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Archipelago, North Australia, and Polynesia, from New Caledonia to the Fiji, Friendly, and 

 Society Islands. Seemann also records it from the Sandwich Islands, collected by Macrae, 

 Nuttall, and Barclay ; but we have seen no specimens thence, and it is not included in II. 

 Mann's enumeration of Sandwich Island plants ; probably the specimens referred hither 

 by Seemann belong to the allied Euphorbia cordata. The genus Euphorbia comprises 

 between 600 and 700 species, growing in the most diverse localities, throughout the 

 temperate and tropical regions, and exhibiting, perhaps, a greater variety in habit and 

 duration than is to be found in any other genus. Euphorbia atoto belongs to a section of 

 shrubby species mostly inhabiting the sea-coast and especially oceanic islands. Euphorbia 

 buxifolia, of the Bermudas and West Indies, and Euphorbia origanoides, of Ascension, 

 belong to the same group, which is also largely represented in Polynesia. Tims Enj>hoi-bia 

 eJiamissonis is found in the Marshall Islands, and Euphorbia rauw.sissima, in Pitcairn and 

 Elizabeth Islands. Another, though closely allied section, is peculiar to the Galapagos and 

 the West Indies, eight species being endemic in the former group, and one in the Bahamas. 

 Bentham, he. cit., reduces Euphorbia levis, Poir. {Euphorbia Jcvrujata, Valil) to 

 Euphorbia atoto. See also Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 2, p. 419. Nadeaud, loc. cit., states 

 that Euphorbia atoto especially affects the coralline parts of the shores of Tahiti. 



Euphorbia antiquorum, Linn. 



Euphorbia antiquorum, Linn. ; Boiss. in DC. Prodr., xv. 2, p. 81 ; Miq., FL Ind. But., i. 2, 

 p. 418. 



Timor Laut. — A shrubby species, armed with spines, and usually almost leafless, and 

 having thick, fleshy, angular branches, resembling some Cactaceae. A sea-shore species, 

 ranging; from India to Timor. 



Euphorbia pilulifera, Linn. 



Euphorbia pilulij 'era, Linn.; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 2, p 120; Benth., Fl. Austr., vi. p. ->1 ; Seem., 

 Fl. Yit., p. 216 ; Mann in Proc. Anier. Acad., vii. p. 201. 



Arrou ; Kl.— An annual species, now generally diffused in warm regions of both 



hemispheres. 



Phyllanthus reticulatus, Poir. 



Phyllanthus reticulata, Poir. ; Mull. Arg. in DC. Prodr., xv. 2, p. 314 (varietati <) ; Benth., FL Austr., 



• vi - P- 101 - 

 Anisonema eglandulosum, Dene., Herb. Timor. Descr., p. 154; Miq., FL Bid. Bat., i. -, 



p. 375. 

 Babar; Wetter.— As circumscribed by Midler, loc. cit., this is widely spread in 



Tropical Asia and Africa. It is also found in the West Indies {Phyllanthus j :enm, 



Griseb., Fl. Brit. W. Ind., p. 34), where, however, it is probably a colonist. The 

 Australian locality is doubtful. 



