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the leaves sessile, obtuse, roundish or oblong-elliptical, cordate at base ; fruit short 

 toment. On the mountain-summit back of Muthuata, at the elevation of 2000 feet. 



? (No. 4). "A shrub, with few, slender branches;" hairy; leaves broad-lanceo- 

 late, subcordate at base, subsessile. "Deep woods on Ovolau," Brackenridge. 



(No. 5); a fourth species, seeming distinct from the last. " A tree, fifteen feet 



high the leaves smooth, and more coriaceous. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 



(No. 5) ; a fifth species. A bush ; under surface of the leaves pubescent; flowers 



very small. Growing in open ground, at Mbua Bay. 



Jasminum Australe ; bis (No. 4) Tongatabu. Simple-leaved. 



; bis (No. 5) Tongatabu. Young stems pi^berulous ; leaves trifoliolate; flowers 



small, the tube of the corolla short ; smaller fruit. At Mba. 



Gen. Jasmin. ? (No. 1). A shrub, six to ten feet high ; leaves opposite, entire, acumi- 

 nate; calyx terminating in four long segments, and splitting laterally to expose the berry; 

 no mark of a style. On the mountain-summit (back of Muthuata), at the elevation of 

 2000 feet. 



Gen. Oleac. ? (No. 1). " A tree, forty feet high;" the leaves large, opposite, entire, obo- 

 vate, petioled ; drupe an inch long, like an olive but rough. "Ovolau," Bracken- 

 ridge. 



(Strychnos ?, No. ,1). A vine, Ripogonum-like ; leaves opposite, trinerved, ovate, entire, 

 smooth ; fruit orange-colored, inferior ?, of the size of a plum. In the Sandal-wood Dis- 

 trict. 



Alyxia ; compare (No. 5 Samoa to Tongatabu). Fruit short, broad, moniiiform. On 



the North coast of Viti-levu ; and also at Muthuata. 

 ; compare (No. 7) Tongatabu. A vine ; large-fruited. In woods on Ovolau, 



frequent. 



(No. 8); a congener of the last. A woody vine; leaves verticillate in threes; 



berries smaller, single, or sometimes in pairs. Naloa. 

 Melodinus ? ; bis (No. 1) Tongatabu. The stem white, climbing ; drupes geminate, 



elongate, of the size of a plum. On the mountains back of Mbua Bay, at the elevation 



of fifteen hundred feet. 

 (Tylophora ?, No. 2) ; gen. Cynanchum-like, or compare Hoya. Cordate leaves ; green 



flowers ; beaked fruit. On the North coast of Viti-levu. 

 Hoya; compare Samoa. Leaves broad. Neither abundant. 



(No. 4). Smaller ; the leaves more pointed ; " flowers flesh-colored. Ovolau," 



Brackenridge. 



Cynanchum? (No. 1); with small, purplish flowers. Growing at Mba. — Apparently the 

 same species, with broad-ovate leaves, small greenish and brown flowers, and long fol- 

 licles, found on " Ovolau" by Mr. Brackenridge. 



(No. 8). Habit of the preceding, and of S. melongena ; calyx small ; flowers 



white, and rather small ; fruit as large as an apple, white with a purplish tinge while 

 unripe, afterwards becoming yellow and edible ; usually cooked, but pleasant to the 

 taste in the crude state. Naloa and Muthuata ; cultivated by the natives. (Seeds 

 were carried by the Expedition to the Hawaiian Islands, and to the United States; 

 but the fruit was found to take a long time in ripening, and was produced very spar- 

 ingly). 



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