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Celastrus? (No. 1); leaves oblong, crcnate, shining on the upper surface, reticulate 

 beneath; terminal racemes; capsule three-valved, three-celled, each cell containing 

 one large orange-colored seed. Growing at Mba. 



(Alphitonia, bis No. 2 Tongatabu) ; gen. Ceanothoid. A tree, twenty to thirty feet 

 high, with the trunk a foot in diameter. (3Ialaki, on the North coast of Viti-levu.) 



(No. 3) ; a third species. Smaller leaves, and usually only a shrub. Frequent 



on the Leeward side of the group. 



Colubrina Asiatica; bis (No. 1 Metia to Tongatabu), but the leaves seeming smaller. Fre- 

 quent. 



Gen. incert. (No. 1), Rhamnac. ?, as stamens alternate with calyx-segments. Climbing 

 by means of the young branches, which entwine like tendrils; leaves alternate, ovate, 

 entire; irregular racemes, the pedicels clustered; calyx 5-fid, the petals not seen. On 

 the mountain-summit behind Muthuata, at the elevation of two thousand feet. 



Gen. Rhamnoid (No. 1) ; agreeing at least in habit. A tree, thirty-five to forty feet 

 high; leaves alternate, ovate, broad and short, penninerved, serrate; few-flowered 

 racemes; the fruit an obovoid drupe, containing a very hard nut. Ovolau. 



(Gouania ? No. 1) ; Blackwellioid, but monoecious, and the calyx 5-fid. Leaves alter- 

 nate, ovate, penninerved, pubescent; fruit inferior, and pubescent. Growing at Mba. 



Gen. Semecarpoid, (No. 1). A tree, thirty feet high; panicles terminal; fruit larger 

 than peduncle. In the low subuiaritime grove, opposite Rewa. 



(No. 2) ; a second species ; the leaves seeming less reticulate. A tree, forty 



feet high. Growing on hill-sides in the Sandal-wood District ; and the contact, 

 according to the natives, pi'oducing a cutaneous eruption. 



Gen. Terebinth. ? ; bis (No. 2) Tongatabu. Leaflets penninerved, the under surface 

 having close, ferruginous pubescence. On the low coral-islet of Nukulau. 



? (No. 3) ; perhaps a third species; rusty pubescence. A shrub; leaves impari- 



pinnate, bijugis; axillary racemes. On the mountain-summit behind Muthuata, at 

 the elevation of two thousand feet. 



Rhus? (No. 3). Habit of R. venenata; the petioles and young stems red; flowers white ; 

 stamens five. Muthuata. 



(Connarus?, No. 1 ; recorded as) Geofi'raeoid. Leaves large, impari-pinnate, mostly 

 4-jugis; flowers small, in panicles, arising from the old wood; calyx regular, five- 

 parted; a corolla; pod obovoid, compressed, covered with ferruginous pubescence. 

 Ovolau. — Apparently the same species at Rewa, a tree, the leaves impari-pinnate and 

 mostly 3-jugis, the leaflets penninerved, the pod pear-shaped, three-fourths of an inch 

 long, covered with brown wool, and containing a sitigle seed. 



Sophora, bis (No. 1 Taheiti to Tongatabu). Littoral ; growing along the sea-shore, on 

 the North side of Viti-levu. 



Sesbania (No. 1). A shrub, or small tree, three to fifteen feet high; leaves impari-pinnate, 



; compare (No. 3) Samoa. Herbaceous, decumbent, the under surface of the 



leaves pubescent ; terminal capit., with plumose bracts. On the Leeward side of the 

 group. 



Lablab (No. 1). Suture of the pod tuberc. ; flowers white. Growing around dwellings 



in the environs of Rewa. 

 Phaseolus amuenus ; apparently, bis (No. 1 Taheiti). Ovolau, and elsewhere. 

 Erythrina ; bis (No. 1 Taheiti to Tongatabu). Abundant, and apparently introduced. 



