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Throughout the Philippines, in open grasslands at low and medium 

 altitudes; in most islands and province's^* certainly introduced. Tropical 

 Africa, Asia, and Malaya. 



Local names: Ahimit (Gad.) ; andalahit (Sul.) ; barbarinit (Ilk.) ; inabu 

 (Ilk.); kalitoitoi (Tagb.) ; labneg (P. Bis.); labog (Bis.); labuag (Ak., 

 Bis.), sabnit (Tag.); sagmit (Tag.); sampinit (Sul.); sapinit (Tag.). 



HIBISCUS SYRIACUS Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 695; Mast, in Hook. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. 1 (1874) 344; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 25; Naves 

 in Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 3 (1877-83) t. 34.6; Hochr. in Ann. Conserv. 

 Jard. Bot. Geneve 4 (1900) 76; Merr. & Rolfe in Philip. Journ. Sci. 

 3 (1908) Bot. 111. 



Occasionally planted for ornamental purposes, but nowhere naturalized. 

 A native of tropical or subtropical Asia, now widely cultivated. 



HIBISCUS TILIACEUS Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 694; Prodr. 1 (1824) 454; 

 Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 541, ed. 2 (1845) 379, ed. 3, 2 (1879) 332, 

 t. 274; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1 2 (1858-59) 153; Mast, in Hook. f. Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. 1 (1874) 344; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 24; Vidal 

 Sinopsis Atlas (1883) 16, t. 16, f. B, Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 

 97, Rev. PL Vase. Filip. (1886) 63; Hochr. in Ann. Conserv. Jard. 

 Bot. Geneve 4 (1900) 62; Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 110; 

 Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 92, 3 (1908) Bot. 

 78, 419, Fl. Manila (1912) 323, Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 254. 

 Paritium tiliaceum St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Mer. 1 (1827) 156; A. Gray 

 Bot. Wilkes U. S. Explor. Exped. (1854) 178. 



Throughout the Philippines along the seashore, and along tidal streams, 

 occasionally planted inland for ornamental purposes. Pantropic along the 

 seashore. 



Local names: Bago (Ilk., Bon., Ting.); balabago (S. L. Bis.) ; balibago 

 (Tag., Bis.); bauan (Ibn.) ; dangliu (Tag.); danglog (Sul.) ; hanot (Iv.) ; 

 laogo (Bag.); malabago (Tag., P. Bis., S. L. Bis., Lan.) ; lambagu (Sul.) ; 

 malabagu (Ilk.); malibago (Tag., P. Bis., Sul.); malubago (Tag., Bik.,) ; 

 marakapas (Ibn.) ; mayambago (Bik., C. Bis.) ; mulabago (Mag.) ; ragindi 

 (Bis.). 



HIBISCUS VITIFOLIUS Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 696, Mast, in Hook. f. FL 

 Brit. Ind. 1 (1874) 338; Hochr. in Ann. Conserv. Jard. Bot. 

 Geneve 4 (1900) 168; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 13 (1918) Bot. 30. 



Luzon (Union), Lete 117, 144, 403. In waste places or thickets at low 

 altitudes, undoubtedly introduced. Old World Tropics, introduced in trop- 

 ical America. 



Local name: Mapua (Ilk.). 



EXCLUDED SPECIES 



Hibiscus furcatus Roxb.; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 24. 



Hibiscus micranthus Linn.; F.-Vill. 1. c. 



Hibiscus radiatus Linn.; F.-Vill. 1. c. 



Hibiscus vriesianus Hassk.; F.-Vill. op. cit. 25. 



