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Clerodendron inerme, R. Br.—athews;\ Harvey; Moseley ; 
Lister. 
New Caledonia, Fiji and Navigator Islands, and a common 
sea-side shrub in tropical Asia and Australia. 
LaBIATSs. 
Ocimum Basilicum, Linn.— Home; Lister. 
Fiji, Society, Marquesas, and Sandwich Islands, introduced. 
Widely diffused in tropical Asia and Africa, and commonly 
cultivated. 
Ocimum gratissimum, Linn.—Woseley. (Introduced.) 
Java, India, tropical Africa and America ; commonly cultivated. 
Leucas flaccida, R. Br. (including ZL. decemdentata, Sm.).— 
Lister. . 
Fiji, Society, and Marquesas Islands, and Eastern Australia, 
Malaya, India. Colonized in the West Indies. 
Teucrium inflatum, Sw.—forster; Barclay; Greffe, and 
others. 
New Caledonia, New Hebrides, and Fiji, and widely dispersed 
in tropical and subtropical America and the West Indies. Also 
in the Galapagos. 
NYCTAGINES. 
Pisonia inermis, Forst.— Harvey ; Lister. 
Throughout Polynesia, from Fiji to the Low Archipelago and 
Sandwich Islands. Also North-east Australia. 
The Polynesian and Australian species of Pisonia have been 
so variously limited by different authors, that it is difficult to 
understand them, except on the assumption that there is one 
very variable species. Indeed, Drake del Castillo (Flore de la 
Polynésie Francaise, p. 157) unites them all, except P. aculeata, 
Linn., under the name of P. wmbellifera, Seem. (Ceodes umbel- 
lifera, Forst.), and doubtless the only alternative is to make 
several, or even many, critical species. 
AMARANTACER, 
Amarantus caudatus, Linn. (Euxolus caudatus, Mog.).—Cook. 
Fiji, Society, and Sandwich Islands ; and widely dispersed in 
the warmer parts of Asia; also occurring in tropical Africa. 
