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SANDWICH ISLANDS. 



[Myrtaceee. 



infimum foliolorum par, stipulis subulatis, racemis axillaribus erectis folio brevioribus, legu- 

 mine pendulo lineari compresso membranaceo sub-8-spermo. 



This species seems to have been observed by Gaudichaiid (Freyc. Voy. p. 94.) to whom we have dedicated 

 it; but he says that the pods are narrow and short, which does not well apply to ours. The whole plant is 

 perfectly smooth ; the leaves about six inches long, and the leaflets an inch and a half ; these last are 

 on short petioles, about a line in length : the lower pair only are provided with a slender filiform gland, 

 rather more than half a line long, which is incrassated and blunt, not acute at the apex as in C. oxyadena, to 

 which this species seems allied. The pod is about three lines broad, and 3-4 inches long, very compressed 

 and membranaceous, suddenly and shortly attenuated at both extremities. There are complete septa between 

 the seeds, which are flat and almost black. 



Ord. XIII. ROSACEiE. Juss. 

 1. Osteomeles anthyllidifolia. Lindl. in Linn. Soc. Tr. v. 13. p. 98. t. 8. De Cand. 

 Prod/: v. 2. p. 633.— Pyrus anthyllidifolia. Sm. in Rees' Cycl. 



Ord. XIV. ONAGRARLZE. Juss. 



1 . Jussiaea angustifolia ; herbacea erecta glabra, foliis subsessilibus lineari-lanceolatis 

 utrinque acurninatis, floribus brevissime pedicellatis, calycis lobis 4 acutissimis, tubo cylin- 

 draceo elongato. DC— Lam. Diet. 3. p. 331. 77/. t. 280./. 3. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 55. 



We agree with Gaudichaiid in referring the species found in Oahu to J. angustifolia. The leaves, how- 

 ever, are slightly petiolate, aud the lobes of the calyx, although acute, are not remarkably so. Mr. Collie, 

 in his notes, remarks that the petals are obovate, rotundate, and emarginate; their claws, internally, and the 

 bases of the stamens, are somewhat villous. 



Ord. XV. LYTHRARLE. Juss. 



1. Lythrum maritimum ; caule fruticoso, foliis oppositis et sparsis lanceolatis acutis basi 

 obtusis subtus glaucescentibus, floribus breviter pedicellatis erectis bibracteolatis 6-petalis 

 6-andris. DC. — Humb. et Kunth, Nov. Gen. v. 6. p. 193. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 82. 



This we possess, from the same country, from Mr. Menzies, Mr. Macrae, and Chamisso. 



Ord. XVI. MYRTACE/E. Juss. 



1. Metrosideros polymorpha ; foliis oppositis breve petiolatis coriaceis utrinque glabris 

 vel subtus sericeo-tomentosis, pedunculis tri-multifloris terminalibus et axillaribus corym- 

 bosis, floribus pedicellatis, calycibus ramulisque glabris vel sericeo-tomentosis. — Gaud, in 

 Freyc. Voy. p. 482. t. 108 et 109. De Cand. Prodr. v. 3. p. 225. 



a. Foliis subrotundo-ellipticis cordatis. — |3. Foliis ovatis vel ovato-ellipticis basi rotun- 

 datis. — y. Foliis oblongis basi acutis. — o. Foliis lanceolatis. 



These varieties, .again, but particularly the first, occur either perfectly smooth or more or less tomentose. 

 Specimens of all of them are in the Collection, and we possess, in addition, several distinct forms of the 

 second variety, collected by Mr. Macrae. Var. fi. was found long ago by Mr. Menzies, but was probably 

 confounded by Smith with his M. villosa, to which it is indeed too closely aliied, and perhaps only distinguish- 

 able by the pedicellate flowers. This appears, according to Gaudichaud's valuable observations, to be a most 

 variable plant. Nothing, says he, is more remarkable than the M. polymorpha, which is found with linear 

 leaves towards the summit of the mountain, but successively linear-lanceolate, lanceolate, ovate, obovate, 



