KEPORT ON THE BOTANY OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN MOLUCCAS. 171 



Solarium verbascifolium, Linn. 



Solanum verbascifolium, Linn. ; Miq., EL Ind. Bat., ii. p. 640; Hook, f., FL Brit. Ind., iv. p. 230 ; 

 Benth., Fl. Austr., iv. p. 449; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 438. 



Ki; Timor Laut. — Widely dispersed in Tropical Asia and America; also found in 

 Eastern Tropical Australia, but not recorded from Africa. 



Solanum torvum, Swartz var. 



Solanum torvum, Swartz var. ; Miq., FL Ind. Bat., ii. p. 648; Hook, f., FL Brit. Ind., iv. Jp. 234 ; 

 Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 441. 



Timor Laut. — This species is widely dispersed in Tropical Asia and America, but not 

 known to us either from Africa or Australia. 



Physalis minima, Linn. 



Physalis minima, Linn. ; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., p. 238; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., ii. p. 664; Benth., F). 

 Austr., iv. p. 466. 



Ki ; Timor Laut. — An annual herb, spread nearly all over the tropics. The genus is 

 essentially American, and especially numerous in the Mexican region. Altogether, there 

 are from thirty to forty species, several of which, besides Physalis minima, are now widely 

 diffused in the Old World. 



Capsicum frutescens, Linn. 



Capsicum frutescens, Linn.; Hook, f., FL Brit. Ind., iv. p. 239; Miq., FL Ind. Bat, ii. p. 660; 

 Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 177. 



Timor Laut. — This plant, which is probably indigenous only in America, is now 

 cultivated and naturalised in most other warm countries, as are several other species of the 

 genus, which has, perhaps, spread from America. No species is included in Bentham's 

 Flora Australiensis. 



Datura alba, Nees. 



Datura alba, Nees; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., ii. p. 667. 



Datura fastuosa, Linn., var. alba, Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., iv. p. 213. 



Timor Laut. — Common throughout Tropical Asia, Africa, and America ; but often, 

 like most other species of the genus, existing only as a weed of cultivation. 



Nicotiana tabacum, Linn. 



Nicotiana tabacum, Linn.; Miq., FL Ind. Bat., ii. p. 671 ; Hook, i., FL Brit Ind., iv. p. 245. 



Timor Laut. — The tobacco is a native of America, but it is now cultivated and more 

 or less naturalised in nearly all warm countries. There are between thirty and forty 

 species of Nicotiana, mostly natives of America, but a few appear to be indigenous in 

 Australia and the Pacific Islands. 



