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COMBRETACE^]. 

 Terminalia sp. 



Ki. — A large genus of trees, generally spread in the tropics, and common in the 

 Indian Archipelago and Australia. Terminalia catappa, the Indian Almond, is now 

 found nearly all over the area of the genus. 



Lumnitzera coccinea, Wight and Arnott. 



Lumnitzera coccinea, Wight and Amott ; Miq., Fl. Iud. Eat., i. 1, p. 606 ; Benth., Fl. Austr., ii. p. 503 ; 

 Hook., f., Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 452; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 94. 



Timor Latjt. — A common tree in the Mangrove swamps of the Archipelago and the 

 Malayan Peninsula, extending to the Fijis and Northern Australia. Another species, 

 Lumnitzera racemosa, has the same range as the present, and is also found in the Western 

 Peninsula of India, in Ceylon, and in Eastern Africa. 



Quisqualis sp. 



Wetter. — Quisqualis is a genus of four or five species, one of which is African, and 

 the rest Asiatic; and Quisqualis indica, the commonest of them, is cultivated generally 

 in the tropics, and is wild throughout the Archipelago and India. The present plant may 

 be that species. 



Gyrocarpus jacquini, Eoxb. 



Gi/rocarpus jacquini, Eoxb. ; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 461 ; Benth., Fl. Austr., ii. p. 505 ; 



Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 95; Oliver, Fl. Trop. Afr., ii. p. 435. 

 Gyrocai-pus asiaticus, Willd. ; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 1, p. 978. 

 (iyrocarpus americanus, Jacq. ; DC, Prodr., xv. 1, p. 247. 



Timor Latjt. — This tree grows in maritime districts throughout the tropics, but it is 

 comparatively rare in America, and especially in Africa, being only recorded from Angola. 

 In America it ranges from Mexico to Venezuela and New Grenada. The seed-vessel is 

 crowned by two long wings, giving it the appearance of a small shuttlecock. 



MYRTACE^]. 

 Melaleuca leucadendron, Linn. 



Melaleuca leucadendron, Linn.; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 1, p. 401; Benth., Fl. Austr., iii. p. 142; 

 Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 465. : 



Timor Laut. — Common in Tropical Australia, and throughout the Indian Archipelago 

 to Cochin-Chma, Malacca, and Mergui in the Malayan Peninsula. A very variable species, 



