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Owenia cerasifera, F. Muell. ? 



Oicenia cerasifera, F. MuelL! Benth., FL Austr., i. p. 386. 



Timor Laut. — There is some doubt whether the insular specimens belong to this 

 species, which is not well defined. Previously the genus was only known from Tropical 

 and Subtropical Australia, where there are about half a dozen species. 



Carapa moluccensis, Lam. 



Carapa moluccensis, Lam. ; Benth., FL Austr., i. p. 387 ; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., i. p. 567 ; Oliver, 



Fl. Trop. Afr., i. p. 337 ; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 38. 

 Xylocarpus granatum, Kcenig. ; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 2, p. 546. 



Timor Laut. — A tree or large shrub found on most muddy sea-shores from Northern 

 Australia through the Archipelago to India and Ceylon ; also in Madagascar and on the east 

 coast of Tropical Africa. It extends eastward as far as the Fiji Islands. The seeds of this 

 tree are large and very light, having a thick spongy or fibrous testa. Mr Moseley's collec- 

 tion of drift seeds includes this. Carapa guianensis inhabits the West Indies, Guiana, and 

 Senegambia, and there are two or three other Asiatic species. 



OLACINE^E. 

 Cardiopteris lobata, E. Br. 



Cardiopteris lobata, R. Br. ; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., i. p. 597 ; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 1, p. 798. 



Timor Laut. — The only species, ranging from New Guinea and Ceram to Western 

 China and Eastern India. In Java the leaves are eaten as a vegetable. The indehiscent 

 seed-vessel is light and broadly winged. Besides this, which is of anomalous structure, 

 two or three other members of this Order were collected in the South-eastern Moluccas. 

 Thus a species of Gomphandra? in Arrou, and a Strombosia? in Timor Laut; both very 

 imperfect specimens. 



Ximenia americana, Linn. 



Ximenia americana, Linn. ; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 1, p. 786 ; Benth., Fl. Austr., i. p. 391 ; Hook, f., 



Fl. Brit. Ind., i. p. 574. 

 Ximenia elliptica, Forst. ; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 39 ; Nadeaud, Enum. PL Tahiti, p. 70. 



Timor Laut. — Maritime districts throughout the tropics of both hemispheres. The 

 fruit is eaten. Seemann states that the Pacific Island plant is always unarmed, and he 

 retains it as an independent species. Nadeaud relates that this shrub is pseudo-parasitical, 

 and that it had become very rare in Tahiti itself, although still abundant in some of the 

 neighbouring islets. He classes it with the true madreporic plants. The few other species 

 of Ximenia are American or African. 



