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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Scioplilla?; compare (No. 1 Metia to Samoa). Ovolau. 



(Epicarpurus, No. 2; recorded as) nov. gen. Elatostemoid ; a congener of the Samoan 

 sp. A tree sixty to seventy feet high ; flowers unibell. ; the fruit larger. On the 

 mountains on Ovolau. 



( ?, No. 3) ; perhaps congeneric with the preceding. A "small shnib," resembling 



a diminutive Ficus; leaves alternate, panduriforni, or irregularly incised, a deciduous 

 stipule at base ; fruit solitary, minute ; two styles. " On the North coast of Viti- 

 levu," Rich. 



Antiaris (No. 1) ; compare upas of Timor. " A tree, forty feet high ;" calyx pubescent, 

 open ; styles two, or a single one deeply furcate. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 



Ficus turbinata, Forst. ; bis (No. 6 Samoa to) Tongatabu. Frequent in woods. 



; compare F. turbinata, but pedunc, with two bracts at origin. Leaves large, 



inequally cordate, with strong nervures ; fruit dull-orange, as large as a cherry. 

 " Savusavu," Brackenridge. 



; bis (No. 7 Samoa to Tongatabu) ; the lofty species with the trunk consisting 



of entwined roots. Growing along the sea-shore ; single trees observed on the low 

 coral-islet of Nukulau, on the North coast of Viti-levu, and on the islet at Mu- 

 thuata. 



; compare (No. 9), the rambling tree of Tongatabu. Smooth inequilateral leaves, 



the under surface becoming rusty in drying; fruit long-pedunc. Growing near 

 Bewa. 



■ • (No. 10; compare No. 4 Samoa). A small tree; leaves inequally cordate at base, 



the under surface tomentose; fruit very tomentose, or setose. Ovolau. 

 (No. 11). A shrub; leaves rough, cordate at base; fruit oblong, covered with 



hairs. On the " mountains on Ovolau," Bich. 

 (No. 12). Four to seven feet high ; leaves inequally cordate at base, entirish, 



with a waved margin ; fruit peduncled, of the size of a small cherry, and proving edible. 



Frequent and indigenous, but growing often in cultivated ground. Ovolau, Mba, and 



elsewhere. 



(?). A shrub; leaves linear-lanceolate, with sometimes one auricle at base. 



"North coast of Viti-levu," Bich. 



(No. 13). A large-leaved tree, thirty feet high; fruit small, and on short pedi- 

 cels. (Ovolau). 



Nov. gen. near Ficus, (No. 1). A shrub; the fruit large, plaited, and purple. Frequent 

 in woods, on Ovolau and elsewhere. 



(No. 2); congeneric ?. Leaves one to two feet long; fruit inferior, with appear- 

 ances of five sepals and small petals ?. " Ovolau." Brackenridge. 



in diameter, planted near the mbure-house at Levuka. The pain, from the application 

 of the leaves, said to " recur for many days." 



Broussonetia (papyrifera, No. 1, bis Metia to Tongatabu). A frequent object of cultiva- 

 tion ; (having been introduced by aboriginal settlers). 



Artocarpus incisa ; bis (No. 1 Metia to Tongatabu). Cultivated, but as far as my own 

 observation extended, not very abundantly. The bread-fruit season took place while 

 Mr. Brackenridge remained at Ovolau ; and he informs me, that " the natives dis- 

 tinguish several varieties, some of them of superior quality." 



