PLANTS FROM BATANES AND BABUYANES ISLANDS. 
425 
MYRSINACEaE. 
MAESA Forsk. 
M. denticulata Mez. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3205 M earns ; 3640 Fenix. 
Widely distributed and common in the Philippines; endemic. 
AEGICERAS Gaertn. 
A. corniculatum (Linn.) Blanco. 
Fuga, 3255 Mearns. 
Along the seashore throughout the Philippines; British India to southern 
China, Malaya, and Australia. Not reported from Formosa. 
ARDISIA Sw. 
A. hum i I is (Burin.) Vahl. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3214, 3216 Mearns; 3589 Fenix. Fuga, 
3245 Mearns. N. v., Pain. 
Common and widely distributed in the Philippines; India to southern China 
and Malaya. 
PRIMULACEA3. 
LYSIMACHIA Linn. 
L. mauritiana Lam. Encycl. 3 (1789) 572; Pax & Knuth, Pflanzenreich 22 
(1905) 273. 
L. lineariloba Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechey Voy. (1841) 268; Duby in DC. 
Prodr. 8 (1844) 61; Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1889) 53; 
Mats. & Hayata Enum. PI. Formosa ( 1906) 221. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3197, 3188 Mearns. 
British India to Japan, Formosa, Mauritius, Hawaiian Islands, Polynesia, and 
New Caledonia. Not previously reported from the Philippines; the fifth species 
of the genus to be found in the Archipelago. 
SAPOTACE2E. 
PALAQUIUM Blanco. 
P. bataanense Merr. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3668 Fenix. Camiguin, 4 101 Fenix. N. v., 
Natu. 
Luzon. 
EBENACE2E. 
MABA Forst. 
M. buxifolia (Rottb.) Pers. 
Camiguin, 4117, 3768 Finite. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines; tropical Asia, Africa, and Australia, 
Malaya and Polynesia. Not known from southern China or Formosa. 
DIOSPYROS I jinn. 
D. discolor Willd. 
Batan, Santo Domingo de Basco, 3145 Mearns; 3839 Fenix. N. v., Camaya. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines, native and cultivated ; Borneo. Culti- 
vated in other tropical countries. 
