FLORA VITIENSIS. 316 
umlbilicum attingente, infera.—Herba perennes, caule erecto v, sarmentoso; foliis sparsis, basi 
vaginantibus ; yaginis connatis, caulem velantibus; lamina lanceolata, nervosa, basi contracta, apice 

interdum in cirrhum spiralem desineute ; floribus paniculatis, bracteolatis, viridibus v. albis.—./oin- 
villea, Gand, Bonit. t. 39, 40. 
Besides the two Polynesian species enumerated below, there is in the Hawatian Islands F. ascendens, 
Seem. (Joinvillea ascendens, Gaud. Bonit. t. 39, 40, f. 1-7), and, from a communication received from Mr, 
Storck, an additional species in Viti, of which, however, no specimens have come to hand. 
1. FE. elegans, Secem.; erecta; foliis late elongato-lanceolatis, longe acuminatis, creberrime 
plicatis et longitudinaliter nervosis; nervis primariis minute scaberulis, venulis trausversis convexis ; 
vagina fissa, marginibus membranaceis superne in auriculas obtusas utrinque dilatata; panicula 
ramis puberulis; perigon. segmentis ovate-subulatis; drupis coccineis.—F. (Chortodes) plicata, J. D. 
Hook, in Kew Mise, vol. vii. p. 200. t. 6. Joinvillea elegans, Gaud. Bonit. t. 39, 40, f. 7-26 (sine 
deseript.)—Viti Levu (Seemann! n. 645). Also collected in Aneitum, New Hebrides (M‘Gilli- 
vray !), Kanala, New Caledonia (M‘Gillivray !), and Isle of Pines (Milne and M‘Gillivray !) 
2, F. Indica, Linn. Sp. p. 475; caule scandente ; foltis lanceolatis, basi in petiolum brevem con- 
tractis, apice cirrhiformi-spiralibus, integerrimis, glabris, nitidis, oe-nerviis (4-12 poll. long.), vegetio- 
ribus, supra basin subcordato-rotundatis (4-2 poll. lat.) ; paniculis terminalibus.—Palmiuncus levis, 
Rumph, Amb, vol. v. t. 59. f. 1; Rheede, Malab. vol. vi. t. 53. Nomina vernac. Vitiensia, “ Wa 
Sila” (v. “Sili”?) et * Duruka” (v. “ Turuka’’?).—Forests of Taviuni and Viti Levu (Seemann ! 
n, 644; Ovalau (Storck! n, 910). 
The ears of this plant are eaten by the natives. 
Orvo CIV. CYPERACEAi* 
There is a great number of undetermined Cyperacee from tropical America in the British herbaria. 
Schenus arundinaceus, Sol. in Forst, Prod. n. 491 (sine deseript.), from New Caledonia (Borster!, Capt. 
Cook, anno 1774), is identical with Asterochete arundinacea, Kunth; whilst Schenus elevatus, Sol. in 
Forst. Prodr. n. 494: (sine deseript.), from Tahiti (Banks and Solander !), 1s identical with Oladiwm leptosta- 
chyum, Nees, 
I, Lepironia, Rich. in Pers. Ench. vol. i. p. 70; Endl. Gen, n. 986. Spicul co-florz, 
co-game. Paleze oo, in rhachilla brevissima imbricato-fasciculate, l-andre. Flores ¢; stamina 
3-6. Ovarinm stylo 2.fido, deciduo. Caryopsis crustacea, globosa v. compressa, poroso-rugulosa. 
—Herbx paludose, Juncorum habitu ; culmis simplicissimis, foliis teretibus farctis, septis trausversis 
nodosis, spiculis infra culmi apicem in eapitulum bracteolatum vy. nudum aggregatis, nunc in spicam 
lateralem squamis cartilagineis arctissime imbricatis bracteatam, strobiliformem disposifis. 
]. L. mucronata, L. C. Rich. in Pers. Syn. vol. i. p. 70; Kunth, Enum. vol. ii. p. 366 ; A. 
Rich. in Dict. Class. vol. ix. p. 297.—Searpus coniferus, Poir. Encyel. vol. vi. p. 7565 ejusd. Suppl. 
vol. v. 90 (v.8.). Restio articulalus, Retz. Obs. vol. iv. p. 15. Chondrachne articulata, Brown, 
ee SEES 
* An Eriocaulon, closely allied, if not identical with #. australe, KR. Brown, was collected by M‘Gil- 
livray ! in the Isle of Pines, off New Caledonia. 

