740 ON THE VOLCANO OF TAAL, 



DILLENIACEiE. 



2. Delima sarmentosa, L. (Tetracera), another climbing plant 

 widely distributed in eastern tropical Asia, including Ceylon, 

 Burmah, Malayan Peninsula, Java, Southern China, and the 

 Philippine Islands. The upper surface of the leaves is completely 

 covered with little hard asperities, which are so rough that the 

 leaves are used (as also many kinds of fig-trees) as a substitute 

 for sandpaper. The Visayan and Tagal Indians call the plant 

 Mala Catoion, Mala signifying dry or juiceless, and Catmon a 

 species of Dillenia, which, though yielding an acid fruit, is eaten by 

 the Indians. This species is the only one in the genus ; the others 

 included by the older authors are confined to America, and belong 

 to the genus Doliocarjms. The name Delima is derived from 

 delimo, to file off, and in Ceylon the name Coroswael is from 

 corossa to smooth. 



MAGNOLIACE^. 



3. Miohelia champaca, L. The celebrated tree of the east, 

 famed for the perfume of its flowers with which the natives adorn 

 their heads, the scent and the elegant orange color of which forms 

 a contrast with their black hair. In cultivation throughout the 

 East, where in India, the Archipelago and the Philippines, it is 

 universally known by the name of CJiampaca. Said to be derived 

 from an island off" Cambodia named Ciampa and Tsampa, of which 

 the tree is a native. It is cultivated as much in China and Japan 

 as in India, and for the same purposes. In the foi'mer country it 

 is called Yeung-kau-nga, in Mandarine Yang-kau-ya, in Japanese 

 Kinkoboku. I am doubtful whether this is cultivated on the 

 volcano island ; but, in a set of plants sent to me, some garden plants 

 from the Barrios or villages round Taal were, I suspect, included. 



ANONACEiE. 



4. Anona squamosa, L. Sweet Sop or Custard- Apple. Native 

 name Ates, meaning a softening or digesting. Vellozo, a Spanish 

 writer, says the name Ata is evidently borrowed from Attoa and 



