INTRODUCTION TO THE REPORTS ON INSULAR FLORAS. 



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Nyctagine.e. 

 Pisonia ciscosa. 



AlIARANTACEiE. 



JE/rua. congesta. 



PlPERACE.E. 



Pcperomia hi via. 

 „ reticulata. 



„ rodriguezi. 



EuPHORBIACEiE. 



Euphorbia daphnoid.es. 

 Ph yllanth us dam (tome. 



Urticace^e. 



Pilea balfouri. 



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ORCHIDEiE. 



/. istrostaehys aphrodite. 



Liliace.e. 

 Aloe lomatophylloides. 



Palm.e. 



tLatania verschoffelti. 

 fRyophorbe versehaffelti. 



PANDANEJ3. 



Pandanus heterocarpus. 

 „ tenuifolius. 



II.— VEGETATION CONTAINING A SMALL, CHIEFLY SPECIFIC ENDEMIC ELEMENT. 



Marianne 



Capparidace^:. 

 Polanisia viscosa, DC. 

 Capparis mariana, Jacq. 



Guttifer-e. 

 Calopliyllum inophyllum, Linn. 



Malvace^:. 



Hibiscus manihot, Linn. 

 „ rosa-sinensis, Linn. 

 „ tiliaceus, Linn. 

 Sida glomerata, Cav. 

 „ carpinifolia, Linn. f. 

 „ rhombifolia, Linn. 

 „ maura, Link. 2 



Sterculiace.k. 

 Heritiera littoralis, Ait. 

 Waltheria eUiptiea, Cav. 



TILIACE.E. 



Triumfetta fabneava, Gaudich. 

 Corchoras torresianus, Gaudich. 



Islands, North- Western Polynesia. 1 



Sapindace.e. 

 Cardiospcruiiiiii haUeaaabum, Linn. 

 Dodoncea viscosa, Linn. 



Leguminosjj. 

 Ti phrosia mariana, DC. 

 Desmodium australe, DC. 

 Mucuna gigantea, DC. 

 Cassia angustissima, Lam. 

 Entada purswtha, DC. 

 Iugajavana, DC. 



KiiizoPHOREa:. 

 Bruguiera gymnorhiza, Lam. 



Combretace-e. 

 Terminalia moluccana, Lam. 

 Laguncularia hcerikei, Eiull. 



„ purpurea, ( raudich. 



MyKTACEjE. 



Psidium pomiferum, Linn. 



1 Extracted without alterations from Endlicher's Synopsis Florae Insularum Oceani Australis. It will be 

 seen that a large number of the plants are the same as are found in the South-eastern Moluccas and the 

 Admiralty Islands, and many of the names stand as synonyms in this work. Very few of the species described 

 as new from these islands by Gaudichaud, Presl, De Candolle, and others, are represented by authenticated 

 specimens in the London Herbaria, therefore we are unable to estimate the endemic element ; but, so far as 

 the flora is known, this element is limited to species. 



2 "Sida maura, Link," does not occur in the work cited byjEndlieher, nor do we find it elsewhere. Probably 

 it should have been Sida mauritiana, a synonym of Abutilon indicum, which is very widely dispersed in the 

 tropics of the Old World 



(BOT. CHALL. EXP. INTRODUCTION 1885.) 3 



