224, FLORA VITIENSIS. 
loculi basi fixi, erecti, preeter basin inter se liberi, Rudimentum ovarii 0 Ovarit loculi 1-ovulati, 
laciniis calycis oppositi y. iis panciores, unus posterior. Fructus capsularis. Sema ecarunculata, 
—Frutices et arbores v. rarius herbee. Folia alterna, stipulata, petiolata, penninervia, seepe purpuras- 
centia v, subyiolacco-rubentia, basi supra plus minusve distinete denticuliformi 2—4-stipellata, 
subtus nunquam maculato-glandulosa. Flores dicici y. casu monoici, parvi, in racemos axillares 
simplices fasciculigeros v. glomeruligeros dispositi—Ery/hrochilus; Reinw, Ap. Bl. Bijdr. p. 615, 
Athroandra, Hook.f. Micrococea, Benth. Mercurials, Baill, 
O. Sandwichense, Mill. Arg., from the Hawaiian Islands; ©, insularwm, Mull. Arg., from New 
Caledonia; and C. Tahitense, Mill. Arg., from Tahiti (Morster! Capt. Cook !), are the only three species of 
this genus hitherto found in tropical Polynesia, besides the two following. 
1. C, fallax, (n. sp.) Miill. Arg. in DC. Lc. p. 780; racemis 3 spiciformibus elongatis gra- 
cilibus, bracteis ¢ 3-5-floris; staminibus circiter 30; filamentis breviter sericcis.—C. parviflorum, 
Seem. Bonpl. 1861, p. 258 (nomen), non Adr. Juss.—Ovalau (Seemann! n. 394). 
A tree, 24 feet high, closely allied to C. Sandwichense, with which it forms the section Gymnoclaoaylon. 
2. C. echinospermum, Miill. Arg. in DC, Le. p, 787; petiolis limbo 3-5-plo brevioribns; 
limbo membranaceo-subconaceo; racemis gracilibus ¢ paryifloris; bracteis ¢ 3-l-floris ; stamini- 
bus 80, glandulis receptaculi ohovato-lanceolatis apice truncato paucipilosis; ovario pallide ochraceo- 
sericeo; stylis parvis minute laceris; capsulis intus nitidis; seminibus echinato-tuberculatis, 
Island of Ovalau (U. 8. Expl. Exped.). 

IX. Acalypha, Linn, Gen. Plant. p, 502, n. 1082, 1767; Mill, Arg. in DC. Prodr. yol. xy. 
p. 799. Calyx ¢ valyaris, 9 imbricativus, hujus laciniarwm una antica. Petala et discus utriusque 
sexus (. Stamina in receptacalo elevato pulyiniformi centrum eccupautia, Antherze 2-rimose; 
loculi subvermiformes, liberi, ex apice penduli. Rudimentum ovarii 0, Ovarii loculi 1-ovnlati, 2 
anteriores, bracteam spectantes, 1 posterior, Fructus capsularis. Semina subobsolete v. distincte 
caruneulata. Embryo in albumine rectus; radicula cotyledones ovatas subeequans.—Frutices suffru- 
tices herbyeque perennes v. annue. Folia alterna, swpius longe v. longinscule petiolata, nune fere 
sessilia, penninervia vy. 8-7-neryia, consistentia varia, margine nunquam omnino integra; limbus 
cum reliquis partibus foliaceis seepissime minute pellucido-punctatus. Petioli basi 2-stipulati, apice 
subglanduligeri. Inflorescentiz situ ct forma varie, nec non satis variantes, normaliter 1-sexuales 
aut 2-sexuales, et tum flores g seepissime superiores. Flores ¢ in axillis bractearum subnumerosi, 
i spicam dense glomerulifloram srepe continuam dispositi, exigui, demum articulato-deeidu, 
in axillis bractearum seepius 1 v. 2-3, sessiles rariusve pedicellati Cupameni, Adans. Caturus, 
Linn, Galurus, Spreng. Linostachys, Klotasch. Odonteilema, Turez. Gymnalpha, Griseb. 
‘This large genus has, in tropical Polynesia, the following representatives, besides those found in Viti, 
viz. 1. A. Forsteriana, Mill. Arg. (A. virgata, Forst. Prodr. n. 67, non Linn.), from Tana, New Hebrides 
( Forster !) oS eA: Pancheriana, Baill,, from New Caledonia ; 8. A. Neo-Caledonica, Mill, Arg., from New 
Caledonia; and 4, A, Lepinei, Mill. Arg., from Tahiti, : 
1, A. grandis, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. of Bot. 1843, p. 282; Mill. Arg. in DC. 1c. 
p. 806; stipulis angustis elongatis ; spicis longissimis densifloris; bracteis 9 1-floris fructigeris capsu- 
lam paulo superantibus orbiculari-reniformibus pro 4 longitudinis acute 7—9-lobato-dentatis, dente 
terminali aud longiore ; ovario hirto; stylis breviuscule pennatim 5-9-lacinulatis.—A, Amboinensis, 
Benth, le. p: 405.—Viti Levu (Barelay!). Also collected in Wallis Island (Sir E, Home !) and 
Aneitum (Milne !), the Moluccas, Amboina, and the Philippine Islands, 

