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dispersed on tropical sea-shores in the Old World; and also 
found in the West Indies. 
Dolichos Lablab, Linn. (Lablab vulgaris, Savi). — Harvey; 
Moseley; Cartwright. 
New Caledonia and Fiji to the Society and Sandwich Islands ; 
and tropics of the Old World, except Australia. 
Derris uliginosa, Benth.—U.S. Evpl. Exped. 
A common sea-side climbing shrub, ranging from Polynesia, 
including New Caledonia, New Hebrides, and Fiji Islands, to 
Northern Australia, South-eastern Africa, Madagascar, India and 
China. 
Inocarpus edulis, Linn. f—Greffe; Moseley; Lister. 
From the Fijis to the Marquesas, and in Malaya. 
Mr. Lister also collected this in Christmas Island, off the west 
coast of Java, from whose specimens the figure in Hooker's 
‘Icones Plantarum,’ t. 1837, was prepared. 
Sophora tomentosa, Linn.—U.S. Expl. Exped.; Greffe. 
Fiji to the Marquesas Islands, and generally diffused on 
tropical sea-coasts, and extending into some subtropical regions. 
Cesalpinia Bonducella, Fleming.— Mathews. 
From New Caledonia eastward to the Marquesas and Sandwich 
Islands ; also widely spread and often very common, especially 
near the sea, in tropical Asia Africa, and America. 
Cesalpinia pulcherrima, Sw.— Lister. 
Cultivated and more or less wild in nearly all tropical countries 
except Australia; but itis uncertain where it is really indigenous, 
though probably in some part of the Old World. 
Cassia occidentalis, Linn.—Cartwright; Lister. 
Fiji to the Marquesas and Sandwich Islands; colonized. 
Tropica] America, and also now common in tropical Asia and 
Africa, though probably of American origin. 
Cassia Sophera, Linn.— Forster; Home. 
New Caledonia and Fiji Islands. “Tropical Asia, Africa, and 
Australia, more rare in tropical America; in all continents most 
frequently only from cultivation, or escaped from cultivation, 
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