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MELASTOMACE^:. 



MEMECYLON l.inn. 

 M. spp. indet. 



Four distinct species of this genus are represented in the collection, one or two 

 of them l)eing very characteristic and probably unde8cril)ed. None of the 

 material, however, is in condition for accurate determination, being mostly 

 in fruit, or one number with immature flowers. Nos. 615, 588, 656, 684, 800. 



ASTRONIA Blume. 



A cumingiana Vidal, Phanerog. Cuming. 174. 1885. 



Mindanao, Prov. Surigao, 322. 



Endemic. 

 A. macrophylla Blume, Bijdr. 1880. 1825. 



Luzon, Prov. Albay, Legaspi, 841. 



Borneo, Celebes, etc. 

 A. rolfei Vidal, 1. c, 174. 



Mindanao, Prov. Surigao, 517, 344. 



Pandemic. 



AKALIACE.i:. 



SCHEFPLERA Forst. 

 S sp. indet. 



Luzon, Prov. Camarines Sur, Pasacao, 295. Material very fragmentary. 



ARTHROPHYLLUM Blume. 



A. diversifolium Blume, Bijdr. 879. 1825. 

 Luzon, Prov. Bataan, Mariveles, 753. 

 Malayan Peninsula and Archipelago. 



MYRSINACE.i:. 



MiESA Forsk. 



M. laxa Mez, in Engler, Pflanzenreich, 9: 32. 1902. ( Jf. indica, var. ohttu«t A. DC, 

 and var. vnghtiaim A. DC. in DC. Prodr. 8: 80. 1844. 

 Luzon, Prov. Camarines Sur, Pasacao, 163. Mindanao, 812. 

 Endemic. 



M. hsenkeana Mez, 1. c. 32. 



Mindanao, Prov. Surigao, 341. Inflorescence longer than described by Mez. 

 Endemic. 

 M. spp. indet. 279, 219. The first number from Pasacao is evidently not described 

 by Mez in his recent monograph of the Myrsinacese. The last is too imperfect 

 to identify. • 



^GICERAS Gaertn. 



A. COrniciUatum (Linn.) Blanco, Fl. Filip. ed. 1, 79. 1837. {Rhizophoni rorni- 

 culdtd Linn. Amoen. Acad. 4: 123. 1760; Umbi-uculum comiculatnmO. Kuntze, 

 Rev. Gen. 2: 405. 1891 ; .Egiceras maim Gsertn. Fruct. 1: 216. t. 46. 1788.) 

 Mindanao, Prov. Surigao, 431, 498. 

 Seacoasts southern Asia to Australia. 

 A. floridum R. and S. Syst. 4: 512. 1819. 



Luzon, Prov. Camarines Sur, Pasacao, 118, 250, 284. 

 Seacoasts of Philippines, Amboina, and New Guinea. 



