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Bryonia sp. (aff. Bryonia laciniosa, Linn.) 



Timor Laut.— Probably only a variety of Bryonia laciniosa, which is generally spread 

 in the tropics of the Old World. 



PICOIDE^E. 

 Sesuvium portulacastrum, Linn. 



Scsuvium poriulacastmm, Linn.; Benth., Fl. Austr., iii. p. 328; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Iud., ii. p. 659; 

 Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 1, p. 1060 (Sesuvium repens, Willd.); Nadeaud, Enum. PI. Tahiti, p. 67 ; 

 Guillemin in Ann. Sci. Nat., ser. 2, vii. p. 350. 



Maru.— This perennial herb is common, especially on sandy sea-shores throughout 

 tropical and subtropical regions, including many remote islands ; as the Bermudas, Ascen- 

 sion, St Helena, Easter Island, the Sandwich Islands, the Phoenix group, &c. It often 

 grows where it is covered at high water. In the Galapagos is a species, Sesuvium 

 edmonstonei, which is endemic. 



UMBELLIFER^E. 



Carum roxburghianum, Benth. 



Carum roxburghianum, Benth. ; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 682. 



Apium involucratum, Roxb., Hort. Bcng., p. 22, et Fl. Ind., ii. p. 97 ; Wight, Ic. PL Ind. Or.,t. 567. 



Ptijchotis roxburghiana, DC. ; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 1, p. 737. 



Timor Laut. — This is cultivated throughout India, and in some parts of the Archi- 

 pelago, but it is not known where it is indigenous. It is probably a cultivated state of 

 some other species. 



ARALIACE^E. 

 Delarbrea sp. 



Timor Laut. — There are two described species of Delarbrea, both restricted to Now 

 Caledonia, unless this be the same as one of them, and, as far as the material goes, it is so 

 like Delarbrea paradoxa, Vieill. (Ann. Sci. Nat., s^r. 5, iii. p. 234), that it may be the 

 same species. 



Panax sp. 



Timor Laut. — Probably only a variety of Panax pinnaturn, Lam., which has a wide 

 range in the Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago. The genus has a very wide range in 

 the Old World southward to New Zealand. 



Heptapleurum venulosum, Seem. 



Heptapleurum venulosum, Seem., Rev. Heder., p. 44; Hook, i., Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 729; Benth., FL 



Austr., iii. p. 384. 

 Paratropia elliptiea, Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 1, p. 756. 



Arrou ?— Widely dispersed in Tropical Asia, and extendiug to North Australia. 



