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MORINGE^]. 



Moringa pterygosperma, Gaertn. 



Moringa pterygosperma, Gosrtn. ; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 45. 



Timor Laut. — A native of Tropical Asia, commonly cultivated there and in other 

 tropical countries for the oil afforded by its winged seeds. There are only two other 

 species, and the genus is confined to the Old World. 



LEGUMINOS^E. 



Papilionace^e. 



Orotalaria linifolia, Linn. f. 



Orotalaria linifolia, Linn. f. ; Benth., Fl. Austr., ii. p. 180 ; Miq., FL Ind. Bat., i. 1, p..342 ; Hook, f., 

 Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 72. 



Timor Laut. — A very common species throughout Tropical Asia and Australia, grow- 

 ing equally well on the coast and inland. It is singular that this genus, which numbers 

 between two and three hundred species, generally spread in tropical and subtropical 

 regions, is almost entirely absent from the Pacific Islands. Seemann (Flora Vitiensis, p. 

 54) enumerates one, Orotalaria quinquefolia, Linn., which is also found in Tana, and is 

 widely* spread in Tropical Asia, and also occurs in Tropical Australia. Horace Mann 

 (Proc. Amer. Acad. Sci., xii. p. 163) includes three species in his Catalogue of Hawaiian 

 Plants, two of which are treated as of recent introduction, while the third, Orotalaria 

 sericea, Ketz., he suspected to have been introduced by the aborigines. Jouan, in his 

 sketch of the vegetation of some of the Pacific Islands (Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, 

 1865), does not mention a single species, nor does Nadeaud in his Enumeration des Plantes 

 Indigenes de l'lle de Tahiti, 1873. 



Orotalaria sericea, Eetz. 



Orotalaria sericea, Retz. ; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 1, p. 330 ; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 75. 



Timor Laut. — Common throughout Tropical India, including the Archipelago, where, 

 as well as in other countries, it is often cultivated on accouut of its ornamental character. 

 It occurs in the Sandwich Islands, where, however, as stated under Orotalaria linifolia, it 

 is regarded as an introduced plant. 



Indigofera anil, Linn. 



Indigofera anil, Linn.; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., L 1,'p. 307; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 54; Oliver, Fl. Trop. 

 Air., ii. p. 98; Griseb., FL Brit. W. Ind., p. 181. 



Timor Laut. — This is one of the species most commonly cultivated for indigo dye, 

 (bot. chall. exp. — part in. — 1885.) C 18 



