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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



fNo. 3); a second species. A spreading tree, forty feet high; the leaves narrower, 



and smaller. In fruit, near the village of Levuka on Ovolau. 

 ? (No. 4; compare No. 2 Samoa to Tongatabu) ; a third species. Twenty feet 



high ; the leaves longer. On uiountain-sunmuts on Ovolau, at the elevation of two 



thousand feet. 



Gen. Clusia-like, (No. 2). A tree of medium size ; leaves Syzygium-like, opposite, the 

 petioles cushioned at base ; sepals four, and apparently four petals. Muthuata. 



(No. 3 ; compare Discostigma Vitiense of (iray). " A tree, thirty-five feet high 



habit of Myrtus ; leaves opposite, entire ; pedicels axillary, bibracteate ; berry superior, 

 oblong, crowned with the expanded stigma, Nuphar-like but diminutive. " Ovolau, 

 at the elevation of fifteen hundred feet," Brackenridge. 



Hiptage ? (No. 1) ; leaves elliptical, an inch long, petioled; fruit 4-alate. "North coast 

 of Vitu-levu," Rich. — Apparently the same species on Ovolau, climbing, the inflo- 

 rescence axillary and terminal, and large, purple flowers. 



Gren. Malpigh. ? (No. 1). An "upright shrub, ten feet high;" axillary pedunc, with 

 glom. or umbellate clusters; leaves smooth, ovate, acute; no flowers, nor fruit. 

 " Neniena, or Direction Island," Brackenridge. 



Kleinhovia; bis (No. 1) Samoa. Savu-savu ?, Brackenridge; rare. 



DodonEca; compare (Brazil, Lower Peru, and No. 1 Metia to Samoa) Viscous. Abounding 

 on the barren upland of the Leeward side of the group, in the vicinity of the sea-coast. 



( No. 2). A woody vine, having the habit of Celastrus scandens ; leaves penni- 



nerved ; terminal racemes on lateral branchlets ; capsule like that of Dodonaja. Mu- 

 thuata, and elsewhere. 



Sapindus? (No. 1 ). A spreading tree, thirty feet high ; leaves pari-pinnate, mostly 4-jugis, 



the leaflets lanceolate, entire; calyx 5-fid, three of the segments larger; petals five; 



stamens eight. Ravines on the Leeward coast. 

 ? (No. 2); a .second species. " A tree, seventy feet high;" the leaves larger and 



broader, mostly trijugis; the stamens not elongate. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 

 Cupania? (No. 3). "A tree, twenty feet high;" leaves pari-pinnate, mostly tri-jugis; 



capsule three-celled, and three-valved. "Ovolau," Brackenridge. 

 ? (No. 4). "A tree, thirty-five feet high;" leaves pari-pinnate, 4-5-jugis, the 



leaflets entire; fruit trialate, wider, of three cells, each containing one large seed. 



"Ovolau," Brackenridge. 

 (Gen. Sapindoid, No. 3). Cupanioid ?; slender, ten to twelve feet high; leaves impari- 



pinnate, 10-jugis; long-branched racemes; calyx 5-parted ; capsule triquetrous, tomen- 



tose. Ovolau. 



where abundant, but of inferior quality. Said to have been introduced by trading 

 and colonial Whites. 



Cardiospermum helicacabum ? (No. 1, bis Metia to Tongatabu). In cultivated ground, 

 introduced (by aboriginal settlers). North coast of Vitu-levu, and elsewhere. 



Euphoria; bis (No. 1) Tongatabu. A tree, seventy feet high; leaves pari-pinnate, the 

 leaflets penninerved ; seed single. Planted around dwellings on Ovolau: I was in- 

 formed, that after my departure " the fruit ripened, when the pulp became sugary and 

 agreeable." 



Oxalis ; compare Samoa (and Tongatabu); leaves pubescent. Growing near the village 

 of Naloa, apparently introduced. 



