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ovate-lanceolate, acute, six inches long by one and a half broad, rose-colored when 



young ; flowers not seen. A frequent tree on Tutuila and Savaii. 

 Kleinhovia (No. 1). A tree, fifty to seventy feet high, having long-petioled, cordate, 



Tilia-like leaves, and pale purple flowers; the petals unequal, as in Polygala. Upolu 



and elsewhere, frequent. 

 (Gen. Sapindac. ? No. 1; recorded as) Terebinth. ? A tree; leaves pari-pinnate and 



5-jugis, having stipules at base, pubescent; the leaflets lanceolate, sinuately dentate. 



Savaii. 



DodonJBa; compare (No. 1 Metia and) Taheiti ; but the leaves seemed broader. " Tutuila, 



on cliffs exposed to the sea," Brackenridge. 

 (Cupania ? No. 1 ; recorded as) Sapindoid ?. Fol. pari-pinnatis, bijugis, integerrimis ; a 



terminal panicle; flowers inconspicuous, green. "Upolu," Rich. 

 ( ?, No. 2). " A tree, forty feet" high; leaves alternate, pari-pinnate, trijugis; 



the leaflets petioled, ovate, obtuse at base, entire; the nut like a young peach, but 



trigonal. "Tutuila," Brackenridge. 

 Oen. Sapindoid? (No. 1). A shrub; leaves alternate, long-petioled, impari-pinnate, 



5-jUgis; the leaflets inequ., entire, ovate-lanceolate; flowers not seen. Upolu, and 



elsewhere. 



? (No. 2). The young branchlets stout, and like the peduncles and petioles closely- 

 pubescent; calyx of five scales ; petals apparently five; stamens about ten ; style single ; 

 panic, axillary, towards end of branchlets ; short scales on the panicle; leaves impari- 

 pinnate, about 7-jugis, the leaflets ovate, acute, entire. The specimen brought by 

 the forest-king from Interior Savaii. 



Ornitrophe? (No. 1). A branching shrub, twelve feet high; leaves alternate, and ter- 

 nate ; the leaflets petioled, obovate, dentate ; racemes simple, arising near the end 

 of the branchlets. Savaii. 



Cissus (No. 1). Young stocks only; leaves mostly quinate; the leaflets ovate, coarsely 

 serrate, acuminate. Savaii. 



(Aglaia Samoensis of Gray ?, No. 1; recorded as) Meliac. ? Covered with rusty pubes- 

 cence; leaves pinnate ; the leaflets lanceolate, integ. ; fruit superior, a third of an inch. 

 " Tutuila," Brackenridge. 



Gen. Meliac? (No. 1). Leaves pari-pinnate, 6-jugis; calyx 4-fid ; fruit half an inch, 

 having four cells ; panic, axillary. " Tutuila," Brackenridge. 



Citrus aurantium, (bis Taheiti). Young stocks only, not yet in bearing; (introduced by 

 trading and colonial Whites). 



(acida; bis Taheiti) ; the lemon. Young stocks only, not yet in bearing ; (intro- 

 duced by trading and colonial Whites). 



(limonum ; bis Taheiti) ; the lime. A tree spoken of, as " in bearing on Tutuila, 



planted before the arrival of the missionaries, but by whom remains unknown ;" (pro- 

 cured doubtless from trading and colonial Whites). 



sp. nov. (No. 1 ; compare C. torosa of Blanco). A well-characterized species ; 



the fruit externally resembling an orange, but the rind takes up two-thirds of the 

 diameter, and the pulp is exce.s.sively acid ; acini small, roundish ; petiole widely winged, 

 as broad as the true leaf, and in like manner crenulate on the margin. A small tree, 

 frequent near the coast; (having been introduced by aboriginal settlers). 



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