356 DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



attenuate, dentate, hairy. On the mountain summit behind Muthuata, at the elevation 

 of two thousand feet; rai-e. 



Conyza? (No. 2). A stout herbaceous plant, four to five feet high, and having the 

 habit of Cynoglossum and Verbascum ; leaves broad-lanceolate; flowers in a many- 

 branched panicle. Mountain behind Muthuata, at the elevation of fifteen hundred feet. 



Bidens nov. sp. (No. 1). Leaves mostly radical, pinnatifidly incised, multitid; flowers 

 very small, bright yellow, the rays minute. Barren hills around Muthuata. — Compare 

 the pseudo-Umhellif. of the North coast of Viti-levu, Torilis-like, herbaceous, decum- 

 bent, the leaves dissected, and the segments linear. 



Scsevola; bis (No. 1 Paumotuan coral-islands to Tongatabu). A shrub, six to ten feet 

 high. Growing along the sea-shore, and on the low coral-islet of Nukulau. 



nov. sp., (No. 2). Six feet high; leaves lanceolate, denticulate; terminal pani- 

 cles; flowers small. In clearings near Rewa. — Perhaps the same species, the leaves 

 obianceolate, sinuato-dentate ; growing on " Ovolau, at the elevation of a thousand 

 feet," Brackenridge. 



(Cyathodes, No. 2). An Epacrideous shrub, six to eight feet high; fruit on fleshy white 



clavate pedicels. Seen only at Mbua Bay, growing not more than two hundred feet 



above the level of the sea. 

 Gen. Myrsin. Myrica-like, (No. 3); compare Taheiti to Samoa. Bushy, fifteen to twenty 



feet high ; leaves alternate, oblong, entire ; calyx 4-fid ; style single ; berries solitary, 



containing one large seed. On the mountain-summit behind Muthuata, at the eleva- 

 tion of two thousand feet. 

 (iMyrsine ? No. 1 ; recorded as) gen. Myrsin. Woody ; the leaves alternate, entire, opaque, 



dotted ; fruit long-pedicelled, marked with lines. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 

 ( ? No. 2); apparently a second species ; larger leaves; axillary panicles. "On 



mountain-summits on Ovolau, at the elevation of 2000 feet," Brackenridge. 

 Maesa ; compare (No. 1 Samoa to Tongatabu). Leaves oblong-ovate, entire ; calyx 5-fid ; 



corolla monophyllous ; capsule mostly inferior, one-celled, but the many seeds separated 



apparently by partitions. North coast of Viti-levu. 

 ? (No. 2); compare also Porana. A weak shrub; pubescent; leaves alternate, 



cordate, denticulate; terminal, many-flowered panicles; corolla monophyllous, 5-fid. 



Muthuata, at the elevation of a thousand feet. 

 (No. 3); apparently a third species. Leaves alternate, broad-lanceolate; racemes 



panicled; flowers very small. Mbua Bay. 

 Maba ; apparently the same with Samoa sp., (compare also Tongatabu). On the North 



coast of Viti-levu. 



nov. sp., (No. 3) ; a third species. Ten to fifteen feet high, bushy and leafy; 



Physalis; bis (Taheiti to Tongatabu). Low, smooth. Growing in cultivated ground; 



having been introduced (by aboriginal settlers). 

 (edulis, bis Taheiti to Tongatabu, and compare No. 7 Chili and Peru) ; the 



Cape-gooseberry ; the plant pubescent. Introduced ; observed in various localities, and 



by Dr. Holmes on the " Island of Lakemba." 

 Sulanum repandum, (No. 1, bis Taheiti to Samoa). Sometimes seen regularly cultivated ; 



proving productive; the fruit hairy, but the flavor agreeable. (Introduced by aboriginal 



settlers). 



