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foliage. Its native country is uncertain, though doubtless somewhere in Asia. Anderson 

 suggests that it may be indigenous in the Friendly and Fiji Islands. There are specimens 

 of it, without variegated foliage, in the Kew Herbarium, from the former group of islands 

 collected by Harvey, and from the latter collected by Milne ; yet it is not included in 

 Seemann's Flora Vitiensis. Milne records it as frequent on the mountains of Ovalau. 

 Among other cultivated specimens in the Kew Herbarium are some from the West Indies, 

 including one from Havana, from the Herbarium of Ruiz and Pavon. There are also 

 specimens from Sierra Leone and Mauritius. The genus includes two other species, which 

 are endemic in Australia. 



Dicliptera burmanni, Nees. 



Dicliptera burmanni, Nees ; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., ii. p. 845. 

 Dicliptera ciliata, Dene., Herb. Timor. Descr., p. 56, fide Miquelii. 



Arrott ; Ki ; Lakor ; Dammar ; Letti.— China and Java to Timor. The genus is a 

 large one, and is represented in America as well as the Old World. Two species, allied to 

 the present one, inhabit Timor and North Australia. 



Hypoestes floribunda, R. Br. 



Hypoestes fioribunda, R. Br., Prodr. Fl. N. Holl., p. 474 ; Benth., Fl. Austr., iv. p. 553 (var, 

 plures). 



Timor Ladt. — Common in North Australia, Queensland, and New South Wales, and 

 very variable. Probably, as suggested by Mr Bentham, some of the Archipelago forms, 

 described as species by Nees and others, should be referred to this. Hypoestes is an 

 exclusively Old World genus, of about forty species, ranging all over Eastern Tropical 

 Asia southward to North Australia ; also the Mascarene Islands and Tropical Africa. 



MYOPORINE^E. 



Myoporum acuminatum, R. Br. 



Myqporum acuminatum, R. Br., Prodr. Fl. N. Holl., p. 515; Benth., Fl. Austr., v. p. 3 (wrietates 

 plures). 



Timor Laut. — The species of Myoporum'&re mostly concentrated in Australia, with 

 single species in New Zealand, the Sandwich Islands, the Toubouai Islands, New Cale- 

 donia, China, Japan, and the Mauritius; but, "although Bentham includes the Indian 

 Archipelago in his distribution of the genus, we have seen no specimen except the present. 

 Myoporum acuminatum is one of the commoner Australian species, occurring in all the 

 colonies, and it is closely allied to the New Caledonian Myoporum tenuifolium. 



