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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



; bis (No. 2) Tongatabu. Long, branch, racemes ; the fruit not seen. Growing 



at Mba, and elsewhere ; rather rare. 



Gen. Rutac. ? (No. 1). A tree, thirty to forty feet high ; habit of Ilirtella ; leaves sub- 

 opposite, petioled, reticulate, bristly ; red nervures ; no flowers nor fruit. Ovolau. 



(Gen. Acronychioid ?, No. 3) ; leaves sub-opposite, oblong, entire and Erythroxylum- 

 like, sub-articulate on the petiole ; flowers dioecious ? ; calyx 4-parted ; four petals ?, 

 calycine, and apparently four small intermediate ones; capsule tomentose, roundish, 

 beaked. Naloa, and elsewhere. 



( ? No. 4). A " woody vine ;" small; leaves alternate, petioled, entire, pellucidly- 



punctate. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 



Acronychia ? (No. 1); but the flowers monoecious; compare Egialitis. A thick- 

 stemmed, upright shrub; leaves scattered, somewhat crowded towards the end of the 

 branches, broad-lanceolate, entire, long-petioled, and articulate on the petiole; calyx 

 4-fid; petals 4 ?, minute; a nut. Ovolau. 



Gen. Casearioid ? (No. 1); compare S. American genus. Habit of Prinos ; leaves 

 alternate, entire, oblong, subsessile, deciduous (?) ; flowers axill. clust., inconspicuous, 

 subsessile ; calyx 5-parted, and petals ; stamens about ten ; fruit superior, elongate. 

 " Ovolau," Kich. 



Gen. incert., habit of Erythroxylum, (No. 1). A shrub, eight to twelve feet high; leaves 

 alternate, entire ; flowers pedicelled in axill. glonierul. ; sepals five ; five coriaceous 

 petals?. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. — Compare Erythroxyloid growing on Ovolau, with 

 4-fid calyx, and about seven horn-like carpels. 



Pittosporum (No. 1). A small tree, fifteen to twenty feet high ; the leaves elliptical, peti- 

 oled; the fruit roundish, 2-valved. Muthuata. 



? (No. 2). Six to twelve feet high; leaves lanceolate, acute, entire, tapering 



into a long petiole; inflorescence terminal; fruit two-valved, and like a walnut-kernel. 

 Ovolau. 



? (No. 3); seeming distinct; the fruit walnut-like, and pubescent; leaves 



smooth, acuminate; petals coherent, and thus forming a tube. On the North coast of 

 Viti-levu. 



? (No. 4) ; possibly a third walnut-kernel species, as the fruit is more elongate, 



and closely tomentose ; a long and persistent style ; leaves long-petioled. On the moun- 

 tain behind Muthuata. 



Gen. Pittosporac. ? (No. 2). Leaves scattered, petioled, obovate, entire; axillary few- 

 flowered cymes at end branch ; calyx 5-fid, petals five ; stamens about ten ; berry of 

 the size of a pea. Naloa. 



Gen. Pittospor., Cordia-like ; bis (No. 1) Tongatabu. A small tree; leaves obovate, 

 entire, petioled; calyx .5 or 6-fid ; petals? five; stamens ten?; fruit superior. Mu- 

 thuata. and elsewhere. 



Spondias dulcis, (bis No. 1 Metia to Tongatabu). Spoken of by trading and colonial 

 Whites, as introduced into one district on Vanua-levu; but not seen by ourselves. 



Tephrosia piscatoria, (No. 1, bis Metia to Tongatabu). Naturalized, but not abundant. 

 Ovolau and Mba. 



Crotalaria quinquefolia ? (No. 1). A coarse, lupine-like herb, three to four feet high; 



leaflets 5-nate; the flowers yellow. Mbua Bay ; introduced (by aboriginal settlers). 

 Desmodium ; compare purple-flowered of Tongatabu. llewa. 



