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inhabits the Philippines and Queensland, Australia, where it is the only species of a 

 genus numerous in India and Africa. There are about fifty species of Oeropegia spread 

 over the wanner parts of the Old World. 



LOGANIACE^I. 

 Gsertnera sp. 



AsROV.—Gatinera is a genus of about twenty-five species, inhabiting Tropical Asia and 

 Africa, but rare in the Archipelago, and not known to be represented in Australia. The 

 present plant may be the common Goertnera kcenigii, Wight, Ic. PL Ind. Or., t. 1318. 



BORAGINE^E. 

 Cordia subcordata, Lam. 



Cordia subcordata, Lam.; Bentb., Fl. Austr., iv. p. 385; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., iv. p. 140; Miq., 

 Fl. Ind. Bat., ii. p. 914; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 168, t. 34; Nadeaud, Enum. PL Tahiti, p. 57 

 Mann, in Proc. Amer. Acad., vii. p. 194. 



Cordia sebestena, Forst., FL Ins. Austr. Prodr., p. 18, non Linn. 



Cordia rumphii, Blunie, Bijdr., p. 843 ; Rumpk, Herb. Amb., ii. p. 226, t. 75. 



Lakor ; Timor Laut. — A very common tree in Polynesia, from the Fijis to the 

 Sandwich Islands, and among others in the Marquesas aud Society groups. It is most 

 likely the " Cordia sebestena, Linn., an potius Cordia speciosa, Willd. " of Jouan (Me'm. 

 Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, xi., 1865, p. 116), who states that it is usually found on the sea- 

 shore, and expresses the opinion that the seeds are conveyed from place to place by oceanic 

 currents. Seemann mentions that the seeds are eaten by the natives [of Fiji ?], though 

 there is not much taste in them. Nadeaud describes this as a tree of the madreporic vegeta- 

 tion, met with on the sea-shore, and adds that it furnishes the beautiful red dye. of Tahiti. 

 This tree is also common in the islands of the Indian Ocean, and westward to the east 

 coast of Africa. In India it is commonly planted, and perhaps nowhere really wild ; it is 

 also found throughout the Archipelago, and on the coast of Tropical Australia. The genus 

 Cordia numbers nearly 200 species, spread over the warmer regions of both hemispheres, 

 but most numerous in America. 



Enretia sp. 



Arrou ; Letti. — Ehretia is a considerable genus, widely dispersed in the tropical 

 regions of the Old World. 



Tournefortia argentea, Linn. f. 



Tournefortia argentea, Linn. f. ;' Bentb., FL Austr., iv. p. 389 ; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., iL p. 926 ; 

 Hook, f., FL Brit, Ind., iv. p. 145; Seem., FL Vit., p. 171 ; Nadeaud, Enum. PL Tahiti, p. 57. 



Arrou to Timor Laut. — A common seaside shrub on nearly all coasts, insular and con- 

 tinental, of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, at least in the warmer parts. Seemann records 



