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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Lepidium ; bis (No. 1 Clermont-Tonnerre to the Disappointment coral-islands). From one 



to three feet high.* 

 Suriana; bis (No. 1 Clermont-Tonnerre coral-island). 



(Meridiana? lutea); bis (No. 1 Clermont-Tonnerre to the Disappointment coral-islands); 



Portulaca of Forster. "Observed" by Mr. Brackenridge. 

 (Pemphis acidula; No. 1); gen. Lythrac. A shrub, three to twenty-five feet high, having 



the habit of Leptospermum and Myrtaceae; leaves minutely and closely pubescent; 



calyx 5-6-cleft, persistent, but the capsule really superior ; stamens of equal length 



with the petals. 



(Erithalis polygania, Forst. ; No. 1 ; Timonius, Dec.) ; gen. Coffeac. A shrub, four to six 

 feet high; leaves broad-elliptic; corolla tubular, elongate, 5-fiJ; berry black, containing 

 several small seeds. Abundant. 



(Petesia carnosa ; No. 1) ; gen. Rubioc. A shrub, twelve to eighteen inches high ; leaves 

 attenuate, oblong; tube of the corolla short; berry inferior, white with a purple tinge. 



(Guettarda speciosa ; No. 1) ; Gardenioid ?. A tree, twenty to thirty feet high ; leaves 

 large and broad, notched or having a slight sinus at base, sometimes slightly pubescent; 

 corolla tubular, 6-8-fid ; fruit inferior, large. Frequent. 



Scaevola; bis (No. 1 Clermont-Tonnerre to the Disappointment coral-islands). 



Tournefortia ; bis (No. 1 Clermont-Tonnerre to the Disappointment coral-islands). "Ob- 

 served" by Mr. Brackenridge. 



(Pentacarya anomala) ; bis (No. 1) Clermont-Tonnerre coral-island ; (Heliotropium of 

 Hooker), but having five carpels. 



Gen. Myoporac. (euphrasioides; No. 1; Myoporum of Hooker). Twelve to eighteen 

 inches high, and having the habit of Cunila; leaves opposite, entire; calyx equal j 

 corolla bilabiate; a hard two-celled capsule, each cell containing a single seed. 



Boerhaavia; bis (No. 1 Clermont-Tonnerre to the Disappointment coral-islands). 



Achyranthes; bis (No. 1 Clermont-Tonnerre to the Disappointment coral-islands). 



Cassyta; bis (No. 1 Clermont-Tonnerre and Serle coral-islands) ; calyx persistent, becoming 

 fleshy, and finally white; carpel free, not adherent to the calyx, containing a single seed. 



Euphorbia (ramosissima, Hook. ; No. 1). Sufi"ruticose, three to four feet high, branching; 

 leaves opposite, roundish-elliptic, their under surface white ; flowers corymbose. Fre- 

 quent. 



Urtica; bis (No. 2) Henuaki coral-island, and perhaps not distinct from No. 1 Clermont- 

 Tonnerre. 



(Procris ?, compare No. 1 Serle and the Disappointment coral-islands). A small tree with 



dense dark-green foliage, seen from the ship on a part of the island not visited. 

 Lepturus?; bis (No. 1 Clermont-Tonnerre to the Disappointment coral-islands). 



* Cocos nucifera, (bis Clermont-Tonnerre to the Disappointment coral-islands). The cocoa- 

 palms had been all planted ; and strings of the nuts ready for transportation, showed 

 that the island had been recently visited by natives. 



Morinda (citrifolia; No. 1). A shrub, six to ten feet high; leaves penninerved, acute 

 at each end. Rare; (the plant, bearing esculent fruit and being otherwise useful to 

 the natives, may in some instances have been introduced into the coral-islands). 



Pandanus ; bis (No. 1 Clermont-Tonnerre to the Disappointment coral-islands). Twenty 

 to twenty-five feet high. 



