312 FLORA VITINNSIS. 
a white and a purple flowered variety of the genuine ©. terminalis, of both of which Parkinson has made 
excellent coloured drawings. In the Hawaiian Islands (as stated in my ‘ Narrative of the Voyage of 
HL.M.S. Herald,’ vol. ii. p. 83), ©. terminalis is used for hedges, and the leaves for thatching and for 
wrapping up bundles of food, charcoal, ete.; the leaves also serve among the native women as a medium 
for communicating ideas, which appears to be somewhat similar to the system of quipos employed by 
the ancient Incas. 
II. Geitonoplesium, A. Cunn. in Bot. Mag. t. 3131; Endl. Gen. n. 1163. Perigonium co- 
rollinum, 6-partitum, patens, equale, glabrum. Stamina 6, basi laciniarum inserta; filamenta fili- 
formia, apice curvata, conniventia; anthers basifixee, sagittatee. Ovarium 8-loculare. Ovula pauea, 
amphitropa. Stylus filiformis, 8-suleus; stigma simplex. Bacca globosa,.1-sperma. Semina sub- 
globosa, testa coriacea, atra, umbilico ventrali nudo. Embryo subexcentricus, curvatus, extremitate 
radiculari inerassata infera.—Suffrutices volubiles, foliis elliptico-lanceolatis nervoso-striatis, flori- 
bus cymosis v. umbellatis, terminales axillaresque, pedicellis cum perigonii basi attenuata articulatis, 
baccis nigris,—Luzuriaya, R. Brown, Prodr. p. 281, non Ruiz et Pay. 
1. G. cymosum, A. Cunn. in Bot. Mag, t. 3131; ramis teretibus, ramulis striatis levibus; 
eymis terminalibus 2-partitis—Luzuriaga cymosa, RK, Brown, Prodr. p. 282.—Nomen vernac. Viti- 
ense, “ Wa Dakna” (i. ¢. the Dammara creeper, because the leayes of the plant are somewhat like 
those of Dammara Vitiensis, the Vitian ‘ Dakua.)”—Kadavu, Viti Levu (Seemann! n, 638). Also 
collected in New Holland, Norfolk Island, and the Isle of Pines, off New Caledonia (Sir E. Home!). 
C. Koch (Walp. Ann. vol. vi.) holds the narrow-leaved form of this plant to be specifically distinct, 
aud names it G. angustifolium. 
ITI, Dianella, Lam. lusty. t. 250; Endl. Gen. n. 1160, Perigonium corollinum, 6-partitum, 
zequale, patens, Stamina 6, imo perigonio inserta; filamenta curvata, apice incrassata, stuposa; 
anther basifixze, lineares, strictes. Ovarinum 8-loculare. Ovula co, anatropa. Stylus filiformis; 
stigma simplex. Bacca globosa, o0-sperma. Semina ovalia, testa crustacea atra splendente, umbi- 
lico nudo. Embryo rectus, minimus, in basi albuminis.—Herbe perennes y.. suffrutices, radice 
fibrosa, foliis gramineis clongatis, basi semivaginantibus, floribus paniculatis, baccis czeruleis, pedi- 
cellis cernuis, juxta apicem articulatis, basi bracteola unilaterali stipatis. 
Besides the species ennmerated below, we have in tropical Polynesia, D. ensifolia, Red., Wight, Icon, 
t. 2053; (D. odorata, Blume; D. Sandwichensis, Hook. et Arn.), from the Society (Banks and Solander !) 
and Hawaiian Islands (Barclay! Macrae!), and an undescribed species from New Caledonia and Isle of 
Pines (Capt. Cook! M‘Gillivray !), viz. D. Austro-Oaledonica, Seem., mss. in Herb. Mus. Brit. ; caules- 
eens; foliis sublanceolato-linearibus planis (8 lin. lat.), marginibus carinaque leyibus; panicule ramis 
dichotomis patulis ramulisque arcuato-recurvatis; floribus longe pedicellatis; foliolis perigon. inter, 5- 
nerviis; filamentis villosis—Leaves short for the genus, 6-9 inches long. A serap collected by Forster, 
and preserved at the British Museum, is pasted on the same sheet which contains his specimen of Anthe- 
ricun Adenanthera. 
1. D. intermedia, Endl. Prodr. Fl. Norf. p. 28; Bauer, Ilust. Plant. Norfolk, t.178; Kunth, 
Enum. vol. v. p. 53; foliis radicalibus congestis lineari-lanceolatis elongatis (1-5 ped. long.), carina 
marginibusque denticulato-asperis, basi complicata scapoque angulato levibus; panicule ramis ramu- 
lisque areuatis; pedicellis nutantibus, perianthium subsuperantibus, perigon, foliol, interioribus 5- 
nerviis.—D. (2) obscura, Kunth, Enum. vol. v. p. 65. D. (2) Forsteri, Endl, in Ann, Wien. Mus, 
vol. i. p. 162. Anthericum Adenanthera, Forst. Prodr, n. 149, et Icon. (ined.) t. 96. Conanthera 
(?) Forsteri, Spreng. Syst. vol. u. p. 91. Phalangium Adenanthera, Poir. Eneyel. vol. y, p. 262.— 
Island of Kadayu (Seemann! n. 639), Also collected.in New Caledonia (Forster! Capt, Cook ! 

