PLANTS FPvO.M CATAM:S AND liALUYANES ISLANDS. 425 
MYRSINACE.!^. 
MAESA Forsk. 
M. denticulata Mez. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3205 Mearns; SG^^O Fenix. 
\Videly distributed and common in the Philippines; endemic. 
AEGICERAS Gaertn. 
A. corniculatum (Linn.) Blanco. 
FUGA, $255 Mearns. 
Along the seashore throughout the Philippines; British India to southern 
China, Malaya, and Australia. Not reported from Formosa. 
ARDISIA Sw. 
A. humilis (Burm.) Vahl. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 321Jt, 3216 Mearns; 3589 Fcnix. Fuga, 
3245 Mearns. N. v., Pain. 
Common and widely distributed in the Philippines; India to southern China 
and Malaya. 
TEIMULACEJ^:. 
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LYSIMACHIA Linn.- 
L. mauritiana Lam. Encycl. 3 (1789) 572; Pax & Knuth, Pflanzenreich 22 
(1905) 273. . 
L. lineariloha Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. (1841) 208; Duby in DC. 
Prodr. 8 (1844) 61; Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1889) 53; 
Mats. & Hayata Enum. PI. Formosa (1906) 221. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3197, 3188 Meariis. 
British India to Japan, Formosa, Mauritius, Hawaiian Islands, Polynesia, and 
New Caledonia. Not previously reported from the Philippines; the fifth species 
of the genus to be found in the Archipelago. 
SAPOTACEJ^. 
PALAQUIUM Blanco. 
P. bataanense Merr. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3668 F^nix. Camigi'in, JflOl Fenix. N. v., 
Luzon. 
EBENACE^]. 
MABA Forst, 
M. buxifolia (Rottb.) Pers. 
Camiguin, J^in, 3768 F^nix. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines; tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia, 
Malaya and Polynesia. Not known from southern China or Formosa. 
DIOSPYROS Linn. 
D. discolor Willd. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 31^5 Mearns; 3839 Fenix. N, v., Camaya. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines, native and cultivated; Borneo. Culti- 
vated in other tropical countries. 
