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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



in diameter; the young leaves sometimes serrate ; cal. generally 6-fid ; stigmas in a linear 

 series on the summit of the young fruit. Oahu ; also at Hilo, and in the environs of 

 the G-reat Crater, and elsewhere; frequent. 

 ; possibly distinct; the leaves narrower, witli the petioles longer. On the moun- 

 tains on Oahu. 



Gen. incert. with 4-fid calyx, (No. 1); habit of Laurus, but the stamens and petals four. 

 A tree, " twenty-five to thirty feet high ;" leaves alternate or sometimes sub-opposite, 

 oblong, acute at each end; style single; drupe of the size of a cherry, blue, containing 

 a hard nut. On the "North flank of Mauna Kaala," llich and Brackenridge ; observed 

 also on South flank. 



Gouanioid (No. 1). A rambling shrub, with tendril-like woody branches; leaves cordate, 

 penninerved, serrate ; fruit trialate when ripe, trivalved, crowned with the 5-fid calyx. 

 On the Southern flank of Mauna Kaala. 



(G-ouania ?, No. 2) ; Rhamnoid, but apparently polygamous. Sub-herbaceous, upright and 

 simple, a foot high ; minute petals ; fruit trigonal, Croton-like, but crowned with the 

 calyx. In the submaritime sands of Tauai, and of the low isthmus on Maui. 



( ) ; possibly distinct ; the leaves smaller and smoother; fruit trigonal, crowned with 



the calyx. In dry woodland, on the Southern flank of Mauna Kaala. 



Gen. incert. (No. 1) ; Cassuvioid in habit. A spreading tree, forty feet high, with the trunk 

 two and a half feet in diameter ; leaves alternate, entire, reticulate, pointed, petioled, 

 the upper surface shining ; the drupe has rudiment or spur at base, as in Sapind. ?, 

 and contains one large seed, without shell. On the Southern flank of the 3Iauna 

 Kaala ridge. 



Rhus nov. sp., (No. 4). A shrub, four to ten feet high; habit of R. glabra; leaves 

 Juglans-like and deciduous, but first turning yellow and becoming conspicuous in the 

 distance. On Oahu ; and frequent on North side of Hawaii. 



Agati (No. 1). Trailing, for fifteen to twenty feet, but sometimes becoming a small tree ; 

 flowers not half the size of the cultivated variety, on some stocks yellow, on others 

 orange-colored or even altogether scarlet. On the sea-coast " South of the Great 

 Crater," Brackenridge; and along the Southern base of JMauna Kaala. 



Dolichos (bis No. 1 Taheiti to the Feejee Islands). Maritime; frequent along the sea-shore. 



? nov. sp., (No. 2 j ; leaves reticulate on both sides, the leaflets linear; flowers 



yellow, and rather large ; the root said to be edible. On Tauai ; also on the Leeward 

 side of West Maui ; and at the elevation of four thousand feet between the Great 

 Crater and the upper base of Mauna Roa. 



a path in the middle of the forest on Mauna Kea, " to attract the birds by the different 

 aspect of the foliage." The tree had not produced flowers; as it does in its indigenous 

 state in the pastoral region above. 



Phaseolus amcenus; bis (No. 1 Taheiti to the Feejee Islands, and compare No. II Peru). 

 Frequent on Oahu ; (having been introduced by aboriginal settlers). 



Lablab (vulgaris ; No. 1), bis Feejee Islands. Flowers in long spikes, white ; leaflets del- 

 toid, and having stipels or lesser stipules. Naturalized along the river-bank at Hanalei 

 in Tauai, also on Oahu, and elsewhere; having been introduced by aboriginal settlers. 

 — The ornamental purple-flowered variety seen at Koloa on Tauai, had been introduced 

 by colonial Whites. 



