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with some evidence of being really indigenous in Australia 
and more doubtfully so in Asia and America.” (Bentham, in 
Trans. Linn. Soe. xxvii. p. 532.) 
Cynometra grandiflora, A. Gray.— Harvey; Lister. _ 
Fiji Islands only, where, however, it must be common as it 1s 
in all collections. 
Entada scandens, Benth.— Harvey; Lister. 
Fiji to Samoa, and cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
Mimosa pudica, Linn.— Barclay; Cartwright ; Lister. 
Tropical America, and now a common weed in most parts of 
the Polynesian region. Naturalized also in many parts of tro- 
pical Africa and Asia. 
Leucena Forsteri, Benth.—Cook ; Mathews. 
Polynesia from New Caledonia to Tahiti. 
Acacia laurifolia, Willd.—Cook; Home; Lister. 
New Hebrides and New Caledonia to Samoa and Fiji. 
Serianthes myriadenia, Planch.— Mathews. 
Fiji and Navigator to the Society Islands. 
RHIZOPHORES. 
Rhizophora Mangle, Linn.—Lister. 
Coasts of tropical America generally, also in west tropical 
Africa. Perhaps accidentally introduced with ballast in the 
Tonga Islands, as well as in Stewart Island—see Ann. k.-k. 
raturh. Hofmus. Wien, iii. p. 251. 
Rhizophora mucronata, Lam.— Harvey ; Cartwright. 
New Caledonia, Fiji and Navigator Islands, Northern Aus- 
tralia, and throughout tropical Asia and Eastern Africa. 
Bruguiera Rheedii, Blume.— Forster ; Cartwright. 
New Caledonia, Fiji and Navigator Islands. Common in the 
tropical mangrove swamps of many parts of the Old World. 
CoMBRETACER. 
Terminalia Catappa, Linn.—U.S. Expl. Exped. 
Fiji to the Marquesas Islands. Tropical Asia, and planted in 
nearly all tropical countries. 
