TIIK FLOUA OF MOUNT IIALCOX. 269 
CASUAKIXAi^E.E. 
CASUARINA J.imi. 
Casuarina sp. 
Gifgarious ovtT an area of about 100 acres at ilic lu-ad of a riviue, 700 iii. alt. 
{No. 5779). 
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ril»EKACE^. 
PEPEROMIA lluiz & Vnv. 
Peperomia recurvata Miq. Syst. Pip. (1843-44) 107. 
On JiiOHsy trues and terrestrial, 1,200 to 1,800 in. alt. (Nus. 0107, 0147, 0184). 
Malaya. 
PIPER Linn. 
Piper rhombophyllum C. DC. Prodr. 16\(180!)) 352. 
In forests 350 to 1,500 m. alt. (Nos. 5045, 5773) ; also collected hy Merritt ut 
1,:JOO m. alt. (No. 4293). 
Endemic to the Phili])pines. 
piper sp. 
In forests at 1,800 in. alt. (No. 5592). 
Piper sp. 
In forests, altitude not given {Merritt No. 4474) June, 1900. 
CllLORANTIIACE^. 
CHLORANTHUS Swartz. 
Chloranthus brachystachys Blunie Fl. Jav. Cldorantli. (1828) 13. /. 2. 
F 
In forests at 700 m. alt. (No. 5G44) ; also collected by Merritt at 1,200 and 
1,650 m. alt. (Nos. 4380, 4416). 
Widely distributed in the Philippines. 
British India to southern China and Mahiya. 
Chloranthus officinalis Bliinie Enuni. PI. Jav. (1830) 79. 
In forests at 900 m. alt. (No. 5574). 
Widely distributed in the Philippines. 
Distribution of the preceding species. 
MYKICACEyl]. 
MYRICA Linn. 
Myrica esculenta IJuch.-Hani. in 0. Don. FL Nepal. (1S25) 50; Chevalier 
Monog. Myric. (1901) 120. var. farqimhariana (Wall.) Cliev. 1. c. Myrica rubra 
Merr.'in Philip. Jourii. Pci. 1 (1900) 8uppl. 41, non S. & Z. 
In forests at 1,700 m. alt. (No. 4433 Merritt) June, 1906. 
An exceedingly variable form, identical with material previously rep'frted from 
Mount Mariveles as Myrica rubra, the monograph by ChevaVicr not be-ing available 
at the time the identification was made. For variation in the leaf-form of this 
species, see Whitford, Vegetation of the l^rmao Forest Reserve II, Philip. Journ. 
Sci. 1 (1906) pi. U- f' '1* ^-'^• 
British India to Malaya., the var. farquahuriana in the Malayan Peninsula. 
