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Coprosma ? (No. 1). A low shrub; leaves petioled, small, oblong, half an inch or more 

 in length ; terminal cymes ; berry two-seeded. Ovolau. 



Gen. Coffeac. with Hydrangea-like capsule, (No. 1). A shrub; the young leaves with 

 ferruginous or silky pubescence ; a large, intermediate stipule; axillary cymes; the 

 calyx-segments long, linear; capsule small, bipartile. Ovolau. 



Ophiorhiza (No. 1); a congener of New Zealand sp. ? Herbaceous, a foot high, branch- 

 ing at the summit; leaves sub-verticillate, spatulate ; flowers terminal, solitary ; fruit 

 bilobed, or like two capsules united. In woods on Ovolau. 



(No. 2); a second species. The leaves and flowers larger. "Ovolau," Bracken- 

 ridge. 



(No. 3) ; a third species. 



Gen. Ophiorhizoid, (No. 1). Habit of the preceding genus; long, tubular, white flowers. 



Frequent in the forest on Ovolau. 

 Hedyotis nov. sp., (No. 2). Habit of Vahlia and Veronica scutellata; the leaves linear. 



Growing in marshes, near Kewa and elsewhere. 



? Lapeyrousii, (No. 3). Habit of Diodia and Spermacoce. Frequent. 



Gen. I.Yoroid, (No. 1); but the corolla 5-fid, the tube slender and white; leaves long- 



petioled. Ovolau, at the elevation of a thousand feet. 

 Gen. CoiFeac ? with a long, deciduous, intermediate stipule, (No. 1). Fr. solitary, rare. 



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

 Gen. Coff"eac., the calyx apparently 4-fid, (No. 1). A shrub ; leaves broad-lanceolate; a 



few-flowered, terminal panicle. On the mountain behind Muthuata. 

 Gen. (MussEendoid ?, No. 4) ; Coffeac. ? Leaves petioled, oblong, the nervures given off at 



right angles ; large, terminal, branching panicles ; calyx 5-fid ; corolla with five seg- 

 ments. (Ovolau.) 



Gen. Coffeac. ? with Calophyllum-like leaves, (No. 1). A tree, fifty feet high ; leaves 

 opposite, entire, Calophyllum-like ; the intermediate stipule large, and deciduous ; 

 berry pedicelled, pisiform or pea-like, green. Ovolau, growing along the sea-coast. 



Gen. Coffeac. ? dioecious ?, (No. 1). A shrub, six to eight feet high ; flowers minute, the 

 corolla dividing into four linear segments; two distinct stigmas, as in Urticaceaj, but 

 the fruit inferior. Muthuata, at the elevation of a thousand feet. 



Gen. Coffeac. ? Skinnera-Iike, (No. 1). Sub-herbaceous ; leaves lanceolate, entire, petioled ; 

 no flowers. On the mountain-summit behind Muthuata, at the elevation of two thou- 

 sand feet. 



(Shawia?, No. 1); gen. Eupatorioid, compare the New Zealand genus. A shrub, ten to 

 fifteen feet high; leaves alternate, ovate, sinuato-dentate ; flowers blue. On the moun- 

 tain-summit back of Muthuata, at the elevation of two thousand feet. 



(Lagenophora, No. 1); a congener of New Zealand sp. ? Bellis-like ; leaves lanceolate, 



to Samoa), was not seen under cultivation by myself; but was spoken of as occurring 

 on one of the outer islets of the Group. 

 Nicotiana tabacuin, (bis Metia to Tongatabu, and No. 6 North America). Introduced by 

 trading and colonial Whites ; but now planted in small patches around the dwellings 

 of the natives. Manufactured tobacco was everywhere in recjuest ; and pieces given 

 to the natives, served sometimes as a substitute for money. 



