336 BOTANY. 



Tournefortia Sp. This is a littoral shrub. Leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate, entire, and clothed with a silvery 

 pubescence. The flowers are small, white, grow in 

 large clusters, and have an agreeable odour. 



Society Isles ; native name taheinu* Christmas 

 Island. Caroline Island. 



Coffea Sp. Wild Coffee. A tall and delicate shrub, 

 bearing berries of an oval form, and dark-red colour. 

 Society Isles. 



Chiococca barbata. Society group ; native name 

 torea. 



Alyxia stellata. This shrub is peculiar to the South- 

 Sea Islands. Its leaves are verticillate, entire, lanceo- 

 late, and possess a fragrant odour. The flowers are 

 small, white, and monopetalous. The fruit is sub- 

 globular, and, as Forster observes, frequently abortive, 

 the contained nut being often without seed. 



Society Isles ; native name maidi-rehau. 



A. olivceformis. Oahu, Sandwich Isles. 



Ceanothus capsularis. Society and Marquesan Isles ; 

 native name tutu. 



Gardenia Florida. Cape Jessamine. This delight- 

 ful shrub, so well known in our conservatories, grows 

 in great abundance on the coast of the Society and 

 Marquesan Islands. The native females are passion- 

 ately fond of its white and fragrant blossom, which 

 they usually wear as an ornament in the hair, or in 

 the lobe of the ear. Its Tahitian name is tiiri. 



All the Polynesian examples of this flower which I 



