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has representatives of about 554 genera that have so far not 
been found in the Philippines; the Philippines on the other 
hand haye only about 91 genera that are unknown from Malaya. 
Of these 91 genera about 25 are endemic in the Phillippines, 
a few such as Sararanga, Vavaea, Microlaena, Uncinia, Stack- 
housia, Pleiogynium, Calogyne, Ascarina, Osbornia ete., are Poly- 
nesian and Australian, but unknown from Malaya, while most 
of the others are Himalayan, eastern Asiatic and boreal, such 
as Brachypodium, Anthoxanthum, Luzula, Lilium, Mahonia, Sagina, 
Arenaria, Skimmia, Pistacia, Solidago, Anisopappus, Cirsium, 
Peracarpa, Ellhsiophyllum, Hemiphragma, Daphne, Buaus, Cha- 
mabamia, Deutzia, Sedum, Sycopsis, Epilobium and Acanthopanax, 
while a very few are of wide tropical and subtropical distri- 
bution such as Garnotia, Angraecum, Kostelytzkya, Erythrophloeum, 
Omphalea ete. 
In the following distributional tables the sign + indicates 
that the same species is found both in the Philippines and 
in the other region indicated, while the sign — indicates a 
closely allied form. 
Table showing the affinities of the Philippine fiora to 
that of Western Malaya, that is Borneo, Java, Suma- 
tra and the Malay Peninsula. 
Other 
SPECIES. : 
distribution 
Philippines 
Borneo 
Java 
Sumatra 
Malay Peninsula 
HYMENOPHYLLACEAE: 
Trichomanes saxifragoides Presl. 
POLYPODIACEAE: 
4. 
-}. 
Antrophyum parvulum BL. + 
Asplenium scolopendroides J. oF +] + 
Dryopteris viscosa (J. Sm.) O. +} + Sap ets 
Elaphoglossum callaefolium (Bh) ) Moore | + 
Hymenolepis platyrhynchos (J, Sm.) Kze,) + 
Celebes 
