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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



(Karivia Samoensis of Gray?, No. 1); gen. Cucurb. Leaves cordate, with a deep sinus 

 at base, smooth; fruit smooth, ovoid, of the size of a cherry. " Upolu," Rich. 



Weinniannia (No. 2); congeneric with and near (No. 1) Taheiti. A shrub, six to ten feet 

 high; the young twigs slightly hairy. On the mountain-ridge in Tutuila, at the eleva- 

 tion of two thousand feet. 



Polyscias (No. 2); compare (No. 1) Taheiti. A straight, simple-stemmed shrub, ten to 

 twenty-five feet high ; leaves two to two and a half feet long, penninerved, smooth and 

 somewhat reticulate, petioled. Upolu. 



Nov. gen. (Cussonioid, No. 1). A shrub, six to twelve feet high; leaves alternate, one 

 to two feet long, compound or jointed, impari-pinnate, 5-7-jugis; the leaflets articulate 

 at base, petioled, ovate, acute, entire ; umbel terminal, very large, irregularly com- 

 pound ; involucels very small, linear; two styles, as in Umbelliferas; fruit much com- 

 pressed, smooth, trinerved, the septum linear. Tutuila and Savaii. 



(Reynoldsia pleiosperma of Gray, No. 1 ; recorded as) Araliac ? Leaves and panicl. 

 crowded at end of stout branchlets; the leaves alternate, impari-pinnate, about 4-jugis; 

 the leaflets petioled, broad-lanceolate, entire; peduncled panicles, with whorled branches, 

 and the pedicelled flowers in whorls; past flowering; fruit inferior, striate, crowned 

 with persistent style; seventeen seeds counted, disposed in a single series around axis. 

 The specimen brought by the forest-king from Interior Savaii. 



Loranthus (No. 2) ; flowers below the medium size, tubular, yellow tipped with reddish ; 

 branches three to twelve feet long, and more freely spreading than usual. Tutuila and 

 Savaii. 



Gen. incert. Cornus-like, (No. 1). A shrub; leaves verticillate in threes, petioled, ovate, 

 acuminate, entire, slightly pubescent; terminal long-peduncled cymes, as in Cornus; 

 calyx apparently inferior, 5-fid ; and apparently a corolla ; stamens five. Savaii. 



Nov. gen. (Morindoid, No. 1). An upright, single-stemmed shrub, twenty to twenty-five 

 feet high, with pendulous capitul. below the crown of large leaves; flowers congested 

 within a common involucre; calyx nearly entire; a deeply-divided Crinum-like corolla, 

 the segments being long and linear; stamens five ; style single. Tutuila and elsewhere, 

 but more frequent in the forest of Interior Savaii. 



(Morinda ?, No. 3). Climbing; leaves petioled, oblong, acute at each end, smooth; 

 the stipule long-acuminate ; neither fruit nor flowers. In the coast-district of Savaii. 



Nauclea (compare No. 1 Taheiti). A tree, thirty feet high, with the trunk a foot and a 

 half in diameter. Manua and Savaii. 



Gen. Coffeac. ? round-stipuled ; apparently the same with (No. 1) Taheiti. Seen on!}'' on 

 Manua. 



Gen. Cofi"eac. large-leaved, (No. 1). An upright, simple, thick-stemmed shrub; the 

 leaves broad-lanceolate, a foot and a half long; the intermediate stipule long ; the flowers 

 not seen. In the forest of Interior Savaii. 



Morinda citrifolia; bis (No. 1 Paumotuan coral-islands to Taheiti). Introduced; frequent 



around settlements. Manua, Tutuila, Upolu, and Savaii. 

 (Gardenia Taitensis, bis No. 1) Taheiti. Seen only in the cultivated state; (having been 



introduced by aboriginal settlers). 

 Musssenda (frondosa. No. 1) ; a conspicuous white floral leaf, and ornamental yellow 



flowers. Savaii, but not in the Interior ; seen also on Manua and Tutuila. 



