FLORA VITIENSIS. 195 
Ceodes, though first made known by Forster in his Char, Gen. p. 71, t. 71, in the year 1776, having 
been discovered on the 12th of August, 1774, on the island of Tana, during Captain Cook’s second voyage, 
has been entirely overlooked by Endlicher, Lindley, and even Choisy. I have already stated (‘ Bon- 
plandia,’ vol. x, p. 154, 1862), that I regard Ceodes wmbellifera, as Yorster first (Char. Gen.), and 0. 
umbellata as his son afterwards (‘ Prodromus’) called it, as a species of Pisonia, which I have named P. wmbel- 
lifera. t will be seen from the description and plate in the Char. Gen. p. and t. 71, that the specimens at 
Forster’s disposal had only male flowers, and could therefore give but an imperfect generie¢ character, which 
has not allowed botanists who had no access to the original specimens to guess eyen the position of Ceodes 
in the natural system, Fortunately, there is a good set of the original specimens at the British Museum, 
and also a characteristic drawing of the whole plant made by G. Forster on the spot, These materials 
leave no doubt what Forster's genus, placed by him in the Linnean Class Polygamia, really is. 
1. P. inermis, Forst. Prodr, p. 75, n. 397 (1786), non Jacq, Forst. Icon. (ined.) t. 285; foliis 
omnibus oppositis ovatis v. oblongis obtusis yel acuminatis; perianthiis fructiferis spinulosis.—P. 
grandis; Parkins. Drawings of Tahit. Plants, t. 117 (ined.}. P. grandis, R. Brown, Prodr. Nov. 
Holl. p. 422 (1810). P. procera, Bertero, mss. in Guill, Zeph. Tait, p. 39 (1837); Deless. Icon. 
Select. vol. ii. t. 87. P. Brunoniana, Endl. Fl, Norf. p. 43. n. 88 (1833); F. Bauer, lust. Pl. Norf. 
t. 145. Nomen vernac. Tahitense, “ Buatea,”’ teste Guillemin.—Rather common throughout Viti 
(Seemann! n. 863). Ranging from the Society Islands to the east coast of New Holland, and from 
the Sandwich Islands to Ceylon, viz. Tahiti (Banks and Solander! Forster! Bertero! Moerenhout ! 
Bidwill! Barclay !), Norfolk Island (Ferd. Bauer!), Tongan Islands (Harvey !), Sandwich Islands 
(Herb. Hook. !), Bow Islands, Dangerous Archipelago (Barclay !), Ceylon (Thwaites!), Prata Islands 
(Wilford !), tropical parts of eastern Australia (R. Brown! in Mus. Brit.), 
The synonym demands some explanation. P. Brunoniana is undoubtedly identical with P. inermis, 
Forst. Prodr. p. 75. n. 897 (non Jacgq.), collected in Tahiti. There are no specimens of Forster’s plant at 
the British Museum, but there is a very good drawing of it by his own hand; and we have besides his 
manuscript notes, published by Guillemin in his ‘Zephyrites Taitensis.’ Amongst Parkinson’s coloured 
drawings of Tahitian plants, preserved at the British Museum, there is an excellent figure of this plant 
under the name of P. grandis, a name which R. Brown has adopted for the New Iolland species, with 
which the Tahitian is perfectly identical. As Jacquin’s P. inermis is a mere synonym of P. mitis, Linn.* 
(P. nigricans, Swartz), there is no reason why Forster’s name, the oldest, should be set aside, 
2. P. umbellifera, Seem. in Bonplandia, vol. x, p. 154 (1862) ; foliis inferioribus oppositis su- 
perioribus plerumque verticillatis, elliptico-oblongis v. oblongis acuminatis v. obtusis basi in petiolum 
angustatis, perianthiis fructiferis inermibus.—Ceodes umbellifera, Forst. Char. Gen. p. 71. t. 71 (1776). 
C.umbellata, Forst. Prodr. n. 569 (1788) ; Forst. Icon. (ined.) t.300. Pisonta eacelsa, Blume, Bijdr. 
p. 735 (1825) ; Choisy in DC, Prodr. yol, xiii. sect. ii, p. 441 (1849). 2, macrocarpa, Presi, Symb. 
t. 56 (1833), P, Forsteriana, Endl, in Herb, Meyen, ex Schauer et Walp. Nova Acta Nat. Cur. vol. 
xix., Suppl. p. 403. t. 51 (1843). P. Sinelairi, Hook. f. Fl, New Zeal. vol. 1. p. 209. t. 50 (1853). 
P. Mooreana, F. Mueller, Fragm. vol, i. p. 20 (1858-59), Nomen yernac. Javanicum, teste Blume, 
 Kitjauro,” Novo-Zelandicum, teste Hook. f., “ Parapara.”—Ovyalau (Seemann! n. 364), Also col- 
lected in Java (Horsfield! in Mus. Brit.! Teijsmann! Lobb! n. 29), Philippine Islands (Cuming! 
n. 523), Timor (Spanoghe!), Tana (J. R. and G. Forster! W. Anderson! in Mus. Brit.), New 


* P. mitis, of Linneus, has hitherto been looked upon as a very doubtful species, the doubt being m- 
ereased by Sir J. Smith adding, in the Linnwan Herbarium, to some specimens of the Indian form of P. 
aculeata the name of P. mitis, though Linnus distinetly states his mités to be wnarmed. Some MSS. cor- 
rections, which Linneus himself made in a copy of his second edition of the ‘Species Plantarum,’ p. 1511, 
preserved at the Linnean Society, corrections adopted by Murray, make it clear that Linneus’s P. motis 1s 
quite identical with Jacquin’s P. inermis and Swartz’s P. nigricans. Linnzeus adds in that place to his P. 
mitis “ Jacq. Amer. 275,” strikes out the words “ Pisonia Malabarica non spinosa, Amin, Herb, 582. Kata 
Kava Walli, Rheed. Mal, 7. p, 33. t. 172” substitutes for “ Habitat in India” “ Habitat mn America,” and 
finally adds, “ Arbor alia hermaph, sterilis, alia hermaphr. fertilis.’ Hence the synonymy of P. mitis would 
be:—P, mitis, Linn. Sp. Plant. ed. ii. p. 1511, exel. syn, omnib. P. nigricans, Swartz, Prodr, p. 60; I'l. 
Ind, Oce. p. 648; DC. Prodr. vol. xiii. p. 442. P. inermis, Jacq. Amer. p- 275, non Forst. 
“* 
