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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



(Parinarium laiirinum of Gray, No. 1 ; recorded as) GeofFrseoid ; but the leaves simple, 

 large, and ovate-lanceolate ; calyx five-fid ; five nearly equal, pale purple petals ; sta- 

 mens ten. A tree of medium size, growing on Tutuila, Upolu, and elsewhere. 



Rhizophora (No. 1). A maritime shrub, only four or five feet high, growing in interlaced 

 beds along the coast of Savaii, but rather rare; the leaves above shining, beneath with 

 blackish dots, or rather with rough points ; calyx 4-fid, coriaceous. (See Tarawan 

 coral-islands). 



Bruguiera (No. 1). A tree of nearly medium size, thirty feet high with the trunk a foot 

 in diameter. Maritime ; frequent along the coast of Tutuila and Savaii, growing isolated. 



Grossostylis, Forst. ? (No. 1). Somewhat Philadelphus-like ; lactescent; the leaves sub- 

 serrate; peduncles binate, flowers somewhat cernuous; a plumose lacin. between every 

 two stamens; and a berried nectary besides, at the base of each stamen; the style divided 

 at the apex into about fourteen segments, and the capsule of as many cells, each one- 

 seeded ?. On mountains in Tutuila. 



Terminalia (No 1). A spreading tree of medium size, thirty feet high ; leaves obovate, 

 smooth ; the flowers larger. Tutuila, submaritime ; and seen by Mr. Rich on Upolu. 



^^-^ (No. 2) ; perhaps distinct; agreeing in habit, but pubescent. On the sca-coast 



of Savaii. 



' ^ (No. 3); a third species. Leaves broad-lanceolate; flowers sericeous. "Coast 



of Upolu," Rich. 



Gen, Terminalioid (No. 1); agreeing in the mode of growth, but the leaves serrulate. A 

 tree of medium size, or perhaps becoming large ; leaves attenuate, acute, nine to twelve 

 inches, by three to four; nut ovoid, 5-6-gonal, as large as a walnut, two and a half 

 inches by one and a half, but only seen germinating. Frequent on Tutuila, and in the 

 deep forest of Interior Savaii. 



Melastoma ; compare (No. 1) Taheiti. Fruit covered with dense palese. Tutuila, Savaii, 

 and elsewhere. 



Gen. Melastom., (No. 1). A shrtib, six feet high ; leaves broad, smooth, and 5-nerved ; 

 calyx smooth, 5-fid ; petals white and wax-like, shining. On the mountain-ridge in 

 Tutuila, at the elevation of eighteen hundred feet. 



(Astronia, No. 2) ; gen. Melastomac. Calyx irregularly about ten-cleft ; petals five, ob- 

 long, as long as the capsule, white; anthers white, with a projecting spur; leaves 

 petioled, smooth, trinerved, not including the marginal nervures. On the mountain- 

 ridge in Tutuila, from the elevation of a thousand to that of two thousand feet. 



Abrus precatorius, (bis No. 1 Metia and Taheiti). Planted or naturalized; rare, seen 

 only on Upolu. 



Poineiana pulcherrima, (bis Taheiti). Planted for ornament by the natives, and termed 

 by them " a foreigner from Meleke," by some interpreted America. Manua, Tutuila, 

 and Savaii. 



Cassia Occidentalis ; bis (Taheiti). An introduced weed, as yet rare. Upolu, Rich. 

 Mimosa pudica.; bis Taheiti. Flowers purple. Naturalized, seen only around houses; (to 



all appearance introduced by aboriginal settlers) ; 

 Jambosa ? (compare No. 1 Taheiti). Leaves petioled, obovate, penninerved, pellucidly- 



punctate; flowers from the old wood below the leaves, anthers scarlet. " A tree, fifteen 



feet high, around houses on Tutuila," Brackenridge. 



