436 ENUMERATION OF PHILIPPINE PLANTS 1923 



8. BYTHOPHYTON Hooker f. 



BYTHOPHYTON INDICUM (Hook. f. & Th.) Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 4 

 (1884) 286; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 5 (1910) Bot. 229. 

 Micranthemum indicum Hook. f. & Th. in Hook. Journ. Bot. Kew 

 . Miscel. 9 (1857) 245, t. 7. 



Luzon (Lepanto), Merrill 4-519. In shallow water, and along the marshy 

 borders of a small pond, on Mt. Data, altitude about 2,200 m. India (Khas- 

 sia Mountains). 



9. MICROCARPAEA R. Brown 



MICROCARPAEA MINIMA (Koenig) Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) 



Bot. 100. 



Paederota minima Koenig in Retz. Obs. 5 (1789) 10. 



Microcarpaea muscosa R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 436; Benth. in DC. Prodr. 



10 (1846) 433; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 4 (1884) 287. 



Microcarpaea alterniflora Blume Bijdr. (1826) 744. 



i 

 Luzon (Bontoc), Vanoverbergh 939. In rice paddies, altitude about 



1,200 m. India to southern China southward through Malaya to tropical 



Australia. 



10. ARTANEMA D. Don 



ARTANEMA LONGIFOLIA (Linn.) comb. nov. 



Columnea longifolia Linn. Mant. 1 (1767) 90. 



Archimenes sesamoides Vahl Symb. 2 (1791) 71. 



Artanema sesamoides Benth. Scroph. Ind. (1835) 39, DC. Prodr. 10 



(1846) 408; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 4 (1884) 274; F.-Vill. Novis. 



App. (1880) 148; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 130, Rev. PI. 



Vase. Filip. (1886) 199. 

 Artanema loyigiflora Wettst. in Engl. & Prantl Nat. Pflanzenfam. 



4 3b (1891) 79. 



Luzon (Cagayan), Cuming 1273. Tropical Asia and Malaya. 



11. TORENIA Linnaeus 



TORENIA BLANCOI Merr. Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 346. 



Vandellia multiflora Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 505, non G. Don. 

 Torenia asiatica F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 148, non Linn. 



Luzon (Tarlac, Rizal), Merrill 3636, Sp. Blancoanae 157. On bowlders 

 in bamboo thickets and in recently cleared land at low altitudes; rare. 

 Endemic. 



TORENIA CONCOLOR Lindl. Bot. Reg. (1846) t. 62; Merr. Fl. Manila 

 (1912) 425. 



Occasionally cultivated for ornamental purposes but nowhere established. 

 A native of China. 



TORENIA PEDUNCULARIS Benth. in Wall. Cat. (1831) No. 3956, nomen 

 nudum; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 4 (1884) 276; Rolfe in Journ. Bot. 

 23 (1885) 214; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 130, Rev. PI. 

 Vase. Filip. (1886) 199; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) 

 Suppl. 123, Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 347. 

 Torenia edentula Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10 (1846) 410; F.-Vill. Novis. 

 App. (1880) 148, non Griff. 



