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mentioned 'Fragmentos' by Llanos, also with a Latin translation ; 

 a paper on medicinal plants, entitled " Libro de Mediciuas de 

 esta Tierra y declaracions de la Virtudes de las Arboles y Plantas 

 que estan en estas Islas Filipinas," by Father Ignacio de Mereado, 

 occupying 58 pages ; and a " Novissima Appendix," compiled from 

 various sources, which is intended to include all that is known 

 of the flora up to that date. The latest contribution to the flora 

 is the * Sinopsis de Familias y Generos de Plantas Lefiosas de 

 Filipinas,' by Don Sebastian Vidal, mentioned above, a work in- 

 tended for the Forest Service under his charge. Omitting minor 

 pamphlets and scattered descriptions, to which references will be 

 found in the aforementioned 'Appendix,' the foregoing summary 

 represents the bulk of what has been written on the flora of 

 the islands, and we now turn to the ' Appendix ' itself. This is 

 compiled from various sources, but the references to Philippine 

 plants in various monographs and scattered papers form the 

 groundwork of it. Next in importance are the plants from 

 Blanco's work, with those of Llanos and Mereado, an attempt 

 being made to refer them to their correct genera and species. 

 Then come the additional species seen growing in various locali- 

 ties ; and, lastly, plants cultivated in gardens for ornament or 

 utility, or introduced in various ways. A census of the genera 

 and species under each Order is appended ; but the great draw- 

 back to it is that everything is included, whether indigenous or 

 merely cultivated. In the text the letter " c " stands for culti- 

 vated, but as there is no other distinguishing sign, it is a very 

 slow process to separate them, amongst the mass of letters and 

 figures. In this Appendix the Dicotyledons are by Fernandez 

 Villar, and are made uniform with the ' Genera Plantarum ' of 

 Bentham and Hooker. The Monocotyledons were commenced 

 by Naves, and carried on to p. 307 (Fimbristylis nutans, Vahl), 

 at which point the work was resumed by Fernandez Villar, who 

 carried it on to its completion. The last part of the ' Genera 

 Plantarum ' was not published in time to be utilized for the 

 Monocotyledons. The plates of this work were also determined 

 by Naves ; but a considerable number of the determinations 

 are incorrect ; not so much the names of Blanco as the extra- 

 Philippine names to which they are referred. Many of these are 

 corrected in the Appendix, but some yet remain to be dealt with 

 as materials come to hand. A great difficulty which the authors 



