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Premna integrifolia, Linn. 1 



Premna integrifolia, Linn.? Benth, Fl. Austr., v. p. 59; Miq., Fl. hid. Bat., ii. p. 891; Dene, 

 Herb. Timor. Descr., p. 74. 



Timor Laut.— The true Premna integrifolia is a common seaside shrub or tree in 

 tins region!' ranging from India to North Australia. The Polynesian Premna tahitensis 

 Schauer (Seem., Fl. Vit„ p. 186, t. 43), is very near this, and ranges from the Fijis to the 

 Marquesas. 



Premna obtusifolia, E. Br. 



Premna obtusifolia, R. Br., Prodr. Fl. N. Holl., p. 512; Beuth., Fl. Austr., v. p. 58. 

 Premna cyclojphylla, Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., ii. p. 899. 



Larat ; Wetter ; Timor Laut.— Like Premna integrifolia, this is a littoral species, 

 and it ranges from Java to North Australia. An imperfect specimen of another species 

 was collected in Arrou. 



Vitex trifolia, Linn. 



Vitex trifolia, Linn.; Benth., Fl. Austr., v. p. 66; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., ii. p. 859; Dene., Herb. 

 Timor. Descr., p. 72; Seem., Fl. Vit„ p. 190; Hook, et Arm, Bot. Beech. Voyage, p. 206, t. 47 

 (ovata, Thunb.) ; Rumph., Herb. Amb., iv. t. 18. 



Babar ; Timor Laut ; Letti. — A common seaside shrub in the tropics of the Old 

 "World, and extending to many of the Polynesian Islands, including the Sandwich group ; 

 yet it is not included by Nadeaud in his Enumeration des Plantes Indigenes de Tali it;, 

 nor by Jouan in his essay on the Plants of the Pacific Islands (Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cher- 

 bourg, xi.) Seemann states that it is common on the sea-beach of all the Fiji Islands. 

 It is also in Kew Herbarium from Samoa, Tonga, New Caledonia, and the New Hebrides. 

 Baker (Fl. Maurit., p. 256) treats it as an introduced plant in Mauritius and the Sey- 

 chelles ; but as it also occurs in the Comoro Islands, and on the eastern coast of Africa, it 

 has perhaps as good a claim to be regarded as indigenous in those islands, as in many 

 other localities. It is an exceedingly variable plant in its foliage, exhibiting forms having 

 one, three, and five leaflets respectively. In some of its variations it is not easily dis- 

 tinguished from Vitex negundo, Linn. 



Vitex negundo, Linn. 



Vitex negundo, Linn. ; Miq., FL Ind. Bat., ii. p. 860; Dene., Herb. Timor. Descr., p. 72; Rumph., 

 Herb. Amb., iv. t. 19. 



Timor Laut ; Maru ; Babar. — Common throughout India, the warmer parts of 

 China, and southward through the Archipelago, but apparently not reaching Australia. 

 There are also specimens in the Kew Herbarium from Eastern Africa. Madagascar, and 

 Mauritius, yet Baker (Fl. Maurit., p. 266) says that this species is not even naturalised in 

 Mauritius. There is also a specimen in the Kew Herbarium from Samoa, named Vitex 



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