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Ocymum (No. 2) ; leaves long-petioled, deltoid, the serratures large; a terminal raceme. 

 Observed only on Manua; seeming indigenous on dry rocks. 



(Premna, compare No. 1 Metia to Taheiti) ; but the leaves seemed broader. A shrub, 

 six to eight feet high ; terminal cymes ; calyx slightly dentate; corolla small, greenish, 

 4-fid, one segment a little reflexed ; four stamens, and one style; fruit not seen. 

 Upolu and Savaii ; growing along the sea-shore. 



Clerodendrum (inerme, No. 1). A shrub, four to six feet high; stem with close pubes- 

 cence; leaves ovate, acute at each end. Manua, Tutuila, Upolu, and Savaii. 



Vitex (No. 1); leaves quinate; leaflets integerrim., the under surface whitish, with short 

 pubescence. Savaii, growing along the sea-shore. 



Desmochaita; compare (No. 1) Taheiti. Tutuila and Upolu, frequent, but not seen far 

 inland. 



Cassyta; bis (No. 1 Paumotuan and Bellinghausen) coral-islands. On Manua and Savaii. 



Myristica (No. 1). A tree of medium size ; leaves very large ; fruit size of a peach, and 

 more woolly than in the next species. In deep woods on Tutuila and Savaii. 



(No. 2); a second species. A tree of medium size; leaves smaller, attenuate 



petioled, the under surface whitish-rufescent; fruit much smaller, and more elongate, 

 of the size of an almond. Abounding on Tutuila and Savaii. 



Dais ? (No. 1). A shrub, or small tree ; leaves ovate, short-petioled ; the petioles chan- 

 nelled ; stamens eight, the alternate ones shorter ; ornamental red fruit ; capsule appa- 

 rently of two cells. Tutuila and Savaii. 



Gen. (Dais-like, No. 1) Daphnoid. The extreme branches dichotomous ; leaves broad- 

 ovate, short-petioled ; flowers purple, not expanding. Tutuila. 



(No. 2) ; a second species. Leaves larger, six inches by three, ovate, acute, sub- 

 sessile ; the clusters of flowers with large bracts ; flowers red-purple. Upolu. 



Daphne ; compare (No. 1) Taheiti. Flowers green ; berries red. On the mountain-ridge 

 in Tutuila, at the elevation of seven hundred feet. 



Aristolochia (No. 1). A vine; leaves petioled, broad-ovate, inequ., 5 to 7-nerved, smooth 

 on both sides ; corolla slender, two inches long, the lip not large. On the mountain- 

 ridge in Tutuila, at the elevation of eight hundred feet. 



Hernandia sonora ? (No. 1 ; see Otafuan coral-islands). A tree, seventy feet high, with the 



Achyranthes (compare No. 2 Metia to Taheiti and Bellinghausen coral-island) ; green 

 florets. Abounding on Tutuila, Upolu, and Savaii. 



Amaranthus (No. 1, compare Metia); a low species. Savaii; evidently introduced, (and 

 by aboriginal settlers). 



Aleurites triloba; bis (Metia and No. 1 Taheiti); leaves 5 to 7-lobed. Manua, Tutuila, 

 Upolu, and Savaii; but not seen in the Interior forest. 



Euphorbia (No. 2); habit of E. lathyris. Tutuila, in cultivated ground; evidently intro- 

 duced, (and by aboriginal settlers). 



(Codiaeum) variegatum, (No. 1). A shrub; the leaves alternate, petioled, lanceolate, 

 spotted after the manner of Aucuba, Tutuila, near houses; introduced (by aboriginal 

 settlers). 



Acalypha ? (No. 1). Habit of A. Caroliniana ; small-leaved. " Upolu," Rich. 

 Broussonetia (papyrifera. No. 1 ; bis Metia). Seen under cultivation ; for the sake of the 

 bark, which is beaten into " tapa," or bark-cloth. Savaii. 



