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tropics of both hemispheres, many of them being littoral plants. Crinum asiaticum is 

 naturalised in the Mauritius. By an oversight this is omitted in the enumeration of the 

 plants from the South-eastern Moluccas, though, according to Moseley, it was abundant 

 on the shores of the Arrou Islands. 



taccacej:. 



Tacca pinnatiflda, Forst. 



Tacca pinnatifida, Forst., Char. Gen. Plant., p. 70, t. 35, et PI. Escul. Ins. Ocoani Austr., p. 59, 

 exel. syn. Rumphii, fide Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 102 ; Eenth., Fl. Austr., vi. p. 453 ; Nadeaud, 

 Enuni. PL Tahiti, p. 35; Jouan in Mem. Soc. Soi. Nat. Cherbourg, xi., 1865, pp. 130 et 145; 

 Mann in Proc. Amer. Acad., vii. p. 205. 



Admiralty Islands. — Tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia, and common almost 

 throughout Polynesia, where it grows both wild and cultivated. According to Seemann 

 it is a common seashore plant in the Fijis. Jouan states that it is comparatively rare in 

 the Marquesas, and he suspects that it is a colonist. 



PALM^E. 



Cocos nucifera, Linn. 



Cocos nucifera, Linn. ; Seem., Fl. Vit., p. 275 ; Benth., Fl. Austr., vii. p. 143 ; Nadeaud, Enum. PI. 

 Tahiti, p. 40; Jouan in M6m. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, si., 1865, pp. 127, 136, et 147 ; Mann 

 in Proc. Amer. Acad., vii. p. 204. 



Admiralty Islands. — Now very widely spread in tropical regions, especially in mari- 

 time districts. See remarks on p. 203. Mr Moseley (Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., xv. p. 78) 

 states that he saw altogether five species of palm in the Admiralty Islands ; namely, the 

 cocoa-nut, the sago, a species of Areca, a Caryota, and a small fan palm. No Rattan 

 {Calamus) was seen growing, but rattan cables were used by the islanders. Nij)a does not 

 appear to reach these islands, but Dr Guppy has lately collected it in the Solomon Islands. 



PANDANE.E. 

 Pandanus spp., Moseley. 



Pandanus spp., Moseley in Journ. Linn. Soc. Lond., xv. pp. 76 et 7D. 



Admiralty Islands. — The smallest fragmeut is usually sufficient to indicate the genus 

 Pandanus, but the full material necessary to define the species is wanting in our botanical 

 collections for a large number of them. Mr Moseley observed three species of Pandanus 

 in the Admiralty Islands, and he collected specimens of two, one of them quite a miniature 

 and probably undescribed. He further states (loc. cit., p. 79), that the three species met 

 with are identical with the three found in the Arrou Islands. 



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