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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



was no very marked change; yet many of the plants gave indications 

 of a separate and cooler botanical region ; as will appear from those 

 enumerated in the following List : 



Rubus (No. 5) ; not before met with. Leaves pubescent, 5-lobed, reticulate and papillose 



as in some Melastomaceoe. Growing on the apex of Mount Banajao. 

 Sambucus (No. 1) ; twenty feet high. Frequent at the commencement of the forest on 



Mount Banajao, at the elevation of about 2000 feet. 

 Nertera (No. 2 ; compare No. 1 Hawaiian Islands). Frequent on Mount Banajao, from 



the elevation of 3000 to 5000 feet. 

 (Cirsium No. 1 ; recorded as) Cnicus, near C. horridulus ; the flowers yellowish. Grow- 

 ing only on the apex of Mount Banajao. 

 Rhododendrum ? (No. 1) ; or compare Java genus (Vireya). Leaves with minute black 



punctures, the midrib red ; the fruit Bhododendrum-like. Growing only on the apex 



of Mount Banajao. The specimen of the fruit subsequently lost. 

 Gualtheria (No. 1. A clustered shrub), epidendric on trunks of trees; the berries black. 



Seen only on the apex of Mount Banajao. 

 Polygonum (No. 3). Eight inches high; leaves broad-ovate; raceme dense. Growing 



only on the apex of Mount Banajao. 

 (Omalanthus ?, bis No. 5; already mentioned as properly belonging to the warm region, 



though) seen only on the apex of Mount Banajao. 

 Quercus (No. 1). " The tree not seen ;" the acorns rather short and broad, and the cup 



very fiat, close foment. Fallen acorns found by Mr. Brackenridge, at the elevation of 



"1500 feet on the mountains near Banos." 

 Gen. Abies-like, (No. 1) ; branchlets covered on all sides with oblique leaves. The pre- 

 vailing tree on the apex of Mount Banajao, and with all other kinds growing there, 



reduced to the height of only twenty to thirty feet. 

 Taxus? (No. 1); not before met with. Leaves of the size of those of T. Canadensis. A 



fallen branch found in the forest, at the elevation of 5000 feet on Mount Banajao. 

 Gen. Podocarpoid, (No. 2) ; a congener? of Feejeean sp. and of P. elongatus. A shrub, 



six feet high. On Mount Banajao, growing at the elevation of from 4000 to 6000 feet. 

 Goodyera (No. 1); leaves beautifully veined with red. "On the mountains near Banos, 



at the elevation of 1400 feet," Brackenridge. 

 (No. 2) ; not before met with, a second species. Leaves small, not variegated. 



On Mount Banajao, at the elevation of 4000 feet. 

 Gahnia (No. 2) ; a congener of Taheitian (and New Zealand) sp. On the apex of 3Iouut 



Banajao. No specimens. 

 Gleichenia (No. 5); not before met with. Divisions of the frond elongate, narrow, pinna- 



tisect. Growing on the apex of Mount Banajao. 

 Nov. gen. Steganioid, (No. 1); a congener of New Zealand sp. (Having the same mode 



of growth as tree-ferns, but humble, with the central woody stem as slender as a quill) ; 



fronds runcinato-bipinn. ; fructification not seen. On Mount Banajao, at the elevation 



of 5000 feet. 



Gen. Polypodioid, (No. 1); habit of small pinnate Polypodiums; sori enclosed by folding 

 of segment, and solitary. On Mount Banajao, at the elevation of 5500 feet. 



Polypodium (No. 37); not before met with. Hairy; frond linear; two series of dots. 

 On Mount Banajao, at the elevation of 5000 feet. 



