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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



with furfuraeeous scales, and in many instances not viscous ; fruit greatly varying. 



From the sea-coast to the elevation of 6500 feet on Mauna Roa, and eight thousand 



feet on Mauna Haleakala. Growing also, on the mountains behind Honolulu. 

 (Perrottetia Sandwicensis of Gray, No. 1). Gen. Cissus-like, but a regular upright shrub ; 



5-fid calyx, and apparently a corolla ; fruit small, of four cells, each containing one 



rough seed. Frequent on the mountains behind Honolulu. 

 Gen. incert. (No. 1). A tree; leaves pinnate, bijugis, the leaflets entire; panicles, the fr. 



like a single pod of the four-fruited gen. (llutac), and containing one large shining 



seed. Tauai. 



Gen. Rutac. ? black-dotted, (No. 1). Woody; leaves narrow-obovate, black-dotted as in 

 Myrtaceas ; sepals four, in the bud or asstivation an outer pair enclosing an inner pair. 

 On the tabular summit of Tauai, about four thousand feet in elevation. 



Nov. gen. liutac, (Pelea of Gray, No. 1). A tree, twenty-five feet high ; leaves verti- 

 cillate in fours, obovate, obtuse, the midrib beneath dark ; fruit small, the carpels 

 2-seeded. On the mountains behind Honolulu ; also, in the district of Puna on Hawaii, 

 and in the forest on the North flank of Mauna Kea. 



, (No. 2) ; a second species. Eighteen feet high ; leaves opposite, the under surface 



somewhat shining, the midrib beneath white, the petioles persistent, having a tendency 

 to become woody ; fruit larger, and slightly carinate. "Between Pahuhali and Puna, 

 at the elevation of eight hundred to a thousand feet," Brackenridge. 



, ( No. 3) ; a third species. A spreading tree, forty feet high with the trunk two 



feet in diameter ; petioles and young twigs woolly ; leaves and fruit large. In the forest 

 on the North flank of Mauna Kea, growing at the elevation of from 4000 to 5500 feet. 



, (No. 4) ; a fourth species. An upright and nearly simple-stemmed shrub; leaves 



verticillate in threes, elongate, sessile, auriculate at base, the midrib whitish beneath ; 

 fruit rather small, subsessile along the old wood below the leaves. In the forest on the 

 North flank of Mauna Kea, growing at the elevation of about 3000 feet. 



, (No. 5) ; a fifth species. " A tree, twenty feet high, with the trunk eight or 



ten inches in diameter ;"" leaves opposite, narrow, obovate, short-petioled, twelve inches 

 by three ; fruit solitary, axillary. " Forest on the North flank of Mauna Kea, at the 

 elevation of 2000 feet," Brackenridge. 



, (No. 6); possibly distinct. An arborescent shrub; leaves opposite, small, genic- 

 ulate on the petiole. On the mountains behind Honolulu, frequent. 



■ ?, (No. 7) ; leaves opposite, oblong, entire, the under surface velutinous ; flowers 



in short axillary racemes; sepals four. Along the Southern base of Mauna Kaala. 



?, (No. 8 ;) perhaps not distinct from the last; long hairs on the under surface 



of the leaves. Tauai. 



Oxalis Dieppe. Flowers rose-colored. A weed in sugar plantations around Hilo ; intro- 

 duced, probably from the Mexican coast, by colonial Whites. 



Inocarpus edulis, (bis No. 1 Taheiti to the Feejee Islands). " In Mr. G. Wood's garden ; 

 having been brought from Taheiti" by colonial Whites, Brackenridge. 



Spondias dulcis, (bis No. 1 Taheiti to the Feejee Islands) ; the vi-plum. " In Mr. G. 

 Wood's garden ; having been brought from Taheiti" by colonial Whites, Brackenridge. 



Mangifera Indica, (bis Brazil); the mango. In a garden at Hilo; introduced by colonial 

 Whites. 



