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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Gen. Apocyn. (No. 1). A vine ; leaves broad-lanceolate; no flowers. " Ovolau," Brack- 

 enridge. 



(Alstonia ?, No. 4) ; Amsonioid ; a fourth species. A small tree, twenty to twenty-five 

 feet high ; the leaves large and broad. On the barren upland at Mbua Bay and 

 Naloa, frequent. 



( ) ; perhaps distinct; the leaves smaller and narrower. 



( , No. 5) ; seeming distinct, a fifth species. A shrub ; smaller leaves, and small 



flowers. On mountain-summits on Ovolau, at the elevation of 2000 feet. 

 Cerbera ; compare (No. 1 Taheiti to) Samoa ; but the leaves seeming more lanceolate. 



A small tree, ten to fifteen feet high ; white bracts. Growing in open ground, often 



at a distance from the sea-coast. 



; bis (No. 3) Tongatabu; obtuse fruit. Littoral, growing along the sea-shore. 



parviflora ; bis (No. 4 ) Tongatabu. Growing along the sea-shore, occasionally or 



at intervals. 



Gen. Cerberoid, (No. 1). A tree, twenty-five feet high; leaves a foot long, verticillate ; 



long pedunc. below leaves, the flowers in elongate capit., each surrounded by bracts. 



Ovolau, at the elevation of sixteen hundred feet. 

 (Tabernajmontana, No. 2) ; seeming distinct from the Tongatabu sp. A shrub, three to 



five feet high. Frequent on the Leeward portion of the group. 

 Gen. Nerioid, (No. 1). An ornamental tree, fifty to sixty feet high; flowers tubular, large, 



white. On the mountains on Ovolau, at the elevation of a thousand feet ; rare. No 



specimens. 



Gen. Cynanchoid, (No. 1). A shrub, three to five feet high, something of the habit of 

 Hovenia; leaves linear; flowers small, greenish-brown. On the barren upland around 

 Muthuata. 



Geniostoma; compare (No. 4j Tongatabu; having the same powerful coprosmoid odor. 



Mbua Bay, Naloa, and elsewhere ; rather frequent. 

 (No. 5) ; perhaps a second species. Twenty feet high, with longer leaves ; not 



fetid. Islet at Naloa ; also at Muthuata, and elsewhere. 

 Labordia? (No. 4). Six feet high; leaves smaller than in Tongatabu sp. Rewa ?, and 



also at Mbua Bay. 



Gen. incert. ; (Couthovia of Gray?, No. 1). A tree, forty feet high; leaves opposite, 4 

 inches by 2 J, entire, sheathing at base; terminal corymbs; calyx minute, 5-fid ; drupe 

 elongate, contracted or stipitate at base, apiculate with the style. Ovolau. 



(Fagrgea ?, No. 1) ; gen. Bignonia-like. An ornamental tree, twenty-five feet high ; leaves 

 opposite, entire, petioled ; terminal spreading cymes of cream-coloi'cd, Bignonia-like 

 flowers; corolla infundibuliform, 5-lobed; five stamens, two of them longer. In the 

 Sandal-wood District. 



Cyrtandra (No. 8). Ovolau. 



nigrum? (bis Taheiti to Samoa, and compare No. 28 California, Chili, and Peru). 



At the village of Levuka on Ovolau ; introduced. 

 Capsicum (frutescens ; bis Taheiti to Tongatabu, and No. 4 Peru). The fruit seen at 



Levuka, on Ovolau. Introduced, probably by trading and colonial Whites. 

 Lindernia (No. 1, bis Taheiti to Samoa) ; the flowers blue. Frequent in pathways, and 



similar situations ; apparently introduced. 



