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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



pedunclcd, few-flowevcd racemes ; berry as large as a cherry, crowned with the fleshy 

 calyx, and containing two or three large seeds. " On the uiountains behind Hono- 

 lulu," Brackenridge. 



(Gen. Myrtoid, No. 2); perhaps a congener of lax-growing Feejeean sp. "A lax-grow- 

 ing undershrub ;" thin broad leaves, no flowers. "On the mountains behind Hono- 

 lulu," Brackenridge. — Apparently the same species at the elevation of 2000 feet on 

 these mountains, a shrub, the leaves obovate, and axillary peduncled cymes. 



Metrosideros (No. 4) ; very woolly, and turning yellowish in drying ; leaves very broad, 

 cordate at base. Seeming almost peculiar to the lava-covered Mauna Eoa and country 

 around the Great Crater; growing at the elevation of from r200 to 7500 feet. 



; perhaps only a variety of the last; growing intermingled, entirely smooth, and 



the leaves cordate at base. 



(No. 5) ; compare the first sp. Under surface of the leaves woolly ; and very large 



flowers. "Summit of the mountain-ridge behind Honolulu, on the West side of the 

 gap," Brackenridge. 



(No. 6); leaves narrow at base, elliptical, smooth; fruit larger and "more free" 



than in the first sp. " South of the Great Crater," Brackenridge 



nov. sp., (No. 7); the "ohia;" the leaves smooth, elliptical, but somewhat atten- 

 uate at base ; flowers incanous and woolly. A large tree, somewhat resembling an oak; 

 two kinds were pointed out by resident Whites, as " difl'ering in the leaves and quality 

 of the wood," but I could perceive no specific distinction. In company with Acacia 

 heterophylla, constituting the forest on the Windward flank of Mauna Kea. — Appa- 

 rently the same species, growing on Tauai. 



nov. sp., (No. 8 ) ; small Buxus-like leaves ; flowers small, woolly. " On the 



mountains behind Honolulu, near Mr. llooke's residence," Brackenridge. 



nov. sp., (No. 9); smooth large leaves, long petioles; fruit large and smooth. 



"On the mountains West of the gap behind Honolulu," Brackenridge. 



; leaves small, broad, penninerved but rugose, the under surface woolly and ferru- 

 ginous. Mountains behind Honolulu, at the elevation of 2000 feet. 



nov. sp., (No. 10). A lax-growing shrub, with smooth lanceolate leaves. On the 



mountains behind Honolulu. 



(Sicyocarya, No. 1) ; Sicyos of f looker. Leaves often deeply lobed, the lobes about five, 

 acute. On the Mauna Kaala ridge ; also near the upper margin of the forest on Mauna 

 Kea, at the elevation of six thousand feet. 



Nov. gen. Cucurb., (No. 1). Fruit clustered in threes, externally Cucumis-like, but the 



Aniygdalus Persica, (bis United States, Bio Janeiro, Chili, and No. 1 Northern Asia); 



the peach. According to Kev. Mr. Baldwin, " the fruit has not been known to ripen ; 



and the tree, planted at Karakakoa Bay, becomes evergreen, and will not flower unless 



artificially stripped of its leaves." Seen under cultivation at Hilo, and elsewhere. 

 Jussiaja angustifolia ? ( compare, according to the account by Gray, No. 14 Peru). Oahu, 



Hilo, and elsewhere, growing in taro ponds and marshy ground; seeming at home, but 



perhaps introduced. 



Psidium (bis Taheiti, and No. 4 Brazil and Peru); the guava. Hardly succeeding 

 beyond the District of Hilo, on the North coast of Hawaii. Introduced by colonial 

 Whites. 



