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Tiibulus cistoides, (No. 1). In the Desert environs of Honolulu, and in some other 

 Desert-like spots; in the middle of November, covering the ground with flowers like 

 Ranunculus. 



Pittosporum (No. 5) ; under surface of the leaves woolly. Mauna Roa, to the elevation 

 of 6500 feet. — The same species perhaps, growing at the elevation of a thousand feet 

 on the lava-covered Southeast portion of Hawaii. 



(No. 6); perhaps distinct from the last; the leaves smooth, obovate ; fr. corru- 

 gate. On the mountain-ridge behind Honolulu on Oahu. — Apparently the same spe- 

 cies, found by Mr. Brackenridge "near the sea-coast South of Lua-Peli," having the 

 fruit smoother, the seeds rough. 



(No. 7). Twenty feet high, with the trunk a foot in diameter; flowers odorous, 



corymbose, and rather ornamental. On the North flank of Mauna Haleakala on Maui, 

 to the elevation of 6700 feet. 



(No. 8) ; leaves smooth, lanceolate, pointed ; cymes pedunc, below axils ; cap- 

 sule 2-valved. On the mountains behind Honolulu. 



? (No. 9) ; leaves narrow, smooth, upright at the end of the branches ; no 



flowers. On the mountain-ridge behind Honolulu, at the elevation of two thousand 

 feet. 



? (No. 10) ; leaves obovate, obtuse, attenuate ; fruit small, terminal, compressed, 



2-valved. On the Mauna Kaala ridge. 



Gen. Pittosporoid ? (No. 1). A tree, forty feet high ; leaves very large, pointed, the under 

 surface arachnoideo-tomentose; no flowers. On the "North flank of Mauna Kaala," 

 Rich and Brackenridge. 



Gen. Chrysophylloid, (No. 1). A tree, "thirty to forty feet high;" leaves alternate, 

 entire, smooth, long-petioled ; no flowers. On the "North flank of Mauna Kaala," 

 Rich and Brackenridge. 



, (No. 2) ; a second species. Smoother, and the petioles longer; fruit of the size 



of a small apple, and apparently two large seeds; five short rounded sepals at base. On 

 the Mauna Kaala ridge. 



?; compare the preceding. The leaves alternate, smooth, reticulate, coriaceous, 



petioled ; five sepals ; apparently more than one stigma, the pomum ? of one cell, con- 

 taining two seeds. Tauai. 



Nov. gen. hexandra, (No. 1) ; Ilex of Hooker. Usually a shrub, but at the upper mar- 

 gin of the forest on Mauna Kea becoming a tree, forty feet high, with the trunk two feet 



Indigofera (compare Taheiti to Samoa, and No. 25 Peru) ; a shrub. Abundantly natu- 

 ralized around Honolulu, Hilo, and elsewhere ; said to have been introduced within the 

 memory of resident Whites. 



Tephrosia piscatoria, (No. 1, bis Metia to the Feejee Islands). Abundantly naturalized in 

 the open ground ; having been introduced by aboriginal settlers. In former times, 

 sprigs were " placed in crevices of the coral-bottom to attract the fish." 



Desmodium (No. 6) ; a low white-flowered species. Naturalized around Honolulu ; and 

 found on Hawaii by Mr. Rich; said to have been "brought from America." 



Agati grandiflora, (No. 2). The usual large-flowered kind cultivated in gardens, having 

 been introduced from abroad by colonial Whites. 



Edwardsia (No. 1). A single mamani tree, " planted by the birdcatchers" at the fork of 



