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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Psycliotria (No. 1). 



(No. 2) ; a second species. 



(No. 3) ; a third species. 



(No. 4) ; a fourth species. 



(No. 5) ; a fifth species. 



(No. 6) ; a sixth species. 



(No. 7) ; a seventh species. 



(No. 8) ; an eighth species. 



Faramea (No. 1). 



Chiococca (No. 3). A pretty shrub. Occasionally met with. 

 Borreria (No. 1). 



(No. 2). Growing on the sands of the sea-shore. 



(No. 3) ; a third species, 



(No. 4) ; a fourth species. 



(No. 5) ; a fifth species. 



Spenuacoce (No. 3). 



Diodia (No. 2). Much resembling our D. Virginica. Growing in wet ground, and along 



the banks of streams. 

 (No. 2) ; a second species. 



Richardsonia (No. 1). Low, with the leaves broad. Frequent. 



• (No. 2); a second species. 



(No. 3) ; a third species. 



Gen. Coffeac. (No. 1). The calyx spreading at the summit, persistent, purple; the 

 corolla yellow ; the ripe berry blue. Frequent in the forest. 



(No. 2). 



(No. 3). 



Gen. incert. (No. 1); from the interpetiolar stipule, apparently belonging to the Coffeaceae, 

 but the leaves laciniate or incised ; the flowers not seen. A young stock, with leaves 

 eighteen inches in length, met with on the route to the Lagoa de Peteninga. 



Gen. (Gardenioid ?, No. 1. Habit of some Samoan Coffeacepe) ; a tall and straight shrub, 

 twenty feet high, having a few upright branches; the leaves nearly three feet long; the 

 flowers inconspicuous. 



Cofi'eac. incert. (No. 1). 



(No. 2) ; a second undetermined Cofi'eac. 



(No. 3) ; a third undetermined Cofi'eac. 



(No. 4j ; a fourth undetermined Cofi'eac. 



Acicarpha spathulata, (No. 1). Frequent on the sands of the sea-shore. 

 Leria? (No. 1). Frequent. 



CofFea Arabica, (bis Hawaiian Islands, Taheiti, Luzon, and No. 1 Equatorial Africa) ; 



cofiTee. The principal object of cultivation in the hilly region around Rio Janeiro. 

 Stiftia (No. 4). In the Botanic garden. 



Elephantopus (No. 1 ; bis ? environs of Manilla). Frequent in dry, open situations 

 around Rio Janeiro ; (perhaps not indigenous in this part of Tropical America). 



Elephantosis (No. 1 ; bis ? environs of Manilla). Growing around Rio Janeiro ; (perhaps 

 only naturalized, and not indigenous in this part of Tropical America). 



