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DISTRIBUTION OP PLANTS. 



nium biarlstate ; floret-rays short and yellow. On the mountain-ridge visited in 

 Aimeo. 



Lobelia (No. 1). Stems nearly simple, sufi'ruticose, eight feet high; flowers greenish, 



large, with long lacinioe or segments. In the mountain-forest. 

 Vaccinium cereum, Forst. (No. 1). A shrub, two to five feet high. On mountain-ridges, 



from the elevation of one thousand feet to at least four thousand five hundred. 

 (Cyathodes No. 1); gen. Epacrid ; flowers small; Empetrum-like berries, of diff"erent 



colors, white, red, and black. On mountain-ridges; as also in Aimeo. 

 Gen. Myrsin. (No. 1). Myricoid ; leaves entire, coriaceous, with blackish specks ; berries 



few, green with black lines. On the mountain-ridge visited in Aimeo. 

 Jasminuni didymum, Vahl. ? (No. 1). A woody vine ; twin fruit. 



(Alstonia? No. 1) ; gen. Amsonioid. SuflfVuticose ; leaves penninerved, eight inches by 

 three; flowers white, and rather small; fruit long, linear, and twisted. On mountain- 

 ridges. 



( , No. 2); a second species. An upright shrub, six feet high; leaves opposite ; 



flowers white ; the twin fruit elongate. Also seen on Aimeo. 

 Alyxia (No. 1). A shrub; leaves ovate; berry single. On mountain-ridges. Also seen 



on Aimeo. 



? (No. 2). A woody vine ; leaves opposite, entire ; fruit like a small olive. On 



mountain-ridges. 



(Labordia of Gaud. ? No. 1). A shrub; leaves opposite, coriaceous, entire ; calyx of five 



scales; flowers pale-orange, showy; corolla six-parted, the tube an inch and a half 

 ■ long; stamens six; style exserted, single, with two stigmas and two placentas. On 



mountains, both in Taheiti and Aimeo. 

 (Gcniostoma ?, No. 1). Prinos-like, but the leaves opposite, and also coriaceous and 



entire; cymes axillary ; corolla 5-fid, hairy inside; stamens five; berry many-seeded. 



Among the specimens from Aimeo, but the locality not recollected. 

 Cyrtandra (No. 1). A shrub, eight to ten feet high ; leaves long-petioled, penninerved, 



oblong, acute at each end ; flowers white, large, deflexed. In the Interior forest. 



(Serianthes niyriadenia, No. 1); gen. Acacioid. Spoken of, and mistaken for the Tama- 

 rind. A large tree, growing in the woods on Aimeo; and young stocks, introduced on 

 Taheiti. (Afterwards seen indigenous on the Feejee Islands). 



(Vachellia) cavenia?, (compare No. 2 Chili) ; pod inflated. A single large shrub, grow- 

 ing near the coast; introduced (by trading and colonial Whites). 



Inga Sinemariensis ? ; compare the pacai (No. 11 Peru). A single, small shrub, seen on 

 Aimeo; introduced (by trading and colonial Whites). 



Psidium (bis No. 4 Brazil and Peru) ; the guava. " Introduced some twelve years pre- 

 viously into Aimeo, and thence into Taheiti ;" where it has gained possession of the 

 lower and more fertile districts, so as to be spoken of as " having ruined the island." 

 Rarely met with in the Interior. 



Jambosa (No. 1) ; the Malay-apple. The fruit red, and devoid of aroma. In the moun- 

 tain-forest; (introduced by aboriginal settlers). 



Lagenaria vulgaris, (No. 1); the gourd. Cultivated; and the large hard-shelled fruit, 

 the interior being removed, used for bottles ; (the plant introduced by aboriginal set- 

 tlers). 



