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instruct! (summi eramosi), folia dimidia paullo superantes, 
rhachi quam pedunculus paullo longiore pilis brevibus patulis 
dense cano-puberula, sat dense cincinnigera, cincinnis 2-3-floris 
(summis ad flores singulos reductis) ; flores mediocres, glabri, 
albi, longiuscule pedicellati, pedicellis minutim patule pubescen- 
tibus; fructus — (non suppetebant) . 
Rami 3-4 mm crassi. Folia petiolo 4 cm longo adjecto ca. 15 
cm longa; foliola cum petiolulis 4-10 mm longis 7-11 cm longa, 
3-4.5 cm lata. Thyrsi 6-7 cm longi, ramis 3-4 cm longis. 
Alabastra diametro 1.5-2 mm. Sepala glabra, margine glandu- 
loso-ciliolata ; petala (alabastri) suborbicularia, breviter ungui- 
culata, intus bisquamulata, ungui squamulisque densissime 
villosis; discus in glandulas 4 subtruncatus productus, glaber; 
stamina villosa; pistillum (floris $ ) rudimentarium, bicoccum, 
puberulum. 
Guam Experiment Station U70. 
Obs. Affinis Allophylo timorensi Bl. em., a quo differt habitu graciliori, 
foliolis margine integerrimis, rhachi thyrsorum pedicellisque dense puberulis. 
DODONAEA Linnaeus 
DODONAEA VISCOSA Jacq. Enum. PI. Carib. (1760) 19; Safford 263. 
McGregor It 60, G. E. S. 328. 
Widely distributed in the tropics of both hemispheres. 
CARDIOSPERMUM Linnaeus 
CARDIOSPERMUM HALICACABUM Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 366; Safford 
214. 
Admitted on the authority of Safford, not z-epresented in our collections. 
All tropical countries. 
BALSAMINACEAE 
IMPATIENS Linnaeus 
IMPATIENS BALSAMINA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 938; Safford 296. 
G. E. S. 9 It, locally known as camantigui, its Tagalog name in the 
Philippines. 
A native of India, now cultivated in various forms in all warm countries. 
RHAMNACEAE 
COLUBRINA Richard 
COLUBRINA ASIATICA (Linn.) Brongn. in Ann. Sci. Nat. I 10 (1827) 
369; Safford 246. 
Ceanothus asiaticus Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 196. 
G. E. S. 52, McGregor 507, locally known as gososo. 
Tropical Africa, Asia, Malaya to Australia and Polynesia, near the sea. 
