182 THE BOTANY OF CHRISTMAS ISLAND. 



siamea and Eriodendron, but it has spread abundantly 

 all over Flying- Fish Cove and up Phosphate hill and 

 round the coolie lines there. It forms with Irema 

 Boehmeria etc., a great portion of the secondary jungle 

 which springs up after fallowing. The drupes are 

 certainly eaten by birds and the seeds so disseminated. 

 It is absent from all parts of the forest which have not 

 been cleared, and is certainly not native. 



Dysoxylum amooroides, Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. v. 4, p. 16. 



A very big tree, 60 to 90 feet or more, tall leaves 

 18 inches long, leaflets glabrous membranaceous, 6 

 pairs, the lowest smallest, oblong lanceolate acuminate 

 inaeguilateral, alternate 6 inches long by 2 inches wide 

 "Panicle extra-axillary, the branches spike-like or 

 branched with few branches. Flowers sessile. Calyx 

 5 sepalled villous outside. Petals yellowish pubescent 

 outside " Capsule 1-1^ inch long pyriform or sub- 

 globose coriaceous wrinkled orange, 4-split, seeds 

 £ inch long ovoid angled indian red with thin testa. 



Common in the forests of the plateau and descend- 

 ing to Flying Fish Cove. The tree was fruiting at the 

 time of our visit and the ground in some places was 

 strewed with the seeds. Obtained first by Lister, but 

 too incomplete for identification by Hemsley, who des- 

 cribes the tree as 13 feet through. I never saw any 

 nearly as big as this. 



Distribution, New Guinea and Java. 



The seeds are certainly eaten by birds ; 



BURSERACE.E. 



Tristiriopsis Nativitatis, Hemsley. 



Tree 40 to 60 feet tall with grey bark. Leaves 

 bipmnate, in young plants much branched about 2 feet 

 long, adults 6 inches long, leaflets alternate 6 pairs or 

 fewer oblong lanceolate petioled, young serrate, adult 



Jour. Straits Branch 



