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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



" Rhizophora" (or mangrove. No. 1 ; compare the rocky Samoan and Feejeean 

 Groups).* 



31. Makin coral-island, a small coral-island, an appendage of 

 and situated close to Taritari. Mr. Rich, on landing upon Makin, 

 found there the following plants : 



" Tournefortia argentea." (Compare No. 1 Paumotuan to Phoenix coral-islands). 



" Pisonia." (Compare Calpidia ovatifolia?, No. 1 Paumotuan to Phcenix coral-islands). 



" Boerhaavia." (Compare Paumotuan and Phoenix coral-islands). 



" Urtica ruderalis ?" ((Compare Paumotuan to Phoenix and Apia coral-islands). 



" ; another" (species). 



i. The liadack range of Loio coral-islands. 



32, MiLLE, or Mulgrave coral-island. Mr. Hale obtained some infor- 

 mation respecting Mille coral-island, situated to the Northwest of the 

 Kingsmill Range ; and learned, that the natives in like manner pos- 

 sess the hread-frnit, in addition to the Pnndaims and cocoa-palm. 



j. Wal'es Coral-island. 



33. Wake's coral-island. Far to the Northwest of the Radack 

 Range, Wake's coral-island, in " N. Lat. 19° 11' and E. Long. 166° 

 31'," was visited by the Vincennes; and was found to be "six miles" 

 in diameter, and containing a lagoon ; though, for one-half of the cir- 

 cumference, the rim was even with the surface of the ocean. The 

 coral-strand was observed to be as wdiite as in the Phoenix Range; the 

 extreme elevation, being about " eight feet" above high water. 



* (Physalis edulis?; compare the rocky Taheitian, Feejeean, and Hawaiian Groups, and 

 No. 7 Peru). According to the Narrative of the Expedition, one of the resident Whites 

 spoke of a kind of "fruit resembling a gooseberry." 



(Artocarpus incisa; No. 1). "Gray," a resident White, informed Mr. Rich, that the 

 natives " have bread-fruit." Mr. Hale learned further from the natives, that the " bread- 

 fruit was brought by the Amoi people ;" (probably either from Samoa, also called Ha- 

 moa, or from Maui in the Hawaiian Group). 



(Coloeasia ? or compare Tacca?). Gray further stated, that the natives " have two kinds 

 of potatoes;" (meaning possibly, as Mr. Rich suggests, yams ?) 



