SOME GENERA AND SPECIES NEW TO THE 
PHILIPPINE FLORA. 
By ElMEB D. ilKKUILL. 
(From the hotanical section, Biological Lahoratorij, Bureau of Srirncef 
Manila, P. I.) 
In recently published papers on Philippine botany many genera aiiJ 
species have been recorded froju tlie Pliilippiiies tliat M'cre previously not 
known to occur in tlie Archipelago, one of the striking proofs of the 
present coni})aratively limited knowledge that we have of the flora of £he 
Philippines. As collections of botanical material are made in various 
islands of the group^ genera and species previously kmnvn from sur- 
rounding regions are constantly being found, and a few of these, mostly 
observed in recently collected material, are recorded in the folloM-ing 
paper. 
ALISMACE^E. 
SAGITTAR!A Linn. 
Sagittaria sagittifolia Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 91)3; Biichenau in Engler'a 
Pflanzenreich 16 {1003) 40. 8. snf/Htwfolia vfir. dit'ersifolio. Micheli in DC, 
Moiiog. Phan. 3 (1881) OG. 
MiAiJAAAO, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley (888 Mrs. Clemens) Xov umber, 1900. 
Europe and Asia, extending to Hainan, Formosa, Japan and Java. 
This widely diatributed species has previously \yeen known as a Piiilippine 
plant only by the doubtful record given by Scares,' who states thnt he saw living 
specimens in the Island of Panay, and dried specimens in VidaVs lurrbariura, 
although Vidal does not record the species in any of liis published works on the 
Philippine flora. 
GRAMINE.E. 
Phalaris minor Retz. Obs. 3:8; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 221. 
Luzon, Province of Bcnguet, near Baguio (Major E. A. Mearns) April, 1907, 
probably introduced. 
Southern Europe to British India, South Africa and Australia. 
63494 
' (Blanco's Flora de Filipinas) Nov. App. (1883), 298. 
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