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FLORA VITIENSIS. 
agrostis lachryma-Jobi, Geertn. Fruet. vol. i. p. 7. t. 1. f 10. Nomen yernac. Vitiense, “ Sila,’ 
—In swamps, Taviuni, and other Vitian Islands (Seemann! n. 692; Sir E. Home!). Also collected 
in the Samoan (Wilkes !), Society (Wilkes !), and Tongan Islands (Forster!). Common in the Hast 
Indies. 
XV. Gea, Linn. Gen. n. 1042; Endl. Gen, n. 742. Flores monoici, ¢ terminales racemosi, 
? axillares dense spicati, vaginis aphyllis involuti, Fl. ¢; Spicule 2-florz, floribus 2 perfectis sessili- 
bus, Glomz 2, concavie, inferior 3-nervis, superior 2-nervis. Squamule 2, collaterales, glabra. 
Stamina 3. FI. ?: Spiculs 2-flors, flore inferiore neutro. Glume 2, latissime, inferior emargi- 
nato-subbiloba, Neutr,: Palee2. Fl. 2 perf.: Palese 2-3, concave. Squamule et stamina 0. 
Ovarium sessile, obliqnum. Stylus 1; stigmata 2, subulata, pubescentia, Caryopsis reniformis, 
glumis paleisque cincta,—Gramen annunin, culmo crasso farcto; foliis latis planis, ligula brevi 
ciliata, racemo masculo simplici vel basi subramoso; spiculis geminis pedicellatis; spicis femineis 
sessilibus; spiculis multiseriatis, per paria approximatis, 
1. Z. Mays, Linn. Spec. n. 1378; Kunth, Enum. vol. i, p. 19; Lam, Ill. t, 749; Willd. Spec. 
vol. iv. p. 200; folis imtegerrimis.—Zea vulyaris, Mill. Dict. Mays Zea, Gertn. Fruct, vol. 1. 
p. 6. t. 1. £. 9; Cand. Gall. vol. 3. p. 98. Nomen vernac. Vitiense, “Sila ni papalagi”’ (7, e. the fo- 
reign Sila (Si/Ja=Coix Lochryma). “ Maize or Indian Corn” of the white settlers.—Cultivated by the 
white settlers. 
At the time of my visit, only one kind of Indian Corn,—a small yellow-grained one,—was cultivated 
by the white settlers, the natives not having as yet taken to growing it. The native name, foreign Coir 
Lachryma, is very expressive, because the Maize much resembles in look the indigenous grass with which 
they have compared it. 
Oxvo CVI. LYCOPODIACEZ:. 
Of the five genera comprising this Order, four are represented in Polynesia, but only three inViti, the 
fourth, Tmesipteris, having as yet been found only in the New Hebrides, Norfolk Island, and New Hol- 
land. Forster's specimen of 7. Tanensis, Lab. (Osmundoides sp. nov., Forst. Herb.), is at the British 
Museum, without locality, and, as his‘ Prodromus’ gives no elue, it is altogether doubtful where the specimen 
was collected. Phylloglosswm has not been found beyond the limits of New Zealand, New Holland, and 
Tasmania. 
I, Lycopodium, Linn. Gen. n. 1185 (pro parte); Spring, Monogr. Lycop. vol. i. p. 17. 
Antheridia 1-locularia, Oophoridia 0.—Plurima musciformia, foliis conformibus sequilateris, 8-16- 
raro 4-fariis, caule amorpho. Antheridia reniformia, subdidyma, raro transversim ovalia, rima 
transyersali apice, raro prope basin, hiantia, indeqne specie 2-valvia, pedicello capitato v. capillari 
brevissimo; gongylis (quaternis) subglobosis, facie contigua 4-quetris. Amenta y. 0 v. teretiuscula. 
—Ad. Brongn. Hist. Végét. Fossil. vol. ii. p. 2; Spring in Bot. Zeit, 1838, vol. i. p, 148; Endl. 
Gen. n. 696; Hook, Gen. Fil. vol. ix. t. 88. Selayo et Lycopodium, Dillen. Hist. Muse. pp. 435, 
441. Plananthus et Lepidotis, Pal, Beauv. Prodr. Althéog. pp. 100, 101. 
Besides the species represented in Viti, I have seen at the British Museum the following from 
tropical Polynesia, viz. 1. ZL. verticillatum, Linn, (both varieties), from the Hawaiian Islands (Menzies! 
Macrae!); and 2. Z. venustulum, Gaud. (L. fustuosum, Sol. Fl, Ins. Pacif. ined. p. 373), from the 
Hawaiian Islands (Menzies!) and Tahiti (Banks and Solander !) 
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