AFRO-INDIAN REGIONS. 



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Portulaca ? (No. 7). Slender ; the flowers yellow. Growing around the hot-spring at 

 Banos," Brackenridge. 



(Weinmannia ?, No. 7); gen. Cunoniac. The fallen fruit found by Mr. Brackenridge 

 "on the mountains near Baiios." 



Hydrocotyle (No. 2) ; not before met with. The carpels few and large. At Banos, C. P. 



(Gen. near Aralia ?, No. 1 ; or compare) gen. Meliac. ? "A tree, thirty feet high ;" 

 leaves pinnate, the leaflets dentate ; berry containing two or more seeds. " On the 

 mountains near Banos, at the elevation of 1000 feet," Brackenridge. 



Gen. Araliac, (No. 1). Leaves 9-nate, entire, acuminate. On Mount Banajao. 



, (No. 2). Twenty feet high; leaves quinate, entire. On Mount Banajao. 



Gen. incert., (No. 1). Arborescent, "twenty-five feet high ; the stem simple, terminating 

 in a bunch of leaves almost like a ball; the leaves four feet long," penninerved, and 

 sinuately dentate ; flowers " not seen," probably in the axils. " On the mountains 

 near Banos," Brackenridge. 



Loranthus (No. 5); not before met with. Close pubescence on the leaves, flowers, and 

 fruit; corolla "pale yellow. On the mountains near Banos," Brackenridge. 



(No. 6) ; a second species. Agreeing with the last in habit, but smoother leaves, 



and the flowers more slender. " On the mountains near Banos," Brackenridge. 



Rubia (No. 1); Galium-like, and very small. " Around the hot-spring at Banos," Brack- 

 enridge. 



Morinda (No. 7); not before met with. " A shrub ;" capit. in terminal panicles. "On 



the mountains near Banos, at the elevation of 1200 feet," Brackenridge. 

 Psychotria ? (No. 6) ; leaves smooth, attenuate, short-petioled ; terminal cymes. " On 



the mountains near Banos," Brackenridge. 

 Gen. Colfeac. with sessile blue berries, (No. 1). A shrub. On Mount Banajao, from the 



elevation of 4000 to 5000 feet. 

 Gen. Coifeac. ? herbaceous, (No. 1). Climbing, rooting ; the leaves verticillate. "On 



the mountains near Banos," Brackenridge. 

 Ophiorhiza (No. 4). " On the mountains near Banos, at the elevation of 1200 feet," 



Brackenridge. 



(Hedyotis, No. 4) ; Oldenlandia ; habit of Stcllaria media. At Banos, C. P. 

 ( , No. 5) ; Oldenlandioid ; sufi"ruticose ; cymes long-peduncled. On Mount Ba- 

 najao, from the elevation of 3000 to 4000 feet. 



(Inga dulcis ?, No. 2). Arborescent, twenty feet high ; leaves pinnate, Fraxinus-like; pods 

 many-jointed, (very long, and curling). Growing along the road to Mount Banajao. 

 No specimens. 



Terminalia (catappa. No. 4), bis Tongatabu to the Feejee Islands. Planted around houses 

 within the limits of the city; the branches given ofi" at regular intervals, and extending 

 horizontally, the uppermost imparting to the apex of the tree the form of the crucifix. 



Jambosa (Malaccensis, No. 1, bis Taheiti to the Hawaiian and Feejee Islands). The fruit 

 brought to market; red, but seeming smaller than the Polynesian. 



Cucurbita (melopepo?; compare No. 3 North America, and C. ovifera); fruit small, in 

 size and shape not unlike that of Carica. " Vegetable-marrow" known in the market. 



Carica papaya, (bis Mctia to the Hawaiian and Feejee Islands, and No. 1 Tropical Ame- 

 rica). Abundantly cultivated. 



