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from the old wood ; fruit elongate. Frequent, from the elevation of five hundred feet 

 to that of two thousand on the mountains. Figured by Mr. Agate. 

 Weinmannia nov. sp., (No. 3). Leaves simple, smooth, with black dots; terminal cymes 

 of racemes of rose-colored flowers. " Ovolau, at the elevation of twelve hundred feet,'' 

 Brackenridge. 



nov. sp., (No. 4). Leaves pubescent, 13-jugis. Mountain-crest back of Mbua 



Bay, at the elevation of two thousand feet. 

 • nov. sp., (No. 5). An ornament;iI shrub, with red flowers; leaves smooth, im- 



pari-pinnate, bijugis. Mbua Bay, growing in open ground, very little above the level 



of the sea. 



• nov. sp., (No. 6). A small tree ; leaves hairy, impari-pinnate, bijugis. Ovolau) 



at the elevation of five hundred feet. 

 ; perhaps a fifth species. 



Gren. Cussonioid, (compare No. 1 Samoa to Tongatabu) ; being at least congeneric. Ten 

 to fifteen feet high; flowers in panicled racemes. In woods, frequent. 



Scheflera (No. 1) ; a congener of the New Zealand sp. Twenty feet high ; leaflets 7-8-nate, 

 sinuato-denticulate ; the young leaflets decoupes or divided, bristly; umbels in a branch- 

 ing raceme. Ovolau, at the elevation of a thousand feet. 



Nov. gen. Araliac. (Plerandra of Gray, No. 1); polyandrous. Fifteen to twenty feet high ; 

 leaves very large, the leaflets 9-nate ; fruit also large ; compound umbels. Ovolau, at 

 the elevation of fifteen hundred feet. 



Gen Aralioid ? (No. 1). " Twenty to thirty feet high ;" leaves quinate, the leaflets coria- 

 ceous and entire. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 



Gen. Araliac? (No. 1); at least agreeing in habit. The stem woolly; leaves ternate, 

 with the leaflets argute-serrate, and scattered hairs. Ovolau. 



Arceuthobium (No. 2 ; compare No. 1 Taheiti). Parasitic on the Myricoid Myrsine, on 

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



(No. 3); possibly a second species; "compressed while living;" stems with about 



three ribs on each side. " Parasitic on Inocarpus, on Ovolau," Brackenridge. 



Loranthus ; compare (No. 2 Samoa to Tongatabu). Growing at Rewa. 



(No. 4); possibly distinct. A fine ornamental species; the flowers red, tipped 



with black. Parasitic "on Inocarpus at Savu-savu" Bay, on the South side of Vanua- 

 levu, Brackenridge. 



Myrmecodia nov. sp., (No. 1). Epidendric, having roots, but growing on the trunks and 

 branches of trees ; tube of the corolla long and slender; the hollow, bulb-like base of 

 the stem, invariably occupied as a nest by numbers of a large species of ant. Ovolau, 

 at the elevation of a thousand feet. 



nov. sp., (No. 2). Tube of the corolla broader and shorter; the flowers more 



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



Eclipta (compare Brazil and Peru). In taro-beds on Ovolau, doubtless introduced ; once 

 only met with. 



Conyza (No. 1), bis Taheiti. Habit of Erigeron Canaden.se ; pink or rosaceous flowers. 



Frequent in the open ground. 

 (Myriogyne minuta, No. 1, bis Taheiti to Samoa; recorded as) Grangea. 

 Bidens ; bis (Taheiti to) Tongatabu. Frequent. 



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