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G-en. Neottioid ; compare (No. 1 Samoa). Two to three feet high ; acute leaves ; green 

 flowers. Near Rewa, and elsewhere. 



; compare (No. 2) Samoa. Leaves with a white midrib ; small flowers. On 



the mountains on Ovolau. 



Gen. near Neott., (No. 1). Humble, only six inches high, and tenderly herbaceous; flowers 

 rather large, yellowish-white, a sack at the base. Frequent on the mountains on Ovolau, 

 from the elevation of one thousand feet to that of two thousand. 



, (No. 2) ; perhaps a second species, more hairy. On mountain-summits on Ovo- 

 lau, at the elevation of two thousand feet. 



Pterocheilus, (compare No. 1 Samoa to Tongatabu). Leaves inequilateral. Ovolau. 



Nervilia; bis (No. 1) Samoa to Tongatabu. Ovolau, and elsewhere. 



Nov. gen. Malaxis-like, (No. 1). Two to two and a half feet high ; four or five leaves at 

 the base of the stem ; flowers small, yellowish-green. Naloa. 



Bletia ; bis (No. 1) Samoa to Tongatabu. In clearings, and elsewhere ; frequent. 



(No. 2); possibly distinct; the flowers paler, whitish. Growing on the mountain- 

 summit behind Muthuata, from the elevation of fifteen hundred feet to that of two 

 thousand. Figured by Mr. Agate. 



Gen. Orchioid, with axillary racemes; bis (No. 1) Tongatabu. Frequent on Ovolau. 



Gen. Orchioid, with nodding racemes; compare (No. 1) Tongatabu. Large purple flowers; 

 capsule elongate, sulcate. The specimen, dropped by some native, was found by Mr. 

 Peale in the pathway at Naloa. 



Calanthe (No. 2) ; compare Tongatabu ; but seeming distinct. Leaves two feet long ; 

 flowers very large, no spur. "Ovolau," Brackenridge ; and at Mbua Bay. 



Gen. Habenarioid, (No. 1). Three feet high; leaves lanceolate ; flowers with a long spur; 

 filaments perhaps belonging to lower lip. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 



Dendrobium-like, but growing on the ground ; bis (No. 1) Tongatabu. Leaf-stalk bulbous 

 at base, flower-stem separate. Ovolau. 



Gen. Fernandesioid, (No. 1). Growing on the ground; leaves striate ; bifarious bracts. 

 "Ovolau," Brackenridge. 



Robiquetia (No. 1). Remarkable in this Tribe for being a vine, climbing like Freycinetia 

 around the trunks of trees. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 



Gen. " Vanda-like," (No. 1). Flower-stem opposite to leaves; branched spikes; acute- 

 ribbed fruit. " Ovolau," Brackenridge. 



Canna (Indica); bis (Taheiti to Tongatabu, and No. 1 Brazil and Lower Peru); scarlet- 

 flowered. Cultivated for ornament; said to have been introduced by trading and 

 colonial Whites; and in fact, the plant was termed " papalangi" or "a foreigner" by 

 the natives. 



Zingiber (zerumbet, No. 1); bis Samoa (to Tongatabu). In pathways and cultivated 

 ground. 



Curcuma ; bis (No. 1 Taheiti to Tongatabu). Growing often in wild situations ; as on 



the hills of the North side of Viti-levu. 

 Musa paradisica; bis (No. 1 Metia to Tongatabu); the banana. Abundantly cultivated; 



(having been introduced by aboriginal settlers). 

 ; a distinct variety, or perhaps species ?. Leaves appendiculate or caudate, the 



