2:J6 THE VOYAGE OF H.M.S. CHALLENGER. 



Colubrina asiatica, Brongn. 



Colubrina asiatica, Brongn. ; Benth., Fl. Austr., i. p. 413; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 42; Nadeaud, Enum. 



PL Tahiti, p. 71 ; Mann in Proe. Amer. Acad., vii. p. 161; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 1, p. 648; 



Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., i. p. 642 ; Oliver, Fl. Trop. Air., I p. 383. 

 Ceanothus capmlaris, Forst., FL Ins. Austr. Prodr., p. 18. 



Admiralty Islands. — Spread all over the tropics of the Old World, and throughout 

 Polynesia, from New Caledonia to the Marquesas and the Sandwich Islands, growing 

 chiefly in maritime districts. Colubrina is a genus of about a dozen species, two besides 

 the present inhabiting Tropical Asia, and the rest America. 



AMPELIDE^E. 

 Leea sequata, Linn. 



Leea cequata, Linn. ; Clarke in Journ. Bot., 1881, p. 163. 



Leea sambucina, Lawson in Hook. f. FL Brit. Ind., i. p. 666, partim. 



Admiralty Islands. — India and the Malayan Archipelago. A fragment of a second 

 species is in the collection from the Admiralty Islands. 



SAPINDACE.E. 

 Ratonia sp. 



Admiralty Islands. — In the Flora of British India Ratonia is reduced to Cupania, 

 which thus becomes a large genus, spread nearly all over the tropics, though only one 

 species has been found in Africa. 



LEGUMiNOS^E. 

 Desmodium umbellatum, DC. 



Desmodium umbellatum, DC. ; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 56. 



Admiralty Islands. — Asia, Africa, Australia, and America, and nearly all over 

 Polynesia, though it does not appear to reach the Sandwich Islands. It is a half shrubby 

 plant, often growing on the sea-beach. 



Mucuna gigantea, DC. 



Mucuna gigantea, DC. ; Benth., Fl. Austr., ii. p. 254; Hook, f., Fl. Brit. Ind., i. p. 186; Seem., Fl. 

 Vit., p. 59 ; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., i. 1, p. 213; Nadeaud, Enum. PL Tahiti, p. 80; Mann in Proc. 

 Amer. Acad., vii. p. 164 ; A. Gr., Bot. U.S. Expl. Espcd., p. 442. 



Admiralty Islands. — AVidely spread in Tropical Asia and Polynesia, and also found 

 in Eastern Australia. Nadeaud states that in Tahiti it climbs over the trees of Paritium 

 tiliaceum and Barringtonia on the sea-coast. 



