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Heritiera littoralis, Dryauder. 



Heritiera littoralis, Dryander; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 2, p. 179 ; nook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., i. p. 363 

 (excl. syn. Heritiera macrophylla) ) Benth., Fl. Austr., i. p. 231; Oliver, FL Trop. Afr., i. p. 

 225 ; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 23. 



Arrou. — A seaside tree throughout Tropical Asia; in Northern Australia, the Fiji and 

 Tongan Islands, and Eastern Tropical Africa. The large carpels float, and Mr Moseley 

 picked up some on the beach at Arrou, but no specimens of the foliage or flowers. 



Kleinhovia hospita, Linn. 



Klcinhovia hospita, Linn.; Hook, f., Fl. Brit.' Ind., i. p. 36-1; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 2, p. 186; 

 Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr., i. p. 226; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 24. 



Timor Laut ; Babar ; Wetter. — Common in the Archipelago and India, as well as 

 in the Fiji and Society Islands; also occurring in the Mascarene Islands and the islands 

 of Eastern Tropical Africa, but not known to grow in Australia nor on the mainland of 

 Africa. Naturalised in the West Indies. A handsome tree, generally growing gregariously, 

 according to Seemann. 



Helicteres isora, Linn. 



Helicteres isora, Linn.; Benth., Fl. Austr., L p. 232; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 2, p. 169; Hook, f., Fl. 

 Brit. Ind., i. p. 365. 



Letti. — Throughout the Archipelago and India, common ; but only found in the 

 extreme north of Australia, and not recorded from Polynesia. A considerable genus widely 

 spread in the tropics, and most numerously represented in America, but apparently 

 absent from Africa. 



Melhania n. sp. 1 



Timor Laut. — This species is allied to the Indian Melhania tomentosa. The genus 

 consists of about twenty species in Tropical Asia and Africa, one of the Asiatic species 

 occurring in Australia ; and there are two very distinct species in St Helena, which are 

 sometimes referred to Trochetia, which they more closely resemble in habit. 



Melochia velutina, Bedd. 



Meloehia velutina, Bedd. ; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., i. p. 374. 



Riedleia tilicefolia, DC., Prodr., i. p. 490; Miq., FL Ind. Bat., i. 2, p. 188. 



Ki ; Letti ; Timor Laut. — Timor and northward into the hotter parts of India, though 

 often only planted. Melochia numbers upwards of fifty species, spread nearly all over the 

 warmer regions of both hemispheres. 



