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Vinca rosea, Linn.— Lister. 
Samoa and Sandwich Islands. Supposed to be a native of 
tropical America; but it is now so firmly established in many 
parts of the Old World as to have all the appearance of being 
indigenous. 
Tabernzmontana orientalis, R. Br.—Nelson ; Lister. 
New Hebrides, Fiji, Loyalty, and Society Islands ; also eastern 
Australia and the Philippines. 
ASCLEPIADACES. 
Asclepias curassavica, Linn.—foseley ; Lister. 
Society, Marquesas, and Sandwich Islands; a native of the 
West Indies, now spread all over the tropics. 
Hoya australis, R. Br. (H. bicarinata, A. Gray).—U.S. Expl. 
Exped.; Lister. 
New Hebrides, Fiji, and Navigator Islands, and Eastern 
Australia. 
LoGAaNIACER. 
Geniostoma crassifolium, Benth.—Zzster. 
Previously only known at Kew from the Philippines. 
Geniostoma rupestre, Forst.—Welson ; Barclay; Greffe. 
New Caledonia eastward to the Society Islands. 
Fagrea Berteriana, A. Gray.—oseley ; Lister. 
New Caledonia eastward to the Marquesas Islands. 
BoRAGINER. 
Cordia aspera, Forst.— Forster ; Nelson. 
Fiji and Navigator Islands. 
Cordia subcordata, Lam.— Barclay; Harvey; Macrae. 
From the Fiji and the Union group to the Marquesas and 
Sandwich Islands, coast of tropical Australia, Malaya, Islands of 
the Indian Ocean, westward to the east coast of Africa. In 
India it is commonly planted and perhaps nowhere really wild. 
Tournefortia argentea, Linn. f.—Forster; Lister. 
Fiji and Union group, eastward to the Society and Low 
Tslands, and on nearly all coasts, insular and continental, of the 
Indian and Pacific Oceans, at least in the warmer parts. 
