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Vigna lutea, A. Gr. 



Vigna lutea, A. Gr, Bot. U.S. Expl. Exped, p. 452; Seem, El. Vit, p. 62; Mann in Proc. Amur. 

 Acad, vii. p. 164; Nadeaud, Enum. PI. Tahiti, p. 80. 



Admiralty Islands.— Spread nearly all over the warmer regions, but more especially 

 in maritime districts. 



Sophora tomentosa, Linn. 



Sophora tomentosa, Linn. ; A. Gr, Lot. U.S. ExpL Expcd, p. 460; Seem, FL Vit, p. 66; Nadeaud 

 Enum. PI. Tahiti, p. 81. 



Admiralty Islands.— An essentially seaside tree, generally diffused in the warmer 

 regions. 



ROSACEA. 

 Parinarium laurinum, A. Gr. 



Parinarium laurinum, A. Gr, Bot. U.S. Expl. Exped, i. p. 490, t. 55 ; Seem, Fl. Vit, p. 75. 

 Admiralty Islands. — This tree also inhabits the Solomon, Fiji, and Samoan Islands. 

 The genus is spread over the tropical regions, more especially in maritime districts, both 

 of the Old World and America. There is one other Polynesian species. 



RHIZOPHORE^E. 

 Rhizophora conjugata, Linn. 



Rhizophora conjugata, Linn. ; Miq, Fl. Ind. Bat, i. 1, p. 584; Houk. f, Fl. Brit. Ind., ii. p. 436. 



Admiralty Islands. — Tidal marshes of Tropical Asia, from the Indus eastward, and 

 through the Archipelago, but evidently by no means so common in the southern part of 

 its area as Rhizophora mucronata. Henslow, in Hooker's Flora of British India, records it 

 from Africa, but this seems to be a mistake, for there are no specimens in the Kew 

 Herbarium. Rhizojihora mucronata, Lam., is the common one in the Old World, extending 

 to Eastern Africa, North-eastern Australia, and Polynesia; but, as Seemann remarks 

 (Flora Vitiensis, p. 92), there is no evidence of the existence of true mangroves in Eastern 

 Polynesia. Forster, according to Seemann, mentions a mangrove as occurring in the 

 Society Islands, but there is no specimen of it in his herbarium, nor is there any in the 

 recent collections. Neither Nadeaud nor Guillemin includes a mangrove. Rhizophora 

 mucronata is common in the Fijis and in Samoa, and there is also a specimen in the Kew 

 Herbarium from Funafuti in the Ellice group. 



Bruguiera rheedii, Blume. 



Bruguiera rheedii, Blume; Seem, FL Vit, p. 91 ; Benth, Fl. Austr, ii. p. 494. 



Admiralty Islands. — Common in the mangrove swamps of many parts of the Old 

 World, and extending in Polynesia as far as New Caledonia, the Fijis, and Samoa. 



