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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



crenate ; flowers pedicelled, solitary or sometimes in pairs. In woods between the Great 

 Crater and Mauna Ilea. — The same species ? on the mountain-ridge beiiind Honolulu, 

 sufifruticose and smooth. 



uov. sp., (No. 13). "Eight feet high," blackish and ferruginous; leaves large, 



ovate, acute at each end, long-petioled ; umbels axillary, peduncled, about 5-flowered. 

 " Deep woods between Puna and Pahuhali," Brackenridge ; rare. 



(No. 14). " Ten feet high leaves large, cordate, the pubescence ferruginous ; 



umbels peduncled, about six-flowered. " Woods between Puna and Pahuhali," Brack- 

 enridge. 



(No. 15) ; leaves large, round-cordate, woolly. On the mountains behind Hono- 

 lulu, at the elevation of 1500 feet. 



(No. 16). Under surface of the leaves white and woolly ; calyx involucral, or 



enlarged and rotate, white. Frequent on the mountains behind Honolulu, at the eleva- 

 tion of 1500 feet. 



(No. 17) ; broad-lanceolate leaves, ferruginous pubescence. Oahu, (on the moun- 

 tains behind Honolulu). 

 (No. 18) ; leaves broad-lanceolate, glaucous beneath, the nervures ferruginous ; 



calyx as long as the corolla ; flowers from the old wood of the stem. On the mountains 



behind Honolulu, at the elevation of 1500 feet. 

 • nov. sp., (No. 19); leaves smooth, long-petioled, coarsely serrate; calyx as long 



as the tube of the corolla. On the mountains behind Honolulu. 

 Gen. near Cyrtandra?, (No. 1) ; but the fruit hardly a berry. "A shrub, ten feet high," 



habit of Urticeaj; leaves opposite, petioled, broad-ovate, serrate; flowers inconspicuous, 



but a distinct corolla, probably monopetalous ; calyx small, with five equal teeth; 



stigma much like that of Lobelia, geniculate, and finally deciduous at articulations ; 



capsule Myoporum-like, two-celled, containing many minute seeds. " Base of the 



mountains behind Honolulu," Brackenridge. 

 Convolvulus nov. sp., (No. 1) ; leaves sagittate; umbels peduncled ; flowers small, white. 



Hilo, C. P. 



(Batatas pentaphylla ?, No. 2). Annual ; leaves quinate, hairy. Along the Southern base 



of Mauna Kaala ; also, at Lahaina on West Maui. 

 (Ipomoea) turpethum ? ; bis ? (compare No. 1 Metia to the Feejeean Group, and Phoenix 



and Wake's coral-islands) ; difi'ering from Samoan in the corolla not being contracted 



into a distinct tube ; leaves broad-cordate ; flowers rather small, white. Rocks on the 



North coast of Hawaii. 

 ( pes-capra3 ; bis Brazil, and No. 2 Metia to the Feejee Islands). Frequent along 



the sea-shore ; Hilo, the Southeast portion of Hawaii, and elsewhere. 



Polygonum (No. 1; compare Taheiti, New Zealand, Australia, California, and Chili). 

 In wet ground on Oahu ; also, on bank of stream in the forest on Mauna Kea, but not 

 far from Hilo. 



Atriplex (halimus '/) ; like A. patula of the United States. A foot high ; crowded. 

 In the artificial saline marshy ground at Honolulu; perhaps introduced, in connexion 

 with the manufacture of salt, by colonial Whites. 



Salicornia (compare United States). Perhaps introduced, in connexion with the manu- 

 facture of salt, by colonial Whites. No specimens. 



