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ectoholus K. Solium., G. tistulata Gagnepnin, G. harthei Gagnepain, G. hctero- 
hractca K. Sclium., all endemic; Ammomum loheri K. ScUuni., Alpinia Icpto- 
solenia K. Sclium., endemic; A. puhiflora (Benth.) K. Schum., New Guinea, 
Caroline Islands and Mindanao: A. hrevilahris Presl, A. pulchella K. Schum., 
Xew Guinea and Mindanao; A. cumingii K. Schum., A. galanga (L. ) Sw., Ma- 
laya; A. tracliyascus K. Schum., A. macrosvaphis K, Schum., A. haenkei Presl, 
A. elegans (Presl) K. Schum., A. rufa (Presl) K. Schum., A. parviflora 
(Presl) Rolfe, A. rolfei K. Sch., A. mollis Presl, all endemic; Cosiits speciosus 
(Koenig) Smith, var. leiocalyx K. Schiim., widely distributed. In addition 
to the above species definitely credited to the Philippines others are more or 
less common in the Archipelago such as lledychium coronarium Koenig, 
species of Kaemphera, Curcuma tonga Linn., C. zeodaria ( Berg. ) Rose, 
Zingiber officinale Rose, Z, serumhet (L. ) Sm., etc. (See also Ridley in 
Govt. Lah. Pull 35 (1905) pp. 83-87.) 
Schumann, K. Marantaceae. {Das Pflanzenreich 11 (1902) pp. 1-184.) 
Of tlie 26 genera recognized, 4 are found in the Philippines, represented 
by the following species: Donax arundastrum Ijour., British India to the 
Malayan Peninsula, Tonkin and the Philippines; Uonophrynium fasciculaium 
(Presl) K. Schum., a raonotypic endemic genus; Phacelophrynium interrnp- 
turn (Warb.) K. Schum., P. hracteosum (Warb.) K. Schum., both endemic. 
Maranfa aruudinacea Linn., introduced from tropical Anieric*^ the source of 
arrowroot, is commonly cultivated and suhspontaneous in the Philippines. 
All the above species are considered and figured by Perkins in her Fragmenta 
Florae Philippinae (1904) pp. 67-73, plates 3. 
Scribner, F. lamson. Notes on the Grasses in the Beruhardi Herbarium, collected 
by Thaddeus Haenke, and described by J. S. Presl. (Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 
10 (1899) 35-59, plates 54.) 
Critical notes on the types of some of PresVs species, with illustrations, 
including many based on Philippine material, deposited in the herbarium of 
the Missouri Botanical Garden. 
Solms-Laubach, H. Graf zu. RafHesiaceae and Hydnoraceae. {Das Pflanzenreich 
5 (1901) Raffiesiaceae pp. 1-19; Hydnoraceae pp. 1-9.) 
The Rafflesiaceae are represented in the Philippines by Rafflesia schaden- 
tergiana Goeppert, from ^Mindanao, and R. manillana Teschem., from Leyte, 
Samar and Luzon. To the latter species are reduced R. cumingii R. Br., R. 
lagascae Blanco and R. philippinensis Blanco. The Hydnoraceae are not 
represented in the Philippines. 
Underwood, Lucien Marcus. A Sunuuary of our Present Knowledge of the Ferns 
of the Philippines. {Bull. Torr. Bot. Club. 30 (1903) pp. 665-684.) 
A consideration of the most important works treating the ferns of the 
Philippines and an account of the most important collections juade in the 
Archipelago, with analytical keys to the families and genera of vascular 
cryptogams known to be represented in the Philippines, with some proposed 
changes in nomenclature, the final summary of vascular cryptogams being 
families 15, genera 105 and species 633. 
TTnderwood, L. M. The Genus Stenochlaena. {Bull. Torr. Bot. Club. 33 (190c7 
pp. 35-50.) 
The entire genus is considered, 23 species being recognized, of which the 
following are credited to the Philippines: Stenochlaena Jaurifolia Presl, 
endemic; S. palustris (Burm.) Bedd., widely distributed; ^. williamsii n. sp., 
8. aculeata (Blume) Kunze, Tenasserim to Java and Borneo; 8. leptocarpa 
(F^) L'nderw., Java and the Philippines and 8. smithii (F^e) Underw,, 
endemic. 
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