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In and near settlements, on rice-paddy banks, fallow paddies, etc., 

 throughout the Philippines. Pantropic, but native of the Old World. 



Local names: Pasau (Tag., Sbl.) ; pasau-na-haba (Tag.) ; saluyut (Ilk.) ; 

 tagabang (Bis.); taka (Mag.); yaka (Mag.). 



5. TRICHOSPERMUM Blume 



TRICHOSPERMUM DISCOLOR Elm. Lean. Philip. Bot. 5 (1913) 1641. 

 Trichospermum mindanaense Merr. ex Elm. 1. c. in syn. 

 Luzon (Cagayan), Mindanao (Davao, Lanao), Elmer 11903, Clemens 

 113U, F. B. 26969 Velasco. In forests at low altitudes in Cagayan, in Min- 

 danao 700 to 900 m. Endemic. 



TRICHOSPERMUM ERIOPODUM (Turcz.) Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 11 



(1916) Bot. 17. 



Grewia eriopoda Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 31 * (1858) 231; 



F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 30; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 



99, Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 70. 



Trichospermum leytense Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 9 (1914) Bot. 374. 



Luzon (Sorsogon), Leyte, Samar, Siargao, Mindanao (Zamboanga), 

 Cuming 1680, Wenzel 837, 1257, 1396, Merrill Phil. PL 1170, Elmer 16920, 

 1633'U, 1608U, B. S. 23658 Ramos, 3U98U Ramos & Pascasio, 37393 Ramos 

 & Edano. In secondary forests at low and medium altitudes. Endemic. 



TRICHOSPERMUM INVOLUCRATUM (Merr.) Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 5 

 (1913) 1641. 

 Halconia involucrata Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 281. 

 Trichospermum cuneatum Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 5 (1913) 1643. 

 Trichospermum negrosense Elm. op. cit. 1641. 

 Halconia negrosensis Elm. op. cit. 2 (1908) 495. 



Mindoro, Sibuyan, Negros, Merrill 5527, Elmer 9649, 12514. On for- 

 ested ridges, altitude 900 to 1,400 m. Endemic. 

 Local name: Langosig-daka (C. Bis.). 



TRICHOSPERMUM LANIGERUM (Blanco) Merr. Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 



250. 

 Eroteum lanigerum Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 440, ed. 2 (1845) 307, 



ed. 3, 2 (1878) 205. 

 Trichospermum trivalve Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 



206; Elm. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 5 (1913) 1641. 



Luzon (Rizal), Mindoro, F. B. 4046 Merritt, 3'98, 1161 Ahern's collector, 

 Whitford 1391, Merrill Phil. PI. 4-98, Sp. Blancoanae 1032. In forests at 

 low altitudes. Endemic. 



Local names: Agusos (Tag.); banikulung (Mbo.) ; buringot (Tag.); 

 hanadiung-puti (Tag.); sayapo (P. Bis.). 



6. GREWIA Linnaeus 



GREWIA ACUMINATA Juss. in Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 4 (1804) 91; 



Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (1904) 103; Merr. Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 



250. 



Grewia umbellata Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 42, nomen nudum, Fl. 



Ind. ed. 2, 2 (1832) 591; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 30; Vidal 



