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Cunningham collected it in 18 IS in Timor, where he found it by roadsides and on walls. 

 In Hooker's Flora of British India it is said to occur in Australia ; but this is an error, 

 which arose no doubt through Cunningham's plant being prominently labelled Australian 

 1 1 erbarium. 



With regard to the origin of the insular plant, it seems highly probably that it was 

 introduced by the Spaniards at an early date, for we have evidence that the buds and 

 fruits are used in the same way as in Europe, and it consequently would be conveyed 

 from island to island purposely and accidentally. In North-western India, Zanzibar, and 

 Eastern Tropical Africa grows a variety of Capparis spinosa, namely, Capparis galeata, 

 which has even larger flowers and fruit than the insular plant ; so that altogether 

 the affinities of this plant seem to be indisputable, though its Mediterranean origin cannot 

 be proved. 



Capparis sp., Capparis lasiopodce et pubiflorce aff. 



Timor Laut. — Specimen fragmentary and insufficient for determination, though it is 

 clearly allied to the above named species from the same region. There are imperfect 

 specimens of two or three other species of Capparis from Timor Laut, Dammar, and 

 other islands, closely allied to, if not the same, as Capparis lucida, E. Br., and Capparis 

 salaccensis. Bl. The former is a native of North Australia and Queensland, and the lattar 

 of Java. 



VIOLARIEiE. 



Ionidium sufiruticosum, Ging. 



Ionidium suffndicowm, Ging.; Benth., FL Austr., i. p. 101; Miq., Fl. Lid. Bat., i. 2, p. 115 

 (frutescens). 



Timor Laut. — Widely spread in Tropical Asia, Africa, and the eastern parts of 

 Australia. 



PITTOSPOREiE. 



Pittosporum revolutum, Ait. ? 



JPittosporum revolutum, Ait.? Benth., Fl. Austr., i. p.'lll. 



Kl. The typical plant inhabits Victoria, New South Wales, and Queensland. Tuere 



is a specimen of a second species from Timor Laut. Altogether there are about fifty 

 species of this genus, which is generally spread over the warmer parts of Asia, Africa, 

 Australia, the Pacific Islands, and New Zealand. 



(BOT. CHALL. EXP. PART III. 1885.) ^ 1" 



