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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



( , No. 2) ; leaves broad-cordate, angulate, long-acuminate, long-petioled ; peduncle 



also long; corolla white, with the tube four inches in length. Savaii, growing in cul- 

 tivated ground. 



(Eivea? No. 2); gen. Convolv. Leaves peltate; corolla campanulate, white with the 



margin yellow. Frequent on Savaii. 

 Tournefortia (argentea, bis No. 1 Paumotuan and Bellinghausen coral-islands). Manua. 

 (G-en. Cordiac, No. 1). A shrub or tree; leaves alternate; cymes apparently opposite to 



the leaves; seen only in fruit, the calyx 2 to 3-fid at the summit, and entirely covering 



the capsule. Savaii. 



Nov. gen. aspera, (No. 1); Cordia of Forster. A shrub, ten to fifteen feet high, with 

 a few straight (but spreading) branches; leaves petioled, ovate, long-acuminate, denticu- 

 late; hard, rusty pubescence ; cymes peduncled, term. ? ; flowers small and inconspicu- 

 ous ; nut apparently single, tuberc, and very hard. Upolu and Savaii. 



Solanum (No. 2); leaves lanceolate; fruit red. Islet of "Ulasinga," Capt. Wilkes. 



(No. 3) ; a third species. " Upolu," Rich. 



Gen. (Cestroid, No. 1) Solanac. A shrub, six to fifteen feet high ; leaves inequ at base, 

 ovate, acute at each end ; flowers white, like Brazilian sp. Frequent on Upolu and 

 Savaii. 



Cyrtandra (No. 3). A .shrub, three feet high ; leaves attenuate, inequ. at base, above 

 shining, the under surface whitish; flowers few and large, with broad bracts. On the 

 mountain-ridge in Tutuila, at the elevation of eighteen hundred feet. 



(No. 4). An upright, thick-stemmed shrub, ten to fifteen feet high ; leaves broad- 

 lanceolate, one and a half to two feet long; flowers rather small, greenish, somewhat 

 urceolate, in axillary clusters ; two perfect stamens. In the deep forest of Interior 

 Savaii. 



(No. 5) ; leaves similar in shape, broad-lanceolate, but only six to seven inches 



long ; flowers white, larger, the corolla more distinctly bilabiate. Savaii. 

 (No. 6); leaves broad, oblong, acute at each end, the nervures pubescent; flowers 



hairy, inclosed in a white, hairy involucre. In the deep forest of Interior Savaii. 

 (No. 7); leaves broad-ovate, twelve inches by seven, the under surface white; 



flowers of medium size. Frequent in the coast-portion of Savaii. 

 Gen. Cyrtandroid (No. 1). Habit of Gesneria, herbaceous, a foot high ; leaves serrate, 



inequ., covered with fine bristles; flowers not seen. Epidendric on trunks of trees, 



in the deep forest of Interior Savaii. 



(Curanga, No. 1 ; or compare Bonnaya). Gratioloid, but the flowers blue ; leaves broad- 

 ovate, serrulate. Banks of streams on Tutuila ; (seeming indigenous, and perhaps 

 really so). 



Lindernia (No. 1), bis Taheiti. Frequent on Tutuila, Upolu, and Savaii; probably intro- 

 duced. 



Ocymum (sanctum ?, No. 1), bis Taheiti. Tutuila and Savaii ; clearly introduced, (and 

 by aboriginal settlers). 



Leucas 10-dentatus; bis (Metia to Taheiti). Manua, Tutuila, Upolu, and Savaii; clearly 



introduced, (and by aboriginal settlers). 

 Justicia (purpurea?. No. 1); calyx 2-leaved ; flowers purple. "Upolu," Bich. 

 Boerhaavia (procumbens ?, bis No. 3 Metia to Taheiti). Upolu and Savaii ; growing 



only in cultivated ground, evidently introduced, (and by aboriginal settlers). 



