BUTTNERIACE^E. Ig9 



Hab. Samoan and Feejee Islands. Tahiti (unless a ticket is mis- 

 placed). Singapore. 



The leaves are broader than in the foregoing species, roughish- 

 pubescent (or at length glabrate) above, whitish-tomentose and more 

 veiny underneath. Cymes compound and many-flowered. Prickles 

 of the fruit very villous. 



6. A Y E N I A, Linn, 

 1. Ayenia tomentosa, Linn. 

 Hab. In the vicinity of Eio Janeiro, Brazil. 



This is the same as No. 5372 of Gardner's Brazilian collection. 

 The leaves are elliptical or oblong, rather than ovate-subrotund. The 

 anthers are trilocular, as I had already remarked them to be in Ayenia 

 pusilla and A. microphylla (Plantae Wightianee, 2, p. 24). 



7. KLEINHOVIA, Linn. 

 1. Kleinhovia Hospita, Linn. 



Hab. Ovolau and Yanua-levu, Feejee Islands. Upolu, Samoan 

 Islands. Tahiti, Society Islands. 



Finding no record of this tree in Dr. Pickering's botanical notes, I 

 cannot learn whether it is truly indigenous in all or any of these loca- 

 lities. It has not previously been recorded from the South Sea 

 Islands. 



8. WALTHERIA, Linn. 

 1. Waltheria Americana, Linn. 

 Hab. Rio Janeiro. Upolu, Samoan Islands. Vanua-levu and 



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