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CASUABINACE.E. 
CASUARINA Linn. 
Casuarina sp. 
Gregarious over an area of about 100 acres at the head of a rivine, 700 m. alt. 
(No. 5779). 
PIPEBACE2E. 
PEPEROM I A Ruiz & Pav. 
Peperomia recurvata Miq. Syst. Pip. (1843-44) 107. 
On mossy trees and terrestrial, 1,200 to 1,800 m. alt. (Nos. 0107, 0147, 0184). 
Malaya. 
PIPER Linn. 
Piper rhombophyllum 0. DC. Prodr. 16 J (1869) 352. 
In forests 350 to 1,500 m. alt. (Nos. 5645, 5773) ; also collected by Merritt at 
1,300 m. alt. (No. 4293). 
Endemic to the Philippines. 
Piper sp. 
In forests at 1,800 m. alt. (No. 5592). 
Piper sp. 
In forests, altitude not^iven (Merritt No. 4474) June, 1906. 
OHLOR ANT HACEiE. 
CHLORANTHUS Swartz. 
Chloranthus brachystachys Blume FI. Jav. Chloranth. (1828) 13. t. 2. 
In forests at 700 m. alt. (No. 5644) ; also collected by Merritt at 1,200 and 
1,650 m. alt. (Nos. 4380, 4416). 
Widely distributed in the Philippines. 
British India to southern China and Malaya. 
Chloranthus officinalis Blume Enum. PI. Jav. (1830) 79. 
In forests at 900 m. alt. (No. 5574). 
Widely distributed in the Philippines. 
Distribution of the preceding species. 
MYRIOACE2E. 
MYRICA Linn. 
Myrica esculenta Buch.-Ham. in G. Don. FI. Nepal. (1825) 50; Chevalier 
Monog. Myrie. (1901) 120. var. farquahariana (Wall.) Chev. 1. c. Myrica rubra 
Merr. in Philip. Journ. 8'ci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 41, non S. & Z. 
In forests at 1,700 m. alt. (No. 4433 Merritt) June, 1906. 
An exceedingly variable form, identical with material previously reported from 
Mount Mariveles as Myrica rubra, the monograph by Chevalier not being available 
at- the time the identification was made. For variation in the leaf-form of this 
species, see Whitford, Vegetation of the Lamao Forest Reserve II, Philip. Journ. 
Sci. 1 (1906) pi. H. f. A. 1-3. 
British India to Malaya., the var. farquahariana in the Malayan Peninsula. 
