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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Dichorisandra ? (No. 1). Two feet high ; a terminal panicle of showy blue flowers. " On 

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



Gen. Tradescantioid, (No. ]). Prostrate; leaves purple ; long hairs ; no flowers. "At 

 Banos," Brackenridge. 



(Chamaerops?, No. 1). A dwarf palm ; almost stemless; frond flabellate. In marshy 

 ground. No specimens. 



Nipa? (No. 1). The trunk hardly projecting above the ground; frond pinnate, twice as 

 long as those of the cocoa-palm. Frequent in the environs of Manila. No specimens. 



Calamus ? (No. 1). Stem " four feet high, upright;" fronds pinnate, the under surface 

 white ; mid-rib spiny, and pubescent. " At Banos," Brackenridge. 



( ?, No. 2). " Twenty feet high, upright, habit of Areca;" the segments of the 



frond almost in pairs, alternate, one above the other; spines on midrib. " On the moun- 

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



(No. 3j ; a normal ratan. A climbing palm, but the stem invested with a sort of 



prickly bark; short bristles on frond. Frequent in the forest; on Mount Banajao, and 

 elsewhere. 



Gen. Palmac. (No. 1). Stemless; entirely smooth; the young fronds undivided, with 

 the margin dentate. At the elevation of 3000 feet on Mount Banajao. 



Pandanus (No. 3) ; leaves narrower and longer than in Polynesian sp., with longer prickles. 

 Frequent near the Bay-shore; and "trees twenty feet high" seen by Mr. Brackenridge 

 " in the forest, as far as the elevation of 1500 feet on the mountains near Banos." 



Freycinetia (No. 10). Much branched; and producing numerous linear-lanceolate leaves, 

 at first mistaken for those of a willow. On Mount Banajao. 



■ (No. 11) ; not before met with. Leaves with hooked prickles at base, and beyond 



these entire; floral bracts " red, with pale orange tint, fruit yellow. At Banos," Brack- 

 enridge. 



(No. 12) ; not before met with. Leaves medium, the margin nearly smooth ; 



fruit glob., Sparganium-like. " On the mountains near Banos," Brackenridge. 



? (No. 13) ; " Eighteen inches high, and not climbing ;" leaves Bromelia-like, 



narrow, and very prickly. " On the mountains near Banos," Brackenridge. The same 

 species, six feet long, at the elevation of 3000 feet on Mount Banajao. 



(Colocasia, No. 1); compare C. macrorhiza of Polynesia, (Metia to the Hawaiian and 

 Feejee Islands). Growing in the forest. No specimens. 



Pothos (No. 3) ; not before met with. Leaves narrow-ovate, entire, the petioles broadly 

 alate. " On the mountains near Banos," Brackenridge. 



(No. 4) ; large pectinate leaves. In the environs of Manila. 



(No. 5); a second pinnatisect species, but larger lobes. " At Banos," Bracken- 

 ridge. 



Piper betel, (No. 13). A vine. Extensively cultivated by the natives. 



Canna Indica, (bis Taheiti to the Hawaiian and Feejee Islands, and No. 1 Brazil and 



Peru) ; scarlet-flowered. Abundantly planted for ornament by the natives. 

 Musa paradisica, (bis Metia, and No. 1 Samoan to the Hawaiian and Feejee Islands). 



Abundantly cultivated, and some of the varieties producing fruit of very superior 



quality; one, which was not met with, yielding the textile fibre called " Manila hemp." 



(The varieties of the banana were more numerous at Manila than in any other part 



of the Globe I have visited.) 



