THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
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The mallow is another very large family and is represent- 
ed by herbs, shrubs and large forest trees. An interesting mem- 
ber of it is a slender climber covered with delicate spines, deep 
cleft leaves and a bloom resembling very much that of our cotton. 
Another is a tree that gets to be nearly one hundred feet high and 
bears a five celled pod that opens like cotton and contains about 
thirty seeds, the size, shape and color of those of cotton. They 
are covered with lint of fine texture, but only about one-half inch 
long and not so strong as that of cotton. Alost of the large trees 
seem to belong to the bean family and to this class belong most of 
the shade trees in the streets and parks of Manila. 
Besides the large green bamboo used for buildings and various 
other purposes, which get to be four or five inches in diameter and 
about seventy feet high, there is another species, probably intro- 
duced from Japan, which is only two or three inches in diameter 
and twenty or twenty-five feet high. It is bright straw colored with 
some internodes, having one to six dark green stripes about a 
quarter of an inch wide, which gives the plant the appearance of 
having been painted. 
Another interesting plant, probably a native of Japan, also is 
Cananga ordorata, from the flowers of which is made the perfume 
Ylang Ylang. There is a grove of them about two miles from 
Manila and a few trees in most of the public and private grounds 
of the city. The tree grows to the height of fifty feet and bears 
numerous flowers with six slender yellow petals about two inches 
long. The fruit resembles our papaw in shape and structure but 
is smaller and purple in color. 
There are several species of fig here, but none, strange to say, 
of F. carica and none that resemble it very closely. Another 
member of that family, however, Art o car pus incisa, looks very 
much like it, especially the foliage at a distance of a few yards. 
The leaves of two species of fig are used by the Filipinos as a 
substitute for emery paper. 
Two members of the Araceae wild here are a large climber, 
seen in nearly all conservatories in the United States, and Cala- 
diiim. Here are some measurements I made of a specimen of the 
latter : Entire leaf, blade and petiole seventeen feet, tip of 
leaf to apex seven feet, blade four and one-half feet across, flow- 
