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Gen. Terebinthac. ? (No. 1). Ten to sixty feet high; leaves pinnate, two to five feet long, 

 about 18-jugis, tenuiter pubescent ; the leaflets subopposite, inequ., subsessile, lanceolate, 

 integerr. ; the flowers not seen. Upolu. 



Rhus (No. 2) ; compare (No. 1) Taheiti; the berry black, but compressed as in Mauria. 

 A tree, forty feet high; leaves about 6-jugis, puberulous, the leaflets integerr. Fre- 

 quent on Tutuila. 



(Dendrolobium, No. 1). Desmodium-like, but a branching shrub, six to twenty feet high; 



the flowers white; pod of three or four joints. Manua, Upolu, and Savaii. 

 Dolichos ; compare (No. I Taheiti); yellow-flowered. Maritime; growing on the shores 



of Pango Pango harbor in Tutuila ; also seen on Upolu and Savaii. 

 Mucuna; compare (No. 1) Taheiti; the pod seeming at first plicate. Savaii. 

 ; compare the preceding sp. A woody vine, spreading over the tallest trees ; 



stem three inches in diameter ; flowers green, on a long peduncle ; pod prurient. In 



wild situations on Tutuila. — Apparently the same species on Savaii, the leaflets smooth, 



caudate, but the flowers not seen. 

 (Canavalia, No. 1) ; the leaflets broad ; the flowers purple ; the broad and compressed pod 



bisulcate above, or having a shallow groove on each side of the superior suture. Sands 



of Apia harbor in Upolu. 

 (Entada) scandens, (No. 1). The giant " pods hanging among summits of trees on 



Upolu," Rich and Couthouy. Seeds found by myself on Savaii. 

 Acacia (No. 1) ; specimens formerly seen, procured by Forster. No true leaves, but the 



phyllodia broad-elliptic, four inches by two ; capit. small, yellow ; pod sharp-edged. A 



tree of medium size, growing along the sea-coast of Tutuila and Savaii. 

 Guilandina (No. 1). Growing along the sea-coast of Upolu, but rather rare. 

 (No. 2) ; a second species. The seeds frequent for two or three miles inland on 



Savaii ; (perhaps, the lofty-climbing species afterwards seen on Tongatabu). 

 Inocarpus edulis, (bis No. I Taheiti). Sometimes flowering from the old wood of the 



trunk. Abounding on Manua, Tutuila, Upolu, and Savaii; but not seen in the Inte- 

 rior forest. 



(Petrocarya, No. 1) ; the somewhat Balanopteris-like fruit, picked up in the forest on 

 Tutuila. (Compare the "margarata" of the Feejeeans). 



Spondias dulcis, (bis No. 1 Metia and Taheiti). Upolu, Savaii, and elsewhere ; probably 

 introduced. 



Indigofera ; compare (Taheiti, and No. 25) the shrubby Peruvian species. Introduced (by 

 trading and colonial Whites); a hedge four feet high, at the Mission Station on Tutuila. 



Tephrosia piscatoria, bis (No. 1 Metia and Taheiti). Growing on Manua and Savaii ; in- 

 troduced (by aboriginal settlers). 



Desmodium (purpureum ?, compare No. 2 Metia and Taheiti). Having crowded flowers. 

 Savaii, and elsewhere. — With blue flowers on Tutuila, the legume pubescent, and of 

 about six joints. 



(No. 3). Somewhat Onobrychis-like ; beautiful rose-colored flowers, among hairy 



bracts in oblong bri.stly capitula. Frequent in cultivated ground on Savaii, and 

 elsewhere. 



Erythrina ; apparently, bis (No. 1 Taheiti). Growing around houses, rare, and young 

 stock only; probably introduced. Tutuila, Upolu, and Savaii. 



