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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS. 



Calophyllum inophyllum, (bis No. 1 Metia to the Feejee Islands). On the Mangsi coral- 

 islets ; and apparently the same species, sub-maritime, growing along the sea-coast at 

 Caldera. 



; near (No. 2) Samoa (to Tongatabu); leaves narrow, lanceolate, with parallel ner- 



vures. On the Mangsi coral-islets. 

 (Garcinia ?, No. 1 ; recorded as) Clusioid ; large leaves ; no flowers. On the Mangsi 



coral-islets. 



(Hippocratea ?, No. 1); bis?. A vine; leaves opposite, entire, subcordate, 5 nerved ; ter- 

 minal panicle of inconspicuous flowers ; five sepals, and five petals. On the Mangsi 

 coral-islets. 



Dodonaea; compare Polynesian sp. (Brazil, Peru, and No. 1 Metia to the Hawaiian and 



Feejee Islands). At Caldera ; and also, on Sulu. 

 Sapindus ? (No. 4) ; leaves very large, paripinnate, smooth, reticulate. At Caldera on 



Mindanao. 



(Cupania ?, No. 5 ; recorded as) Sapindac. ? ; a congener of Feejeean sp. Leaves trijugis; 



axillary cymes; sepals five; capsule attenuate, compressed, bivalved, having two-cells, 



each one-seeded ; the seeds having a large tubercle at base. At Caldera on Mindanao. 

 (Ornitrophe ?, No. 2). Cupanioid; leaves trifoliolate, Rhus-like, the leaflets crenulate; 



long slender racemes; berry small, dicoccous. On Sulu. 

 Gen. Meliac. ? (No. 2). A tree, sixty feet high ; panicles; tuberc. peduncle, but the fruit 



apparently abortive. On the Mangsi coral-islets. 

 ? (No. 3); leaves pinnate; the leaflets 5-jugis, entire; fr. in clusters; sepals 5; 



style single ; berry pubescent. At Caldera. 

 Leea (compare Feejee Islands and Luzon). One or more species ; the leaves in some 



instances broad and large. Abounding in the forest back of Caldera. 

 Cissus (No. 7). Sub-herbaceous; leaves mostly 7-partite. On the Mangsi coral-islets ; 



and apparently the same species? seen at Sulu. 

 ? (No. 8). Stem thick, herbaceous, cylindrical ; leaves broad-cordate, articulate 



on the petiole. On Sulu, growing within the limits of the town. 

 (Gen. Ochnoid, No. 1). Ochna-like fruit, of three berries (on a common receptacle), 



observed on Sulu. 



Xylocarpus (bis Tongatabu to the Feejee Islands). On the islet at Sulu. 



Gen. (Samaroid ?, No. 1). A vine; leaves opposite, entire; axillary spine; sepals distinct; 



four petals, alternating with the stamens ; berry round, pisiform, crowned with the large 



stigma. On Sulu. 



Gen. incert., (No. 1); Kiggelaria-like. A tree; four sepals, and four petals; fruit acorn- 

 like, superior, crowned with the stigma. On the Mangsi coral-islets. 



Colubrina Asiatica ; bis (No. 1 Metia and) Taheiti (to the Hawaiian and Feejee Islands). 

 On Sulu, growing within the limits of the town. 



Citrus Sinensis, (bis No. 3 Luzon) ; the mandarin orange. Skin of the fruit easily 

 detached, having the inner fibrous substance dryer than in the true orange. Some 

 varieties have the fruit very small, hardly more than an inch in diameter. For sale in 

 the town on Sulu. 



Averrhoa carambola, (No. 2) ; the fruit five-winged, and called "karambola." For sale 

 in the town on Sulu. 



