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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Gen. Myrsin. Myrica-like, (No. 2 ; compare No. 1 Taheiti). Leaves entire; no fr. 



On the inountain-ridge in Tutuila, at the elevation of eijjhteen hundred feet. 

 (MfEsa?, No. 1) ; Myrsinoid. A shrub, eight to ten feet high; leaves alternate, petioled, 



ovate, entire ; racemes; corolliflor. ; stamens five; style single; berry half-inferior ; 



seeds numerous, around a central placenta. Tutuila, growing both on the mountains 



and near the coast. 



Diospyros (No. 1). A tree of medium size; fruit yellow. Tutuila and Savaii ; growing 



in the forest, and sometimes seen planted. 

 Maba (No. 1). A small and branching tree; dioecious; calyx and corolla trifid, hairy 



outside; fruit an oblique, ovoid, yellow, one-seeded drupe, like a naked seed, the 



covering of cotyledons being membranous ; embryo straight, the radicle pointing to the 



base of the seed. Tutuila. 

 (No. 2) ; a second species ?. " A low tree," having small, broad-lanceolate leaves. 



"Tutuila," Brackenridge. 

 Jasminum ; compare (No. 1 Taheiti). On Manua. 



(No. 2) ; a second species. " A vine ;" the leaves very broadly ovate ; fruit large. 



" Tutuila," Brackenridge. 



? (No. 3); a third species. A vine, with simple, opposite, petioled leaves; calyx 



5-fid; divisions of the corolla about nine. " Upolu," Rich ; and flowers found by my- 

 self on the mountain-ridge in Tutuila. 



Nov. gen. (Loganioid, No. 1). A woody vine, with opposite, entire leaves, and white 

 flowers ; four slight calyx-teeth ; corolla nionopetalous, tubular, 4-fid, the segments 

 equal; stamens four, equal, alternating with the segments of the corolla; anthers 

 versatile; carpels geminate, elongate, and obovoid. Tutuila and Upolu. 



(Alstonia ? No. 3); gen. Amsonioid, a third species. A spreading shrub, six to eight 

 feet high ; leaves petioled, ovate, pcnninerved ; flowers of medium size, white. On 

 the mountain-ridge in Tutuila, at the elevation of fifteen hundred to that of two thou- 

 sand feet. 



Alyxia (No. 3); a third species. Leaves like those of (No. 1) Taheiti; fruit geminate; 

 imbricate scales on the pedicels; corolla dull yellowish. On ridges in Tutuila. 



(No. 4) ; a fourth species. A slender, many-branched shrub ; berries geminate, 



short-stipitate ; pedicels not scaly; leaves in threes. On the mountain-ridge in Tu- 

 tuila. 



(No. 5); a fifth species. A small, short, tubular corolla; fruit moniliform, rib- 

 bed somewhat in the manner of a melon. Manua. 

 ? (No. 6); a sixth species; but near (No. 2) Taheiti. A vine, ascending trees; 



Cotula ? (No. 1) ; leaves petioled, ovate, dentate. Tutuila and Savaii, growing in waste 

 ground around houses ; introduced (by aboriginal settlers). 



(Myriogyne minuta, No. 1, bis Taheiti). Growing around houses on Savaii; (intro. 

 duced by aboriginal settlers). 



(Adenostemma viscosum. No. 1) ; bis Taheiti. Manua, Tutuila, Upolu, and Savaii; intro- 

 duced (by aboriginal settlers). 



Cerbera; compare (No. 1) Taheiti. A tree of medium size; large white bracts ; fruit 

 large, compressed-ovoid, red when ripe. Savaii ; growing near the coast, and perhaps 

 introduced. 



