Description originale : 1.
L[
imnanthemum].
Kleinianum, Griseb. Gent. p. 344 [...] (
Tab. XXXIII.); [...]
Villarsia Indica, Wall. Cat. n. 4352.
Menyanthes, e Nov. Caled. Forst. Prodr. n. 502 excl. syn. Rheed. (fide spec. in Mus. Brit.).
Nomen vernac. Vitiense "
Bekabekakairaga."
Vitu Levu, in ponds (Seemann! n. 323). Also collected in New Caledonia (Forster!) and the East Indies.
[...] The plant figured by me agrees in every essential point with
L. Kleinianum, and I have therefore referred it to that species. If future investigations should bring to light any distinction between this Polynesian species and
L. Kleinianum, let it be named
L. Forsteri, as it was first discovered, during the last century, by Forster in New Caledonia, and referred by him to
Menyanthes. It is therefore, not a recent introduction, as Pickering supposes. [...]
