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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Nov. gen. Coffcac, heptandrous, (No. 1 ). "A shrub, twelve to fifteen feet high leaves 

 broad-lanceolate, petioled ; stamens usually seven, and the corolla with seven divisions. 

 " Puna" on Hawaii, Brackenridge. 



(Oxyanthoid, No. 1); gen. Coffeac. Habit of Cyrtandra; "eight feet high;" large 

 calyx; flowers arising from the stem between the leaves. " Puna" on Hawaii, Brack- 

 enridge. 



( No. 2); Cofi"eac. ? Leaves ovate, pointed; stipule deciduous; berry crowned 



with four foliaceous rounded calyx-lobes; panic, axillary, few flowered. On the iMauna 

 Kaala ridge. 



Gen. Coff"eac., two-seeded, (No. 1). Leaves narrow-obovate, subse,ssile ; terminal cymes; 

 fruit rather large, attenuate at base. On the mountains behind Honolulu. — -Appa- 

 rently the same species, on the Southern flank of Mauna Kaala. 



Gen. Cofi'eac. ? with small coriaceous leaves, (No. 1). Woody ; leaves small, narrow-ellip- 

 tical ; small axillary peduncled cymes ; calyx apparently 5-fid. On the Southern flank 

 of Mauna Kaala. 



(Erithalis?, No. 2). Woody; leaves obovate, attenuate; the intermediate stipule decidu- 

 ous, leaving a line across the stem ; few-flowered axillary cymes, the middle one sessile ; 

 berry of nine cells, each containing a single seed. On the mountains behind Honolulu. 



Gen. Coffeac. with sheathing stipules, (No. 1). Woody; the stipules forming a persistent 

 sheath; leaves obovate, attenuate, with short hairs; racemes clustered, peduncled; 

 calyx deciduous, leaving a cicatrix ; berry containing two seeds. Tauai. 



(Guettarda No. 2). Twigs whitish; leaves oblong, smooth ; peduncled clustered racemes; 



■ berry crowned with persistent 5-9-fid calyx; and containing two seeds. Tauai. 



Gen. Coffeac. ? (dioecious?. No. 2); a congener of Peejeean sp.. Smooth Buxus-like 

 leaves; orange-colored fruit ; two long stigmas. In the environs of the Great Crater 

 and on Mauna Roa, from the elevation of 3500 to 6500 feet ; on Mauna Haleakala, 

 from the elevation of 5500 to 9000 feet. 



(No. 3); like the last, but the fruit beaked; leaves longer and more pointed. 



Growing in the environs of the Great Crater. — Compare the species observed on Tauai. 



(No. 4). Twenty feet high, with the trunk nine inches in diameter; pubescent; 



fruit orange-colored. In the environs of the Great Crater and in the forest on Mauna 

 Kea, or from the elevation of 4000 to 6700 feet. 



Dubautia (No. 1). A branching shrub, six to eight feet high ; leaves opposite, lanceo- 

 late, two inches long. Frequent at the elevation of 6700 feet, on Mauna Haleakala. — 

 Apparently the same species, on the mountains on Oahu. 



Morinda citrifolia, (bis No. 1 Paumotuan coral-islands to the Feejeean Group). Fre- 

 quent ; regularly cultivated on Tauai ; introduced by aboriginal settlers. 



(Geophila reniformis; No. 1, bis Taheiti to the Feejee Islands. Naturalized.) 



Gardenia florida, (No. 2). Koloa on Tauai ; introduced, and cultivated for ornament by 

 resident Whites. 



Coffea Arabica, (bis Brazil, Taheiti, and No. 1 Equatorial Africa). Cultivated to some 

 extent in the mountain-valleys on Oahu ; also near Hilo, and elsewhere ; introduced by 

 colonial Whites. 



(Manettia ?; recorded as) Manuleoid. A long woody vine ; flowers 4-fid, minute. In Rev. 

 Mr. Bishop's garden, at Ewa on Oahu; introduced by colonial Whites. 



