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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Gen. Urticoid (No. 1). A shrub; leaves white beneath; flowers glomerate, axillary. 

 (No. 2); perhaps distinct; hairy. 



Piper latifoliuoi, Forst. (No. 1). A shrub, four to six feet high ; leaves reniform, cordate, 

 obtuse ; berries red. Frequent in the Interior forest ; also seen on Aimeo. 



(No. 2) ; a second species. Leaves broad-cordate, pointed. A shrub of the same 



size with the preceding, equally frequent throughout the Interior forest, and clearly indi- 

 genous. Pointed out to me, as the plant used for making ava-drink ; (but differs from the 

 species cultivated for that purpose at the Samoa, Tonga, and Hawaiian Islands). 



Peperomia; bis (No. 1 Metia). Epidendric; leaves simple, ovate, acute. Fretjuent in the 

 Interior; also seen on Aimeo. 



Gen. incert. (No. 2) ; perhaps a congener of (No. 1) Metia. A vine? ; leaves sub-opposite, 

 trifoliolate, entire; calyx monophyllous, four to five-cleft; fruit inferior? ; the corolla 

 not seen. 



Gen. incert. (No. 1). A woody plant ; leaves coriaceous, obovate, entire ; flowers terminal, 



inconspicuous. In the mountain-forest. 

 Gen. Serapioid (No. 1; compare Calanthe veratrifolia ?) ; flower-stem terminal. In the 



mountain-forest. 



(No. 2) ; much larger than the preceding sp. ; flower-stem lateral ; capsule very 



large. In the mountain-forest. 



(Microstylis ?, No. 1); a congener of Malaxis unifolia. Near Malaxis liliifolia, but one- 

 leaved ; the leaf broad-cordate. In the mountain-forest. 



Dendrobium biflorum, Forst. ? (No. 1). Stems pendent, two to four feet long; leaf short, 

 ovate ; corolla with a short spur. 



(No. 2). Two to three feet; linear grass-like leaves. 



? (No. 3). Stem eight inches long; leaves nine inches by two-thirds of an inch; 



flower-stems axillary ; capsule much elongated. 



P. mite and P. persicaria. Subaquatic around the margin of Lake Waihiria ; appa- 

 rently introduced, (of course by aboriginal settlers). 



Aleurites triloba, (No. ],bis Metia). A large tree; the leaves sometimes simple, in 

 young plants often five-lobed. Seeming at home throughout the Interior forest, and 

 perhaps really indigenous? ; called " tutui," used in tattooing, and for other purposes. 



Phyllanthus (niruri ?). Very small leaves, and numerous flowers. Growing in waste 

 places, and cultivated ground. 



Euphorbia hypericifolia ?, (compare United States, Peru, the East Indies, Hindostan, and 

 Zanzibar). In waste ground ; introduced (by trading and colonial Whites). No spe- 

 cimens 



Artocarpus incisa, (No. 1, bis Metia); the bread-fruit; having the seeds always abortive, 

 ('ultivated ; but said to have diminished of late years ; partly, perhaps, from being cut 

 down for timber. The paste deposited in pits lined with a thick layer of leaves, is said 

 to retain its goodness " for a twelve-month," and to be very substantial food ; but it 

 requires a cultivated palate; the peculiar flavor being compared by some of our party 

 to that of "bee-bread." A single tree growing as far inland as the forks of Pupino 

 Valley. 



Morus alba, (bis United States, and No. 2 Northern Asia). Cultivated; (having been 

 introduced by trading and colonial Whites). 



