322 ENUMERATION OF PHILIPPINE PLANTS 1 
Throughout the Philippines in the settled areas, commonly cultivated 
and semicultivated, in some regions naturalized. Pantropic in cultivation, 
a native of the Old World and an introduced plant in the Philippines. 
Local names: Baglau (C. Bis.) ; batau (Tag., Bik., P. Bis.) ; bilai (Tag.) ; 
itab (If., Bon.) ; parda (Ilk.); parda-atap (Ilk.); sibachi (Tag.). 
DOLICHOS UNIFLORUS Lam. Encycl. 2 (1786) 299; DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 
498; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 5 (1910) Bot. 135. 
Luzon (Rizal), Cuzner 29. In old rice fields at low altitudes. Trop- 
ical Asia. 
96. PSOPHOCARPUS Necker 
PSOPHOCARPUS TETRAGONOLOBUS (Linn.) DC. Prodr. 2 (1825) 403; 
Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1* (1855) 181; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 66; 
Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 109, Rev. Pl. Vase. Filip. (1886) 
110; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 5 (1910) Bot. 136, Fl. Manila 
(1912) 264. 
Dolichos tetragonolobus Linn. Sp. Pl. ed. 2 (1763) 1020; Blanco FI. 
Filip. (1837) 576, ed. 2 (1845) 402, ed. 3, 2 (1879) 374, t. 293. 
Botor tetragonoloba O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. Pl. (1891) 162. 
Cultivated, semicultivated, and occasionally spontaneous or subsponta- 
neous in most parts of the Philippines at low and medium altitudes; intro- 
duced. India to Malaya in cultivation. The asparagus bean. 
Local names: Amalé (Ibn.); batung-baimbing (Sul.); cigarillas (Pang., 
Tag.) ; buligan (If., Bon.) ; beyed (Bon.); kalamismis (Tag.) ; kamaluson 
(Bis.) ; segadilla (P. Bis.) ; sererélla (P. Bis.) ; palag (Ilk.); palam (IIk.) ; 
parupagulung (Bik.). 
EXCLUDED SPECIES 
PSOPHOCARPUS PALUSTRIS Desv.; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 66. 
EXCLUDED GENERA 
ACROCARPUS FRAXINIFOLIUS Wight; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 74. 
CICER ARIETINUM Linn.; F.-Vill. op. cit. 62. 
CYTISUS PHILIPPINENSIS Hort. et PHILIPPENSIS Hort. ex Lindl. in Gard. 
Chron. (1841) 365, sphalm.=C. philippi Lindl.=C. canariensis 
Steud. 
DIALUM LAURINUM Baker; F.-Vill. op. cit. 351. 
LUPINUS INTEGRIFOLIUS DC.; Llanos ex F.-Vill. & Naves in Blanco FI. Filip. 
ed. 3, 47 (1880) 102. 
MECOPUS NIDULANS Benn.; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 61. 
PAROCHETUS COMMUNIS Ham.; F.-Vill. op. cit. 58. 
HAEMATOXYLON CAMPECHIANUM Linn. 
A recently introduced species cultivated in Manila and at Los Banos. 
TRIFOLIUM HYBRIDUM Linn. 
Trifolium hybridum Linn., alsike clover; 7. incarnatum Linn., crimson 
clover; T. pratense Linn., red clover; and 7. repens Linn., white clover, 
occur as casual introductions, or as purposely introduced species at higher 
altitudes in Benguet; there is no evidence that any of these clovers have 
become naturalized. 
