AFRO-INDIAN REGIONS. 



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Urtica ? (No. 3). Stinging; two to four feet high, frutescent, the stems purple; leaves 

 coarsely toothed. Mbua Bay, and elsewhere. No specimens. 



Gen. Urticac. Acalyphoid ; bis (No. 1) Samoa ; habit of Acalypha, but (Urticaceous seed ). 

 Annual, herbaceous, a foot high. Rewa, and elsewhere ; growing in cultivated ground. 



Gen. Urticoid, (No. 3. ; compare No. 1 Taheiti). Woody; leaves with the under surface 

 white toment. ; axillary small panicles or cymes. Ovolau. 



Urticoid ; compare (No. 1) Samoa. A shrub, eight to twelve feet high ; leaves inequally- 

 paired, a large leaf with a small one, alternately compensating ; axillary fascicles. Fre- 

 quent on Ovolau. 



Boehmeria (No. 6). Six to ten feet high.; leaves trinerved, inequilateral ; aments two 

 feet to three and a half feet long. On the mountains on Ovolau, at the elevation of 

 fifteen hundred feet. 



■ (No. 7). Ten to fifteen feet high ; leaves broad-ovate, sub-cordate ; capit. in long 



aments. Muthuata, at the elevation of one thousand feet. 

 ? (No. 8). A shrub; trinerved leaves; long compound racemes. "'Ovolau," 



Brackenridge. 



(No. 9). " Twenty feet" high; leaves large, cordate, reticulate, pubescent ; anient 



of glomerul. " Savu-.savu," Brackenridge. 

 Boehmeria-like, but the leaves alternate, (No. 1). Leaves petioled ; aments consisting of 



strings of capit. " Island of Fulari/' Dr. Holmes. 

 Procris ? (No. 4). " A shrub ;" leaves larger than in the next plant, long-petioled, the 



under surface white ; flowers panicled. "Ovolau," Brackenridge. 

 (Gen. Morus-like) ; bis (No. 1) Samoa to Tongatabu. Frequent; the leaves, mixed and 



infused with those of Sida and Convolvulus pes-capraj, are " used by the natives to 



procure abortion." 

 Celtis ; compare (No. 3) Tongatabu. Leaves pubescent and scabrous. 

 (No. 4). " Twenty feet" high ; white pubescence on petioles and young stems ; 



fruit subsessile. " Savu-savu," Brackenridge. 

 Gen. Urticac. (with Sterculioid leaves) ; bis (No. 1) Tongatabu. A thick-stemmed low 



tree, thirty feet high with the trunk two feet in diameter, and a few coarse branches ; 



leaves smooth, long-petioled, subcordate, entire; flowers minute, in peduncled cymes at 



end of the branches; stamens four. North side of Viti-levu; growing on the sea-shore, 



and clearly indigenous. 

 Piper ; compare (No. 4 Samoa to) Tongatabu. A shrub, three to five feet high ; leaves 



cordate, with about seven nervures ; the young spikes white. Ovolau, and elsewhere ; 



frequent. 



(No. 7). A vine ; the flowers not seen. Climbing among forest trees on Ovolau, 



but not very conspicuous. — Apparently the same species at Muthuata, the leaves broad, 

 subcordate. 



; bis Samoa. The variety with undivided leaves is well known to the Feejeeans, and 



was seen under cultivation at Muthuata and in other places ; owing perhaps to interme- 

 diate varieties, the line of separation was not as well-defined as in the Samoan Islands ; 

 but the leaves continued mostly entire. 



Piper (methysticum ; bis No. G Samoa to Tongatabu); the cava pepper. Hoots stored 

 by the natives ; the plant not seen in the living state. * 



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