BOTANY. 347 



HEXANDRIA. DIGYNIA. 



Gahnia Schcenoides. Society Isles ; native name, 

 mau-epo. 



HEXANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. 



Rumex acetosella. St. Helena. 



R. Sp. Sandwich Isles ; native name tikiri ua. 



OCTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 



Memecylon Sp. This is a very elegant shrub, bear- 

 ing edible drupes, which in size, form, and colour re- 

 semble a cherry. 



Marquesas Group ; native name, ko fenua, (signi- 

 fying to dig the ground, the wood of the species being 

 used to make implements for that purpose.) 



Melicope ternata. Marquesas Group. 



Porliera Sp. A tree nearly twenty feet high. Leaves 

 pinnated, (with a terminal leaflet,) and arranged in 

 whirls at the extremity of short stems sent off from 

 the branches. The base of each whirl of leaves is sur- 

 rounded by globular purple berries, loaded with an 

 essential oil of very powerful odour. The trunk of the 

 tree yields, by incision, a large quantity of fragrant te- 

 rebinthinous fluid, which, in its sensible qualities, re- 

 sembles the balsam of Copaiba, and which is employed 

 by the residents as an application to wounds. 



Cape St. Lucas, California. 



OCTANDRIA. TRIGYNIA. 



Cardiospermum halicacabum. Sandwich Isles; na- 

 tive name eoule. Society Isles ; Timor. 



