REPORT ON THE BOTANY OF THE SOUTH-EASTERN MOLUCCAS. L9] 



Mallotus rnuricatus, Miill. Arg. ? 



Mallotus rnuricatus, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr., xv. 2, p. 972 I 



Timor Laut; Babae.— The true plant is found in Ceylon. Java, Philippines, and 

 Timor. 



Mallotus albus, Mull. Arg. 



Mallotus albus, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr., xv. 2, p. 965. 



Eottlera alba, Koxb., Fl. hid., iii. p. 826; Miq., Fl. Ind. Eat. Suppl., p. 453. 



Timor Laut.— Widely spread in India, and extending to Sumatra and Java. 

 Mallotus moluccanus, Miill. Are. 



Mallotus moluccanus, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr., xv. 2, p. 958. 

 Rottlera multiglandtilosa, Blume; Dene., Herb. Timor. Descr., p. 158. 

 Melanolepis multiglandulosa, Reickb. f. efc Zoll. ; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 2, p. 399. 



Timor Laut ; Dammar. — From the Philippines and the Marianne Islands to Timor. 



Mallotus repandus, Miill. Arg. 



Mallotus repandus, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr., xv. 2, p. 981 ; Benth., Fl. Austr., vi. p. 142. 

 Rottlera scabrifolia, Adr. Juss. ; Dene., Herb. Timor. Descr., p. 157. 



Timor Laut. — India, China, and the Philippines, to North-eastern Australia and New- 

 Caledonia. 



Macaranga tanarius, Mull. Arg. 



Macaranga tanarius, Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr., xv. 2, p. 997; Benth., Fl. Austr., vi. p. 116. 



Arrou ; Timor Laut. — A shrub ranging from India, South China, and the Philippines, 

 southward to Eastern Tropical Australia and the New Hebrides. Macaranga comprises 

 about eighty species, spread all over the tropical regions of the Old World. 



Macaranga involucrata, Baill. var. ? 



Macaranga involucrata, Baill. var. ? Etud. Euphorb., p. 432 ; Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr., xv. 2, 

 p. 1011 ; Benth., Fl. Austr., vi. p. 146. 



Arrou; Ki ; Timor Laut. — Amboina, and other islands of the Archipelago, and 

 Queensland in North-eastern Australia. There are also fragments of three or four other 

 species of this genus from Ki and Timor Laut. 



Ricinus communis, Linn. 



Ricinus communis, Linn.; Miill. Arg. in DC. Prodr., xv. 2, p. 1017; Seem., Fl. Vit, p. 229; Miq., 

 Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 2, p. 390-391 (species 1-6) ; Mann in Proc. Amer. Acad., vii. p. 203 ; Jouan in 

 Mem. Soc. Sei. Nat. Cherbourg, xi. 1865, pp. 120 et 147; Rumph., Herb. Ami.., iv. p. 90. 



Arrou. — The castor-oil plant is now very generally spread in tropical and subtropical 

 regions, and it is uncertain where it is really indigenous ; but Africa is regarded as its 



