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Vidal y Soler, Sebastian. Catalogo luetSdico de las plantas leuo^as silvestves y 
cultivadas observadas en la provincia de Manila, (1880) pp. 1-48. (Reprint 
from Revista de Monies 4 (1880).) 
In this work 531 species are enumerated, in which the following new- 
names appear: Pittosporum femandezii, Aegle decandra, Dysoxylum hlancoi, 
rarinariuyti mcemosum, Medinilla lagunae, HomaUum harayidae, and Glero- 
dendron navesianum, but most of them are scarcely more than noniina nuda. 
Many of the errors in identifications were corrected later by Vidal in his 
Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886). The introduction contains much of interest 
regarding the types of Philippine forests. 
TJsteri, Alfred. Beitrage zur Kenutnis der Philippinen und ihrev Vegetation, 
mit Ausblicken auf Nachbargebiete. (Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlaugung 
der philosophischen Doktorwurde der Universitat Zurich, 1905, pp. 1-lGG, 
with 29 text-figures and 2 plates.) 
This work contains a sketch of the geology and plant geography of the 
Philippines, nieterology and climatology, notes on the islands of Guimaras, 
Cebu and Negros, a consideration of the different plant formations, notes on 
various cultivated plants, sugar culture, etc., and a catalogue of the plants 
colh'cted, 1,431 si^ecies being enumerated from the Philippines, 1,303 from 
Java, 3 from Penang, C5 from Labuan, and about 100 from Singapore. In 
the enum^ation of Philippine plants Piper usterii C. DC, and the variety 
plurifstulositm C. DC. are described, and . in the Orchidaceae the name 
Dendrobium nsterii Schltr. appears as a nomen nudum, later described in 
BulL Herh. Bolss. II. 6 (1906) 458. Another new spocies is BcJagineUa 
usterii Hieron., with a very imperfect description. Under the Algae the 
following new species are described : Phormiditim usterii Schmidle, and 
Myxobactron itsieriannm Schmidle, the latter the type of a new genus. 
Many species are credited to the Philippines for the first time. 
Warburg, 0. Pandanaceae. {Das Pflanzfnreich, 3 (1900) pp. 1-97.) 
Three genera, Sararanga, Preycinetia and Pandanus are recognized, the 
first with but a single species confined to the Solomon Islands and New 
Guinea, the other two genera widely distributed, Frcycinetia with 02 species 
and Pandanus \\'ith 150. The Philippine forms recognized are Freycinetia 
ferox Warb., F. luzonensis Presl, F. -sphaerocephala Gaudich., F. vidalii 
Hemsl., F. jagorii Warb., F. phiJippiyiensis HemsL, and F. smtripes Warb., 
all endemic, and Pandanus tectorius Sol. {P. odoratissimus L. f., P. spiralis 
Blanco, P, hlancoi Ivth.). The species described by Blanco, P. exaltatus, P. 
sahotan, P. gracilis, P. malatensis and P. radicans are all considered doubtful 
species. Since the publication of Warburg's monograph a second species of 
Sararanga {i^. pft!7f;);jmeHsts) has been found in the Philippines, and several 
species of Freycinetia and Pandanus have been described as new, while most 
of the species described by Blanco have been satisfaetorially disposed of. 
(See. Govt. Lab. Publ. 17, 27, 29; Philip.^ J oum. Sd. 1 (1906) Suppl; 
FAmeT, Leaflets Philip. Bat. \ {l90Ci).) 
Williams, R. S. Notes on Luzon Mosses. {The Bryotogist, 8 (1905) pp. 78-SO.) 
A popular account of some of the species observed while on a collecting trip 
in Luzon, including notes on forms observed about Manila, in the Province of 
Bataan, and in the Province of Bencfuet. 
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