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Hyptis spicigera, Lam. 



Hyptis spicigera, Lam. ; DC, Prodr., xii. p. 87 ; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., ii. p. 958 ; Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. 

 Ind., p. 487. 



Timor Laut. — The distribution of this herb is somewhat remarkable, but it probably 

 exists only as an introduced plant in some of the localities in the Old World. Thus, it 

 has been found in the Philippines and in Madagascar ; it is widely spread in Tropical 

 Africa, and in America it ranges from the West Indies and Panama to Brazil. Bentham, 

 Flora Australiensis, v. p. 80, seems to regard the genus as wholly American, for he says : 

 " A very large genus, entirely American, tropical or subtropical ; a few of the species are, 

 however, now spread over various tropical regions of the Old AVorld, especially Africa. In 

 De Candolle's Prodromus Bentham defines 250 species, which are mostly herbaceous or at 

 the most shrubby, though one, Hyptis arborca, is a tree thirty feet high. 



Anisomeles salviaefolia, R. Br. 



Anisomeles salviaefolia, E. Br., Prodr. FL K Holl., p. 503; Bentli., Fl. Austr., v. p. S9 ; Miq., Fl. 

 Ind. Bat., ii. p. 976. 



Ki ; Timor Laut. — Timor and the northern part of Australia, but apparently never 

 far from the sea. In the Flora Australiensis Bentham unites Anisomeles moschata and 

 Anisomeles inodora, E. Br., with this species. A small genus restricted to Australia and 

 Tropical Asia. 



Anisomeles ovata, E. Br. 



Anisomeles ovata, R. Br. ; DC, Prodr., xii. p. 455 ; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., ii. p. 975 ; Baker, Fl. Maurit., 

 p. 260. 



Maru. — An exceedingly common Indian plant ; also ranging from China and the 

 Philippines to Timor, but not recorded from Australia. It is naturalised in the Mauritius, 

 and perhaps in some of the localities in Tropical Asia. 



Leucas javanica, Bentli. 



Leucas javanica, Benth. in DC. Prodr., xii. p. 528; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., ii. p. 9S0. 

 Ki. — Java to Timor. Leucas is a large genus, generally spread over Tropical Asia and 

 Africa. One species only, Leucas jlaccida, which is perhaps a variety of the more widely 

 dispersed Leucas decemdentata, has been found on the coast of Queensland in Australia. 



Leucas decemdentata, Smith. 



Leucas decemdentata, Smith; DC, Prodr. xii. p. 526; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 192; Nadeaud, Enum. PI. 



Tahiti, p. 56. 

 Stachys decemdentata, Forst., Ins. Austr. Prodr., p. 91. 



Timor Laut. — Common in Viti and Tahiti, and recently collected in Samoa ; and 

 Milne collected it in Aneiteum in 1853. Nadeaud states that it abounds in all parts of 



