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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



? (No. 8) ; abnormal. Leaves hispid, or covered with small prickles; axillary or 



infra-axillary racemes ; divisions of the calyx at first short and obtuse, afterwards 

 enlarging and becoming foliaceous; flowers long and curved. On the mountains be- 

 hind Honolulu, at the elevation of two thousand feet. 



? (No. 9); abnormal. Woody, eight feet high ; leaves lanceolate, petioled, two 



and a half feet in length ; flowers rather small, crowded in woolly capit. at ends of the 

 long leafy peduncled infra-axillary raceme. On the mountains behind Honolulu. 



? (No. 10) ; abnormal. Simple; leaves hairy on both sides, obovate, acute at each 



end, eleven inches by five and a half, crenulate ; horizontal rigid infra-axillary racemes 

 along the stem below the leaves; flowers several, and very small, not more than three- 

 fourths of an inch in length, " greyish-blue. In the forest on Mauna Kea, at the ele- 

 vation of about two thousand feet," Brackcnridge. 



? (No. 11) ; habit of the last species, but entirely smooth ; leaves obovate, acute 



at each end, entire, fifteen inches long by five and a half wide; the flowers fewer, not 

 expanded. " Forest on the North flank of Mauna Kea," Brackenridge. 



? (No. 12) ; abnormal. Woody, one to two feet high; leaves crowded, petioled» 



obovate, with distant serratures; flowers solitary, axillary, large, yellow. On the moun- 

 tain ridge behind Honolulu, at the elevation of 2500 feet. 



? (No. 13) ; abnormal. Six feet high, branching ; flowers large, blue, in two to 



three-flowered axillary racemes. Upper base of Mauna Roa, at the elevation of about 

 4000 feet. 



? (No. 14) ; abnormal. Simple, upright, five feet high ; leaves undulated or 



waved on the margin, one to two feet long, less prickly than in the next species, and 

 the prickles nearly disappearing in drying; axillary few-flowered racemes; capsule tur- 

 binate, truncate. " Puna" on Plawaii, Brackenridge. 



? (No. 15) ; abnormal; a second prickly species. Stem very prickly ; the young 



stocks with prickly and bi-pinnatilobed leaves, resembling those of some Solanums, and 

 in this state the plant was not seen in flower. The flowering form had entire leaves- 

 In the forest on Mauna Kea, and elsewhere. 



? (No. 16); abnormal. "Five feet high," branching ; leaves broad-lanceolate, 



crenate towards the apex ; axillary racemes of a few large green flowers. " Pahuhali," 

 near the course of the new lava-stream, Brackenridge. 



? (No. 17); abnormal. "Ten feet high," branching; leaves broad-lanceolate, 



crenulate ; axillary racemes of a few small blue flowers. Woods at the elevation of 1800 

 feet a little " below the saw-mill near Hilo," Brackenridge. 



? (No. 18) ; abnormal. A "branching shrub, eight feet high ;" leaves obovate, 



Cordia; bis (No. 1 Taheiti to the Feejee Islands), Gardner's coral-i,sland, and Wake's coral- 

 island. Planted around the dwellings of the natives, in the village of Kaimo and else- 

 where; introduced by aboriginal settlers. 



Heliotropium Curassavicum ? (bis No. 8 Oregon, California, United States, North Patago- 

 nia, and Peru.) Frequent in saline marshy ground ; (probably introduced, in connec- 

 tion with the manufacture of salt, by colonial Whites). 



(Nicotiana tabacum ; bis Metia to the Feejee Islands, and No. 6 North America. Planted 

 around the dwellings of the natives ; having been introduced by trading and colonial 

 Whites.) 



