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Aleurites moluccana, Willd. 



Aleurites moluccana, Willd. ; Mull. Arg. in DC. Prodr., xv. 2, p. 723 ; Benth., FL Austr., vi. p. 128 ; 



Seem., FL Vit., p. 223; Nadeaud, Enum. PI. Tahiti, p. 73; Mann in Proc. Amor. Acad, 



vii. p. 203. 

 Aleurites triloba, Forst., Char. Gen. PL, p. 112, t. 56 ; Miq., FL Ind. Bat., i. 2, p. 385; Jouan in 



Mom. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, xi., 1865, pp. 118, 128, 138, et 148. 



Arrou. — A tree generally spread in Polynesia, and occurring in North-eastern Australia, 

 as well as some of the Moluccas ; and it is now naturalised in most other tropical countries. 

 It is one of the most abundant trees in some of the islands of Polynesia, yielding an oil 

 and. other products in common use. Nadeaud states that in Tahiti it is widely spread, 

 growing from the sea-shore to an altitude of upwards of 3000 feet. There are only two 

 other species of the genus, and they inhabit the same region. 



Codiseurn variegatum, Blume var. 



Codiceum variegatum, Blume var.; Mull. Arg. in DC. Prodr., xv. 2, p. 1110 (van Seem., FL 



Vit., p. 231 ; Benth., FL Austr., vi. p. 147. 

 Codiceum moluccanum, Dcno., Herb. Timor. Descr., p. 157 ; Miq., FL Ind. Bat, i. 2, p. 383. 



Arrou ; Ki. — The genus Codiceum, as circumscribed by Bentham and Hooker (Gen. 

 Plant., iii. p. 300), comprises four species, which inhabit the Malayan Archipelago, Poly- 

 nesia, and Australia. The present species is widely spread in India, the Archipelago, and 

 Polynesia, where there are many varieties having variegated foliage, commonly cultivated 

 for ornamental purposes. Seemann states that a great many varieties and subvarieties of 

 this species are cultivated by the natives in the Fiji Islands, and they all have distinguish- 

 ing names. There are specimens in the Kew Herbarium from the Isle of Pines, near New- 

 Caledonia, .from Tanna, New Hebrides, from Pig Island in the Louisiade group, from the 

 Admiralty, and from Samoa ; but it is not included in Nadeaud's Enumeration of Tahitian 

 Plants. Miiller cites the following plates in Rumphius' Herb. Amb. as varieties of this 

 plant : vol. i., tt. 25-27. 



Manihot utilissima, Pohl. 



Manihot utilissima, Pohl. ; DC, Prodr., xv. 2, p. 1064. 

 Timor Laut.— A tropical American plant, extensively cultivated in many warm 

 countries for its edible root. Another species, Manihot palmat a, Mull. Arg., of the same 

 origin, is also cultivated for the same purpose, and had already been introduced by settlers 

 in Fiji when Seemann visited the islands (see FL Vit,, p. 229). Manihot is a genus of 

 about eighty described species, all of them American, and the majority Brazilian. 



Claoxylon rubescens, Miq. ? 



Claoxylon rubescens, Miq. ? FL Ind. Bat., i. 2, p. 387. 



Arrou.— This species was founded upon Javanese specimens. The genus, which consists 



