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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



volvulus-likc, but the calyx sometimes containing two follicles; the follicle cnp-like, 

 attached to receptacle, splitting laterally along the upper suture, and disclosing a red, 

 fleshy, elongate drupe. Along wooded banks of streams at Naloa. 

 Uvaria ; compare (No. 1) Samoa. A tree. Ovolau. 



? (No. 2). " Twenty feet high ;" fruit subsessile. " Ovolau," ]5rackenridge. 



Nov. gen. Capparid., (No. 1); sepals four; petals four; stamens few, and very long. A 

 green-barked woody vine ; the normal fruit-bearing branches unarmed, but with axillary 

 branchlets that have opposite spines; leaves petioled, ovate, acuminate, reticulate; 

 flowers arising in the axils in a linear series. Found by Mr. Rich at Mba. 



Nov. gen. lonidioid, (No. 1). A woody vine; habit of Celastrus scandens; leaves alter- 

 nate, broad-lanceolate, petioled. On the barren plain at Naloa, and elsewhere. 



Hibiscus (No. 2); near H. scaber of Florida. Six feet high; leaves with about five lobes, 

 dentate; flowers yellow; carpels five, pointed, covered with hairs. Mbua Bay, growing 

 in open, marshy ground. 



Thespesia populnea; bis (No. 1 Samoa to Tongatabu). Frequent along the sea-shore. 



Paritium tiliaceum ; bis (Brazil, and No. 1 Metia to Tongatabu). Frequent along the 

 sea-shore. 



Sida (No. 5j. Four feet high; ten aristate carpels. North coast of Viti-lcvu, and else- 

 where ; frequent. 



Commersonia; compare (No. 2) Samoa. A small tree, thirty feet high, with the trunk 



eighteen inches in diameter; leaves cordate, inequal at base, the under surface tomen- 



tose. In clearings near Rewa; and frequent at Naloa. 

 Waltheria (No. 1). On barren hills in the Leeward portion of the grouji ; and found 



on the island of Oneata, by Dr. Silas Holmes. 

 Firmiana (bis No. 1 Samoa?). A tree; leaves smooth on both sides, cordate, sometimes 



trilobed; carpels as if always open, with a placenta on each margin ; two or more seeds. 



"Ovolau," Bich. 



; perhaps young ; leaves five-lobed ; no flowers, nor fruit. Mbua Bay. 



Heritiera; bis (No. 1) Tongatabu. Silver -leaved. Maritime. 



Nov. gen. procumbens, (bis No. 1 Metia to Samoa); Triumfetta of authors. 



? (No. 2); leaves pubescent, with three obtuse lobes; yellow flowers; no fr. 



Ovolau. 



Gen. Tiliac. (No. 1); compare the Samoan genus, but yellow flowers, and four carpels, 

 which are more elongate. Leaves ovate, serrate, petioled; terminal corymbs; four 

 stigmas. A frequent shrub on the Leeward portion of the group. 



Grewia ; compare (No. 1) Tongatabu. 



Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, (No. 1, bis Taheiti to Samoa). Along the banks of mountain- 

 streams on Ovolau, highly ornamental, and the flowers single ; also this, or the follow- 

 ing, growing around dwellings at Muthuata. 



; regarded by Mr. Brackenridge as a distinct species, and "near H. liliiflorus ;" 



the flowers small. Muthuata. 



(Abelmoschus luoschatus, No. 1, bis Taheiti to Tongatabu). Growing in cultivated 

 ground, and apparently introduced. Observed at Mba, Ovolau, and in other localities. 

 esculentus ? (No. 2). Cultivated by the natives; who, according to Mr. Bracken- 

 ridge, principally make use of the leaves. (Litroduced by aboriginal settlers). 



