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the Indian Archipelago, the Moluccas aud the Philippines. It has 

 broad leaves and divaricate racemes o£ small pink flowers. When 

 bruised or cut it emits a strong odor of violets, which the father 

 of Dutch Naturalists, Rumphius, refers to in his work on A mboyna. 



36. Melochia corchorifolia, Willd. Balitnon, Visayan ; 

 Pompuruten, Javanese and Sundanese. A weed which I have not 

 seen very commonly in the East. 



37. Waltheria AMERICANA, L. The species are mostly American, 

 but this one, which is found in Australia, is very generally dispersed 

 within or near the tropics all over the world. 



38. Heritiera littoralis. Ait. Commonly called the looking- 

 glass tree. Dungon, Tagalo, Atun-laut, Malay ; Penglai-kana-so, 

 Burmah. A lai'ge evergreen tree, common in all the tidal forests 

 alons: the sea-shore from the Indiaia Peninsula to Australia. Wood 

 brown, rather light and loose-grained, probably not occurring on 

 the volcano island. 



TILIACE^. 



39. Triumpetta procumbbns, Forst. An insignificant weed 

 found in most islands of the Indian Archipelago and the Pacific 

 within the tropics. The Malays in Java call one species Gut- 

 jingam. 



40. CoRCHORis OLiTORius, L. Visayan, Pasao (pigs' food); 

 Jepon, Javanese; Isunaso, and Kanabikio (rope, cable), Japanese. 

 The valuable Jute of commerce, indigenous to India, but now- 

 cultivated and naturalized in all the East, including the Philip- 

 ])ines. The fibre of this plant is the most widely distributed 

 l)roduction of India. There is not a town in Europe in which 

 jute is not found in the form of ropes, lines, string, Ijags and 

 paper. The fibre is derived from two species, C. capsularis which 

 furnishes the sunn-hemp of commerce, and C. oUtorius the fibres of 

 which are employed to make the coarse stuff known as gunny or 

 soni, the native name for the fibre on the Coromandel coast. This 



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