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( ?, nov. sp., No. 6) ; leaves quinate, smooth ; flowers small. Tauai. 



( ■ ovalifolia?, No. 7). Prostrate; leaves with a bilobed apex; flowers small. On 



tlie arid Leeward portion of Oahu, Maui, and the other islands. The root said to be 



" tuberous and edible." 

 (Stjiisuioid nov. sp., No. 1). Stem woody at base, tortuous, decumbent, the upper por- 

 tion herbaceous and climbing; flowers solitary. Habit of the New Jersey Evolvuloid. 



Growing along the Southern base of Mauna Kaala. 

 (Pharbitis insularis?. No. 2); leaves broad-cordate, entire, sericeous; calyx-teeth long, 



pointed. On the Southern flank of Mauna Kaala. 

 ( No. 3) ; compare the last species. Leaves cordate, flowers blue. Frequent in 



the outskirts of the forest. 

 Cuscuta (No. 1). On plants growing in the sands of the low isthmus on Maui ; and said 



by the natives to be indigenous. 

 Heliotropium nov. sp., (No. 1). A fine species; silvery-tomentose ; cyme peduncled. 



Forming beds on the sea-shore South of Mauna Kaala. 

 Solanum nov. sp., (No. 9). A procumbent shrub ; the leaves cordate, entire. In the 



sands of the low isthmus on Maui. 

 nov. sp., (No. 10); short close tomentum ; a few short spines on the leaves. 



Found by Mr. Rich "on Hawaii," probably on the Western side of 3Iauna Roa. 

 (No. 11); near Feejeean species. A shrub, six to ten feet high, unarmed ; under 



surface of the leaves white. On the mountains behind Honolulu, frequent at the 



elevation of fifteen hundred feet. 

 nov. sp., (No. 12); near S. verbascifolium ; and a shrub. On the Leeward 



verge of the tabular summit of Tauai, at the elevation of about 3700 feet. 

 Nov. gen. Solandroid, (No. 1). A tree; twenty feet high, with the trunk five inches in 



diameter, and "the wood greenish;" habit of Solandra viridis ; the flowers greenish, 



but small; leaves oblong-ovate; calyx apparently bifid, corolla 4-fid. "Between the 



Great Crater and the upper base of Mauna Roa," at the elevation of about 4000 feet, 



Brackenridge ; rare. 



(No. 2). Lycium-like; leaves broad-lanceolate, or obovate-acute ; flowers soli- 

 tary, peduncled, calyx obsoletely 2-3-dent. On the mountains behind Honolulu, at the 

 elevation of 1500 feet; once only met with. 



( No. 3) ; gen. Cestroid. Twelve feet high ; leaves broad-obovate, petioled ; calyx 



bifid; corolla tubular, two-thirds of an inch long, 4-fid. On the Mauna Kaala ridge. 



Lycium nov. sp., (No. 1); calyx 4-dentate ; corolla 4-fid; berry saline to the taste, but 

 edible. On the barren coast-crater called Diamond Hill, near Honolulu. 



Nama? (No. 1). Annual; very small, three to five inches high; delicate purple flowers. 

 Sands of the low isthmus on Maui. 



Herpestis Monnieria, (No. 1, bis Brazil and Peru). Maritime; growing along the sea- 



Alcurites triloba, (bis No. 1 Metia to the Feejee Islands). Naturalized; a frequent tree, 

 growing spontaneously throughout the lower portion of the Windward and more fertile 

 districts, and sometimes forming groves; but the foliage of a lighter green than in 

 Southern Polynesia, as though unhealthy. Introduced by aboriginal settlers. 



Ricinus communis, (No. 1, bis Feejee Islands). Abundantly naturalized ; having been 

 introduced by aboriginal settlers. 



