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GUTTJFEKE.E. 



GARCINIA Mini. 



Garcinia binucao ( liliiiico) Clioisy (iutlif. liul. .S4 ; Voscnic in DC. JNIonog. 

 Fhaii. 8 (1S!»;5) 4r)4. 



In forests at 175 ni. alt. (No. 4:^22 Mrnill} .hinc, l!)()(i. 



VlFTEHOCAUVACEAl 



SHOREA Roxl). 



Shorea squamata (Tiucz.) Bcnth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. 1 (l,S(i2) 193. 

 In forosts at 700 ni. alt. (No. 5751). 

 Widely (listiil)utc(l in tiie Philippines. 

 Borneo. 



Diplcrocarpiis </nui(li/l(iri(s ]?]aneo. ami Slmrcd (/iiiso Hiunic weie liotli al)un(lant 

 from near Suhaan to the Alay River ascendint; to an altitude of about 400 ni. 



BEGONIACE.E. 



BEGONIA Linn. 



Begonia incisa A. DC. in Ann. 8c. Nat. IV. 11 (185U) 12!); Podr. 15' 

 (1SG4) 321. 



In fore.sted ravines at 700 ni. alt. (No. 5(iS5). 

 Widely distrilnited in tlie Philippines; endemic. 



Begonia pseudolateraiis War)), in Perk. Fray. Fl. Philip. (l'J04) 51. 

 Along the Alay River at 200 ni. alt. (No. (5154). 

 Previously known from Luzon and Mindoro. 



Begonia sp. 



In forests at 1,200 to 1.800 m. alt. (Nos. 5515, 5007). 



Begonia sp. 



In forests at 1,700 m. (No. G135). 



MELASTOMATACE.E. 



IVIELASTOIVIA Rnrm. 



IVIelastoma polyanthum Blume in Flora 2 (1831) 481; Cogn. in DC. Monog. 

 Plian. 7 (1891) 354. 



In forests at 1,000 m. alt. (No. 4397). 

 Widely distributed in the Phi]i])pines. 

 British India to Malaya and northern Australia. 



SARCOPYRAMIS Wall. 



Sarcopyramis sp. 



In mossy forests 900 to 2,200 m. alt. (No. 5793); also Nos. 4380, 4461 

 Mcrriff, Jime, 1900. 



This genus is generally considered to be monotypic, the only species recog- 

 nized hy most botanists being S. nepalcvsis Wall, extending from the Himalayan 

 I'egion to Java and Sumatra. The species here in ipiesticm is also found on 

 Mounts Data and Santo Tonias, northern Luzon, and in the intermediate table- 

 lands (Nos. 4008, 4491 and 4809 McrriU) and also on Mount Apo, Mindanao 



