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BORAGINACEAE 
Cordia myxa L. 6706, 6722, 6786, 6874, 6885, 6901. A common parang 
tree; invading grassland. 
Heliotr opium indicum L. 6707, 6811. Weed on the strand. 
Tournefortia sarmentosa Lam. 6724, 6806, 6879. A vine growing over 
strand plants, also in parang on ridges. 
VERBENACEAE 
Callicarpa blancoi Rolfe 6727, 6904, 7401. A fairly common shrub in 
the parang. 
Clerodendron minahassae T. & B. 6809, 6893, 6896, 7427. Shrub; local in 
the parang at low elevations in the northwest. 
Premna nauseosa Blanco 6797, 7422. Shrub, local in the woods in the 
northwest. 
Vitex parviflora Juss. 6840. Small tree on Mount Binintiang Malaki near 
the lake; not common. 
LABIATAE 
Leucas javanica Benth. 7330, 7439. Weed; local on the strand. 
SOLANACEAE 
Datura alba Nees 6950. Infrequent on the strand and in pockets in 
bluffs. 
Lycopersicum esculentum Mill. Perhaps remaining from former cultivation 
near Pirapiraso. 
SCROPHULARIACEAE 
Lindenbergia philippensis (Cham.) Benth. 6710. A single plant in a 
pocket on the face of an eroding bluff, Mount Binintiang Munti. 
Scoharia dulcis L. 6734, 6749, 7417. Weed on the strand and on the crests 
of a few ridges. 
Vandellia Crustacea (L.) Benth. 7374. Weed, local in grassland. 
Vandellia pusilla (Willd.) Merr. 6784, (6798?). Local on lava strand. 
BIGNONIACEAE 
Oroxylum indicum (L.) Vent. 6946, 7395. An occasional tree invading 
the parang in the northwest and the northeast. 
RUBIACEAE 
Morinda bracteata Roxb. 6866, 6867, 6895. Fairly common as isolated 
clumps both in the grass and at the heads and edges of erosion gullies. 
Oldenlandia sp. 7402. Local on Mount Binintiang Malaki. 
Spermacoce hispida L. 6768, 6779, 7452. Local on the strand. 
Wendlandia luzoniensis DC. 6856, 7448. Shrub; local on sides of ravines 
and on a ridge near the crater rim. 
CUCURBITACEAE 
Citrullus vulgaris (L.) Schrad. 7388. Local on the strand. 
