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17. Flacourtia sepiaria, Roxb. In Tagalo Bitongol ; in 

 Sundanese Seradan-caju, the latter name meaning wood in Malay. 

 In Telegu it is called Canru, or at least the fruit which is sold in 

 the market This is a red berry, dreadfully astringent when fresh 

 gathered, but by keeping it acquires a pleasant acidulous flavour. 

 It is thorny, and, therefore, used throughout the East as a hedge 

 plant. 



POLYGALACEiE. 



18. Salomon! A OBLONGIFOLIA, DC. A little insignificant weed 

 which does not appear to have any native name in the Philippines, 

 though the natives of Banka call it Jereine-auju. It is found in 

 moist places in the warmer districts of India, from Ceylon and the 

 Malay Peninsula to the Philippine Islands and Hongkong. I 

 found it growing very thickly all over the European Cemetery in 

 Labuan, Borneo. Its terminal spikes of minute pink flowers 

 make it look like a heath. 



PORTULACACE^. 



19. PoRTULACA oleracea, L. The common purslane, which is 

 naturalized in all the warm countries of the world. It does not 

 appear to have any vernacular name in Luzon, unless that of 

 Bonglay, which means a weed. In Sundanese and Javanese it is 

 called Gelang. I never noticed that it was much eaten by the 

 natives. It has acquired a melancholy interest from its being used 

 so much by the lamented Austi'alian explorers Burke and Wills 

 as a means to stave ofi^ famine. 



20. PORTULACA QUADRIFIDA, L. 



MALVACE^. 



21. Malvastrum tricuspidatum, a. Cray, in Botany of 

 American Exploring Expedition. This species of American 

 origin is dispersed as a weed over all the tropical Asiatic regions. 

 Its small orange flowers in waste abandoned places, remind one 

 of the habits of the marsh mallow, the place of which it takes in 

 habits and medicinal virtues. 



