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Nov. gen. Acacioid, Tamarind-like, (Serianthes, No. 1, bis Taheiti to Tongatabu) ; having 



petals, and polyandrous. A spreading tree ; forty feet high ; leaves bipinnate, the 



petioles pubescent; pod compressed, continuous or not jointed, wide, pubescent, cari- 



nate on each suture. River banks, and elsewhere. 

 Acacia ; bis (No. 1 Samoa to Tongatabu), the sp. with broad phjllodia. On the low 



coral-islet of Nukulau, and elsewhere ; maritime. 

 nov. sp., (No. 2). A tree, twenty to thirty feet high, willow-like; the phyllodia 



narrow ; pod broader and shorter than in the preceding species. Frequent on the 



barren upland, both at Naloa and around Mbua Bay. 

 Panzeroid (No. 1); Inga-like. A spreading tree, fifty feet high; leaves bijugis, and 



sometimes trijugis; pod large, broad, and flat, coriaceous, Panzera-like. Ovolau and 



elsewhere, growing near the sea-shore. 

 (No. 2) ; a second species. A branching tree, forty feet high ; the leaves 



smaller, pari-pinnate, bijugis; a crowded raceme of ornamental, white, regular flowers; 



stamens about twenty. Growing at Mba. Figured by Mr. Agate. 

 ? (No. 3); possibly a third species. Smaller; leaves binate and Hymensea-like ; 



the flowers unexpanded, and seeming small. Growing at Mba. 

 (Entada) scandens ; bis (No. 1 Samoa to Tongatabu). Leaves compound, pari-pinnate, 



bijugis; calyx monophyllous, with five obsolete points; flowers inconspicuous, in long 



spikes. Along wooded river-banks at Naloa, and on Ovolau, and elsewhere ; apparently 



indigenous. 



Rubus (No. 1). Climbing the trunks and branches of trees; leaves mostly five-Iobed, the 

 under surface pubescent ; sepals short, equal ; as also the petals. Ovolau, Rewa, and 

 elsewhere ; frequent. 



(Petrocarya, compare No. 1 Samoa. Recorded as) gen. incert. ; the " margarata" of the 

 Feejeeans, furnishing the black paint with which they color the face and hair. Leaves 

 alternate, penninerved, entire; fruit indehiscent, two-celled. In the Sandal-wood 

 District. 



(No. 2) ; a second species. Habit of Anona ; a spreading tree, resembling a 



Juglans, fifty feet high, with the trunk two and a half feet in diameter; leaves smaller 

 than in the last sp., penninerved, the under surface white and reticulate; fruit more 

 irregular; terminal racemes. Mbua Bay. 



Inocarpus edulis ; bis (No. 1 Taheiti to Tongatabu). Chiefly growing in cultivated 

 ground, and not seen high up on the mountains. 



Lumnitzera coccinea; bis (No. 1) Tongatabu. Intermingled with the mangroves; and 

 sometimes twenty feet high, with the trunk nine inches in diameter. 



Terminalia (compare No. 1 Samoa); smooth, the fruit not alate. On the North coast of 

 Viti-levu. 



; bis (No. 2) Samoa to Tongatabu. Frequent along the sea-shore, on the North 



coast, and elsewhere. 



Terminalia (catappa); bis (No. 4) Tongatabu. A spreading tree, forty feet high. Planted 

 around dwelling!?, (having been introduced by aboriginal settlers) ; the nut edible. 



Jambosa (Malaccensis, No. 1, compare Taheiti to Samoa). An ornamental, spreading 

 tree, sixty feet high, the petals and stamens red. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 



Cucurbita pepo, (bis Taheiti, and No. 2 North America). The squash, introduced by 

 trading and colonial Whites. 



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