baece 2, receptaculo eleyato bracteato latere aflixw, divaricate, clobosee, 
magnitudine Cerasi minoris, glaberrime, levigate, dum virides e pulpa subpellucida uvis viridibus simil- 
lime, dum mature nigro-purpure, uvas nigras non absimiles. Cwfis tenuis, pellucida, membranacea. 
Pulpa mollis. Semina solitaria, globosa, magna, alba, arillata; arilZo duriusculo.”’ 
II, Olea, Tournef. Inst. t. 370; Linn. Gen. n. 20; DC. Prodr, vol. viii. p. 283. Calyx brevis, 
campanulatus, 4-dentatus, rarius truncatus, Corolle tubo breyi, limbo 4-partito plano patente, 
rarius nulla, Stamina 2, in corollatis imo tubo inserta opposita exserta, in apetalis hypogyna. 
Ovarium 2-loculare, Ovula in loculis 2, ex apice septi pendula. Stigma 2-fidum aut subcapitatum, 
sessile vy. stylo breyi impositum. Drupa baccata, carne oleosa, putamine osseo, abortu 2- et scepitis 
l-spermo. Semina inversa. Albumen carnosum, Embryo inyersus, rectus, cotyledonibus folia- 
