AFRO-INDIAN REGIONS. 



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(No 12); not before met with ; leaves broad, inequal at base, serrate. On Mount 



Banajao. 



(No. 13). Smaller, pubescent, the leaves narrower. On Mount Banajao. 



(No. 14) ; not before met with. Climbing about trunks of trees ; leaves small, 



obtuse, crenate. On Mount Banajao. 

 (Epicarpurus?, No. 6) ; gen. Elatostemoid ; a congener of Feejeean sp. A tree, thirty feet 



high ; leaves penninerved, caudate ; fruit solitary. At the elevation of 3000 feet on 



Mount Banajao. 



Ficus (No. 14) ; not before met with. Leaves reticulate, inequal. " In woods on the 

 mountains near Banos, at the elevation of 1400 feet," Brackenridge. 



(No. 15). Habit of Celtis; leaves caudate, the acumination very long. On 



Mount Banajao. 



? (No. 16) ; leaves penninerved, expanded at the apex. On Mount Banajao. 



(No. 17); scabrous; leaves seven inches, denticulate, ovate, caudate; sessile 



pisiform fruit. "At Banos," Brackenridge. 

 (No. 18) ; leaves smooth, caudate, the nervures very prominent beneath ; fruit 



peduncled, red, as large as a cherry. " At Banos," Brackenridge. 



(No. 19) ; not before met with ; oak-leaved. " At Banos," Brackenridge. 



repens? (No. 20). "On the mountains near Banos, at the elevation of 1500 



feet," Brackenridge. Growing also at Mayjayjay. 

 (No. 21) ; seeming distinct from F. repens, the leaves larger, cordate. " On the 



mountains near Banos," Brackenridge. 

 ?; larger leaved than the other creeping sp. "On the mountains near Banos," 



Brackenridge. 



Nov. gen. near Ficus, (No. 3) ; the fruit plicate or ribbed, as in Feejeean sp. ; leaves 

 inequal at base, smooth. "At the base of the mountains near Banos," Brackenridge. 



Procris? (No. 6); under surface of the leaves very softly pubescent. "At Banos," 

 Brackenridge. 



Piper (No. 8) ; leaves somewhat Melastoma-like, the under surflice glaucous. On Mount 

 Banajao. 



? (No. 9) ; leaves clasping, inequal at base. On Mount Banajao. 



(No. 10); not before met with. Six feet high; leaves ovate; fruit red. On 



Mount Banajao. 



(No. 11). Climbing, smooth; leaves 5-ribbed; fruit red, size of shot. In the 



environs of Manila. 



(No. 12) ; not before met with. A vine; leaves ovate. " At Banos," Bracken- 

 ridge. 



Zapania (compare No. 1 California, our Atlantic States, Patagonia, and Chili). At Banos, 

 (naturalized), C. P. 



Achyranthes (compare No. 2 Metia to the Feejee Islands). In cultivated ground, at 



Banos and elsewhere. 

 Celosia (No. 1). In cultivated ground, at Banos and elsewhere. 

 Aerua (No. 1 ; compare Rio Janeiro). Growing around Banos, C. P. 

 Desmochaeta (compare No. 1 Tahciti to the Feejee Islands). Frequent around houses, at 



Banos and elsewhere. 



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