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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Gen. Coffeac. ? with Myrmecodioid fruit, (No. 1). A shrub, ten feet high ; leaves oppo- 

 site, ovate, acuminate, cordate at base, long petioled ; flowers tubular, white, in terminal 

 clusters ; the fruit quadrangular. On the prolongation of the Muthuata mountain-crest, 

 at the elevation of two thousand feet. 



Morinda (No. 4) ; a third species. Climbing, smooth. Islet at Muthuata. 



(No. 5); a fou7-th species. A "woody vine;" leaves smooth, broad-lanceolate, 



five inches by two, acuminate, the upper surface shining; fruit an inch in diameter. 

 "Ovolau, at the elevation of twelve hundred feet," Brackenridge. 



— (No. 6). A vine, the leaves softly pubescent. Frequent; collected and used by 



the natives for various economical puiposes. 



Nauclea (compare No. 1 Taheiti to Samoa). A small tree, thirty feet high, with the 

 trunk a foot in diameter. Observed growing at the base of the mountains back of Mbua 

 Bay. 



Gen. Cinchonoid, (No. 1). Ten to twenty feet high; ornamental; the flowers white. 

 Ovolau, and on the islet at Muthuata. 



MusScTenda frondosa ; bis (No. 1 Samoa). Frequent; often growing in wild situations, and 

 perhaps really indigenous. 



Nov. gen. Oxyanthoid, (No. 1). A shrub, ten feet high; habit of Guettarda; leaves 

 opposite, broad-obovate, penninerved; corolla 4-fid, dividing into four large lobes; cap- 

 sule cylindrical, six inches long, crowned with a perfectly circular calyx. Ovolau; and 

 also in the Sandal-wood District. 



(No. *2) ; a second species. " Twelve feet high," the leaves oblong, and narrower ; 



flower tubular. " Ovolau, at the elevation of a thousand feet," Brackenridge. 



Psychotria ? (No. 3). "A shrub;" large, lanceolate leaves; terminal corymbs; berry 

 large, with about eight sulci, and containing two large seeds. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 



Guettarda speciosa; bis (No. 1 Paumotuan coral-islands to Tongatabu). Near the sea- 

 shore, rare. 



Gen. CofiFeoid, (No. 5). In woods on Ovolau. 



Gen. Coffea-like, (No. o); a congener of Samoan sp. Leaves petioled ; red sessile fruit. 



In woods on Ovolau. 

 Chiococca ? (No. 2) ; near the Taheitian species. At Mba, met with once only. 

 Gen. Chiococcoid, (No. 1). A woody vine ; leaves tapering into a petiole, not shining; 



terminal panicles ; calyx 5-fid ; berries white. Ovolau. 

 (No. 2) ; congeneric? A woody vine, the leaves shining; cymes axillary; berry 



tuberc? ; a gland or tubercle in the axils of the nervures. Ovolau. 

 Gen. Coflfeac. with projecting calyx, (compare No. 1 Tongatabu). A shrub, five to 



eight feet high; calyx tubular, projecting beyond the end of the red fruit. Islet at 



Muthuata. 



(Wollastonia scabriuscula. No. 1, bis Samoa to Tongatabu). Abounding in clearings; in 

 some instances, almost forming thickets. 



Villarsia (No. 1); a congener of North American species. Frequent in taro-ponds; pro- 

 bably introduced. 



(Batatas) ; bis (No. 1 Taheiti to Tongatabu) ; cordato-hastate leaves, and purple flowers. 

 Frequent and growing spontaneously; extending to the elevation of a thousand feet on 

 the mountains behind Muthuata, and elsewhere. — The sweet potato, B. edulis (bis Metia 



