939 | FLORA VITIENSIS, 
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ath; ies enumerated below, we have, in tropical Polynesia:—1. C. aewminatum, Mill, from 
Oh cscs chil Miill. (Croton populneum, Sol. Prim. Fl. Ins. Pacif. (ined.) p. 384, et in 
sees Drawines of Tahit, Plants (ined.) t 107, “Bobo” of the Tahitians), from Tahiti (Banks and 
Solan der!) and 3. C. polyandrum, Miill., from the Kermadec Islands (Milne!, M‘Gillivray !). 
1, C. nutans, Mill. Arg. in DC, 1. c. 1146; limbo foliorum basi subtus 2-glanduloso; racemis 
tenellis; bracteis minutis late ovatis; sepalo anteriore reniformi posteriore obsoleto ; antheris sub- 
quadriserialibus cum filamentis seabridulis; fructu ellipsoideo utrinque breviter acuminato parvulo.— 
Croton nutans, Forst. Prodr. n, 354, ct Icon, (ined.) t. 260. Sfillingia nutans, Geisel. Crot. Monogr. 
p. 80; Endl. Flor. d. Stidseeins. p.184. Omalanthus pedicellatus, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. of 
Bot. vol, 1. p. 282. Carumbium pedicellatum, Mig. FI. Ind. Bat, vol. i. pt. ii. p. 414.—Nomen vernac, 
Vitiense, “Tadano.”—Viti Levu, common (Seemann! n, 402, Milne!, Harvey!), Gan (Milne!) 
Also collected in New Caledonia (Sir EH, Home!), Eromanga (M‘Gillivray !), Tana (Anderson), 
and Society and Tongan Islands (Forster!, Barclay !, Harvey !). 
The leaves of this plant are, like those of Solanum anthropophagorum, eaten at cannibal feasts as a 
vegetable. 
XVII. Stillingia, Garden in Linn. Mant. vol. i, p. 19. n. 1279, 1767; Miill. Arg. in DC. 1. ¢. 
p.1165. Calycis lacinie utriusque sexusimbricative. Petala et discus utriusque sexus 0, Stamina 
in receptaculo haud elevato centralia; antherse 2-rimose. Rudimentum ovarii 0. QOvarii loculi 1- 
ovulati, 1 anterior. Fructus capsularis; columella centralis rudimentaria, ejus loci receptaculum in 
earpidophorum 3-cornutam horizontaliter evolutum, Semiina carunculata, albuminosa; chalaza bast 
sita. Albumen basi truncata fixum. Embryo verticalis; cotyledoues late, radiculam bene sequantes, 
—Frutices v, suffrutices, Folia 2-stipulata, alterna y. rarius opposita, penninervia, margine glandu- 
foso-deuticulata et insuper seepius margine glandulas parvas patelliformes gerentia. Flores monoici, 
spicati v. spicato-racemosi. Spica terminales y. laterales; basi flores 1-3 foamineos gerentes, 
cecteree mascule, Bractew 2-glandulose, ? 1-flore, ¢ sepius 2-3-flore. 
‘1, S. Pacifica, Miill. Arg. in DC, 1, ¢. p. 1156; costis secundariis dense approximatis, glan- 
dulis bractearum demum pluries longioribus quam latis quasi longitrorsum aduatis semicylindricis, 
floribus sessilibus.—Island of Ovalau (U. 8. Expl. Exped., Sir H, Home! in Herb. Mus, Brit.), 
XIX. Excecaria, Linn. Gen. Plant. n. 1102 ; Mill, Arg. in DC. Le. p. 1201. Calycis 
laciniw utriusque sexus imbricativee (masculee evolutse v. plus mimusve reductee), Petala et discus 
uttiusque sexus 0, Stamina centraha; anthers 2-rimosze ; loculi longitrorsum adnati. Ovarii rudi- 
mentum 0. Loculi ovarii 1-ovulati. Styli haud laminiformi-compressi. Fructus maturus capsu- 
lari-aperiens (siccus aut carnosus), columella centrali evoluta munitus. Semina ecarunculata ; 
chalaza basilaris, Embryo verticalis ; cotyledones latw—Arbores et frutices. Folia srepissime 
alterna, in paucis opposita, 2-stipulata, petiolata, pennineryia v, rarius palmatinervia, firma, ambitu 
et margine varia. Flores monoici y, rarius dioic; 
1-2 § rarius numerosiores gerentes cseterum ¢ nu 
Lour, Fl, Cochinch. p, 605 et 742, 
im spicas sepissime 2-sexuales, basi flores vulgo 
ue terminales nune axillares dispositi—Commia, 
Imperfect specimens of a plant (my n. 414), collected at 
vr » ATs ez th ¢ 
mark of doubt to this genus ye Die Me vein Namosi, Viti Levu, haye been referred with a 
1. E, Agallocha, Linn. Sp. Plant. p. 1451; Mill. Arg. in DO. 1c. p. 1 
220; bracteis dense 
« . . = . Mw 
imbricatis latis brevibus trun 
catls margine subintegro “excepto glanduloso-incrassatis; calycis 3 

