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second species or variety, which grows in similar situations in Bengal and the Malayan 

 Peninsula. 



Plumbago zeylanica, Linn. 



Plumbago zeylanica, Linn. ; Benth., Fl. Austr., iv. p. 267 ; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., ii. p. 994; Hook, f., 

 Fl. Brit. Ind., iii. p. 480; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 194; Nadeaud, Enum. PI. Tahiti, p. 48; Mann 

 in Proc. Amer. Acad., vii. p. 189. 



Ki ; Tenimber; Letti. — This plant is now generally spread in Tropical Asia, 

 Africa, and Australia, and in some of the Polynesian Islands ; but as it is very commonly 

 cultivated for ornament, its range may have considerably widened by this means. 

 Nadeaud cites a Tahitian name for it ; and Mann states that the acrid juice is used by 

 the natives of the Sandwich Islands for tattooing. There are about ten species of the 

 genus, spread over the warmer parts of both hemispheres, and extending to the Cape of 

 Good Hope in the south, and Southern Europe and Central Asia in the north. Plumbago 

 scandens is almost everywhere in the warmer parts of America. 



MYIiSINE^E. 

 Msesa nemoralis, A. DC. 1 



Mcesa nemoralis, A. DC. ? Prodr., viii. p. 79 ; Seem., Fl. Vit., pp. 148 et 430. 



Timor Laut ; Babar. — The true Mcesa nemoralis has been collected in New Caledonia, 

 the New Hebrides, the Tongan Islands, and the Solomon and Samoan groups. 

 Imperfect specimens of several other species were collected in Timor Laut. 



SAPOTACE/E. 

 Mimusops kauki, Linn. 



Mimusops kauki, Linn.; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., iii. p. 549; [Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., ii. p. 

 1042. 



Timor Laut. — The Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago, and also in Tropical 

 Australia, if Mimusops browniana, Benth. (Fl. Austr., iv. p. 285), be regarded as the 

 same species. Genus widely spread in warm regions. 



EBENACE^E. 

 Diospyros maritima, Blume. 



Diospyros maritima, Blume, Hiern. Ebenacese, p. 211. 



Cargillia laxa, R. Br., Prodr. Fl. N. Holl, p. 526; Benth., Fl. Austr., iv. p. 287. 

 Cargillia maritima, Hassk., Cat. PI. Hort. Bot. Bogor., ii. p. 159 ; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., ii. p. 

 1049. 



Ki ; Larat ; Timor Laut ; Moa. — A sea-coast tree, ranging from Java to Timor 

 and North Australia. 



