PLANTS FROM BATANES AND BABUYANES ISLANDS. 425 



MYRSINACE^E. 



MAES A Forsk. 

 M. denticulata Mez. 



Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3205 Mcarns; 36^0 Fenix. 

 Widely distributed ind common in the Philippines; endemic. 



AEGICERAS Gaertn. 



A. corniculatum (Linn.) Blanco. 

 FuGA, 3255 Mearm. 



Along the seashore throughout the Philippines; British India to southern 

 China, Malaya, and Australia. Not reported from Formosa. 



ARDISIA Sw. 



A. humilis (Burm.) Vahl. 



Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3214, 3216 Mearns; 3589 Fenix. Fuga, 

 3245 AI earns. N. v., Pain. 



Common and widely distributed in the Philippines; India to southern China 

 and Malaya. 



PRIMULACE^. 



LYSIMACHIA Linn. 



L. mauritiana Lam. Encycl. 3 (1789) 572; Pax & Knuth, Pflanzenreich 22 

 (1905) 273. 



L. lineariloha Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. (1841) 268; Duby in DC. 

 Prodr. 8 (1844) 61; Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1889) 53; 

 Mats. & Hayata Enum. PI. Formosa (1906) 221. 



Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3197, 318S Mearns. 



British India to Japan, Formosa, Mauritius, Hawaiian Islands, Polynesia, and 

 New Caledonia. Not previously reported from the Philippines; the fifth species 

 of the genus to be found in the Archipelago. 



SAPOTACE^. 



PALAQUIUM Blanco. 

 P. bataanense Merr. 



Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3668 Fenix. Camiguin, 4IOI Fenix. N. v., 

 Natu. 

 Luzon. 



EBENACE^. 



MABA For St. 

 M. buxifolia (Rottb.) Pers. 

 Camiguin, 4117, 3768 Fenix. 



Widely distributed in the Philippines; tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia, 

 Malaya and Polynesia. Not known from southern China or Formosa. 



DIOSPYROS Linn. 

 D. discolor Willd. 



Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3145 Mcarns; 3839 Fenix. N. v., Camaya. 

 Widely distributed in the Philippines, native and cultivated; Borneo. Culti- 

 vated in other tropical countries. 



