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MERIULU 
Urophyllum sp. 
In forests at 400 m. alt. (No. 5580). Material imperfect, mature fruits only. 
Urophyllum sp.? 
In forests at 900 in. alt. (Ko. 5573). A form represented in our lierbariuin 
by several specimens from MimlaiuiOj but unfortunately no flowers are available. 
Randia sp.? 
Ta forests at IjSOO m. alt. 
RANDIA Houst. 
(No. 5522). Specimens with innnatnre fruits 
IXORA Linn. 
Ixora sp. 
In forests at 550 m. alt. {No. 5500). A very cliaraetcristic species with pure 
white fruits and setiform much elongated stipules, apparently undeseribed, but 
tlie specimens are without flowers. 
PSYCHOTRIA Linn. 
Psychotria sarmentosa Blume Bijdr. (1820) 004. 
Mount Halcon, without data (No. 508;i). 
Previously known in the rhilippinos from Luzon. 
British India to !Malaya. 
Psychotria tacpo (Blanco) Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 312. 
Without data (No. 0150). 
Widely distributed in the Philippines. Endemic. 
Psychotria diffusa Merrill in Pliilip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1900) Suppl. 134. 
Tn forests, 900 to 1,800 m. alt. (Nos. 6170, G170) ; also No. 4435 Mcrriit, 
June, 1900, alt. 1,700 m. 
Previously known only from Luzon. 
Tn addition to the above species of the genus, no less that six others are 
represented by the following miinbors, from TTalcon, all of them diflVring from 
the material at present in our herbarium. Unfortunately all the specimens are 
with fruit only, and accordingly no attempt is here made to describe them. Nos. 
4324, 4349, 4305, 4390, 4450 Merritt; Nos. 0131, 0159, 5570 Mrrrill, 
LASIANTHUS Jack. 
Lasianthus copelandl Elmer Leaflets Pliilip. Bot. (1900) 10. 
In forests at 300 m. alt. (No. 5778). 
Previously known only from Negros, a species very closely related to L. 
apjyressus Hook, f., of the Malayan Peninsula. 
Lasianthus obliquinervis Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1900) Suppl. 130. 
In forests at 1,400 m. alt. (No. 0189). 
Previously known from Luzon and Negros. 
Lasianthus tashiroi Matsum. in Tokyo Bot. Mag. 15; 37. 
Tn forests at 1,400 m. alt. (Nos. 5739, 5770). 
I have based the identification of the above numbers hirgely on a Formosan 
specimen. No. 1301 KawaJcami, so determined by Ilayata. 
Formosa. 
