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inophyllum^ Dodonea viscosoy Cordia sebestena, &c. 

 are met with singly. On the northern^ poorer 

 groups, grow Lythriim Pemphis and Surtana mari- 

 tima, on the beach of the inner sea, on the dry sand. 

 They are wanting in Kawen and Aur. Only the 

 bank of the inner sea is habitable for man, and 

 there he builds his huts under the cocoa-trees 

 which he has planted. 



The Flora of these islands is poor : we found in 

 the Radack chain only fifty-nine kinds of plants, 

 including those, seven in number, which are found 

 only in a state of cultivation. Three and twenty 

 of this number, among which were five cultivated, 

 we had already met with in Woahoo, and twelve, 

 including the cocoa-tree, on RomanzofF Island, 

 where we, upon the whole, collected only nineteen 

 species. We afterwards met with about twenty 

 of them in Guahon. We observed neither oranges 

 nor cabbage-trees grow upon the Radack chain, 

 as far as we were acquainted with it, productions 

 which, have been ascribed, upon dubious inform- 

 ation, to the Mulgrave islands. * 



We do not think that the Flora is confined to the 

 number of plants above mentioned, but, on the 

 contrary, that several kinds escaped our observ- 

 ation, even on the groups which we visited, and, of 

 which, we were not able to explore all the islands; 



* Vide the Voyage of Governor Phillips, 2d edit. Lon- 

 don, 1790, p, 218.: the voyage of the Scarborough, Captain 

 Marshall. 



