BOTANICAL NOTES. 
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LECYTHIDACEAE. 
Barringtonia racemosa Blume, 9020, local name put at ; B. asiatica (Linn.) 
Kurz, was seen from a boat, but not collected. 
RHIZOPHORACEAE. 
Gynotroches axillaris Bl. Bijdr. (1825) 261. 
Represented by 10361; other Philippine distribution Tayabas, Mindoro, Di- 
nagat, Mindanao, Negros. 
Other species: Bruguiera gymnorrhiza Lam., 9010, local name pototan; B. 
parviflora W. & Arn., 9116, local name liingalay : Ceriops tagal (Perr. ) C. B. 
Rob., 9297, local name tangal: Pellacalyx pustulata Merr., 6870, local name 
quibal: Rhizophora mucronata Lam., 9291, local name bancao. 
COMBRETACEAE. 
Lumnitzera littorea (Jack) Voigt, 9115, local name libatu: Quisqualis indica 
Linn., 9230: T.erminalia edulis Blanco, 10369; T. catappa Linn., common along 
the shores, but sterile, was not collected. 
MYRTACEAE. 
Eugenia macgregorii C. B. Rob. in Philip. Journ. Sei. 4 (1909) Bot. 367. 
When originally described, this species was placed far from its nearest ally, 
E. mimica Merr., through an attempt, seemingly vain, to draw a dividing line 
between the species with well developed calyx-lobes and those where the lobes 
are little developed or wanting. Of these two groups of species, and of E. 
macgregorii and E. mimica, the same statement may be made: the extremes are 
very different, but they pass by very easy stages into one another. The type 
of E. macgregorii has not only larger flowers with somewhat better developed 
calyx-lobes than that of E. mimica, but the leaves (allowing for difference in 
length) are over twice as wide, and the marginal vein is less notched at its 
junctions with the laterals. It is moreover a small tree along coasts, often in 
mangrove swamps, typical E. mimica is a low bush, inland. Polillo collections, 
9144, 10392, are typical E. macgregorii, and here also must be referred all plants 
from Tayabas and Camarines previously cited by me under E. mimica. The 
intermediates are from Zambales, Bataan, Mindoro, and Zamboanga. Were 
hybrids known to occur in the genus, such collections as Williams 381, from 
Bataan, and For. Bur. 386 Maule, from Zambales, might well be so considered, 
as they have some characters of the one species, and some of the other. 
Eugenia mindanaensis C. B. Rob. 1. c. 363. 
Having seen this in the field, in Mindanao, I may add that the fruit is 
similar to that of E. javanica Blume, which is its close ally, but that it seems 
to show constantly the characters noted as distinctive from that species. The 
Polillo collection, 10365, has rather smaller leaves, more narrowed at the base, 
than those from the southern islands, but must be referred here. Other distribu- 
tion Dinagat, Mindanao, Basilan. 
Eugenia subrotundifolia C. B. Rob. 1. e. 362. 
Batanes, Iloeos Norte, Cagayan, Tayabas, Albay, Sprsogon; Polillo, 10347. 
Osbornia octodonta F. Muell. Fragm. 3 (1862) 31. 
Polillo is the most northern station now known, in mangrove swamps about 6 
km north of the town, 9117, local name maligang; other distribution Tayabas, 
Camarines, Leyte, Negros, Panay, Mindanao, Basilan, Palawan, and Australia. 
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