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DESMODIUM D.sv. 



D. umbellatum (Linn.) DC. Prodr. 2: 325. 1825. {Hedymrum Hinhelliiliun 

 Linn.) 

 Luzon, Prov. Camarines Sur, Pasacao, 222; Mindanao, Prov. Surigao, 408. 

 Seychelles, southern Asia, Malayan Archipelago etc., to Australia, 



DALBERGIA Linn. f. 



D. ferruginea Roxb. Hurt. Beng., 9H. 1814. 

 .Mindanao, Prov. Zamboanga, 632. 

 Southern Asia, Malayan region. 



D. ferruginea Roxb., is cited by Baker in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 2 : 237, as a synonym 



of D. Htipiihicfd Uoxb., but is here held a distinct species. 



PONGAMIA, Vent. 



P. glabra Vent. Jard. Malm. 28. /. J8. 1803. 



Luzon, Prov. Camarines Sur, Pa.sacao, 46, 206. Mindanao, Prov. Surigao, 496; 



Prov. Zamboanga, Tetuan, 581 ; Island of Tinago, 420. 

 A species found near the seacoasts from the Seychelles to Australia. 



ERYTHRINA Linn. 



E. indica Lam. Encycl. 2 : 391. 1786. 



Luzon, Prov. Camarines Sur, Pasacao, 30; Mindanao, Prov. Davao, Mt. Apo, 



675. 

 From British India, through the Malayan region to Axistralia. 



OXALIDACE^.. 



AVERRHOA Linn. 



A. carambola Linn. Sp. PI. 428. 1753. 



Mindanao, Prov. Surigao, 522. 

 This species, as well as A. htlimhi Linn., is commonly cultivated about towns in the 



Philippines, and is widely distributed in the Tropics. 



ERYTHROXYLACE^^. 



ERYTHROXYLON Linn. 



* E. burmanicum Griff. Notul. 4 : 468. 1849. 

 Luzon, Prov. Camarines Sur, Pasacao, 12, 292. 

 Visayan, Manamho. 

 Burma, Malayan Peninsula, and Sumatra. 



RUTACE^. 

 EVODIA Forst. 



EVODIA MINDAN^NSIS Merrill, sp. nov. 



A shrub or small tree with axillary inflorescence and thin, membranous, pale- 

 green, trifoliate leaves. Young branches terete, densely puberulent. Petioles 

 10 to 11 cm. long, opposite, pubescent; leaflets very thin, nearly sessile, ovate, 

 short acuminate, the rounded base slightly cordate, glabrous above except 

 on the pubescent mid-nerve, pubescent on the nerves beneath, 12 to 20 cm. 



