448 ENUMERATION OF PHILIPPINE PLANTS 1923 



PEDALIACEAE 



1. SESAMUM Linnaeus 



SESAMUM ORIENTALE Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 634; Merr. Fl. Manila (1912) 



431, Interpret. Herb. Amb. (1917) 469, Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 351. 



Sesamum indicum Linn. 1. c. ; Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 507, ed. 2 



(1845) 353, ed. 3, 2 (1878) 290, t. 273; DC. Prodr. 9 (1845) 250; 



Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 (1858) 760; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 



Ind. 4 (1884) 387; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 152; Vidal Phan. 



Cuming. Philip. (1885) 132, Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 203; 



Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 124. 



Cultivated here and there throughout the Philippines, often occurring 



in open waste places as an escape. Now of pantropic distribution, a 



native of tropical Asia. Sesame. 



Local names: Ajonjoli (Sp.); langa (Bik., Tag., Ibn., Bis.); langis 

 (Pamp.) ; lenga (Ilk.) ; linga (Tag., Sbl.) ; lingo (Tag.) ; longis (If.) ; 

 lunga (Bis., Sul.). 



OROBANCHACEAE 



1. AEGINETIA Linnaeus 



AEGINETIA INDICA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 632; Roxb. PI. Coromandel 1 

 (1795) 63, t. 91; Reuter in DC. Prodr. 11 (1847) 43; Blanco FL 

 Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 342, ed. 3, 2 (1878) 270; Miq. Fil. Ind. Bat. 2 

 (1857) 712; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 4 (1884) 320; F.-Vill. Novis. 

 App. (1880) 149; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 131, Rev. 

 PL Vase. Filip. (1886) 200; Merr. Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 351. 

 Aeginetia abbreviate Walp. in Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur. 19 (1843) 



Suppl. 1: 400; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 149. 

 Aeginetia pedunculated F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 149, non Wall. 

 Luzon (Cagayan to Sorsogon, in all or most provinces), Leyte, Panay. 

 A root parasite on various coarse grasses, sometimes a pest in sugar 

 plantations, occurring at low altitudes on sugar cane; on wild grasses 

 chiefly at medium altitudes. India to Japan, Burma, and China. 



Local names: Bangbangan-ti-kiuing (Bon.); dagatan (Tag.); kola 

 (Pamp.); lapo (Ibn.); suako-ti-uak (Ilk.). 



2. CHRISTISONIA Gardiner 



CHRISTISONIA W1GHTI1 Elm. Lean. Philip. Bot. 8 (1915) 2793. 



Luzon (Laguna, Bataan), Negros, Mindanao (Lanao), Elmer 9510, B. S. 

 6173 Robinson, 12U72 McGregor, Clemens 1011, Brown. In primary forests, 

 altitude 400 to 800 m. Endemic. 



GESNERIACEAE 



1. BOEA Commerson 



BOEA PHILIPPINENSIS C. B. Clarke in DC. Monog. Phan. 5 (1883) 146; 



Rolfe in Journ. Bot. 23 (1885) 215; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. 



(1885) 132, Rev. PL Vase. Filip. (1886) 202. 



Luzon (Benguet, Batangas, Sorsogon), Mindoro, Mindanao (Bukidnon, 



Davao), B. S. 22390 Ramos, 21395 Escritor, Copeland, Elmer 17398 as C. 



pseudoglandulosa Elm. In shaded places by small streams and on forested 



slopes at low and medium altitudes. Endemic. 



