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other respects the plant agrees with the others cited above. The species is common 
in thin poor soil over volcanic tuff on open hills near Manila. 
3. Mezoneurum mindorense Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 232. 
Mindoro, For. Bur. 5383 Merritt. 
Native name: Sapinit. 
Var. inerme Merr. 1. c. 
Mindoro, Btir. Sci. 1514 Bermejos. 
Endemic. 
4. Mezoneurum latisiliquum (Cav.) Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) 
Bot. 268. 
Bauhinia ? latisiliqua Cav. Icon. 5 (1799) 5, t. 408, in part, excl. description 
and figure of the leaves. 
Mezoneurum glabrum Desf. in M6m. Mus. Paris 4 (1818) 245, t. 10; DC. 
Prodr. 2 (1825) 484; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 70; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. I 1 (1855) 
103; Vidal. Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 110, Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 114; 
Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 64. 
Caesalpinia torquata Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 336. 
Mezoneurum procumbens Blanco 1. c. ed. 2 (1845) 235, ed. 3, 2: 73. 
Represented by numerous specimen cited by myself, l. c., with the addition of 
Bur. Sci. 7737 Ramos, Province of Ilocos Norte, Luzon. 
Native names: Gamut-pusa, literally “cat’s claw,” (Pampanga, Mindoro, Ba- 
taan, Rizal) ; sampinit (Mindoro, Basilan) ; sokit (Basilan) ; sagnit, sapnit, 
cabitcabag, tugabang, ugabang, ex Blanco. 
At low altitudes, northern Luzon to southern Mindanao; Timor. 
The Mezoneurum glabrum of Baker in the Flora of British India is not Desfon- 
taines’ species, but is M. furfuraceum Prain. 
5. Mezoneurum sumatranum (Roxb.) Wight & Arn. Prodr. 1 (1,834) 283; 
Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 1 1 (1855) 105, 1081; Baker in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1878) 
259; Prain ex King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 66 2 (1897) 235. 
Caesalpinia sumatrana Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 32, nomen, FI. Ind. 2 (1832) 
366. 
Mezoneurum rubrum Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 6 (1904) 7. 
Palawan, Merrill 805. 
The above specimen, on which Mezoneurum rubrum was based, is in fruit, and 
was referred by Perkins 32 to M. glabrum Desf. (=M. latisiliquum (Cav.) Merr.). 
Comparison with authentic material of M. sumatranum shows it to be the same 
as that species, and it is here accordingly reduced. 
Malacca, Perak, Singapore, and Sumatra. 
29. PELTOPHORUM Vogel. 
1. Peltophorum inerme (Roxb.) Naves in Blanco FI. Filip, ed. 3, pi. 335, ex 
F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 69, as syn. 
Caesalpinia inermis Roxb. Hort. Beng. (1814) 90, FI. Ind. 2 (1832) 367. 
Poinciana roxburghii G. Don Gen. Syst. 2 (1832) 433. 
Caesalpinia ferruginea Decne. Nouv. Ann. Mus. 3 (1834) 462. 
Caesalpinia arborea Zoll. Nat. en Geneesk. Archief 3 (1846) 65; Miq. FI. Ind. 
Bat. I 1 (1855) 112. 
Peltophorum ferrugineum. Benth. FI. Austral. 2 (1864) 279; Baker in Hook, 
f. FI. Brit. Ind. 2 (1878) 257; F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 69; Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. 
Filip. (1886) 114; Prain ex King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng 66 2 (1897) 224. 
32 Frag. FI. Philip. (1904) 15. 
