A PRELIMINARY REVISION OF PHILIPPINE MART AGILE. 337 
Local names, Digotnalit, (II.), Pangasinan; TJalisuaUsan, (Tag.), Zambales. 
A small tree or a shrub : fruit edible. 
Endemic : altitudinal range from sea level to mountain tops. 
2. Decaspermum paniculatum Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal 46 = (1877) 
61. 
Nelitris paniculata Lindl. Collect. Bot. (1821) 16. 
N. urvillaei Bentli. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 2 (1843) 220, quoad philip- 
pinensis; non DC. Prodr. 3 (1828) 231. 
f Legnotis lanceolata Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 445. 
? Metrosideros pictipetala Blanco FI. Filip, ed. 2 (1845) 295. 
Batanes Islands, Sab tan Island, Savidog, Bur. Sci. 3741 Fenix. Luzon, 
Province of Benguet, Sablan, Elmer 6188, Williams 1381fj Baguio, For. Bur. 507 If 
Curran ; Mount Santo Tomas, For. Bur. 92 7 Barnes, Elmer 5807 ; Mount Pulog, 
For. Bur. 18101 Curran, Merritt & Zscholcke: Province of Bataan, Mount Mari- 
veles, Lamao River, Merrill 3861, Whitford 455, Elmer 6992, Leiberg 60 41, For. 
Bur. 1332, 1589 Borden: Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, For. Bur. 336 j ) Ahern’s 
collector, Bur. Sci. 1506 Ramos ; Antipolo, Merrill Dec. Philip. For. FI. 52 Ahern’s 
colector, Bur. Sci. 3363 Ramos; Tanay, Merrill 23 4 7: Province of Laguna, Ma- 
jaijai, For. Bur. 8054 Curran cG Merritt: Province of Tayabas, Cuming 821; 
Tinuan River, Whitford 804; Lucban, Elmer 7818; Mount Banajao, Whitford 
984; Polo Island, For. Bur. 1415 IClemme. Leyte, Palo, Elmer 7325. Bohol, 
Cuming 1824- Palawan, Puerto Princesa, For. Bur. 3527 Curran. Dinagat, 
Ahern 465, 4-7 5. Mindanao, Province of Misamis, Mount Malindang, For. Bur. 
4580 Mearns & Hutchinson: Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens 557, 
664, s - n - District of Cotabato, Malabang, Mrs. Clemens s. n. : District of Zam- 
boanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9068, 9476 Whitford £ Hutchinson ; Sax River, 
Williams 2107. Basilan, Hallier s. n. 
Local names reported: Salingsingang, (Ig. ), Benguet; Tayomtagom, (Tag.), 
Rizal; Dugayon, Salilihan, Dinagat; Cansilay, Zamboanga; Malaruhat, Macaasin, 
(Tag.), Tayabas, the two last more properly applied to species of Eugenia. 
The identification of Blanco’s species, called by different names in the two 
editions, is fairly probable, as all of his statements can be made to apply to 
dried specimens of D. paniculatum , except that relating to the color of the petals. 
Distribution: Bengal to Formosa and Australia. 
9. RHODOMYRTUS (DC.) Reiclib. 
Rhodomyrtus tomentosa Hassle, in Flora (1842) Beibl. 2: 35; Bentli. in 
Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 2 (1843) 220. 
Myrtus tomentosa Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 (1789) 159. 
Batanes Island, Camiguin Island, Bur. Sci. 4129 Fenix. Luzon, Province 
of Ilocos Norte, Cuming 1253. 
The transfer of Aiton’s specific name to Rhodomyrtus has been ascribed to 
different authors, partly owing to the confusion due to the use of the name 
first as a subgenus, and finally as a genus. I have been unable to check the 
reference to Hasskarl. 
Judged by description only, this is the nearest species yet known to Eugenia 
glandulosa Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 417, as indicated by the structure ascribed 
to the ovary of the latter, which suggests rather than agrees with that of the 
former. Rhodomyrtus seems to be confined in the Philippines to the extreme 
north, Blanco’s plant grew at Malinta, within ten miles of Manila: nothing 
corresponding to it lias appeared in recent collections, including those made on 
a trip to Malinta, in the hope of deciding the question. 
India to Japan, southward to Malaya. 
