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(No. 2) ; apparently a second species. The leaves larger, more elongate, more 



regularly and finely crenate. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 



(No. 3) ; a third species. The smallest leaves ; hairs on the fruit. An abun- 

 dant shrub on the Leeward portion of the group. 



Nov. gen. Tiliac, (No. 1). A tree, forty feet high; leaves subcordate; fruit seemingly 

 composed of two flat, obovate valves, opening at the broad apex; but in reality two- 

 celled, and many-seeded. Ovolau, and elsewhere. 



(Gen. Symplocac. ? No. 1) ; Prockioid. A tree, forty feet high ; leaves large, alternate, 

 oblong, petioled ; short axillary racemes ; flowers polyandrous ; five small petals. On 

 mountain-summits on Ovolau, at the elevation of two thousand feet. 



? (No. 2) ; Hopea-like. A small tree, ten to twenty feet high, ornamental ; 



leaves alternate, entire; flowers polyandrous; calyx apparently 5-fid ; petals five; drupe 

 of the size of a pea, apparently inferior, Memocylum-like. Frequent around Mbua Bay. 



• ? ; perhaps distinct from the last, the leaves not turning yellowish in drying. 



On the mountains back of Mbua Bay. 



?; gen. incert., compare Symploc. " Thirty feet high;" leaves alternate, coria- 

 ceous, entire, broad-lanceolate, petioled; calyx small, 5-fid; drupe obovate, apparently 

 one-seeded. " Ovolau, at the elevation of 1500 feet," Brackenridge. 



(Draytonia of Clray, No. 1; recorded as) Cleyera ? An ornamental shrub, ten to twenty 

 feet high; leaves alternate, petioled, serrulate; petals red. On the banks of mountain- 

 streams on Ovolau. 



Eurya?; compare (No. 1) Samoa. Mountain-summits on Ovolau, at the elevation of two 

 thousand feet. 



(Gen. Sapot. ?, No 4). Ardisioid, and a congener of Tongatabu sp. ; leaves scattered, 

 smooth, petioled ; five sepals ; fruit solitary, peduncled, of the size of a large acorn, the 

 style persistent. Growing at Mba. 



Ximenia elliptica, Forst. ; compare (No. 1) Samoa. A small, spreading tree; leaves al- 

 ternate, entire, petioled; flowers in small umbels, uionoecious ?; calyx 4-fld; petals; 

 style single; fruit superior, acid to the taste, orange-colored, as large as a green-gage 

 plum, and containing one large nut. Littoral; rather frequent along the sea-shore. 



Micromelum minutum; bis (No. 1) Samoa to Tongatabu. An abundant shrub. 



; perhaps only a dwarf variety ; but not seen in Samoa, nor in Tongatabu, and 



only one to two feet high. Abundant, but without flowers. 



Calophyllum inophyllum; bis (No. 1 Metia to Tongatabu). Littoral; growing only along 

 the sea-shore. 



Sida ; compare (No. 4) Samoa. Small, decumbent. North coast of Vitu-levu, and at Naloa, 



and elsewhere ; frequent. 

 Citrus sp. nov., (No. 1, bis Samoa). In some instances, evidently planted ; occurring, also, 



in wild situations, but nowhere unecjuivocally indigenous ; observed more than thirty 



feet high, in a plantation in the Sandal-wood District. 

 decumana, (No. 2, bis Tongatabu). A tree, often exceeding thirty feet in height. 



Abundantly planted by the natives, (having been introduced by aboriginal settlers). 

 aurantiuui, (bis Taheiti to Samoa). The fruit only once met with. Capt. Van- 



derford claimed to have first introduced the orange into the Fcejee Islands. 

 (acida, bis Taheiti to Samoa); the lemon. The thick-skinned, warty variety every- 



