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(No. 9); a second species. A shrub; smooth. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 



(No. 10); large leaved; long ferruginous wool. Ovolau. 



? (No. 11); long, obovate leaves; flowers in terminal clusters; calyx very large, 



enveloped with large bracts ; corolla slender, 6-fid. Ovolau. 

 Evolvulus (No. 1). Creeping; one to two feet long. On a rocky steep on the islet 



opposite Muthuata. 



(Pharbitis ?) ; compare (No. 1) Tongatabu. Large blue flowers. Ovolau. 



(Ipomoea) turpethum ? (bis No. 1 Metia to Tongatabu). Leaves roundish-cordate, 



acuminate; tube of the corolla broad and short. On the low coral-islet of Nukulau, 



and elsewhere on the sea-shore. 

 ■ ; perhaps distinct from the preceding ; the inflated calyx becoming fleshy. Mbua 



Bay, frequent in the open ground, even at a distance from the coast. 

 pes-capr£e (bis Brazil, and No. 2 Metia to Tongatabu). On maritime sands ; 



observed also on high ridges exposed to the sea-atmosphere. 

 ( No. 3), sp. nov. Leaves oblong, obtuse ; flowers small, white. Growing in 



marshes, near Rewa, and elsewhere ; frequent. 

 ( pes-tigridis ?, No. 4). Leaves deeply lobed, the lobes acute; flowers white. 



Growing at Mba. 



( , No. 5), sp. nov. Leaves cordate, acute; flowers in cymes, white. On the 



North coast of Viti-levu. 

 (Aniseia, No. 1). Leaves lanceolate; segments of the calyx decurrent on the peduncle; 



capsule 4-valved, 4-seeded. " Naloa," Rich. 

 Cordia; bis (No. 1) Tabeiti ? to Samoa. A tree, thirty to forty feet high ; leaves large, 



broad-ovate. On the low coral-islet of Nukulau, and elsewhere on the sea-shore. 



; possibly a second species; smaller, the leaves inequally ovate. Ovolau. 



Nov. gen. aspera; bis (No. 1) Samoa to Tongatabu; Cordia of Forster. The flowers 



inconspicuous. Ovolau, Rewa, and elsewhere. 

 Gen. incert. with 4-fid calyx, (No. 1). A tree ; leaves ovate, alternate, entire, penninerved, 



pubesc. pet. ; racemes below ; calyx 4-fid ; drupe of the size of a cherry, the rind 



hard, but containing a single, large, soft seed. Ovolau. 

 Gen. incert. Prunus-like, (No. 1). A stout shrub, having the habit of Prunus; leaves 



ovate, entire ; racemes of one-sided drupes, each containing a single seed or nut ; appa- 

 rently four stigmas. Ovolau. 

 (No. 2) ; a second species. A shrub ; leaves ovate, alternate, entire ; fruit in 



racemes, a drupe almost beaked from the persistent stigma, and apparently two-valved. 



Ovolau. 



Cordioid (No. 1), at least in habit; the leaves Tiliaceous and cordate, but opposite; ter- 

 minal cymes of very small flowers. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 

 Tournefortia (argentea, bis No. 1 Paumotuan coral-islands to Tongatabu). On the coral- 



(Curanga); bis (No. 1) Samoa. Gratiola-like ; but purple-flowered. Ovolau, growing in 

 wet taro-beds. 



Qcymum (sanctum?, No. 1, bis Taheiti to Samoa). David Whippy, a resident American, 

 claimed to have introduced this plant "from Taheiti." .We found it very generally 

 cultivated by the natives; who intimated, that the odor was disagreeable to them. 

 Also, observed by Dr. Holmes on the "Island of Munia." 



