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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



islet of Nukulau, and elsewhere on the sea-shore ; and found by Dr. Holmes on the 

 " Island of Fulari." 



Solanum ; compare (No. 4) Tongatabu; but smooth. Growing on a hill on the North 

 coast of Viti-levu ; and found by Dr. Holmes on the " Island of Lakemba." 



(No. 5) ; near the preceding. Suffruticose, spreading, one to two feet high ; leaves 



lanceolate, roughly toment. ; flowers and fruit rather small. Barren hills around 

 Muthuata. 



• (No. 6 ); also near the first ; compare S. verbascifolium. Muthuata. 



(No. 7). Base of the stem suffruticose ; smooth, lanceolate leaves; small flowers. 



"Rocks on Ovolau," Brackenridge. 

 Gren. Cestroid, (No. 2). A shrub, "ten feet high;" leaves ovate, alternate, entire; no 



flowers ; berries red. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 

 Grratiola (No. 1); flowers very small, white. Growing around a spring on the North 



coast of Viti-levu, and in similar situations elsewhere. 

 (No. 2) ; possibly a second species. Stems upright, weak, one to two feet high; 



leaves ovate, serrate, sessile. Growing among grass in a marsh at Naloa. 

 Ocymum; compare (No. 2) Manua, in the Samoan Group. Ovolau. 

 (Premna ; bis?, compare No. 1 Metia to Tongatabu). Leaves green on both sides, smooth, 



entire, broad, inequal, sometimes cordate at base, pubesc. petiol. On the low coral- 

 islet of Nukulau, and elsewhere. 

 ; apparently distinct, the leaves pubescent. Frequent along the sea-shore, and 



occurring also some distance inland. 

 Clerodendrura inerme; bis (No. 1 Samoa to Tongatabu). Growing near the sea-coast, 



but less abundantly than at Samoa and Tongatabu. 

 ; possibly a second species ?. Unarmed; the leaves larger and broader. On the 



mountains on Ovolau. 



Vitex ; bis (No. 1 Samoa to Tongatabu). Sometimes twenty feet high. Frequent along 

 the sea-shore ; the simple-leaved variety extending inland, on the hills of the Leeward 

 portion of the Group. 



Justicia (purpurea?, compare No. 1 Samoa). An ornamental shrub, six feet high, with 



purple flowers. Frequent; and sometimes cultivated. 

 nov. sp., (No. 2). A shrub, having the same habit, and six feet high; flowers 



pale blue. Base of the iriountains back of Mbua Bay ; rare. 

 Diciyptera ? (No. 1); flowers small. Ovolau. 



Plumbago (No. 2; compare No. 1 Taheiti). Suffruticose, trailing; flowers white, the 



petals acute. Growing at Mba. 

 Desmochaeta ; compare (No. 1 Taheiti to) Samoa. " Savu-.savu," Brackenridge. 



• ? (No. 2) ; compare the preceding sp. ; florets purplish. "Rewa," Rich. 



Polygonum nov. sp., (No. 2). Habit of P. persicaria; short spikes; glandular hairs on 



pedunc. Growing in marshes, at Rewa and elsewhere. 

 Cassyta; bis, compare (No. 1 Paumotuan coral-islands to Tongatabu). Growing at Rewa, 



and along the sea-shore. 



Leucas 10-dentatus, (bis Metia to Tongatabu). Frequent; having been introduced (by 

 • aboriginal settlers). 



Teucrioid ; bis (No. 1) Tongatabu. Calyx swelling; the calyx-teeth equal; apparently no 

 upper lip to the corolla. Growing in cultivated ground. 



