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 MALVACE.F.. 



HIBISCUS Linn. 



H. tiliaceus Linn. Sp. PI. 694. 1753. 



Luzon, Manila, 739, 793; Prov. Camarines Sur, Pasacao, 94, 333. Mindanao, 



Prov. Surigao, 824. 

 Tagalog, Bnnnlo. 

 Widely distributed in the Tropics. 



THESPESIA Soland. 



F. macrophylla Blume, Bijdr. 73. 1825. 



Luzon, Prov. Camarines Sur, Pasacao, 147, 209. 

 Tropical Asia, Africa, the Malayan region, etc. 



GOSSYPIUM Linn. 



G. herbaceum Linn. Sp. PI. 693. 1753. 



Mindanao, Prov. Surigao, 510 bis; Bongao Island, 843. 



Tagalog Gupas, Cuebas. 



Cultivated. 



BOMBACAE^. 



CEIBA Medik. 



Ceiba pentandra Gaertn. Fruct. 2: 244. t. ISS. 1791. {Eriodendron anfractu- 

 OHum DC. ) 

 Luzon, Prov. Camarines Sur, Pasacao, 4. 

 Tropical Africa and Asia, the Malayan region, etc. 



STEROULIACE^]. 

 MELOCHIA Linn. 



M. eorchorifolia Linn. Sp. PI. 675. 1753. 



Mindanao, Prov. Surigao, 688. 



Widely distributed in the Tropics of both hemispheres. 

 M. arborea Blanco, Fl. Filip. ed. 1, 524. 1837. (3/. velutina Bedd.) 



Mindanao, Prov. Surigao, 340; Prov. Zamboanga, 630. 



Visayan, Banitlon. 



Endemic. 



COMMERSONIA Forst 



C. platyphylla Andr. Bot. Rep. tt. 60S, 519. 1799-1811. 

 Mindanao, Prov. Surigao, 684. 

 Malavan region. 



PTEROSPERMUM Schreb. 



P. diversifolium Blume, Bijdr. 88. 1825. 



Luzon, Prov. Camarines Sur, Pasacao, 15. 



Tagalog, Bayoc or Bayog. 



Southern Asia and the Malayan region. 

 P. blumeanum Korth, in Nederl. Kruidk. Arch. 1: 311. 1848. 



Luzon, Prov. Camarines Sur, Pasacao, 66. Mindanao, Prov. Zamboanga, 542, 

 640. 



Visayan, Bayuc-hnyucon or Bayog-hayog. 



Sumatra and Java. 



