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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



trunk four to sis feet in diameter ; leaves smooth, alternate, broad-ovate, peltate, entire ', 

 terminal clusters surrounded by four obtuse bracts disposed in a whorl, and consisting of 

 two male flowers and one female, but sometimes there are two female flowers ; male 

 flowers 6-parted, the three outer segments calyciform, the three inner ones corolliform, 

 the stamens three, each arising between two scale-like nectaries; female flowers 8-parted, 

 the four outer segments calyciform, the four inner ones corolliform, the style with four 

 berry-like nectaries. Tutuila and Savaii ; sub-maritime, growing only along the sea- 

 shore. 



(No. 2) ; leaves oblong, acute at each end, petioled, entire, Laurus-like ; panic. 



axillary, long-peduncled ; fruit externally the same, but the structure not examined. 

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



Gen. Cup anioid ? (No. 1 j ; also somewhat Rliamnoid. A tree, sixty to eighty feet high^ 

 with large peltate leaves ; the leaves alternate, broad-ovate, eighteen inches by twelve, 

 slightly denticulate, a long stipule at base ; large panic. ; diandrous(?) ; capsule 

 didymous, two-valved, two-celled (sometimes three-celled?), each cell containing a glo- 

 bular, rough, and very hard seed. Frequent on Savaii ; rare on the other islands. 



Euphorbia (compare No. 1 Paumotuan coral-islands to Taheiti). A foot high • habit of 

 E. hypericifolia, but the leaves entire, inequally cordate at base. Manua and Tutuila, 

 growing along the sea-shore, and elsewhere. 



Nov. gen. (Tanarius ; compare No. 1 Taheiti); Eicinus of authors. A spreading, sub- 

 herbaceous, thick-stemmed shrub, ten to twenty feet high ; leaves broad-ovate, peltate, 

 denticulate ; axillary racemes or spikes; flowers dioecious; fruit Ricinoid, with soft lacin. 

 on surface ; seeds tuberc. Tutuila. 



(Omalanthus? No. 2) ; habit of Stillingia sebifera. A shrub, eight to twelve feet high ; 

 styles two, capsule of two cells. Frequent on Manua and Tutuila. 



(No. 3). A tree, sixty to eighty feet high; leaves larger, deltoid, poplar-like, 



entire, acuminate, the under surface whitish; flowers monoecious?; fruit large and 

 hard, short-ovoid or somewhat angular, containing three cells. Frequent in the Inte- 

 rior forest on Savaii. 



Phyllanthus; compare (No. 1) Taheiti; low. Manua, Tutuila, and Savaii. 



(Grlochidium, No. 3); a third species. A tree of medium size; calyx 6-phyll. ; capsule 

 dividing into about ten cells. Frequent on Tutuila. 



Gen. (Antidesmoid ?, No. 1). A tree ; leaves alternate, petioled, obovate, entire ; flowers 



Artocarpus incisa, (No. 1, bis Metia to Taheiti). Cultivated abundantly throughout 

 the Group ; and always seedless. 



; a distinct variety, or possibly species ?. The leaves similar in outline, but not 



divided into lobes; the fruit also similar, except in often containing seeds ; these are of 

 large size, somewhat resemble the nuts of the betel-palm, and are " not known to ripen." 

 Upolu and Savaii, abundantly cultivated. 



Ficus (No. 8 ; compare No. 1 Otafuan coral-islands) ; leaves rather small, ovate, petioled. 

 " Tutuila," Brackenridge. — Perhaps the same species on Savaii, (an ornamental tree, 

 with dark foliage, and orange-colored pea-like fruit, planted near houses). 



Piper (methysticum, No. 6) ; the " cava-pepper ;" a sixth species. Differing from the 

 Taheitian in being lower and more branching, with the knotted stem stouter; leaves 

 cordate, acuminate. Tutuila and Savaii ; seen only under cultivation, (having been 

 introduced by aboriginal settlers). 



