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(Premna?) ; compare (No. 1 Metia to) Samoa. Aegipliiloid ; berry of the size of a small 

 pea, superior, of four cells, each containing several seeds. Rare. 



Clerodendrum inerme; bis (No. 1) Samoa, but seeming smoother. The long, weak stems 

 forming tangled beds, and sometimes almost scandeut. 



Vitex; bis (No. 1) Samoa. Submaritime; growing on the sea-shore, once only met with. 



Cassyta (bis No. 1 Paumotuan coral-islands to Samoa); but the "stems seeming stouter," 

 according to Mr. Brackenridge. 



Myristica (No. 3). Leaves large, the under surface glaucous and smoother than in the 

 Samoan species ; also a larger tree, being sometimes forty feet high, with the trunk 

 eighteen inches to two feet in diameter; the branches in like manner given off in whorls 

 at regular intervals. 



Dais?; bis (No. 1) Samoa. Growing near the sea-shore. 



Daphne; compare (No. 1 Taheiti to) Samoa. Broad-leaved. Growing along the sea- 

 shore, rare. 



Hernandia sonora ; bis (No. 1 Samoa, see also Otafuan coral-islands). Seen only in the 

 young state, growing on the sea-shore. 



ovigera ? (No. 3 ; compare No. 2 Samoa). Leaves ovate, inequal at base. Found 



by Mr. Brackenridge; rare. 



Euphorbia ramosissima; bis (No. 1 Paumotuan coral-islands to Samoa). Frequent. 



Nov. gen. (Tanarius, bis No. 1 Taheiti to Samoa) ; liicinus of authors. Sometimes be- 

 coming a tree, twenty feet high with the trunk a foot in diameter. Growing around 

 plantations. 



(Omalanthus ? No. 4) ; perhaps a distinct species, the capsule being very constantly 



three-celled. Ten to fifteen feet high; flowers monoecious, or sometimes dioecious. 



Growing near cultivated ground. 

 (Glochidium) ; bis, apparently (No. 3) Samoa. On the islet near the anchorage, rare. 

 (Excaecaria, No. 1); Hippomanoid. A branching tree, twenty to twenty-five feet high, 



with the trunk a foot in diameter; flowers in inconspicuous spikes; fruit small, tricoc- 



cous. Submaritime, and abundant. 



(Stachytarpha, compare No. 1 Rio Janeiro. Planted; having been introduced by trading 



and colonial Whites). 

 Boerhaavia; bis (No. 3 Metia to) Samoa. Sands near the sea-shore, rare. 

 Achyranthes; bis? (No. 2 Metia to) Samoa; the florets green or whitish. Frequent. 

 Amaranthus cruentus? (No. 2); florets red. A weed in cultivated ground ; introduced by 



aboriginal settlers. 



Aleurites triloba, (bis No. 1 Metia to Samoa) ; young stocks only. Introduced by abori- 

 ginal settlers. 



Codiajum variegatum, (No. 1, bis Samoa). Found by Mr. Rich. Introduced by abori- 

 ginal settlers. 



Acalypha; bis? (No. 1) Samoa; but leaves seemed smaller. A frequent weed in culti- 

 vated ground; (introduced by aboriginal settlers). 



(Gen. Urticac. with Stereuloid leaves. No. 1). A tree, twenty feet high; leaves ovate, or 

 sometimes three-lobed ?, the lowest pair of nervures marginal at the commencement; 

 no flowers, nor fruit. Planted in the village of Nukualofa; having been introduced by 

 aboriginal settlers. (Afterwards seen indigenous on the Feejee Islands). 



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