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liformis, tubo calyce paulo longiore sensim ampliato in limbum 5-partitum patentem, lobis ovatis 
acutis, sestivatione dextrorsum convolutis, fauce barbata. Staniina 5, tubo inserta, filamentis brevis- 
<imis, Stylus filiformis; stigma crassiusculum, didymum aut subbilobum. Capsula oblonga aut 
ovata, valvis 2 coriacco-lignosis, margine introflexis arcte junctis et constituentibus dissepimentum de- 
mum utrinque seminiferam et a yalvulis demum divaricatis distinctum, Semina co, ovato-angulata, 
aptera, Embryo (ex G. ovata) in medio albuminis carnosi, erectus, long, seminis ; radicula cylin- 
drica, cotyledonibus oblongis sublongiore—Frutices sepius glabra, habitu fere Rubiacearum frutes- 
centinm, fractus fere Bursaria, ramis teretibus ; foliis oppositis, ovatis, integerrimis, persistentibus ; 
stipulis intrapetiolaribus in vaginam concretis; floribus albis, in umbellas corymbos paniculasve dis- 
positis, pedicellatis —DC. Prodr, vol. ix. p. 26. Anasser et Gentostoma, Juss, Gen. pp. 150 et 420, 
Anassera, Pers, Ench. n, 602. Aspilotwm, Banks et Soland. ms. ex Cunn. Hemospermum, Blume, 
Bijdr. p. 1018; Benth, in Linn. Journ. vol. 1. 
Asa Gray has referred G. erassifolia, Benth., to G. rupestre, Forst., as a variety, 80 that the number 
of species of this genus indigenous to tropical Polynesia amounts to three, viz. G. astylum, A. Gray, from 
the Society Islands, and the two following. 
1. G. rupestre, Forst. Prodr. n.'103, et Icon, (ined.) t. 58; foliis ovatis oblongis v. oblongo- 
lanceolatis acuminatis v. obtusis, basi attennatis, vagina stipulari truncata brevissima; cymis axillari- 
bus 3-7-floris petiolo demum longioribus; pedicellis medio 2-bracteolatis ; calyce breviter 5-fide lobis 
ovato-acutis ciliolatis; corollee lobis medio et basi intus villosiusculis ; stylo basi villoso; stigmate 
indiviso; ovario glabro; capsula obovoidea 2-mucronulata levii—G. Hemosperma, Steudl. Nom. 
Hamospermum arboreum, Blume, Bijdr. p, 1018.—Common thronghont Viti (Seemann! n, 300 et 
301). Also collected in Tana (Forster! W. Anderson!), Tonga (Nelson! Capt. Cook! Barclay! 
Harvey !), Tahiti (Capt. Cook !), Wallis Island (Greeffe! n. 42), New Caledomia (Anderson !), and 
Isle of Pines (Sir E, Home! M*‘Gillivray !), 
Asa Gray is inclined tu arrange all the forms of this species under the varieties ellipticum, macrophyl- 
lum, and puberylun. 
2, G.(?) microphyllum, (sp. nov.) Seem. in Bonplandia, vol. x. p, 37 ; ramulis subfilformibus 
sarmentosis glabris; foliis breviter petiolatis ovatis longe acuminatis subtus albido-punctatis ; 
vagina stipulari truncata; floribus ignotis—Woods of the southern parts of Viti Levu (Seemann ! 
n. B04), 
IT ean find nothing like this in our herbaria, The leaves are about ? of an inch long and 2-3 lines 
broad,—the thin rooting branches adhering to the trunks of trees, like Ficus stipulate and Hedera Heliz. 
If. Pagrza, Thunb. Nov. Gen, vol. ii, p. 343 DC. Prodr. vol. ix. p. 28. Calyx basi 2-brac- 
teolatus, 5-partitns, lobis imbricatis obtusis, Corolla infundibuliformis, tubo superne subampliato, 
lobis obliquis per estivationem contortis, demum patentibus, Stamina 5, medio tubo inserta, fila- 
mentis subulatis subexsertis, antheris 2-locularibus subincumbentibus. Ovarium 2- v. marginibus 
carpellorum axim non attingentibus fere l-loculare. Stylus filiformis; stigma peltato-depressum, 
Bacea corticata ovalis, 2-locularis, septo e valvis induplicatis duplici, Placente pulpose. Semina 
co, pulpa immersa, parva, crustacea. Albumen corneum. Embryo minutus, in dimidia inferiore 
parte seminis; radicula infera v. subobliqua, cotyledonibus obtusis longiore.—Frutices v. arbores, 
glabri ; ramnlis svepius tetragonis; foliis petiolatis oppositis, ovalibus, integris coriaccis; stipulis in- 
trapetiolaribus; floribus albis, in corymbum racemumye trichotomum terminalem dispositis.— 
Kuhlia, Reinw. (non Kunth) et ipso monente Blume, Bijdr. 777. 
1, “FP. Berteriana, A. Gray, ms., ex Benth. in Linn, Journ. vol. i, p. 98; arborea; foliis 
longiuscule petiolatis obovato-oblongis obtusissimis y. breviter acuminatis coriaceis crassis obsolete 
