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the Philippines, and Borneo. Among genera, about eight species 

 of Ascarina are distributed in New Zealand, New Caledonia, and 

 western Polynesia, and two species in the Philippines; about 

 twenty-three species of Quintinia in New Zealand, New Cale- 

 donia, Australia, and New Guinea, and one in the Philippines; 

 about ten species of Mooria {Cloezia) in New Caledonia and 

 one in the Philippines; about twelve species of Xanthostemon in 

 New Caledonia, three in Australia, two in New Guinea, one in 

 Celebes, and three in the Philippines; three species of Phyllo- 

 cladus in New Zealand, one in Tasmania, and one in the Philip- 

 pines and northeastern Borneo. Numerous eastern Australian 

 types extend into eastern Malaysia as far north as the Philip- 

 pines, including representatives of such diverse genera as Centro- 

 lepis, Thysanotus, Pater sonia, Phrygilanthus, Drimys, Clianthus, 

 Pleiogynium (also in Fiji and Vavau), Stac\housia, Campto- 

 stemon, Eucalyptus, Oshornia, Pimelea, Xanthostemon, Calo- 

 gyne, Microlaena, Didiscus, and others, with a few more wide- 

 ly distributed. Such eastern Malaysian-Philippine genera as 

 Spiraeopsis, Wallaceodendron , Reinwardtiodendron, Neotrewia, 

 Strophioblachia, Myrmephytum, Sararanga, Heterospathe, Po- 

 thoidium, Monophrynium, Papualthia, Cubilia, Euphorianthus, 

 Tristira, Schuurmansia, Everettia, Mearnsia, Anompanax, Di- 

 morphanthera, Loheria, and Nycticalos range from the Philip- 

 pines to Celebes and the Moluccas, and some to New Guinea. 



It is significant that, although all these genera have species 

 that are more or less widely distributed in the Philippines, few 

 extend to western Malaysia and still fewer to the Asiatic con- 

 tinent. Among those that have the more extended range are: 

 Drimys (Borneo), Centrolepis (Borneo and Indo-China), Thy- 

 sanotus (Malay Peninsula, Indo-China, and China), Clianthus 

 (Indo-China and Hainan), Stac\housia (Sumatra and Caroline 



