762 ON THE VOLCANO OF TAAL, 



seed-pods are conspicuous objects. The seeds are roasted and 

 eaten in Java. 



94. Mimosa pudica, L. Ai*oai-reba-bangon, Sundanese. The 

 common sensitive plant has become a terrible weed through the 

 islands of the Indian Archipelago. No one would credit the 

 extent to which it covers the ground, forming tangled thickets of 

 a useless and annoying character throughout the Malay Archi- 

 pelago. It has only begun to appear in the Philippines. 



95. Bauhinia, sp. (?). Amongst my collections there are some 

 Bauhinia leaves from the volcanic island. The genus has two or 

 three common representatives in the jungles of the island. 



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96. Terminalia catappa, L. Talisai, Tagalo and Visayan ; 

 Nattoo-Vadom, Hindostani ; Catappa, Malay ; Adappo, Alfura 

 (dialect of Minahassa, Moluccas) ; Sanscrit, Ingudi, called by the 

 Spaniards the almond tree, and has been cultivated. Tlie fruit 

 is a nut scarcely two inches long, flattened oval, with a flange 

 all round it. The kernel bears but a small proportion to the shell 

 and green outer covering. Exceedingly ditiScult to break, and 

 tasteless. It yields an excellent oil, thicker and more amber- 

 coloured than almond oil. Don says tliat the bark and leaves 

 yield a black pigment of which I never heard, but 1 think he is 

 incorrect in saying that Indian ink is made from this dye. The 

 leaves are large, and give a fine shade. It is much used as a 

 shade tree in the parks and roadsides in Singapoi'e, Philip- 

 pines, &c. 



97. LuMNiTZERA RACEMOSA, Willd. Culasi, Tagalo ; Duduk, 

 Sundanese. A coast tree, the scarlet flowers of which adorn the 

 mangrove scrubs occasionally in all the islands. According to 

 Bentham it extends to East Africa and the Pacific. There are 

 only two species in the genus, the white and the red-flowered. Both 

 were forwarded to me from Taal, but I suspect they came from 

 the mainland and nearer to the sea. The same may be said of 

 Terminalia cataj)pa, from the abundance of which the town of 

 Talisay derives its name. 



