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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



leaves nerved, lanceolate, four inches by three-fourths of an inch. At the elevation of 

 five hundred feet on ridge in Tutuila, rare. 



Oberonia (No. 3) ; a second species with equitant leaves. Fructification so crowded as to 

 resemble spikes of a Plantago. Savaii. 



? (No 4) ; perhaps distinct ; the leaves rather distant. " Tutuila," Bracken- 

 ridge. 



(Tacniophyllum) fasciola; bis, perhaps (No. 1) Taheiti. Frequent on Manua, Tutuila, 

 and Upolu. 



Dendrobium ; compare (No. 1) D. biflorum of Taheiti, but the fr. seemed larger. 



Manua ?, and frequent on Savaii. 

 (No. 4). Pendulous; leaves linear, six inches by an eighth of an inch; flowers 



and fr. not seen. Savaii. 

 (No. 5). One to two feet long; flowers rose-colored; capsule triquetrous. 



" Upolu," Kich and Brackenridge. 

 (No. 6). Pendulous, six to ten feet long; leaves lanceolate, six inches by half an 



inch ; racemes few, short, axillary ; corolla with a long spur. Savaii, on bread-fruit 



trees, rare. 



Nov. gen. Orchid. (No. 1). Sufi'ruticose at base; leaves lanceolate; flowers in term, 

 clust., with broad spathe ; a slight sack ; the corolla white, with the very short lip 

 entire, included, and red at the apex. On trunks of trees on the mountain-ridge in 

 Tutuila, at the elevation of eighteen hundred feet. 



Epidendrum ? (No. 1). Stem erect, two to three feet high ; rigid elliptical leaves ; axil- 

 lary panicles of large flowers, yellow tinged with green. Savaii, and elsewhere, growing 

 on rocks near the sea-shore. 



(No. 2) ; possibly distinct; the leaves longer; large flowers. " Tutuila," Bracken- 

 ridge. 



Gen. Orchid, with ribbed leaves, (No. 1). Leaves two, distant from the root, lanceolate, 

 ribbed ; a long, terminal raceme ; capsule rather small. Tutuila and Savaii, growing 

 on bread-fruit trees. 



Gen. Dendrobioid with concealed flowers, (No. 1). Epidendric ; very small; creeping, 

 branch, radio. ; leaves an inch and a half long, ovate, having a bulb at base ; flowers 

 minute, concealed. On the mountain-ridge in Tutuila, at the elevation of fifteen hun- 

 dred feet. 



Upolu, and Savaii, and " twenty varieties" distinguished by the natives ; not seen 

 naturalized. A young stock of the red-leaved variety seen on Manua. 



Ananas (bis Taheiti, and No. 1 Tropical America) ; the pine-apple. Now cultivated, 

 (having been obtained from trading and colonial Whites). 



Gen. Commelin. (No. 1). Small white flowers; two of the petals larger. Frequent in 

 cultivated ground on Savaii. 



Commelina ? (No. 1). Flowers larger and blue; two of the petals larger than the others. 

 Frequent in cultivated ground on Savaii, (having been introduced by aboriginal set- 

 tlers). 



Cocos nucifera, (bis Paumotuan coral-islands to Taheiti). Abundantly cultivated. The 

 milk is sometimes heated in the shell; (the only approach to boiling, I witnessed any- 

 where in Polynesian cookery). 



