208 
MERniLL. 
STENOMERIS rhuich. 
Stenomeris dioscoresefolia rUmcli, in Ann. 
lu au uUl cWring ut TOO ni. ivlt. (No. 5775). 
Endemic to the i*liilippines. 
lU IDACE.E 
Sc. Nat. Ill, 18 (1852) 320, 
PATERSONIA U. Br. 
Patersonia lowii Stapf. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 11. 4 (18U4) 241. pi. 20. 
f. 7~i). 
Open heaths at 2,400 m. alt. (No. 5507). Commuiij but very few speciuiens in 
liower in November. 
Borneo. 
The above is the first indigenous representative of this family to l>e found in 
the riiilippines, several genera of tlie Irldacem being credited to the Thilippines 
by F.-Villar and other autliors, but all based on introduced and cultivated species. 
Patersonia lowii has previously been known only from Mount Kinabaiu, Nortli 
Borneo, its occurrence in the Philippines being an addition to the comparatively 
small Boineaii element already known in the Archipelago. 
ZINGIBERAOE^. 
ALPINIA Linn. 
Alpinia brevilabris Bresl ReL H*nk. 1 (1830) 110. t. 11. 
In forests at 2,000 m. alt. (No. 4458 Merritt) June, 1900. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines. Endemic. 
Alpinia sp. near A. parviflora Kolfe. 
In forests at 900 m. alt. (No. 43G1 Merritt) June, 190G. 
Material too imperfect and scanty for accurate identification. 
MAUANTACE.15. 
PHACELOPHRYNUM K. Sch. 
Phacelophrynum bracteosum (Warb.) K. 8ch. in Engl. Pflanzenreich. 11 
(1002) 123. 
In forests along the Alag Kiver at lUO m. alt. (No. 0132). 
Widely distributed in the Philippines, endemic. 
/ 
BURMANNIACE.E. 
BURMANNIA Linn. 
urmannia longifolia Beec. Malesia T (1878) 244; Rendle in Journ. Bot. 
34 U8!)G) 355. 
Terrestrial in the very mossy ridge forests 1,300 to 1,900 m. alt. (No. 5741). 
Previously collected on ^'Dulangao," or more correctly "Dulangan," a spur of 
Mount Halcon, by M'hifehead, and reported by Rendle, 1. c. 
Malayan Peninsula and Borneo. 
Burmannia sp. near li. dementis Scliltr. 
In dense forests at 900 m. alt. (No. 5598). The third species of the genus to 
be foiind in the Philippines. 
