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10. CORDYLINE Royen ex Adanson 

 (Sansevieria Thunberg) 



CORDYLINE ROXBURGHIANA (Schultes) comb. nov. 



Sansevieria roxhurghiana Schultes Syst. 7 (1829) 357; Naves Novis. 



App. (1880) 265; N. E. Br. in Kew Bull. (1915) 227, /. 12, D. E. 

 Sansevieria zeylanica Roxb. PL Coromandel. 2 (1798) 43, t. 18U, quoad 

 fig.; Naves Novis. App. (1880) 265, Fl. Filip. ed. 3 (1877-83) 

 t. U22; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1859) 559; Merr. Fl. Manila (1912) 

 144, non Willd. 

 Cordyline hyacinthoides W. F. Wight in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 9 

 (1905) 249, non Aloe hyacinthoides Linn. 

 Often cultivated, but in many regions naturalized, occurring in thickets 

 and hedges at low and medium altitudes. A native of tropical Asia, now 

 pantropic in cultivation. Bowstring hemp. 



Local names: Aspi-aspi (Pamp.) ; baniat (Is.); bontot-palos (Tag.); 

 dildila (Ilk.) ; kakarohai (Ibn.) ; pakarohai (Ibn.) ; rabo de leon (Sp.) ; 

 rabo de tigre (Sp.) ; sigre (Is.); sinaua (Tag.); tigi (Ibn.); tigre (Sp.). 



EXCLUDED SPECIES 



Sansevieria grandicuspis Haw.; Naves Novis. App. (1880) 265. 



SANSEVIERIA GUiNEENSis Willd.; Naves 1. c. 



11. ASPARAGUS Tournefort 



ASPARAGUS COCHINCHINENSIS (Lour.) Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 15 

 (1919) 230. 

 Melanthium cochinchinense Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 216. 

 Asparagus lucidiis Lindl. Bot. Reg. (1844) Misc. 29, var. dolicho- 

 cladus Merr. & Rolfe in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 96. 

 Luzon (Benguet), Loher 1928, without data, but probably from above 

 1,200 m altitude. Japan, China, Formosa. 



The above is the only indigenous species of the genus. Introduced and 

 occasionally cultivated species include the common asparagus (Sp. espa- 

 rrago) Asparagus officinalis Linn., A. plumosus Baker, and A. sprengeri 

 Regel; see Merrill, Fl. Manila (1912) 143. Naves has credited Aspara- 

 gus declinatus Linn, and A. racemosus Willd. to the Philippines, Novis. 

 App. (1880) '264, but both were apparently admitted on erroneous identifi- 

 cations. 



12. DISPORUM Salisbury 



DISPORUM LUZONIENSE Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 5 (1910) Bot. 338. 



Disporum pullum Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 182, 



non Salisb. 



Luzon (Lepanto, Bontoc, Benguet), Merrill j^857, 6619, Phil. PI. 899, 



B. S. SI 675 Santos, 59Jf2 Ramos, 8^83 McGregor, 4316 Mearns. In the 



mossy forest, altitude 1,700 to 2,400 m. Endemic. 



13. LI R I OPE Loureiro 

 LIRIOPE BRACHYPHYLLA Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 266. 

 Mindoro, Merrill 5710. On seepage slopes in open heath on Mt. Halcon, 

 altitude about 2,400 m. Endemic. 



