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Agrostophyllum longifolium, Echb. f. 



Appendicula loyigifolia, Blume ; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., iii. p. 704. 



Admiralty Islands. — Also in the Kew Herbarium from Sumatra and Java. The 

 genus comprises only about half-a-dozen species, which inhabit India and the Archipelago. 

 Bentham and Hooker (Gen. Plant., iii. p. 517) suggest that Agrostophyllum megalurum, 

 Echb. f. (in Seem. Fl. Vit., p. 296) belongs to a different genus, so that this would be the 

 only one known from Polynesia. 



Thelasis triptera, Echb. f. 



Thelasis triptera, Rclib. f. in Bonplandia, 1855, p. 119. 



Admiralty Islands. — Also from the Philippines. Of this genus about eight species 

 are known, and they are restricted to the warmer parts of Asia. 



Tropidia eflusa, Echb. f. 



Tropidia effusa, Rclib. f. in Seem. Fl. Vit., p. 295. 



Admiralty Islands. — Not known to us elsewhere except from the Fiji Islands. 

 Tropidia is a genus of about half-a-dozen species inhabiting India, the Archipelago, and 

 Polynesia. 



Phreatia sp. 



Admiralty Islands. — Specimen insufficient for specific determination. Phreatia is a 

 small genus confined to the tropics of the Old World. 



SCITAMINE^E. 

 Clinogyne grandis, Benth. 



Clinogyne grandis, Benth. et Hook, f., Gen. Plant., iii. p. 651. 

 Maranta grandis, Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl., p. 61C. 



Admiralty Islands. — Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago, from the Philippines to 

 the Arrou Islands. 



AlIARYLLIDE^E. 

 Crinum asiaticum, Linn. 



Orinum asiaticum, Linn.; Benth., Fl. Austr., vi. p. 454; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 305; Miq., Fl. Ind. Bat., 

 iii. p. 580; Baker, Fl. Maurit, p. 366; Most-ley in Journ. Linn. Soe. Lond., xv. p. 76. 



Admiralty Islands. — This conspicuous herbaceous, bulbous plant is common on the 

 sandy sea-shores of Tropical Asia and Australia, extending iu Polynesia to the Fiji, and 

 perhaps also to the Tongan Islands. Crinum numbers about sixty species, spread over the 



