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OASUAIIINACE.E. 



CASUARINA Linn. 



Casuarina sp. 



(Jifjiiuious ovw an area of about 100 acres at the head of a rivine, 700 ni. alt. 

 (No. 5770). 



PlPERACE.l^. 



PEPEROMIA Ruiz & Pav. 



Peperomia recurvata ^lu\. Syst. Pip. (1843-44) 107. 



On mossy trees and terrestrial. 1,200 to l.SOO m. alL (Nos. U107, 0147, G184). 

 .Malaya. 



PIPER l.inn. 



Piper rhombophyllum ('. DC. Prodr. 16> (LSOi)) S'rZ. 



In forests 350 to 1,500 ni. alt. (Nos. 5G45, 5773) ; also collected by Merritt at 

 1,300 m. alt. (No. 4293). 

 Endemic to the Pliilippines. 



Piper sp. 



In forests at 1,800 m. alt. (No. 5592). 



Piper sp. 

 In forests, altitude not given {Merritt No. 4474) June, 1900. 



CHLORANTHACE.5^. 



CHLORANTHUS Swartz. 



Chloranthus brachystachys Blume Fl. .Tav. C'hloranth. (1828) 13. I. J. 

 In forests at 700 ni. alt. (No. 5644); also collected by Merritt at 1.200 and 

 1,650 m. alt. (Nos. 4380, 4416). 



Widely distributed in the Philippines. 

 British India to southern China and Malaya. 



Chloranthus officinalis Bhuiie Enuni. PI. Jav. (1830) 79. 



In forests at 900 m. alt. (No. 5574). 

 Widely distributed in the Philippines. 

 Distribution of the preceding species. 



MYRICACE^. 



MYRICA Linn. 



Myrica esculenta l^uch.-Ham. in (i. Don. Fl. Nepal. (1825) 56; Chevalier 

 Monog. Myric. ( I'.IOl | 120. var. farqualutriana (Wall.) Chev. 1. c. Myrica rubra 

 Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) 8uppl. 41, non S. & Z. 



In forests at 1,700 ni. alt. (No. 4433 Merritt) June, 1906. 



An exceedino-ly variable form, identical with material previously reported from 

 Mount :Mariveles as Mi/rica rubra, the monograph by Chevalier not being available 

 at the time the identification was made. For variation in the leaf-form of this 

 species, see Whiff or-d, Vegetation of tlie Lamao Forest Reserve II, Philip. Journ. 

 Sci. 1 (1906) pi. U- f- ^4. 1-J. 



British India to Malaya., the var. farqiiahariana in the Malayan Peninsula. 



