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Gren. Steloid? (No. 1). Very small ; leaves lanceolate-linear, about two inches long; inflo- 

 rescence axillary. On the mountain-ridge in Tutuila, at the elevation of eighteen hun- 

 dred feet. 



? (No. 2). About eight inches; compressed bulb, with axillary flower-stems; 



flowers small, white. On the mountain-ridge in Tutuila. 



Gen. Orchid, large-fruited, (No. 2) ; a congener of Taheitian sp. ?. Epidendric ; large, 

 bulb. ; leaf single, large, ribbed ; capsule very large, having six crests. On the moun- 

 tain-ridge in Tutuila, at the elevation of two thousand feet. 



(Dendrobioid, No. 1). Leaves lanceolate, having a bulb at base; capsule very large, but 

 not alate. " Top of ridge in Tutuila," at the elevation of fifteen hundred feet, Bracken- 

 ridge. 



(Gen. Maxillarioid ? No. 2). Leaves elliptical, obtuse, articulate on an elongated bulb, 

 that looks like a continuation of the stem. "Tutuila," Brackenridge. 



Epidendroid? (No. 1); but the inflorescence a terminal raceme. Leaves lanceolate, bifa- 

 rious, one and a half inches by a third of an inch ; capsule three-fourths of an inch 

 long. Savaii. 



Gen. Oncidioid? (No. 1). Four to five inches ; leaves lanceolate, three inches long ; flower- 

 stems axillary ; flowers of medium size ; the capsule very long, two and a half inches. 

 Savaii, frequent on bread-fruit and other trees. 



(Amomum, No. 2) ; compare Taheitian sp. Large; leaves lanceolate, a foot or more long, 

 acuminate, slightly ciliate ; the flowers not seen. In the forest of Interior Savaii. 



Nov. gen. Musac. (No. 1). Heliconia-like, but the compressed, equitant, floral bracts are 

 not bright-colored, acquiring only a yellowish tinge, and the lower one is very little 

 longer than the others. The leaves have a short-acumination, entirely resemble and 

 might be mistaken for those of the banana; except that they stand upright, six or more 

 on each stock, making the total height twelve to fifteen feet. The three seeds are 

 stony and very rough, hard, gritty, and irregular. 



Dioscorea (No. 5). The stem as thick as the little finger, paleaceous at base; young, with 

 the leaves not yet expanded but apparently ovate ; each stock producing a bushel of 

 edible roots. In the forest of Interior Savaii, known only in the indigenous state. 



Nov. gen. Asparag. ? (No. 1). Leaves broad-lanceolate, ribbed, ochreate at base ; a 



(Borassus flabelliformis ?, No. 1) ; the fan-palm. Twenty-five feet high, the trunk rather 

 slender; fronds flabellate ; calyx in two series, the inner scales or segments about five, 

 mucronate; nut of the size of a cherry, the apex regularly terminal, the outer envelope 

 pithy and fibrous, the shell hard ; the seed solid, not adhering to the shell, and a large, 

 oblong hilum. Planted in the village on Manua; and "seen on LTpolu" by Rich and 

 Brackenridge. 



Pandanus (bis No. 1 Paumotuan coral-islands to Taheiti). Cultivated sparingly, and 

 evidently introduced. Manua, Upolu, and Savaii. 



(Colocasia) macrorhiza, (No. 1, bis Metia to Taheiti); the leaves not peltate. Abun- 

 dantly cultivated, and seemed more valued than at Taheiti. Manua, Upolu, and Savaii. 



( antic{uorum, No. 2, bis Metia to Taheiti). Abundantly cultivated, and several 



varieties distinguished by the natives. On Savaii, half-wild taro-plantations commence 

 regularly behind the cocoa-palms and bread-fruit trees, at a little distance from the 

 coast; observed also under cultivation on Upolu. 



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