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Java, but yet do not differ suffieiently to be specifically distin- 
guished—an indication of considerable age of the flora of {the 
island. 
The total number of species enumerated, or mentioned, is 80, 
namely :—55 flowering plants, 17 vascular eryptogams, and 8 cel- 
lulareryptogams. But probably a thorough botanical exploration 
of the whole island would yield at least double this number. 
Enumeration of the Plants. 
ANONACEZE ? 
A branch bearing two or three leaves may belong to this 
Order; but it is important to determine it; and it is only men- 
tioned because a specimen of the wood—that of quite a small tree 
—was sent. 
MENISPERMACE EX. 
A branch of a plant of this Order bearing leaves only. 
MALVACEE. 
ABUTILON sp., an var. A. indici? gracillimum, foliis subintegris 
longe acuminatis. 
A. indieum is widely spread in the tropies. 
There are imperfect specimens of a second species of this 
genus. 
HIBISCUS TILIACEUS, Linn.—One of the commonest sea-coast 
trees in the tropies, and extending to some subtropical regions, 
and partieularly abundant in Polynesia, reaching the most remote 
islands. 
AMPELIDEA. 
Vırıs PEDATA, Vahl ?—Widely spread in India and Malaya. 
LEEA HORRIDA, Teysm. § Binnend ?— Java. 
BURSERACEÆ ? 
Arbor grandis, trunco 13 ped. diametro, foliis bipinnatis, 
foliolis alternis obliquis integris, fructu breviter stipitato lignoso 
