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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



? ; but the leaves more deeply crenate. A spiny shrub ; no flowers. Frequent at 



Caldera. 



Cassia alata, (bis No. 4 Luzon). Frequent at Caldera; and apparently indigenous. 

 Bauhinia (No. 2). A species observed in the forest back of Caldera. 

 Acacioid ?. Leguminous trees, of which no specimens were collected, were observed at 

 Caldera. 



Pemphis acidula; bis (No. 1 Paumotuan to Phoenix and Wake's) coral-islands; but 

 larger, in some instances twenty feet high with the trunk a foot in diameter. Growing 

 along the beach of the islet at Sulu. 



Jussicea (No. 2); perhaps the sp. seen at Manila; flowers small. Frequent in marshy 

 ground at Caldera. 



Rhizophora (compare No. 1 Samoan to the Feejee Islands and Luzon). Sometimes thirty 

 feet high with the trunk eighteen inches in diameter. Occupying on the mud-flats 

 most of the lagoon of the islet at Sulu. 



Bruguiera (bis No. 1 Samoan to the Feejee Islands). In the East Indies, first met with 

 on reaching Sulu. 



(Lumnitzera?, No. 2); compare (No. 1 Tongatabu to the) Feejee Islands; Terminalioid. 

 A salt-water shrub ; habit of Bucida ; leaves attenuate, long-petioled ; no flowers. On 

 Sulu, growing witliin the limits of the town. 



Terminalia (compare No. 2 Samoan to the Feejee Islands); the fruit seeming smaller than 

 in the Samoan sp., and in greater quantity; leaves pubescent. On the Mangsi coral- 

 islets. 



(No. 5); not before met with. A small tree; leaves obovate, smaller than in 



the other species thus far met with. Growing on the hill-side, on the islet at Sulu. 



(Gen. Terminalioid, No. 2); l)illenia-like ; leaves alternate, penninerved ; the petiole 

 with a decid. ala. At Caldera. 



Meniecylon ? (No. 4). Twelve to fifteen feet high. Growing at Caldera. 



(Gen. Memecyloid, No. 1). A shrub; habit of Daphne, but no inner cloth-like bark; 

 stem jointed ; flowers in capit. in thyrsi; calyx 4-fid; petals small, distinct, "lilac- 

 colored." At Caldera. 



Sonneratia acida, (bis No. 1 Luzon). Sub-maritime. Frequent on Sulu ; and apparently 

 the same species, but without flowers, observed at Caldera. 



Islands), but flowering while in leaf. A large tree, the flowers scarlet. On Sulu, 

 planted within the limits of the town. 

 Caesalpinia (compare No. 1 Luzon). A tree; the leaflets inequal ; pod compressed, 

 smooth, somewhat thickened and leathery. On Sulu, within the limits of the 

 town. 



Jauibosa Malaccensis, (bis Taheiti to the Hawaiian and Feejee Islands, and No. 1 Luzon). 



Bed Malay-apples, small, obovoid, and of inferior quality, for sale in the town on Sulu. 

 Bryophyllum calycinum, (bis Luzon). On Sulu, frequent within the limits of the 



town. 



(Adenostemma viscosum ; No. 1, bis Taheiti to the Hawaiian and Feejee Islands). In 

 a taro-plantation at Caldera ; showing the probable mode of introduction into the Poly- 

 nesian Islands. 



