BY THE REV. J. E. TENISON-WOODS, F.G.S., &C. 763- 



98. QuiSQUALis INDICA, L, Niog-niogan, Tagalo ; Kaju-bulan 

 or round wood, Malay. This showy red and pink climber with it& 

 profusion of flowers is said to be a native of India, but it appears 

 to be far more at home in the Philippine Islands, where its hand- 

 some blossoms may be seen on all the roadsides about Luzon. It 

 grows much in the same way about Burmah, where it goes by the 

 name of Da-wai-hmine. Q. loureiri, a native of Cochin China, 

 with white and red flowers is used as a vermifuge, and so is 

 Q. cldnensis which grows about Macao. In the Punti dialect of 

 Chinese, Kap-kwan-tsz ; Mandarine, Kiah-kiun-tsz. In Japanese 

 it is called Shikunshi. 



MYRTACE^. 



99. PsiDiUM GUAVA, L. See antea remarks on the species in 

 the account of the fossil leaves of Taal (p. 723). 



100. Eugenia sp. (?) Lumboi, Tagalo ; Macupa Yisayan. 

 Whilst at Cuyos group west of the Philippines, I found that the 

 natives subsisted to some extent on the fruits of a Eugenia, which 

 grew veiy commonly in the jungles of the interior of the island. 

 It was about the size of an olive, and of a deep purple colour 

 when ripe. The resident monks informed me that when the 

 monsoon was very severe so that they could not get out on the 

 reefs to fish, and the rains changed the whole of the lower lands 

 into a marsh so as to stop all agriculture, the poorer natives had 

 to abandon tlieir homes and take to the mountains. During this 

 time they had to subsist principally upon lumboi and roots. This. 

 food is of a very indifferent kind, and I was assured that there 

 never was a year in which several of the natives did not die of 

 starvation. The species is probably Eugeaia jamholana, Lamarck. 

 The Anglo-Indian name for the rose-apple, Jambosa, is said to be 

 derived from the Malay word Shambu. I do not know the word 

 for this species. It is called Kepa in Amboyna, in Java, Salam, 

 which is the Malay name for one sjjccies. In Sundanese a species 

 is called Ki-sierum-lumbut. Jambu-blimbing is a common Malay 

 name for one species, and Jambu generally for all the Jambosas. 

 The species here referred to extends to Australia, as far south as. 

 the Tweed River in New South Wales. 



