258 | FLORA VITIENSIS. 
conicum. Fl. 2; Perigonium tubulosum, ovatum, apice in collum breve contractum, 4-dentatum y. 
4-fidum, Stylus brevis. Stigmata 2, longa, dense papilloso-puberula, Ovarium perigonio adnatum, 
J-loculare, l-ovulatum, Ovulum ax apice loculi pendulum, campylotropum.— Arbores ; foliis alternis 
integris ; floribus axillaribus spicatis. 
1, T. anthropophagorum, (n, sp.) Seem.(Tab. LX XIII.) ; arborea, glabra; foliis ovato-oblongis 
vy. ovalibus acuminatis basi rotundatis vy. attenuatis integerrimis pinnatinerviis; spicis axillaribus 2-3 
folio longioribus; fl. ¢ perigonii laciniis subrotundatis obtusis puberulis; fl. 2 perigonio 4-fido pube- 
rulo, ovario ovato globoso glabro.—Nomen vernac. Vitiense, ‘“ Malavaci.’””—Interior of Viti Levu 
(Seemann! n. 435), 
A middle-sized tree, with dark-green shining leaves, which, I was told, were eaten as vegetable at 
cannibal feasts. Petiole 1-1} inch long; blade of leaf 4-12 inches long, and from 2-6 inches broad. 
Expianarion OF Prarn LXXIII., representing Trophis anthropophagorwm, Seem.—Fig. 1, male 
flower; 2, female flower; 3, pistil, cut longitudinally; 4, fruit, almost ripe; 5, the same, cut through :— 
all magnified. 
Orpvo LXXXVI. CERATOPHYLLEA. 
I, Ceratophyllum, Liun. Gen. n. 1055; Endl. Gen. n. 1829. Flores monoici. Fl. 3: Involu- 
crum axillare, co-fidum, sessile. Antherz oo, sessiles, 2-loculares, indehiscentes. Fl. 2: Involucrum 
ut in fi. gd. Ovarium 1, sessile, 1-loculare. Ovulum 1, pendulum, orthotropum, Stylus terminalis, 
apice hine stigmatosus. Nucula coriacea basi aculeata, stylo apiculata. Semen 1, pendulum, 
Embryo exalbuminosus, cotyledonibus 4 verticillatis, per paria inzequilatis, plumula oo-phylla, radi- 
cula brevissima infera.—Herba sub aquis demersa; foliis verticillatis, rigidulis, di-trichotome multi- 
fidis, involucris axillaribus solitariis. Species unica:— 
1, ©, demersum, Linn. Sp, 1409.—C. submersum, Linn. Sp. 1409.—In swamps, Viti Levu 
(Seemann! n. 386), 
Orpo LXXXVII. CHLORANTHACEA. 
I, Ascarina, Forst. Char. Gen. n.59. Flores dioici. Fl. ¢ 1-andri, laxe spicati, co-bracteati. 
Filamentum brevissimum ; anthera oblonga, 4-sulca, 2-locularis, longitudinaliter dehiscens. Tl. 9 
laxe spicati, 1-bracteati. Ovarium globosum y. ovoideum, l-loculare. Ovulum ], pendulum. Stigma 
sessile, subtrilobum. Drupa 1-sperma.—Arbores vy. frutices, ramis teretibus v. subtetragonis; foltis 
oppositis serratis stipulatis, spicis solitariis v. racemosis. 
. There is, besides the species mentioned below, only one other in tropical Polynesia, viz. A. polystachya, 
Horst. Prodr, n. 364, et Icon. (ined.) ¢. 264, 265 (Psilotum serratum, Sol. Prim. Fl. Ins. Pacif. (ined.) 
P. rs , in Parkins, Drawings of Tahit. Plants), t. 112, from the Society Islands (Forster! Bidwill! 
arclay !). 
1, A. lanceolata, Hook. f. in Journ, of Proc. Linn. Soc. vol. i. p. 129 (Tab, LXXIV.) ; 
arbus- 
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cula ; foliis petiolatis lanceolatis acuminatis grosse serratis subtus glaucis, coriaceis ; paniculis folio 
brevioribus ; 
antheris ovato-oblongis basi leviter cordatis; filamentis brevissimis,—Voma Peak, 
Island of Viti Levu (Seemann! n. 564), Also collected in New Caledonia (Vieillard! 1213) and 
Kermandec (M‘Gilliyray !), and Samoan Islands (Powell !). 
