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Xylosma? (No. 2). A shrub or small tree; leaves alternate, broad; flowers dioecious, 



inconspicuous, polyandrous ; calyx 4-dent. ; no corolla. 

 (Alphitonia, No. 2) ; Ceanothoid ; a second species, a congener of the Samoan. A small 



tree ; leaves lanceolate, the under surface white. 

 (Colubrina) Asiatica ; bis (No. 1 Metia to Samoa). Frequent. 



Khus ; apparently, bis (No. 2) Samoa. A spreading tree, forty feet high and upwards. 

 Frequent. 



Sophora ; bis (No. 1) Taheiti. Submaritime, growing along the searshore. 

 (Dendrolobium), bis (No. 1 ) Samoa. A large shrub, with white flowers. E,are. 

 Desmodium (No. 4). Herbaceous, one to two feet high. Growing in the savanna or 

 natural opening, rare. 



Dolichos ; bis (No. 1 Taheiti to) Samoa ; yellow-flowered. Growing on the sands of the 

 sea-shore. 



(Mucuna) ; bis (No. 1 Taheiti to) Samoa. Frequent in the forest. 



(Canavalia) ; bis (No. 1) Samoa. High-climbing; and the flower seeming larger and 



more elongate. Frequent in the forest. 

 (Kennedyoid, No. 1). A vine; leaves with silky pubescence, the leaflets rounded; not 



in flower. 



Glycine? (No. 1). A woody vine; leaves impari-pinnate, bijugis; pods compressed, thin. 

 Growing in the forest. 



Guilandina (compare No. 2 Samoa). Prickles few ; leaves when dry, shining on both sides. 

 A long and straggling plant, climbing in woods along the sea-shore, and also some dis- 

 tance inland. 



(Entada) scandens, bis (No. 1 Samoa). Seeds seen in the heathen village of Mu. 

 Acacia ; bis (No. 1) Samoa ; with broad phyllodia. Submaritime ; frequent along the 

 sea-shore. 



Inocarpus edulis, (bis No. 1 Taheiti to Samoa). Frequent in the forest. 



(Luainitzera) coccinea, (No. 1); Laguncularia of authors. A many-stemmed or clus- 

 tered shrub, twelve feet high, with ornamental flowers. Intermingled among the 

 mangroves in the portion of the lagoon left bare by the falling tide. 



Cardiospermum ; bis (No, 1 Metia to Samoa). In cultivated ground, introduced by 

 aboriginal settlers. 



(Euphoria?, No. 1). A tree, thirty to forty feet high ; leaves impari-pinnate, the leaflets 

 in about nine pairs, sessile, penninerved; flowers not seen. Planted around dwellings; 

 (having been introduced by aboriginal settlers). 



Mallea Ilohrii ; bis (No. 1 Samoa) ; Melia baccifera of Rohr, see Voyage of the Astro- 

 labe. A tree, twenty to thirty feet high, with the trunk a foot in diameter; capsule of 

 three cells, each two-seeded. Planted in the village of Nukualofa. 



Trichilia? (No. 1; simple leaved). Around dwellings, rare. 



Oxalis (repens, bis Taheiti and Samoa) ; compare 0. corniculata ?. A weed around 

 dwellings. 



Gen. Terebinth.? (No. 2); apparently a second species. A congener of Samoan; less 

 ferruginous; leaves impari-pinnate, the leaflets petioled; large compound racemes of 

 small flowers. Planted around dwellings. 



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