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. 4. AMORPHOPHALLUS Bluinc. 



1. A. campanulatus Bluiuc'; Engler in DC. Monog. Phaii. 1 (1879) 311. Arum 

 devurrens Blanco; Amorphophallus decurrens Kunth. 



(1292, 1337 Whitford) May. Common in the bamboo thickets from the sea- 

 shore to an altitude of about 50 m., widely distributed in the Philippines. Tropi- 

 cal Asia to Madagascar, Malaya to New Guinea and the Fiji Islands. T., 

 Pungapung. 



2. A. sp. (§ Brachyspatha.) 



(1338 Whitford) May. With the preceding, flowers onl^-. The Tagalog name 

 is the same as for tlie preceding species. 



5. SCHIZMATOGLOTTIS Zoll. et Mor. 



1. S. rupestris Zoll. et Mor.; Engler in DC. Monog. Phan. 1 (1879) 350. 

 (529, 1296 Whitford) July, May. Common along shaded banks of ravines and 

 streams at an altitude of 100 m. Java. 



6. AGLAONEMA (schott. 



1. A. marantifolium Blume; Engler in DC. Monog. Phan. 1 (1879) 441. 

 • (3889 Merrill) August; (6759 Elmer) November; (2586 Meyer) February; 

 (6111 Leiberg) July; (Copeland) January. Common in forests and thickets 75 

 to 200 m. Malayan Archipelago. 



7. ALOCASIA Schott. 



1. A. macrorrhiza Schott; Engler; in DC. Monog. Phan. 1 (1879) 503. 



(1278 Whitford) May. Common in wet open places near the seashore. British 

 India and Malaya. T., Biga. 



2. A. warburgii Engl. Jahrb. 25 (1898) 25. 



(516 Whitford) July. Common on forested slopes at an altitude of about 75 m. 



Endemic. 



8. ARISAEMA Martins. 



1. A. polyphylla (Blanco) Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 27 (1905) 90. Arisaema 

 cumingii Schott. 



(1350 Whitford) September. On exposed ridges in the mossy forest, terrestrial 

 and on very mossy triuiks at 1,000 m. Endemic. 



FARINOSE. 



FLAGELLARIACE.E. 



1. FLAGELLARIA Linn. 



1. F. indica Linn.; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 6(1892) 391. 



(2500 J/ ei/cr) January; (2359 Borden) January; ( 1428 A/ierw's coZZcc/or) July. 

 Scandent, common in thickets below 100 m. Widely distributed in the Pliilippines. 

 Tropical Asia, Africa and Malaya. T., Balinguay. 



BROMELIACE.E. 



1. ANANAS Adans. 



1. A. sativus Lindl. The pineapple, commonly cultivated. Widely distributed 

 in the Philippines, introduced from ^lexico. Sp.-Fil., Piiia. 



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