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nov. sp., (No. 5); shrubby, small-leaved. On the mountains behind Honolulu. 



; seeming distinct from the last ; small-leaved, low. In the " Pali," or precipitous 



outlet of the gap back of Honolulu. 

 (Glochidium, No. 6; recorded as) Bradlejaj but no flowers. On the mountains behind 



Honolulu. 



Euphorbia (No. 4). Shrubby; leaves elliptical, entire, somewhat coriaceous. On the 

 mountains behind Honolulu. 



(No. 5). A " low tree, twelve feet in height leaves small, narrow-elliptical, the 



under surface with blackish veins. " On the mountains behind Honolulu," Bracken- 

 ridge. — Apparently the same species, lanceolate-leaved, forming low groves in open 

 situations on Mauna Haleakala, at the elevation of from 1500 to 3000 feet; one stock 

 measuring fifteen feet by four inches. 



; near the last ; the leaves more distinctly petioled, and less conspicuously black- 

 veined. On the mountains behind Honolulu. 



nov. sp., (No. 6). Woody, tortuous, decumbent, six to eleven inches high ; leaves 



round-cordate, obtuse, entire. On the arid coast-crater called Diamond Hill, near 

 Honolulu. 



nov. sp., (No. 7). A shrub; flowers in axillary clusters. Tauai. 



(No. 8). Woody ; leaves linear, obtuse. Tauai. 



Gen. near Croton, (No. 1). A shrub; leaves oblong, attenuate, serrate; flowers in strings 



or long filiform aments. On the Mauna Kaala ridge. 

 Gen. near I^latostema, (No. 1). A shrub, six to eight feet high ; leaves large, broad-ovate, 



penninerved; capitul. in cymes; branching. On the mountains behind Honolulu. 

 (No. 2) ; a second species. Large rough leaves. Tauai. 



(Epiearpurus No. 4); compare Feejeean genus. Morus-like ; eight feet high; leaves 

 lanceolate, serrate, with a yellow midrib ; flowers very inconspicuous, two or three 

 together; two long stigmas. On the mountains behind Honolulu. 



( ); perhaps the same species. Dioecious; male flowers in aments, while female 



solitary. On the Mauna Kaala ridge. 



( No. 5) ; Morus-like. A shrub, three to four feet high ; leaves ovate, acuminate, 



dentate. Upper margin of the forest on Mauna Kea, at the elevation of 6700 feet. 



Gen. near Urtica, (No. 1). A shrub; leaves alternate, smooth; peduncled many-flowered 

 cymes; small fruit. On the mountains behind Honolulu. 



nov. sp., (No. 2). Eight to twelve feet high ; leaves only at the end of the 



branches, broad-ovate, an inch long, serrate, short-petioled, apparently alternate; flowers 

 axillary, subsessile, crowded, thus forming term. head. South flank of fliauna Kaala. 



Procris, (No. 5) ; the "tapa plant." Arborescent, fifteen feet high, spreading; leaves 



Amaryllis aulica, (No. 3 Tropical America). In a garden on Tauai; introduced from 



Brazil by colonial Whites. 

 Allium cepa, (bis Feejee Islands, Peru, the United States, and No. 1 Europe) ; the onion. 



Now cultivated by the natives ; having been introduced by colonial Whites. 

 Furcrsca gigantea, (bis No. 1 Brazil) . In gardens on Tauai ; having been introduced by 



colonial Whites. 



Dioscorea (bulbifera ; compare No. 1 Metia to Samoa); broad-leaved. Growing sponta- 

 neously. 



