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"Psilotum." (Compare No. 1 Taiara coral-island to the rocky Samoan Group). 

 " Polypodium." (Compare No. 1 Paumotuan and Bellinghausen coral-islands). 

 "Aspidium." (No. 1). 



" Asplenium nidus." (Compare No. 1 Taiara coral-island to the rocky Taheitian and 

 Samoan Groups). 



16. Otafu, or Duke of York coral-island. The Peacock also visited 

 Otafu; situated in about "S. Lat. 8° 36' and W. Long. 172° 24'," and 

 found to be " three miles long by two and a half wide." The natives, 

 according to Mr. Hale, knew of a distant inhabited island called 

 " Pukapuka." On landing, Mr. Rich found the following plants 

 growing upon Otafu : no less than four of the species being additional : 



" Pemphis acidula." (Compare No. 1 Paumotuan and Bellinghausen coral-islands).* 

 "Guettarda." (Compare No. 1 Paumotuan and Bellinghausen coral-islands). 

 " Scajvola." (Compare No. 1 Paumotuan and Bellinghausen coral-islands). 

 "Convolvulus; several species." (Compare Metia, and the rocky Taheitian and Samoan 

 Groups). 



"Cordia." (Compare Taheiti, and No. 1 Swain's coral-island). 



" Tournefortia argentea." (Compare No. 1 Clermont-Tonnerre coral-island to the rocky 

 Samoan Group). 



" Boerhaavia." (Compare No. 1 Paumotuan and Bellinghausen coral-islands). 



" Pisonia ; twenty feet in circumference, and forty or fifty high." (Compare Calpidia 

 No. 1 Paumotuan and Rose coral-islands). 



" Procris ? Bcehmeria? cloth plant." (Compare Disappointment, Raraka, and other coral- 

 islands). 



" Urtica." (Compare Paumotuan and Bellinghausen coral-islands). 

 " Ficus." (No. 1; compare Taheiti and the rocky Samoan Group). 

 "Pandanus; thirty feet high." (Compare No. 1 Paumotuan to Bellinghausen and the 



rocky Samoan Group). 

 " One Gramen." (Compare Paumotuan coral-islands). 



" Polypodium." (Compare No. 1 Paumotuan and Bellinghausen coral-islands). 

 "Aspleniam nidus." (Compare No. 1 Pomotuan coral-islands to the rocky Taheitian 

 and Samoan Groups). 



17. Fakaafo, or Bowditch coral-island, situated near the preceding, 

 was also visited by the Peacock. On landing, Mr. Rich found grow- 

 ing there the following plants, one of the species being additional: 



* " Gardenia ; the same at Taheiti." (No. 1). 



"Morinda." (Compare No. 1 Taiara coral-island to the rocky Taheitian and Samoan 

 Groups). 



" Hernandia." (No. 1. Mr. Rich ascertained further, that the tree had been raised by 



the natives from a seed drifted to these islands). 

 " Cocos nucifera," (compare Paumotuan and Swain's coral-islands). The " food" of the 



natives "cocoa-nuts and fish." 



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