ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS 



5 and subsequent pages. For Ipomea read Ipomoea. 

 68. For Hippomanes read Hippomane. 

 68. For Conocarpus erecta read Conocarpus erectus. 

 122. Sir W. Buller includes the fruits of the Puiiri tree (Vitex littoralis, according 



to Kirk) amongst the food of the New Zealand fruit-pigeons. 

 177- Por Entata, in the head-line, read Entada. 

 266. The fruits of Oncocarpus vitiensis have been found in the crop of a Fijian 



fruit-pigeon (Carpophaga latrans). See Hemsley's Bot. Chall. Exped., Introd., 



46, and iv. 308; also Newton's Dictionary of Birds, p. 724. 

 368. Semander (p. 185) observes that the fruits of Naias marina have little or 



no floating power. 



416. For the first eight lines read as follows : — " Of these, 22 occur in Continental 

 regions on both sides of the Pacific ; 12 are found in the Old World alone ; one 

 is peculiarly American, and two are confined to the Australian and Polynesian 

 regions. A few of these can be regarded as exclusively American in their 

 origin, though the bulk of them hail evidently in the first place from the Old 

 World. But from the circumstance that all or most of the other species of the 

 genus concerned are confined to America, it may legitimately be inferred that 

 Waltheria americana, Ageratum conyzoides, and Physalis angulata are American- 

 born species. Teucrium inflatum is a peculiar instance of an American weed 

 collected in Polynesia before apparently it had been recorded firom the Old 

 World." 



417. Add after Cardiospermum halicacabum "Its seeds, as my experi- 

 ments show, possess little or no capacity for dispersal by currents, since they 

 sink at once or within a few days, even after drying for months." 



455. Omit the reference to figure 6 in the centre of the page. 



498. For Conocarpus erecta read Conocarpus erectus. 



498. For Hippomanes read Hippomane. 



508. Amongst my Solomon Island collections identified at Kew were the fruits of 



a species of Litsea from the crop of a fruit-pigeon (Hemsley's Bot. Chall. 



Exped., IV. 295. 

 533. For Commelyne read Commelina. 



539. At foot of page,/o?- Thames sea-drift, «a(/ Thames seed-drift. 

 581. For Crambe maritimum read Crambe maritima. 

 618. Under Mascarene Islands add Myoporum to the plants linking them to the 



Pacific Islands. 



