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other evident errors will need to he considered at a later date when more 
complete material is available for study. Mr. J. E. Drnmmond kindly 
examined critically the material in Ciuciferae and a part of that in 
Coviprmtac, and iiis notes are included in the present paper, eacli note 
being folh)we(l hy liis initials. 
Sixteen s]>ecies are descril>ed as new, and no less than fourteen genera, 
l)j-eviously unknown from the riiilippines, are recorded for the hrst time, 
while approximately fifty species, previously described by various autliors 
from uxtra-riiiiippine regions are here first credited to the Archipelago. 
IIYDEOCIIAIJITACEJ]. 
HYDRILLA l^icluud. 
Hydrilla verticillata (L.f.) Royle ill. Bot. lliriml. (1839) t. 316; Prcsl 
Bemerk. (1844) 112^ Casp. in Prinusli. Jahrb. 1 (1S58) 494; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 
Ind. 5 (1888) 059; C. H. Wright ex Forbes & llemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 
36 (1903) 1; Kaves Nov. App. (1883) 214. 
Serpicula verticillata Linn. f. Snppl. (1781) 41G; Roxb. PI. Coromumlel 2 
(1708) t. IG/f. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Whitford 839: Province of Rizal, Lohn^ 1592. 
Mi.NDANAo, Lake Lanao, Camp Koithley, Mrs. Clemens. 
Previously enumerated from tlie Philippines by Naves but as so many of 
his records are erroneous, it has been thought best again to enumerate the 
species from the Archipelago. 
Central Europe throiTgh tropical Asia to Australia and the .Mascarene Islands. 
LILIACE.E. 
SMI LAX Tourn. 
Smilax leucophylla Blume Enum. PI. Jav. 1 (1830) 18; A. DC. Monog. Phan. 
1 (isrs) 200; Naves Nov. App. (18S3) 263. 
Smilax vicaria Kunth Enum. 5 (1850) 262; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci 1 
(1906) Suppl. 35. 
Smilax latifolia Blanco Fl. Filip, ed. 2 (1845) 548; ed. 3, 3:204.'non R. Br. 
SmiUij- .uacropht/Ua Naves Nov. App. (1883) 202, non Roxb. 
Lt zox, Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, Merrill Sill: Province of lliziil 
Merrill HIS; For. Tinr. ihll Ahern's collector; Loher 1923, WSJ,. 
Smihx vicaria Kunth was based on Blanco's description of 8. latifolia, non 
R. Br., tlie specimens cited above agreeing with Blanco's description. At the 
same time they seem to agree in all o.^.-ntial characters with authentically named 
8. leucophylla Bhnno in Herb. Kew, and accordingly Kunth's species is here 
reduced, it previously having been considered a doubtful one. 
Java, Borneo and (?) the ITalay Peninsula. • 
ASPARAGUS Linn. 
Asparagus lucidus Lindl. Bot. Reg. 30 (1844) Miscel. 29, no. 36: Baker in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 14 (1875) 605. 
Var. dolichocladus iMerrill & Rolf.* var. nov. 
DifFoiing from tlio typical form in its short pedicels, which do not 
exceed 1.5 mm in length, and in its phyllocladcs, some of which are 4.5 
