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392 MERRILL AND MERRITT. 
2. M. indica Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 35. 
Upper pine region, Merrill 6581. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines; about the same extra-Philippine range 
as the preceding. 
GYNOSTEMMA BI. 
1. G. pedatum Bl. Bijdr. (1825) 23. 
Lower pine region, altitude about 1,200 m, C. M. Z. 16145. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines at low and medium altitudes; India to 
Japan, south to Borneo, Sumatra, and Java. 
‘CAMPANULACEE, 
LOBELIA Linn. 
1. L. nicotianaefolia Heyne in Roth Noy. Pl. Sp. (1821) 148; A. DC. Prodr. 
7 (1839) 381; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 3 (1881) 427. 
Mossy forest, altitude 2,250 m, CO. M. Z. 16101. 
This species has not previously been reported from the Philippines, and it is 
also represented by the following specimens, all from Luzon: District of Lepanto, 
For. Bur. 5685 Klemme, For. Bur. 14479 Darling; Province of Benguet, Elmer 
6066, Williams 1302, For. Bur. 15890 Bacani, Bur. Sci, 5864 Ramos, Bur. Sct. 
4827 Mearns ; Province of Ilocos Sur, For. Bur. 15689 Merritt & Darling ; Province 
of Zambales, Mount Tapulao, Bur. Sci, 4994 Ramos. 
India (Deccan Peninsula), and Ceylon, 
It is impossible to determine here, without a full series of Indian specimens 
for comparison, whether or not the Philippine plant is really specifically identical 
with Heyne’s species; so far as descriptions go, however, the material agrees with 
that of L. nicotianaefolia Heyne, better than with that of any other species known 
from the Indo-Chinese region. The species is, however, not reported from eastern 
India, southern China, or Malaya, and the discontinuous distribution is some 
ground for belief that eventually the Luzon plant may be found to be distinct from 
the Indian one, or perhaps referable to some other species of the Indo-Chinese 
region. 
-PPERACARPA Hook. f. & Th. 
1. P. luzonica Rolfe in Kew Bull. (1906) 201. 
Upper limits of the mossy forest, Merrill 6496. 
‘Known only from the higher mountains of Benguet and Lepanto; a very inter- 
esting case of geographical distribution, the only other species of the genus, 
P. carnosa Fook. f. & Th., extending from the Himalayan region to Yunnan. 
WAHLENBERGIA Schrad. 
1. W. bivalvis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 242. 
Upper pine region, altitude about 2,000 m, Merrill 6523, and open grass lands 
“above the mossy forest, altitude about 3,000 m, C. M. Z. 16102. 
An endemic species, common in the Benguet-Lepanto region, with the general 
appearance of the widely distributed W. gracilis DC., but differing, according to 
descriptions of the latter, in having 2-valved instead of 3-valved capsules. 
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