BY THE REV. J. E. TENISON-WOODS, F.G.S., &C. 771 



134. BiDENS PILOSA, L. 



135. Emilia sonchifolia, DC. 



To all the above the same remarks which have been made on 

 the first few are applicable. Spilanthes acmell% is used as a salad. 

 Mr. A. A. Black in the " Treasury of Botany," says, that in Japan 

 it is called Hoko So. I found that near Nagasaki, Oranda Sennichi 

 was the Japanese term which has reference to the Dutch using it 

 as a salad. It is also called Sennichi-kiku or daisy-salad. 



APOCYNACE^. 



136. Alstonia scholaris, R. Br. Dirita, Tagalo, also Batino ; 

 Gabus, Malay ; Let-topi, Burmese. A smooth evergreen tree 

 called the Devil Tree or Palimara about Bombay. Its tall stems 

 with regular whorls of leaves make it a showy member of the 

 jungle. Like our Australian Alstonia its milky sap is a very 

 bitter tonic, though it is little used. The wood is white, light and 

 close-grained, but perishable. It is principally used by the Indians 

 and Burmese to make sword scabbards. 



137. Alstonia macrophylla. Wall. 



138. Orchip.eda PCETIDA, Blume. A tree with opposite oblong 

 smooth leaves, not common but found throughout the Archipe- 

 lago among bushes on the mountains. The Malays call it Bunga, 

 also Pohun-Badah or the rhinoceros tree from its having a fetid 

 smell like that of a rhinoceros. 



139. TABERNiEMONTANA SPHiEROCARPA, Blume. Pandacaqui, 

 Tagalo and Visayan ; Jawie-jawie (?) Malay. Six or seven 

 species of this genus are known in the Philippines, and there are 

 probably many more. In individuals no country is more abundantly 

 supplied. Taberncemontana meets one everywhere ; on the road 

 sides, in waste places, and on the edges of jungles. I have 

 mentioned already how the slopes of the volcano are abundantly 

 clothed with small ti-ees of Acacia farnesiana. In the same 

 locality Taberncemontana sphcerocarjxo is quite as abundant. The 



