VoL 3 LYTHRACEAE 137 



Occasionally cultivated in Manila and in other towns for ornamental 

 purposes, but nowhere spontaneous. A- native of China, now planted in 

 most warm and tropical regions. Crepe myrtle. 



Local names: Melindres (Sp.) ; pelendres (Tag.); poua (Buk.) ; ta- 

 bangau (Ibn.). 



LAGERSTROEMIA PANICULATA (Turcz.) Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. 



(1885) 115, Rev. PL Vase. Filip. (1886) 140; Koehne in Engl. 



Pflanzenreich 17 (1903) 268, /. 55, w. x. 

 Pterocalymna paniculata Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 19 2 (1846) 



508; Walp. Ann. 1 (1848) 295. 

 Pterocalymna calycina Koehne in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 4 (1883) 25, 



sphalm. 

 Lagerstroemia calycina Koehne 1. c. 



Luzon (Cagayan, Ilocos Norte, Abra), Catanduanes, Samar, Cuming 

 1188, F. B. 11281 Klemme, 2U862 Velasco, B. S. 30182 Ramos, Sablaya 

 37. In forests at low and medium altitudes. Endemic. 



Local names: Bangles (Ilk.); talulong (Neg.). 



LAGERSTROEMIA PIRIFORMIS Koehne in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 4 (1883) 23, 



Pflanzenreich 17 (1903) 267; Merr. & Rolfe in Philip. Journ. 



,Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 116. 

 Lagerstroemia batitinan Vidal Rev. PL Vase. Filip. (1886) 139; Merr. 



in Philip. Bureau Forestry Bull. 1 (1903) 42; Koehne in Engl. 



Pflanzenreich 17 (1903) 267. 

 Lagerstroemia hexaptera F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 91; Vidal Sinop- 



sis Atlas (1883) 27, t. 50, f. A, non Miq. 



Luzon (Cagayan, Pampanga, Rizal, Laguna, Batangas, Tayabas, Ca- 

 marines, Albay, Sorsogon), Samar, Leyte, Negros, Mindanao (Surigao, 

 Agusan, Butuan, Misamis, Lanao, Davao, Zamboanga, Cotabato), Basilan. 

 In primary forests at low and medium altitudes, often common; a valuable 

 timber tree. Endemic. 



Local names: Angus (Mand.) ; bagunarem (Bag.); bagunaum (Sul.) ; 

 baluknit (Ilk.) ; banabang-bogtong (Tag.) ; banabang-dinglas (Tag.) ; ba- 

 nabang-tinaan (Tag.) ; basit (Sul.) ; batinan (Bik.) ; batitinan (Tag., 

 Bik.) ; batikalag (Pang.); bugason (S. L. Bis.); bugaom (S. L. Bis.); 

 bugarom (S. L. Bis.); dinglas (Tag.); lasila (Ilk.); linau (Bik.); lumati 

 (Ilk.); lasilak (Neg.); lumpian (S. L. Bis.); magaklud (Mag.); maga- 

 talulong (Ilk.) ; magugahum (Mbo.) ; manglati (Bis.) ; naghubo (Tag.) ; 

 pamalauagon (S. L. Bis.) ; patitinan (Bik.) ; saluling (Ibn.) ; sibayan 

 (Sub.); talulung (Ibn.); tinaan (Tag., Bik.). 



LAGERSTROEMIA SPECIOSA (Linn.) Pers. Syn. 2 (1807) 72; DC. Prodr. 



3 (1828) 93; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. Boom. Java 1 (1894) 190; Koehne 



in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 4 (1883) 28, Pflanzenreich 17 (1903) 261; 



Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 101, 3 (1908) Bot. 422, 



Fl. Manila (1912) 341, Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 281. 

 Munchausia speciosa Linn, in Munchh. Hausv. 1 (1770) 357, t. 2; 



Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 611, ed. 2 (1845) 427, ed. 3, 2 (1879) 413, 



t. 31U. 

 Lagerstroemia reginae Roxb. PL Coromandel 1 (1795) 46, t. 65; Miq. 



Fl. Ind. Bat. 1 * (1857) 623; Usteri Beitr. Ken. Philip. Veg. (1905) 



118. 



