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Samar, Biliran, Leyte, Mindanao (Zamboanga, Davao), B. S. 17449, 

 244-90 Ramos, 18525 McGregor, Cuming 1689, Wenzel 1410, 1656, Merrill 

 Phil. PI. 1326, Elmer 7096, Ahem 386,. E, B. 22932 Fajatin. In forests 

 at low altitudes. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Bangka, Borneo. 



12. GMELINA Linnaeus 



GMELINA ELLIPTICA Sm. in Rees Cyclop. 16 (1810-11) No. 2. 



Gmelina villosa Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 46, nomen nudum, Fl. Ind. 

 ed. 2, 3 (1832) 86; Schauer in DC. Prodr. 11 (1847) 679; Miq. 

 Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 (1858) 866; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 159; Vidal 

 Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 210; Merr. in Philip. Bureau Forestry 

 Bull. 1 (1903) 51; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. Boom. Java 7 (1900) 197; 

 H. Lam Verb. Malay. Archipel. (1919) 217. 



Gmelina asiatiea Linn. var. villosa Bakh. in Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. 

 Ill 3 (1921) 70. 



Luzon (Tayabas), Mindoro, Masbate, Panay, Guimaras, Negros, Cebu, 

 Bohol, Mindanao, Basilan, Bongao. Common in thickets and secondary 

 forests at low altitudes. Burma, through Malaya to the Moluccas and the 

 Palau Islands. 



Local names: Bangana (Bag.); bohol (C. Bis.); bulbuol (P. Bis.); dan- 

 hangas (Mag.) ; kalungun (P. Bis.) ; puhung (Sul.) ; saonad (Sub.) ; ta- 

 lauan (P. Bis.); talungud (Sul.); talungun (Sul.); tanlungun (P. Bis.); 

 tulungun (P. Bis.); tuiTgolnol (P. Bis.). 



GMELINA PHILIPPENSIS Cham, in Linnaea 7 (1832) 109; Walp. Repert. 



4 (1844) 97, Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 19 (1843) Suppl. 1: 



380; Merr. Fl. Manila (1912) 406, Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 333. 

 Gmelina asiatiea Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 492, ed. 2 (1845) 344, ed. 



3, 2 (1878) 274; Schauer in DC. Prodr. 11 (1847) 679, quoad 



Philip.; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 159; Vidal Sinopsis Atlas 



(1883) 36, t. 75, f. E, non Linn. 

 Gmelina inermis Blanco op. cit. 493, 345, 274, t. 215. 

 Gmelina hystrix Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 39 - (1870) 81; Hook. 



f. in Curtis's Bot. Mag. Ill 50 (1894) t. 7391; F.-Vill. Novis. App. 



(1880) 159; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 134; Rev. PI. 



Vase. Filip. (1886) 210; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) 



Suppl. 121. 

 Gmelina asiatiea Linn. var. philippinensis Bakh. in Bull. Jard. Bot. 



Buitenz. Ill 3 (1921) 70. 



Luzon (Cagayan, Benguet, Pangasinan, Zambales, Bataan, Pampanga, 

 Bulacan, Rizal, Laguna), Panay. In thickets and secondary forests at low 

 and medium altitudes; common. Endemic? 



This has been credited to Siam (G. hystrix Kurz) , but Hallier f,, in 

 Meded. Rijks Herb. 37 (1918) 60, confines it to the Philippines. H. Lam, 

 Verb. Malay. Archipel. (1919) 221, reduces it to G. asiatiea Linn. 



Local names: Alipung (Tag.); alipunga (Tag.); baga-babui (Tag., 

 Bis.) ; betebet (Pang.) ; bosel-bosel (Ilk.) ; kalulut (Pamp.) ; paniktik 

 (Sbl.) ; sousou (Ig.) ; tulongau (P. Bis.). 



Bakhuizen gives the range of the variety as Siam, Tenasserim, Cochin- 

 China, and the Philippines. 



