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JH/TAiNICAL 



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AN ENUMERATION OF PHILIPPINE 

 FLOWERING PLANTS 



By Elmer D. Merrill 

 Director and Botanist, Bureau of Science 



DICOTYLEDONAE 



CASUARINACEAE 

 1. CASUARINA Linnaeus 



CASUARINA EQUISETI FOLIA Linn. Amoen. Acad. 4 (1759) 143 (equi- 

 se folia) ; Forst. Char. Gen. (1776) 103, /. 52; Miq. PL Ind. Bat. 1 * 

 (1857) 874; DC. Prodr. 16 2 (1868) 339; Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 

 661, ed. 2 (1845) 460, ed. 3, 3 (1879) 67; Vidal Sinopsis Atlas 

 (1883) 41, t. 91, f. A, Rev. PL Vase. Filip. (1886) 259, Phan. 

 Cuming. Philip. (1885) 147; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 206; Merr. 

 in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 27 (1905) 81, Fl. Manila (1912) 169, 

 Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 118. 

 Throughout the Philippines along sandy seashores, extending inland in 



open sandy valleys along streams, in places growing at altitudes as high 



as 800 m; usually gregarious. Tropics of the Old World from Africa to 



Polynesia near the sea, pantropic in cultivation. 



Local names: Ago (Ibn., Neg.) ; agoho (Tag., Ilk., Bis., Bik.) ; Agoo 



(Pang., Ilk., Kuy.) ; agoko (Pang.); ago-o (Ilk.); agoso (Pang., Tag.); 



ague (Ibn.) ; alaut (Bon.) ; antong (Is.) ; aroo (Ilk.) ; aroho (Ilk., Ting.) ; 



ayo (Bis.) ; karo (Ilk.) ; mahohok (Mbo.) ; malabohok (Bis.) ; maribuhok 



(Bis.). 



CASUARINA RUMPHIANA Miq. in Flora 48 (1865) 23, 38; F.-Vill. Novis. 

 App. (1880) 207; Ceron Cat. PL Herb. Manila (1892) 164. 

 Casuarina nodiflora Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 17 (1904) 9, 

 non Forst. 

 Northern Luzon to Mindanao and Palawan, in mountain forests, usually 

 gregarious, altitude 100 to 1,100 m. Celebes, Moluccas. 



Local names: Ago (Lan.) ; agoho (Bis., Tag.); ahgaho (P. Bis.); angol 

 (Bik.) ; bunai (Tagb.) ; go-o (Bag.) ; gouet (Ibn.) ; manholai (Mbo.) ; 

 o'o (Bag.); saplui (Mbo.). 



CASUARINA SUMATRANA Jungh. in Hoev. & De Vriese Tijdschr. 11 

 (1844) 115; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 207 (excl. syn. Blanco); 

 Ceron Cat. PL Herb. Manila (1892) 164. 



Luzon (Sorsogon), Palawan, Leyte, Mindanao, in forests back of man- 

 grove swamps. Burma to Sumatra, Borneo, and Java. 



Local names: Agoho (Tag.); maliangin (Sul.) ; maribuhok (Bis.); pa- 

 gospos (C. Bis.); pugaspas (Bis.); sampalog (Tagb.). 



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