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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Gen, Olacac. (No. 1). A "pendent busli, twelve feet liig'li;" leaves alternate; margin of 



the calyx nearly entire ; petals three, with about three stamens attached to each. 



" At Baiios," Brackenridge. 

 Gen. incert. (No. 1). A shrub; axillary spines; leaves alternate, caudate, having a long 



mucro or acumination. " On the mountains near Baiios," Brackenridge. 

 Gen. Aurantiac. ? (No. 1). Very spiny; leaves Carissa-like, but alternate. "On the 



mountains near Bancs," Brackenridge. 

 (Limonia acidissima?. No. 1 ; recorded as) Limonioid ?. Leaves pseudo-pinnate, and 



having black dots ; a small red berry on a 5-cleft calyx. " At Bauos, along the margin 



of the Lake," Brackenridge. 

 Gen. Sapindac. ? (No. 1). Leaves 6-jugis, smooth, the leaflets entire, almost cordate at 



base; apparently a drupe, of the size of a small cherry. "At Bancs," Brackenridge. 

 Sapindus (No. 3). " Twenty-five feet high ;" flowers white. " On the mountains near 



Baiios, at the elevation of 1200 feet," Brackenridge. 

 Gen. Meliac. ? (No. 1). " A tree;" leaves 4-jugis ; the leaflets penninerved, entire ; no 



flowers. " At Bafios," Brackenridge. 

 Leea ; compare (No. 1) Feejee Islands. Met with about three miles back of Manila. 



No specimens. 



; seeming distinct from IManila sp. "On the mountains near Baiios, at the 



elevation of 1400 feet," Brackenridge. 

 Cissus (No. 4). A vine; leaves quinate. On Mount Banajao, at the elevation of 3000 



feet. 



(No. 5); divided, and serrate leaves. At Bafios, C. P. 



(No. 6); leaves trifoliolate, and Rubus-like. " At Baiios," Brackenridge. 



Oxalis (No. 3) ; valves of the capsule snapping or projecting the seeds to a distance, as 

 in Impatiens. At Baiios, C. P. 



Averrhoa ? (No. 1). " A shrub ;" leaves pinnate, the leaflets 4-jugis cum imparl; flowers 

 in lax pendent racemes. " At Baiios," Brackenridge. 



Nov. gen. Kutac. ? (No. 9) ; compare Hawaiian genus of trees ? ; leaves elliptical ; no 

 flowers. " At Baiios," Brackenridge. 



Gen. incert, (No. 1). A "bush, fifteen feet high;" leaves alternate, penninerved, some- 

 what Flemingia-like ; calyx 5-cleft; petals five, persistent; style single; berry contain- 

 ing two cells; compare Kiggelaria. " At Baiios," Brackenridge. 



Rhus ? (No. 5) ; leaves trifoliolate, sinuately-dentate. On Mount Banajao. 



Gen. Rhus-like, (No. 1) ; leaves pubescent, 14-jugis, the leaflets pinnatisect; no flowers. 

 " On the mountains near Baiios," Brackenridge. 



Theobroma cacao. Arborescent, twenty feet high. Abundantly cultivated ; having been 

 introduced from America, by colonial Whites. 



Corchorus (olitorius ?, No. 1); fruit elongate. " At Bafios," Brackenridge. 



(capsularis ?, No. 2); Abutilon-like ; the fruit tubercular. "At Bauos," Brack- 

 enridge. 



Triumfetta (compare No. 3 Rio Janeiro). Frequent along roadsides, at Baiios and else- 

 where. 



Citrus nov. sp., (No. 1, bis Samoa to Feejee Islands). " The Samoan species" seen by 

 Mr. Rich. 



