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BOTANIC. 
GARDE! 
AN ENUMERATION OF PHILIPPINE 
FLOWERING PLANTS 
By ELMER D. MERRILL 
Director and Botanist, Bureau of Science 
DICOTYLEDONAE 
CASUARINACEAE 
1. CASUARINA Linnaeus 
GASUARINA EQUISETIFOLIA Linn. Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 143 (equi- 
sefolia) ; Forst. Char. Gen. (1776) 1038, f. 52; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1* 
(1857) 874; DC. Prodr. 16’ (1868) 339; Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 
661, ed. 2 (1845) 460, ed. 3, 3 (1879) 67; Vidal Sinopsis Atlas 
(1883) 41, ¢. 91, f. A, Rev. Pl. Vase. Filip. (1886) 259, Phan. 
Cuming. Philip. (1885) 147; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 206; Merr. 
in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 27 (1905) 81, Fl. Manila (1912) 169, 
Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 118. 
Throughout the Philippines along sandy seashores, extending nina in 
open sandy valleys along streams, in places growing at altitudes as high 
as 800 m; usually gregarious. Tropics of the Old World from Africa to 
Polynesia near the sea, pantropic in cultivation. 
Local names: Ago (Ibn., Neg.); agoho (Tag., Ilk., Bis., Bik.); Agédo 
(Pang., Ilk., Kuy.); agdko (Pang.); ago-o (Ilk.); agéso (Pang., Tag.) ; 
ague (Ibn.); alaut (Bon.); antong (Is.); ardo (Ilk.); arého (Ilk., Ting.) ; 
ayo (Bis.); karo (Ilk.); mahohok (Mbo.); malabohok (Bis.); maribuhdk 
(Bis.). 
CASUARINA RUMPHIANA Mig. in Flora 48 (1865) 23, 38; F.-Vill. Novis. 
App. (1880) 207; Ceron Cat. Pl. Hexb. Manila (1892) 164. 
Casuarina nodiflora Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 17 (1904) 9, 
non Forst. 
Northern Luzon to Mindanao and Palawan, in mountain forests, usually 
gregarious, altitude 100 to 1,100 m. Celebes, Moluccas. 
Local names: Ago (Lan.); agého (Bis., Tag.) ; ahgaho (P. Bis.); angol 
(Bik.); bunai (Tagb.); gd-o (Bag.); gouet (Ibn.); manholai (Mbo.) ; 
6’o (Bag.); saplui (Mbo.). 
CASUARINA SUMATRANA Jungh. in Hoey. & De Vriese Tijdschr. 11 
(1844) 115; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 207 (excl. syn. Blanco) ; 
Ceron Cat. Pl. Herb. Manila (1892) 164. 
Luzon (Sorsogon), Palawan, Leyte, Mindanao, in forests back of man- 
grove swamps. Burma to Sumatra, Borneo, and Java. 
Local names: Agoého (Tag.); maliangin (Sul.); maribuhok (Bis.); pa- 
gospos (C. Bis.); pugaspas (Bis.); sampalog (Tagb.). 
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