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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Baiubos ? (No. 2) ; compare B. arundinacea. Rambling, small-leaved. In the forest on 

 Mount Banajao, at the elevation of 3000 feet. Perhaps the same species, the fruit like 

 a hard berrj-, "at Banos," Brackenridge. 



Ljcopodium (No. 18) ; habit of L. clavatum. On Mount Banajao. 



(No. 19); not before met with. Pendulous from trunks of trees; long cylindrical 



spikes. On Mount Banajao. 

 (No. 20); not before met with. Pendulous from trunks of trees ; crowded acicular 



leaves ; quadrangular spikes. On Mount Banajao. 

 (Selaginella, No. 6); near L. liypnoides. Creeping; "three to four feet. On the moun- 

 tains near Banos," Brackenridge. 

 ( No. 7). Hypnoid ; upright, with a creeping stem. "On the mountains near 



Banos," Brackenridge. 

 Trichomanes; compare (No. 6) Feejee Islands. Clustered, eighteen inches high; with 



multifid linear segments. "On the mountains near Banos," Brackenridge. 

 (No. 18); near (No. 2 Samoan and) Feejee Islands. Clustered; frond pinn., 



beset with filaments below. " On the mountains near Banos," Brackenridge. 

 (No. 19) ; not before met with ; a second pinnate species. Taller and stouter than 



the last; fructification mostly at end of branches. "On the mountains near Banos," 



Brackenridge. 



(No. 20) ; not before met with. Growing " on trunks of trees ;" habit of Hyme- 



nophyllum ; segments linear, entire. "On the mountains near Banos," Brackenridge. 



(No. 21). Growing on the "bark of trees;" frond broad, and an inch in height. 



" On the mountains near Banos," Brackenridge. 



Hymenopjhyllum (No. 12) ; segments entire, obtuse. On Mount Banajao. 



(Colocasia antiquorum, No. 2, bis Metia to the Hawaiian and Feejee Islands). Occasion- 

 ally planted along the muddy river-bank ; but the cultivation seemed quite limited, and 

 unimportant. 



Eleocharis capitata? (compare Feejee Islands and No. 17 Peru). Abounding in marshes 



in the environs of Manila.. 

 Kyllingia (monocephala, No. 1 ; compare Brazil, Peru, and Tahciti to the Hawaiian and 



Feejee Islands); white-headed. Growing in marshy ground in the environs of Manila. 

 Digitaria, (compare Polynesian sp.). At Banos, C. P. 



Oryza sativa, (No. 1) ; unawned. In the environs of Manila; extensively cultivated, and 



constituting the chief support of the natives. The genus much like Leersia. 

 Dactyloctenium Aegyptiacum ? (No. 1). At Banos, C. P. 



Bambos arundinacea, (No. 3); in habit more feathery, and the leaves narrower than in 

 the Polynesian sp. The clusters planted along river-banks and roadsides resemble 

 willow trees in the distance, except in being more lofty. The plant applied to a great 

 variety of uses by the natives. 



Saccharum officinale, (bis Metia to the Hawaiian Islands and No. 1 Feejee Islands); the 

 sugar cane. Abundantly cultivated; but not seen naturalized. 



Zea mays, (bis United States, Chili, and No. 1 Peru) ; Indian corn. A variety or kind, 

 presenting nothing remarkable in its aspect, often seen in market ; the spikes or ears 

 rather small and slender. Introduced by colonial Whites ; but now abundantly culti- 

 vated by the natives. 



