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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



feet hi<;h ; the leaves roundish-cordate, acuminate, with a very deep sinus, and close 

 white touientuni on the under surface; pubescent, entire, broad-lanceolate bracts. 

 Comniersonia (No. 2) ; a second species. Under surface of the leaves white. " Upolu," 

 llich. 



(Firniiana ? No. 1). The fruit only met with ; the segments like a samara of Cedrela, but 



the seed external. " Upolu," Rich. 

 Nov. gen. procumbens ; Triumfetta of Forster; (bis No. 1 Metia to Aimeo), but seemed 



more woolly. Leaves broadly-cordate, dentate. Savaii, growing on the strand, rare ; 



also seen on Manua. 



(Visenia, No. 1; recorded as) gen. Tiliac. A tree of medium size; leaves cordate, ser- 

 rulate ; cymes pedunc, axillary ; five stamens, and five tomentose carpels ; the flowers 

 pale purple. Frequent on Savaii. 



Eurya? (No. 1). A shrub, four to ten feet high ; Camellia-like; leaves alternate, serrate, 

 shining above ; stamens five ; calyx of about six imbricate scales ; petals five, in two 

 series; flowers solitary, axillary, incon.*picuous. At the elevation of eighteen hundred 

 feet on the mountain-ridge in Tutuiia. 



? (No. 2); a second species. Leaves lanceolate, serrulate. "Upolu," Eich. 



Gen. Sapot. ? (No. 1; compare Labourdonnaisia) ; Aegiceras-like. Calyx 6-leaved; 

 petals six ; stamens about twelve, awned ; style projecting, and very long. Fallen 

 flowers picked up in the forest of Interior Savaii. The leaves that seemed to belong, 

 elliptical, coriaceous, entire, twelve inches by five. 



Xiinenia (elliptica?. No. 1). " Upolu," llich. 



(Gen. Olacac. ? No. 1). A shrub; leaves alternate, obovate, entire, two inches long by an 

 inch wide; short axillary spines; the flowers not seen. Savaii, growing near the coast. 



(Pleuropetalon Samoense of Gray '^, No. 1 ; recorded as) Combretac ?. A vine, or weak- 

 stemmed shrub, twenty feet ; leaves alternate, roundish-ovate, entire, smooth, and reticu- 

 late ; inflorescence a terminal raceme, the flowers clustered on a common peduncle ; 

 calyx of overlapping scales; petals five ; stamens five; style single. At the elevation 

 of one thousand feet on the mountains in Tutuiia. 



(Micromelum minutuui. No. 1); Limonia of Forster. Calyx 5-fid; five greenish petals; 

 stamens ten; a terminal corymb. Tutuiia. 



Calophyllum inophyllum ; bis (No. 1 3Ietia and Taheiti). Tutuiia and Savaii; growing 

 only near the sea-coast ; and the timber not valued. 



? (spectabile, Willd. ; No. 2). A tree; the leaves agreeing in nervation, but 



Urena (No. 1, bis Metia and Taheiti). Abundantly naturalized on Manua, Tutuiia, 



Upolu, and Savaii ; (having been introduced by aboriginal settlers). 

 Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, (No. 1, bis Taheiti). Upolu and Savaii; cultivated for ornament 



by the natives; (having been introduced by aboriginal settlers). 

 (Abeimoschus moschatus; No. 1, bis Taheiti). In cultivated ground, on Upolu and 



Savaii ; introduced (by aboriginal settlers). 

 Sida ; compare (No. 2 Metia and) Taheiti. On Upolu, and elsewhere. 

 ?; perhaps not distinct; but the carpels, about eight in number, smooth and 



aristate; flowei's yellow, and somewhat rotate. Savaii. 

 (No. 4). Having the same habit, but small, branching, and procumbent; leaves 



pubescent, the petiole rather long. Savaii, growing near the coast. 



