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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Gen. Lobel., the calyx-teeth minute, (No. 1). Leaves deltoid, abrupt at base, pointed, 

 sinuately-serrate ; axillary racemes of curved pale flowers. " Mountains behind Hono- 

 lulu," Brackenridge. 



(No. 2 ; possibly congeneric ?). Stem swollen and bulb-like at base, simple, 



straight, four to eight feet high, with a crown of leaves at the summit ; the leaves del- 

 toid and undulated. Clinging to the face of lofty precipices in the mountain-defile 

 across West Maui. 



Nov. gen. Lobeliac, (No. 1) Twenty feet high ; large green flowers ; calyx not distin- 

 guishable, seeming continuous with the corolla, the capsule being small and crowned 

 with the thickened rim. On the mountains behind Honolulu ; and in the mountain- 

 defile across West Maui. 



Gen. Lobel. with pinnatilobed leaves, (No. 1). Afoot high; curved; few branches; 

 leaves smooth ; no flowers. " On the tabular summit of Tauai," Brackenridge. 



Yaccinium nov. sp., (No. 2). A shrub of medium size, often epidendric on the branches 

 of trees in the deep forest on Mauna Kea ; when growing beneath on the ground, 

 sometimes twenty feet high with the trunk three inches in diameter; the flowers small, 

 cylindrical, greenish. North flank of Mauna Kea, at the elevation of from 4000 to 

 5500 feet ; Mauna Haleakala, at the elevation of from 3000 to»6700 feet ; and appa- 

 rently the same species on the mountains behind Honolulu. 



Gen. Lubinioid, (No. 1) ; but the floral envelopes 6-parted. Mauna Haleakala, at the 

 elevation of 6700 feet. — Apparently the same species on the mountains behind Hono- 

 lulu, but the leaves seeming more coriaceous, veiny, white beneath, and shorter. 



Myoporum (No. 1) ; in some respects reminding one of Samolus. A tree, forty feet high ; 

 leaves alternate. " Mauna Roa, at the elevation of 5000 feet," Brackenridge. Upper 

 margin of the forest on Mauna Kea, and extending into the pastoral district to the eleva- 

 tion of 7200 feet. 



(No. 2) ; a second species. A low decumbent shrub, with smaller acuminate 



leaves; viscous at the summit; fruit crowded Southern base of Mauna Kaala, sub- 

 maritime; also along the Southeast coast of Hawaii. 



(Myrsine Sandwicensis of A. Dec. ?, No. 3) ; Ardisiac. A small tree, thirty feet high, 

 with the trunk a foot in diameter ; leaves like those of Arbutus uva-ursi ; flowers small, 

 purplish. On the lava-mountain of Puhuruhuru not far from the Great Crater, and in 

 other localities. The same species on the mountains behind Honolulu, the under sur- 

 face of the leaves glaucous, and no flowers. 



; perhaps distinct ; the leaves seeming narrower. On the mountains behind 



Honolulu. 



Gen. Ardisioid, (No. 1). A tree, forty feet high ; leaves obovate, cuneate or somewhat 



by the natives. Naturalized around Honolulu; introduced, probably by colonial 

 Whites. 



nigrum ? (bis Taheiti to the Feejee Islands, and compare No. 28 California, Chili, 



and Peru.) Taller than in our Northern climates, and the leaves seeming more pro- 

 minently toothed ; fruit edible. Naturalized; frequent even in wild situations; having 

 been introduced by aboriginal settlers. 



(Capsicum frutescens ; bis Taheiti to the Feejee Islands, and No. 4 Peru. Observed under 

 cultivation by Mr. Rich), 



