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BOTANY. 



splendid clusters of scarlet papilionaceous flowers. 

 Oahu, Sandwich Isles (rare) ; native name, moh'ti. 



Dolichos pruriens. Marquesas. 

 Hedysarum strobiliferum. Timor. 



Abrus precatorius. Marquesas. Society Isles ; na- 

 tive name bidi-bidi-6. 



Glycine Sp. A trailing herb, common on pasture- 

 lands. Leaves and stalks rough and tenacious of their 

 hold ; flowers white. Legumes hirsute. 



Society Isles ; native name apepe. 



Tephrosia litoralis. A low, erect, and branching 

 herb, common on arid and exposed plains. Leaves 

 pinnated ; flowers white and papilionaceous. The na- 

 tives regard the species as poisonous to man ; and they 

 cast the entire plant into the sea to intoxicate fish. 



Sandwich Isles ; native name ahohu pii. 



POLYADELPHIA. ICOSANDBIA. 



Citrus aurantium. Orange Tree. This tree, so well 

 known in the four principal regions of the globe, was 

 introduced to Polynesia by the earlier European navi- 

 gators, and now, especially at the Society group, forms 

 a conspicuous feature in the wild vegetation of those 

 islands : its spontaneous increase being so great, that 

 if the species ever demanded the particular care of the 

 natives it now does so no longer, and is indeed scarcely 

 regarded as private property, so freely does it inhabit 

 the jungle of the coast, in common with the wildest 

 indigenous fruit-trees; its boughs covered with long 

 spines, indicative of its neglected and ungrafted state, 



