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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Rhizopliora (compare No. 1 Samoan to the Feejee Islands); the leaves large, and mucro- 

 nate or tailed, as at Tongatabu, but the flowers seeming more umb. In the environs of 

 Manila ; maritime. 



(Gen. Terminalioid ?, No. 1). Elatostema-like ; six feet high ; leaves eighteen inches long, 



obovate, rounded and obtuse at the apex, serrate, the midrib winged. On Mount Ba- 



najao, at the elevation of 3000 feet. 

 (Anacharis No. 1) ; compare N. American Elodea ; flowers pedicelled. " At Banos, 



growing in the Lake," Brackenridge. 

 Melastoma Malabathricum ? (No. 2 ; compare No. 1 Taheiti to the Feejee Islands), but the 



flowers seeming finer. On Mount Banajao, from the elevation of 1000 to 3000 feet. 

 ? (No. 3) ; white close tomentum on the under surface of the leaves. " On the 



mountains near Banos," Brackenridge. 

 ? (No. 4). " A lax-growing shrub, ten feet high;" nervures arising halfway 



towards the apex of the leaf; panicles of smooth purple berries. "On the mountains 



near Banos," Brackenridge. 

 (No. 5) ; red bracts. On Mount Banajao. 



? (No. 6). Six feet high; leaves sessile, broad, smooth, green on both sides; 



flowers not seen. Mayjayjay. 



? (No. 7). A "shrub ;" large green leaves; scabrellous trigonal petioles. " At 



Banos," Brackenridge. 



Sonneratia acida, (No. 1). A small tree, fifteen to twenty-five feet high, mangrove-like. 

 Very frequent in the environs of Manila ; sub-maritime. 



Myrtus (No. 5); near Feejeean sp., and like common sp. ; no flowers. " On the moun- 

 tains near Banos, at the elevation of 1500 feet," Brackenridge. 



(Lufia?, No. 2); gen. Cucurb. Clustered small yellow flowers ; slender; leaves angular, 

 cordate. "At Banos," Brackenridge. 



(Momordica ?, No. 1) ; leaves deeply 5-lobed, dentate. " At Baiios," Brackenridge. 



Passiflora (No. 2) ; leaves with three deep lobes; no flowers. " On the mountains near 

 Banos," Brackenridge. 



Indigofera (compare Taheiti to the Hawaiian and Samoan Islands, and No. 25 Peru). 



Shrubby. Perhaps introduced. 

 Agati grandiflora, (No. 2, bis Hawaiian Islands). Frequent in gardens. 

 Cajanus Indicus, (No. 1, bis Hawaiian Islands). At Banos, and elsewhere; cultivated. 

 Phaseolus amoenus, (compare No. 1 Taheiti to the Hawaiian and Feejee Islands, and No. 



11 Peru), but the flowers seeming larger. Growing along the road-side. 

 Erythrina (No. 4). A tree, " eighty feet high ;" the under surface of the leaves white ; 



the flowers scarlet. " At Banos," Brackenridge. And apparently the same species, sixty 



feet high with the trunk two and a half feet in diameter, on the road to Mayjayjay. 

 (Pongamia ?, No. 2) ; Amerimnoid, and Robinia-like. " A tree, twenty feet high ;" leaves 



pinnate, the leaflets acute; calyx-teeth nearly obsolete; flowers "rose-colored, appeared 



dif. from leaves. Planted, rather frequently, around Banos," Brackenridge. 

 (Caesalpinia sappan ?, No. 1 ; recorded as) Poinciana?. Twelve to fifteen feet high ; stem 



prickly, pod much compressed, leaf-like. Frequent in the environs of Manila. 

 Mimosa pudica, (bis Taheiti to Tongatabu). Naturalized; having been introduced by 



colonial Whites. No specimens. 



