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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



mountains behind Honolulu ; and throughout the forest on Mauna Kea, to its termina- 

 tion at 6700 feet. 



Rumex (No. 1). Seeming normal ; leaves elongate, short hairs below. On the Mauna 

 Kaala ridge. 



Cassyta; compare (No. 1 Paumotuan to the Otafuan coral-islands and the Feejeean Group). 



On the mountains behind Honolulu, and elsewhere; and especially frequent on the 



Southeast coa.st of Hawaii. 

 Daphne; compare (No. 1 Taheiti to the Feejee Islands). Sprigs, if placed in streams, 



are said to " poison the fish all the way to the sea." 

 (No. 2). Five feet high; leaves larger, ovate; flowers crowded at the end of the 



branches. " Pahuhali," near the new lava-stream, Brackenridge. — Apparently the same 



species, on the mountains behind Honolulu. 

 nov. sp., (No. 3) ; large leaved ; berries elongate. Mauna Haleakala; and in the 



mountain-defile across West Maui. — Apparently the same species, the leaves broad and 



margined, on Tauai. 



nov. sp., (No. 4). A fine species ; prostrate ; short side-branches, with dense- 

 flowered terminal spikes. On the dry portion of the mountain-ridge behind Honolulu. 



(No. 5) ; leaves large, white beneath. " Waialua, at the Western end of Oahu," 



Rich and Brackenridge. 



(No. 6). Small; willow-leaved. Environs of the Great Crater and on Mauna 



Boa, at the elevation of from 4000 to 6700 feet. 



Santalum nov. sp., (No. 3) ; leaves narrow, the upper surface shining; flowers unusually 

 large, the tube of the corolla a sixth of an inch long. On the arid Leeward verge of 

 the tabular summit of Tauai ; confined, like the other Hawaiian species, to barren 

 mountainous situations, but in one exceptional instance, growing in the middle of the 

 wide plain-like valley between the two mountain-ridges on Oahu. 



r (No. 4) ; flowers tinged with reddish, and by no means inconspicuous. From the 



elevation of 6000 to 6500 feet on Mauna Haleakala. — Apparently the same species, 

 with broad leaves, glaucous beneath, and the flowers less showy, not unfrequent on 

 Mauna Boa. 



? (No. 5). A diminutive species ; leaves thin, roundish, very small, only two- 

 thirds of an inch in diameter; but flowers in axillary panicles, and very small; calyx 

 4-fid, the corolla not made out. On the Southern flank of Mauna Kaala. 



Phyllanthus (No. 4) ; leaves elliptical, obtuse. " On the mountains West of the gap 

 behind Honolulu," Brackenridge. — Apparently the same species, on Tauai. 



Zingiber (zerumbet; No. 1, bis Samoa to the Feejee Islands.) Abundantly naturalized ; 

 growing in wild rich shady situations at the commencement of the forest. 



Curcuma (No. 1, bis Taheiti to the Feejee Islands); turmeric; the powdered root said to 

 have been " formerly used by the natives in dyeing tapa." Neither the roots, nor the 

 living plant, seen by ourselves. 



Musa paradisica, (No. 1, bis Metia to the Feejee Islands) ; the banana. Abundantly cul- 

 tivated, and also naturalized ; introduced by aboriginal settlers. 



nov. sp., (bis No. 2 Taheiti); the "fehi." A few stocks, "brought from Taheiti," 



seen in Mr. Pitman's garden at Hilo. 



