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(No. 5) ; seeming distinct. Stem covered with short toment. ; small smooth 



flowers on long pedicels. On the islet at Sulu. 

 (No. 6) ; congen. Feejeean ?, but no prickles. Weak -stemmed ; leafy; the flowers 



woolly. On the islet at Sulu. 

 (Uecaschistia?, No. 1); like Trionum, but the calyx not inflated. Leaves tripartite; 



flowers yellow, turning to purple in drying ; stigma with four petaloid lobes. In the 



opening in the forest, back of Caldera. 

 Paritium tiliaceum, (bis No. 1 Metia to the Hawaiian and Feejee Islands and Luzon, and 



compare Brazil). On Sulu, growing around the town. 

 Thespesia populnea, (bis No. 1 Samoan to the Feejee Islands). On the sea-beach at Cal- 

 dera ; and a single stock on the beach of the islet at Sulu ; rare also on the Mangsi 



coral-islets. 



Helicteris? (No. 2); scattered hairs; leaves alternate, denticulate, havi^Jg two large round 



stipules at base ; no flowers, nor fruit. At Caldei'a on Mindanao. 



? (No. 3) ; seeming congeneric. Much more pilose. At Caldera on Mindanao. 



Heritiera ; compare (No. 1) Tongatabu (to the Feejee Islands) ; under surface of the 



leaves sericeous, almost silvery; no flowers. On the islet at Sulu. The fruit washed 



ashore on the Mangsi coral-islets, the species being the same as at Tongatabu. 

 Pterospermum acerifolium, (bis No. 1 Luzon). A large tree. Frequent in the forest 



back of Caldera on Mindanao. 

 suberifolium, (bis No. 2 Luzon). A large tree. Likewise frequent in the forest 



at Caldera on Mindanao. 

 Sterculia? (No. 1) ; leaves with a sinus at base, and 5-lobed, the under surface of the ner- 



vures softly pubescent. At Caldera on Mindanao. 

 ( ?, No. 2; recorded as) Ileritieroid ?. Leaves broad-ovate, penninerved; flower 



inconspicuous, the calyx cylindrical with the apex 5-fid ; no corolla ; stamens about 



twenty ; capsule while young 5-angled, the angles afterwards growing outwards into 



regular pods, like those of Sterculia. Growing on Sulu. 

 Micromelum (No. 2) ; leaves pinnate, 6-jugis, the leaflets penninerved. On the Mangsi 



coral-islets. 



Triphasia trifoliata, (No. 1, bis Luzon). Frequent at Caldera on Mindanao, and seeming 

 indigenous. 



(Atalantia ?, No. 1 ; recorded as) Aurantiac. ? Weak-stemmed, almost a vine ; spines ; 



leaves with black dots. On the islet at Sulu, growing on the hill-top. 

 ( ?, No. 2); a congener of Sulu hill sp. Leaves dotted; panic, extra-axillary, and 



a terminal one besides ; five sepals, and five petals ; fruit as large as a cherry, purplish 



green. On the Mangsi,coral-islets. 

 ( ?, No. 3; recorded as) Aurantiac? Leaves simple; umbel of fruit; the berry 



very small, obtuse, but seen only in the young state. On the islet at Sulu. 



of wild grapes, Vitis labrusca, and less disagreeable than was anticipated ; the flavor 

 presenting nothing attractive on the first trial ; the pulp containing sulphuretted hydro- 

 gen in sufficient abundance to blacken silver spoons. The fruit sold in the market of 

 the town on Sulu. 



Astrapaja (compare No. 1 Luzon). Apparently this plant, growing near the dwellings of 

 the natives at Caldera. No specimens. 



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