AFRO-INDIAN REGIONS. 



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Gen. incert., (No. 1). A shrub; leaves opposite, entire; berry Thea-like, three-valved, 

 five small sepals at the base. In the deep forest, at Caldera on Mindanao. 



Suriana maritima, (bis No. 1 Paumotuan and Bellinghausen coral-islands, and Taheiti). 

 A single bush, growing near the deserted huts, or rather encampment, on the Maugsi 

 coral-islets. 



Gen. Terebinthac. ? (No. 1); or compare Sapindac. Entirely pubescent; leaves pinnate, 



the leaflets trijugis ; flowers panicled. At Culdera. 

 Rhus ? (No. 6). A tree, thirty feet high. On the Mangsi coral-islets : being perhaps the 



plant that produced a cutaneous eruption on .some of our party. No specimens. 

 Gen. incert., (No. 1). A shrub; smooth; leaves pinnate, 5-jugis, sinuately dentate. At 



Caldera. 



Sophora; bis, apparently the silky sp. (No. 1) Taheiti (to the Feejee Islands). On the 

 Mangsi coral-islets. 



Crotalaria (No. 4) ; leaves lanceolate ; pods hairy. In the opening in the forest, back of 

 Caldera. 



Gen. Desmodioid, (No. 1) ; like Desmodium, but the leaves pinnate. The leaflets bijugis, 

 and provided with stipels; the flowers in a long Dalea-like spike. In the opening in 

 the forest, back of Caldera. 



(No. 2) ; leaves pinnate, large, smooth ; fr. small. On Sulu. 



(Dendrolobium, No. 2); near (No. 1) Samoan (to the Feejee Islands). An arborescent 

 shrub, ten to eighteen feet high, spreading at the summit; the stem six inches in dia- 

 meter; pod somewhat thickened. On the islet at Sulu. 



Desmodium (No. 10); pubescent; capit. In the opening in the forest, back of Caldera. 



Abrus precatorius, (No. 1 ; bis Metia to the Feejee Islands). Frequent, either at Sulu 

 or the Mangsi coral-islets, and apparently indigenous. 



Dolichos ; compare Polynesian sp. (No. 1 Taheiti to the Hawaiian and Feejee Islands) ; 

 yellow-flowered. On the Mangsi coral-islets; maritime. 



Canavalia (No. 2 ; compare No. 1 Samoan to the Hawaiian and Feejee Islands) ; the pod 

 seeming large; leaves penninervedj flowers purple. Growing along the beach on the 

 Mangsi coral-islets. 



(Derris) ; compare (No. 1) Feejee Islands, and Glycine. Robinia-like, but a vine ; leaves 

 pinnate, the leaflets ovate, acuminate ; flowers purple ; pods short, compressed, mem- 

 branaceous. At Caldera. 



(Pongamia, No. 3) ; compare Feejee Islands, (and No. 2 Luzon) ; Robinia-like. A tree 

 of medium size; leaves penninerved ; pod thick, coriaceous, compressed. Sub-maritime; 

 growing behind the beach at Caldera. 



Guilandina ; bis (No. 1 Samoan to the Feejee Islands and Luzon). Sub-maritime ; ob- 

 served growing at Caldera; and a drifted seed found on the Mangsi coral-islets. 



Indigofera (compare Taheiti, the Samoan and Hawaiian Islands, Luzon, and No. 25 

 Peru). A shrub, four feet high. Planted around the dwellings of the natives, in the 

 vicinity of Caldera. 



Cajanus Indicus, (No. 1, bis Hawaiian Islands and Luzon). Planted by the natives in 



the vicinity of Caldera. 

 Erythrinaj apparently the Polynesian sp., (Taheiti to Tongatabu, and No. 1 Feejee 



