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Gen. Sapind. ? (No. 1). A "woody vine;" leaves pari-pinnate, 2-3-juf];is, the leaflets 



smooth, entire; lateral, branch, panic; fr. of the size of an egg, the peduncle enlarging. 



" Ovolau," Brackenridge. 

 Gen. incert. with three-toothed calyx, (No. 1). A tree, thirty feet high ; leaves alternate, 



inipari-pinnate, 3-4-jugis, the leaflets entire, and short-petioled ; fruit like an olive. 



On the mountains on Ovolau. 

 Gen. incert. with Bursaria-like, but indchiscent fruit, (No. 1). " A tree, thirty feet high, 



with the trunk a foot in diameter ;" leaves iuipari-pinnate ; axillary panicles ; calyx 



regular, very small, 5-fid; two short stigmas on a persistent style. "On the mountains 



on Ovolau," Brackenridge. 

 Gen. Meliac. (No. 1). A tree; leaves pinnate, mostly 7-jugis, the leaflets subsessile, 



oblong, with obtuse point ; flowers cylindrical, white, in compound racemes. On the 



low coral-islet of Nukulau. 

 Gen. Meliac. ? with minute, 5-fid calyx, (No. 1). Twelve feet high ; leaves impari-pin- 



nate, 2-3-jugis, the leaflets penninerved; fr. in subsessile clusters; calyx 5-fid, minute ; 



fruit? obovate, hairy. Ovolau. 

 ? (No. 2) ; seeming distinct. " A tree, thirty feet high ;" leaves 2-4-jugis; fr. 



in racemes ?. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 

 Leea (No. 1). Four to ten feet high; a shrub, or rather an upright, rigid vine. Fre- 

 quent in the forest; on Ovolau, and elsewhere. 

 ; possibly a second species; the fr. more crowded. Muthuata, at the elevation 



of a thousand feet. 

 Cissus (No. 2) ; leaves inequally cordate, crenate. Ovolau. 

 (No. 3) ; trifoliolate. "Ovolau," Brackenridge. 



(Brackenridgea of Gray ?, No. 1) ; Ochnac. Sometimes fifteen to twenty feet high ; 

 leaves smooth, broad-lanceolate, entire ; sessile umbels ; pedicels. In the Sandal-wood 

 District. 



Gen. Simarub. ? ; compare (No. 1) Samoa ; and a congener of the New Zealand Zanthoxy- 

 lum. Stem weak, ten to fifteen feet high ; leaves opposite, entire, acum., petioled. 

 Growing in the forest. 



Gen. Zanthoxyl. ? (No. 1). A shrub, eight to ten feet high, having the habit of Spiraea; 



leaves petioled, simple, ovate, entire, verticillate in threes; flowers minute, in panicles; 



two to four small, Weinmannia-like capsules. Mountain-summits on Ovolau, at the 



elevation of two thousand feet. 

 Melicope ? (No. 1) ; compare mountain sp. on Tutuila in Samoa. A tree, fifteen to thirty 



feet high; leaves opposite, ternate, entire; flowers inconspicuous, axillary panic. ?; four 



sepals, and a corolla; capsule apparently of two or four cells. On the islet at Muthuata. 

 Xylocarpus; bis (No. 1) Tongatabu. 



Euodia; compare (No. 1) Samoa. Leaves long-petioled, trifoliolate, or sometimes simple. 

 Often met with in cultivated ground, at Rewa and elsewhere ; said to be used by the 

 natives "in scenting cocoa-nut oil," and if so, showing peculiarity in their preferences. 



Canarium ? (No. 1). A tree ; leaves impari-pinnate, mostly 10-jugis, the leaflets entire, 

 inequal at base; drupe of the size of a walnut, sour, but edible, containing a depressed 

 nut. Planted around llewa. — This, or another species, seeming indigenous in a grove 

 near Rewa. 



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