PLANTS FROM BATANES AND BABUYANES ISLANDS. 409 
WALLACEODENDRON Koorders. 
W. celebicum Koorders. 
Camiguin, 4098 Fenix, near the seashore. 
A monotypic genus known only from Celebes and the Philippines, in the latter 
group not uncommon in some parts of Luzon. I am unable to distinguish from 
it the recently described Pithecolohium wilUamsii Elmer, from Luzon. 
V 
ACACIA Willd. 
A. pennata Willd. 
Camiguin, ^038 Fcnix. 
Pare in Luzon; British India to tropical Africa, Malaya, Southern China and ? 
m 
Formosa. 
I NTS I A Thouars. 
I. bijuga (Colebr.) 0. Ktz. 
Camiguin, 4036 F4nix. 
Along the seashore throughout the Philippines; widely distributed in Malaya 
and Polynesia but not known from southern China or Formosa. 
CASSIA Linn. 
C. tora Linn. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3641 Fcnix. 
A common weed in the Philippines; cosmopolitan in the tropics, 
CAESALPINIA Linn. 
C. pulcherrima Sw. 
Camiguin, ^/0?7 F^nix. 
Common in cultivation in the Philippines, a native of tropical America. 
SOPHORA Linn. 
S. tomentosa Linn. 
Sabtan, 3731 Fenix. N. v., Capon, 
Along the seashore throughout the Philippines; cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
CROTALARIA Linn. 
C. Incana Linn. 
Camiguin, 4085 F4nix. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines; tropical Asia, Africa, Malaya, and 
America, but not reported from southern China or Formosa. 
DESMODIUM Desv. 
D. umbellatum (Linn.) DC. 
Sabtan, 3745 F^nix. Camiguin, 4115 F^nix. 
Near the seashore throughout the Philippines; tropical Asia to Formosa, 
Malaya, and Polynesia. 
D. scorpiurus (Sw.) Desf. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3699 F^nix. 
A species of American origin, now common and widely distributed in the Philip- 
pines, but not as yet reported from any other part of the east. 
D. leptopus A. Gray. 
Camiguin, summit of the volcano, 41^^ F^nix. 
A widely distributed endemic species, allied to if not identical with Dt\smodium 
gardneri Benth., the latter species having been credited to southern China and 
Formosa by Forbes & Ilemsley, based on young specimen?; which were doubtfully 
referred to it. 
