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inconspicuous, dioecious; calyx 5-phyll. ; four bilobed anthers; style single?; berry 



superior, hairy ; bract on pedicel ; racemes axillary. Tutuila. 

 (No. 2) ; congeneric, but the calyx seeming monophyllous and 5-fid ; three stigmas ; 



capsule smooth; flowers dioecious, subsessile ; aments sometimes branching; leaves 



smooth, elliptical, acute at each end, entire. Savaii. 

 Elatostema (No. 2) ; a second species. Stem slightly hairy ; leaves three inches long, 



trapezoid-serrate. Tutuila. 

 (No. 3) ; a third species. Leaves rhomb., inequ. at base, serrate, acuminate, 



three to four inches long; inflorescence axillary, sessile, also long, radical pedunc. 



In the deep forest of Interior Savaii. 

 (No. 4) ; a fourth species. Tenderly herbaceous ; leaves three inches long, 



reticulate on both sides. In the deep forest of Interior Savaii. 

 (No. 5) ; a fifth species. Leaves half an inch to an inch long, trapezoid, dentate. 



Savaii ; growing on the bed of a watercourse, three miles from the sea. 

 ■ (No. 6) ; a sixth species. Stem much divided ; leaves linear-lanceolate, dentate. 



In the deep forest of Interior Savaii. 

 (Sciophila), bis (No. I Metia to) Taheiti. Smooth ; sometimes epidendric. Manua 



and Upolu. 



(Epicarpurus ? No. 1 ; recorded as) nov. gen. Elatostem. An upright, single-stemmed 

 shrub, ten to twenty-five feet high ; the young, herbaceous portion hairy ; leaves alter- 

 nate, oblong, nine inches by two and a half, acuminate, slightly serrate ; two long styles ; 

 fruit in axillary clusters. Frequent in the forest of Interior Savaii. 



Gen. (Jrticoid (No. 3). Suffruticose, two to five feet high; leaves opposite, large, 

 long-petioled, broad-ovate, serrate ; small, orange-colored berries, crowded in axillary 

 clusters. Frequent on Tutuila and Savaii. 



Gen. Urticac. Acalyphoid, (No. 1). Herbaceous, two to three feet high ; habit of Acaly- 

 pha, but the seeds compressed and margined ; leaves alternate, long-petioled, broad- 

 cordate, dentate. Tutuila and Savaii. 



Gen. Urticac. (No. 1); the "stinging-tree." Entirely smooth ; the young shoots seem 

 half-articulated, somewhat as in Ficus; leaves alternate, petioled, cordate, acute, seven 

 inches by four, with a deciduous stipule at base ; cymes unilateral, axillary, peduncled, 

 many times and very delicately divided, so that the flowers must be very minute, 

 also full of small, linear bracts. The specimen brought by the forest-king from Interior 

 Savaii. The tree was heard of on other islands of the Group, as much dreaded by the 

 natives; the living leaves said to " sting severely, if the part exposed be wet." 



(Urticoid, No. 1 ; recorded as) Boehmeria. Leaves long-petioled, in pairs composed of a 



Casuarina equisetifolia, (No. 1, bis Metia to Taheiti). " Upolu," Rich and Bracken- 

 ridge ; not seen by myself. 



Canna (Indica, bis Taheiti and No. 1 Brazil and Peru) ; leaves acuminate ; flowers scarlet. 

 Upolu and Savaii, only seen cultivated. 



Zingiber (zerumbet, No. 1). One to two feet; the scape six to twelve inches, watery; 

 leaves ochreate at base, six to eight inches by one and a half, acute. Abounding along 

 pathways on Tutuila, and in the coast-district of Savaii, but not seen in the Interior; 

 probably introduced. The taste is like that of ginger, but bitter. 



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