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hemisphere, and extends into the southern in America, Africa, and Australia. Finally, 

 Celtis pacifica, Planch., inhabits the Tongan and Marquesas Islands. 



Trema timorensis, Hemsl. 



Sponia timorensis, Dene., Herb., Timor. Descr., p. 170; DC, Prodr., xvii. p. 19G; Mia, Fl bid 

 Bat., i. 2, p. 216. 



Timor Laut.— Also in Timor. Trema is wanting in the north temperate zone, but in 

 the tropics and in southern subtropical regions it is as widely spread as Celtis is in the 

 northern. Two species occur in Polynesia. 



Trema angustifolia, Lindl. 



Trema angustifolia, Lindl. in "Wall. Cat., n. 3G91. 

 Sponia angustifolia, Planch, in DC. Prodr., xvii. p. 202. 



Babar. — South China and Malayan Peninsula, but not recorded before from the 

 Archipelago. 



Fatoua pilosa, Gaud. 



Fatoua pilosa, Gaud., Voy. Bonite, t. 84; Bureau in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 5, xi. p. 375; Benth., Fl. 



Austr., vi. p. 182. 

 Fatoua lanceolata, Dene., Nouv. Ann. Mus. Par. iii. p. -192; Miq., Fl. lad. Bat,, i. 2, 



p. 282. 



Ki ; Timor Laut ; Lakor. — Apparently an annual herb, although the stem becomes 

 woody below ; ranging from China, Japan, and the Philippines, through the Archipelago 

 to North Australia ; also in New Caledonia, and there is a specimen in the Kew Herbarium 

 labelled "Assam," without a collector's name. Bentham, loc. cit., states further that it is 

 dispersed over the South Sea Islands, but this is apparently a slip of the pen, for there 

 are no specimens from that region in the Kew Herbarium, and we find no other record of 

 its existence, either in Seemann's Flora Vitiensis, or elsewhere. 



Ficus pilosa, Eeinw. 



Ficus pilosa, Reinw. ; Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat., iii. p. 260 ; Benth., Fl. Austr., vi. 



p. 164. 

 Urostigma pilosum, Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 2, p. 351. 



Timor Laut. — This species has been collected in Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Banca, 

 Timor, New Guinea, and Queensland in Australia. The genus Ficus is one of the 

 largest genera in the vegetable kingdom, upwards of 600 species being represented in the 

 Kew Herbarium ; and, judging from the proportion of new ones in recent collections from 

 various parts of the world, the total number in existence must be much greater. By far 

 the greatest concentration of species is in Tropical Asia, including the Archipelago, and 

 it is in Asia only — in China and Japan — where the genus is strongly represented in 



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