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Psychotria ? (No. 1); but the intermediate stipule not seen. Terminal corymbs; cap- 

 sule containing two rough, irregular, and somewhat suicate seeds. Tutuila. 



( No. 2); Gardenia-like. A stout-stemmed shrub, nearly simple, eight feet high; 



leaves lanceolate, a foot or more long, attenuate but sessile, and mostly towards and 

 in the terminal tuft ; flowers white, in close, deep-set, axillary clusters, almost terminal ; 

 capsule oblong, suicate, containing two seeds. In the deep forest of Interior Savaii. 



(Sabiceoid) with bilabiate calyx, (No. 1; recorded as) Psychotrioid ?. Leaves opposite, 



■ entire, half-ochreate at base; terminal, few-flowered cymes; fruit inferior, crowned 

 with a bilabiate calyx. " Upolu," E,ich and Brackenridge. 



(Gen. Mussaendoid ? No. 2; recorded as) Hameloid?. Terminal corymbs; flowers small, 

 white, the corolla tubular; calyx nearly even ; five stamens, and one style. Tutuila 

 and Upolu. 



Guettarda speciosa, (bis No. 1 Paumotuan and Bellinghausen coral-islands). Once only 

 met with; growing on Tutuila, at the elevation of five hundred feet on ridge exposed 

 to the sea. 



Gen. Cofl'eoid, long-stipuled, (No. 1). A woody plant ; leaves subsessile, six to nine inches 

 long, smooth; the intermediate stipule long-acuminate, or caudate; the flowers not seen. 

 Upolu. 



Gen. Colfeoid (No. 2) ; a second species. Leaves petioled ; cymes axillary, sessile ; fruit 

 red, pedicelled but not pendulous, roundish. The smaller species, more frequent on 

 Upolu than on the other islands. 



(No. 3); a third species. Larger; cymes peduncled, pendulous; fruit oblong. 



In the forest of Interior Savaii. 



Gen. Coffea-like (No. 1). A branching shrub, four to six feet high ; leaves narrow, lanceo- 

 late; petiole smooth ; berries red, pedunc, apparently two-seeds. Savaii. 



(No. 2) ; a second species. Hairy petiole ; lanceolate leaves ; red fruit. Savaii. 



Gen. Cofi"eac. square-stemmed, (No. 2). The young branches quadrangular; terminal 

 panicles; berry of two cells, two or more seeded. Savaii. 



Gen. Cofi"eac. with long anthers, (No. 1). Leaves opposite, petioled, turning black in 

 drying ; cymes axillary ; corolla rather large, spreading at the summit, 5-parted ; anthers 

 very long. "Upolu," Rich and Brackenridge. 



(Myonima? No. 1) ; gen. Coff"eac. Leaves opposite, petioled, broad-ovate, entire; racemes 

 axillary, opposite pedieell. ; berry containing four seeds. 



Scaevola (compare No. 1 Paumotuan and Bellinghausen coral-i.slands) ; but having a dif- 

 ferent aspect. A single stock met with, growing in maritime sand on Tutuila. 



(Geophila reniformis, bis No. 1 Taheiti) ; leaves reniform-cordate, with a deep sinus ; 

 berries red. In pathways on Savaii, but not in the Interior forest ; seen also on Manua, 

 Tutuila, and Upolu. 



Hedyotis (paniculata ; No. 1). A foot high ; leaves broad-lanceolate. In cultivated 

 ground, Manua, and Savaii ; (a weed introduced by aboriginal settlers). 



Bidens ; bis Taheiti. On Manua, and Tutuila; probably introduced. 



(Wollastonia scabriuscula. No. 1 ; compare Verbesina biflora of Blume). Stem weak, six 

 to ten feet high ; leaves opposite, long-petioled, ovate, serrate, pubescent beneath ; 

 involucre 2 to 3-serial ; rays yellow and short; receptacle paleaceous; akenium appa- 

 rently mutic, except palese. Frequent on Tutuila, Upolu, and Savaii. 



