134 ENUMERATION OF PHILIPPINE PLANTS 



1923 



EXCLUDED SPECIES 



Wikstroemia candolleana Meisn. ; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 182. 



7. PIMELEA Banks and Solander 



PIMELEA PHILIPPINENSIS C. B. Rob. in Philip. Joum. Sci. 6 (1911) Bot. 



34&. 



Luzon (Cagayan), B. S. 7410 Ramos. In open places at low altitudes. 

 Endemic. 



This large genus, with the exception of this species and P. brevituba 

 Fawc. of Timor, is confined to Australia and New Zealand. 



ELAEAGNACEAE 



1. ELAEAGNUS Tournefort 



ELAEAGNUS PHILIPPENSIS Perr. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris 3 (1824) 



114; C. B. Rob. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 6 (1911) Bot. 346; Merr. op. 



cit. 5 (1910) 366, ,Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 279. 



- Elaeagnus angustifolia Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 74, ed. 2 (1845) 53, 



ed. 3, 1 (1877) 100, non Linn. 



Elaeagnus perrottetii Schlecht. in DC. Prodr. 14 (1857) 613; Miq. 



PL Ind. Bat. 1 x (1858) 981; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 183. 

 Elaeagnus cumingii Schlecht. op. cit. 613; Miq. op. cit. 981; F.-Vill. 

 op. cit. 183; Serv. in Beihefte Bot. Centralbl. 25 (1909) 99 (incl. 

 subsp. eucumingii Serv., perrottetii Serv., and philippinensis Serv.). 

 Elaeagnus alingaro Schlecht. op. cit. 615. 



Elaeagnus latifolia Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1 * (1858) 980, quoad Philip.; 



F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 183; Vidal Sinopsis Atlas (1883) 37, 



t. SO, f. B, Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 140, Rev. PL Vase. Filip. 



(1886) 230; Usteri Beitr. Ken. Philip. Veg. (1905) 125; Merr. in 



Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 101, non Linn. 



Batan Islands, Luzon (Cagayan, Ilocos Norte, Bontoc, Nueva Vizcaya, 



Union, Bataan, Rizal, Laguna, Tayabas, Sorsogon) , Polillo, Palawan, Ne- 



gros, Cebu, Panay, Mindanao, Jolo, incl. Elmer 16478 as E. cuprea Elm. In 



thickets and forests at low and medium altitudes, ascending to 1,500 m. 



Endemic. 



Local names: Alingaro (Tag.); alunut (Iv.) ; bantap (Sul.) ; banaken 

 (Bon.); kopapei (Ig.) ; lagot (Buk.) ; lingaro (Tag.); malaimus (P. Bis.); 

 padias (Ig.). 



LYTHRACEAE 



1. ROTALA Linnaeus 



ROTALA INDICA (Willd.) Koehne in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 1 (1880) 172, Engl. 

 Pflanzenreich 17 (1903) 40; Merr. Fl. Manila (1912) 342. 

 Peplis indica Willd. Sp. PL 2 (1799) 244. 



Ammannia peploides Spreng. Syst. 1 (1825) 444; F.-Vill. Novis. App. 



(1880) 90; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 115, Rev. PL Vase. 



Filip. (1886) 138. 



Tropical and subtropical Asia to Japan southward to Java. In most 



parts of the Philippines, a rice-paddy weed and in open damp waste places 



at low and medium altitudes. 



