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Codiaeum variegatum, Juss. 



CodicBiim variegatum, Juss. ; Seem., Fl. Vit, p. 231 ; Benth., El. Austr., vi. p. 1-47. 

 Codimum moluccanum, Dene. ; Miq., El. Ind. Bat., i. 2, p. 383. 



Admiralty Islands. — Widely dispersed in Tropical Asia and Polynesia, but often 

 cultivated. Seemann, loc. cit., states that many varieties and subvarieties of this plant 

 are cultivated for ornament in the Fijis. 



Antidesma n. sp. ? 



Admiralty Islands. — There is little doubt respecting this being an undescribed 

 species, but as the specimen bears only two leaves and one cluster of fruit, it is insufficient 

 for description. It is remarkable for the large size of its leaves, which are a foot in length 

 and five inches across. The genus Antidesma is a large one, and spread over the warmer 

 parts of the Old World, extending as far north in Asia as Japan. About half-a-dozen 

 species inhabit Australia, and several Polynesia, including one endemic in the Sandwich 

 Islands ; but hitherto none has been discovered in America. 



Manihot utilissima, Pohl. 



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



Admiralty Islands. — An American plant, now widely diffused through cultivation. 

 Alchornea javensis, Mull. Arg. 



Alchomea javensis, Mull. Arg. in DC. Prodr., xv. 2, p. 905. 



Admiralty Islands. — Malacca, Philippines, and Java. A Ichornea comprises upwards 

 of thirty species spread over the warmer regions of both hemispheres. 



URTICACE^E. 

 Ficus spp. 



Admiralty Islands.— There are more or less imperfect specimens of eight or ten 

 species of this vast genus, including perhaps some peculiar ones; but the described 

 Malayan species, of which we have seen no authenticated specimens, are so numerous, 

 that we dare not venture to make any new ones. 



Artocarpus incisa, Linn. 



Artocarpus incisa, Linn. ; Seem., Fl. Yit, P . 255 ; Dene., Herb. Timor. Deacr., p. 169 ; Miq., Fl. Ind. 

 Bat., i. 2, p. 285 ; Nadeaud, Enum. PI. Tahiti, p. 44 ; Jouan in Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, 

 xi., 1865, pp. 121 et 147 ; Mann in Proc. Amer. Acad., vii. p. 201. 



Admiralty Islands.— The Bread-fruit Tree is generally spread in the Malayan Archi- 

 pelago and in Polynesia, where it was cultivated at the time of the earliest visits of 

 Europeans ; and it is naturalised in the West Indies. It is apparently wanting in the Arrou 



