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Acalypha (No. 2). A shrub, " six to eight feet high ;" leaves broad-ovate, serrate, deep 



red; spikes pedunc. "In cultivated ground near Rewa," Rich. 



(No. 3); leaves broad-lanceolate, softly pubesc. Rewa, and elsewhere; frequent. 



(No. 4) ; leaves broad-cordate. On the low coral-islet of Nukulau. 



(No. 5). A shrub ; leaves round-cordate, deeply crenate, purplish. Levuka, on 



Ovolau. 



(No. 6) ; compare the last sp., but more pubescent. " Island of Oneata," Dr. 



Holmes. 



(No. 7). A "shrub, twelve feet high;" leaves very tomentose, almost lanate, 



on both sides. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 



? (No. 8) ; compare Urticaceaj ?. Leaves alternate, petioled, broad-lanceolate, ser- 

 rulate; aments small, axillary. Growing at Mba. 



Excsecaria; bis (No. 1) Tongatabu. Dense aments. Frequent along the sea-shore. 



Croton ? (No. 1). " Thirty feet high;" leaves broad-lanceolate, petioled ; fruit small 

 and numerous, tomentose, in axillary racemes. " Ovolau, at the elevation of fifteen 

 hundred feet," Brackenridge. 



? (No. 2) ; perhaps a second species ; smooth. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 



Gen. Crotonoid, (No. 1). A shrub ; leaves broad-lanceolate, sinuato-.serrate, cordate or 

 auriculate at base ; dioecious ? ; the male flowers clustered at intervals on long filiform 

 racemes. Ovolau. 



(No. 2); congeneric with the last. A shrub; leaves ovate, long-petioled ; 



minute spikes. Ovolau. 

 Gen. Croton-like, with sub-opposite leaves, (No. 1). Arborescent, four to twenty feet high ; 



leaves sub-opposite, petioled, cordate, the under surface white. Frequent on the Leeward 



portion of the Group. 



' — (No. 2); a second species? A shrub ; leaves opposite, or verticillate in threes, 



ovate, acute, petioled. On the mountain-summit behind Muthuata, at the elevation of 

 two thousand feet. 



Gen. Antidesmoid? (No. 3). " A tree, twenty feet high," the young branches pubescent; 



leaves alternate, ovate, acuminate, integerrim. ; long-branched racemes or panicles 



arising from the old wood ; sepals four ?, petals none. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 

 Elatostema (No. 7); a seventh species. Much branched; leaves small, with large crena- 



tures. On the mountains on Ovolau, at the elevation of fifteen hundred feet. 

 (macrophylla. Lesson ?, No. 8); an eighth species. Resembling New Zealand sp. ; 



leaves large, pilose. Frequent on the mountains on Ovolau. 

 (No. 9); a ninth species. Shrubby; leaves short, rather entire, hirtell.; capit. 



axillary. Ovolau. 



■ (No. 10). Habit of New Zealand sp., but the flowers panicled. Ovolau. 



? (No. 2). Ten feet high; the leaves scattered, more linear, a foot long by 



three-fourths of an inch wide, the foliaceous substance interrupted at intervals to the 

 midrib; no flowers. Ovolau, in cultivated ground ; introduced (by aboriginal settlor.s). 



Ficus ; bis (No. 8 Samoa to) Tongatabu. A tree, thirty to fifty feet high, with orange- 

 colored pisiform fruit. Planted around dwellings, Naloa, Ovolau, and elsewhere. 



Gen. Urticac, the stinging tree, (compare No. 1 Samoa). Entirely smooth ; the leaves 

 large, ovate, serrate. A single spreading tree, thirty feet high, with the trunk a foot 



