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176 KOBINSON. 
Britton, director in chief of the New York Botanical Garden. Every 
one of the species here referred to from the Williams collection will 
be found at New York, and naturally when the material is unequally 
perfect, the more complete representation will bo in the original set. 
The first paper was worked out entirely at tlie New York Botanical 
Garden, the present embodies the results of work done there, with the 
furthei: advantages of the comparison of material with the riiilippuio 
types in the herbarium of the, Bureau of Science, and the assistance of 
many notes made by Mr. E. D. Merrill upon material in various European 
herbaria. While the plants of the Williams collection still form the 
chief basis for discussion, various other species have been reported upon. 
JUNCACEJl 
J UNCUS Liim, 
Juncus leschenaultii J. Gay ex Laharpe in M6ni. Soc. Hist. Nat. Par. 3 
(1827) 137. 
, t/. prismatocarpus leschenaultii (Gay) BucLenau in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 6 
(1885) 205. 
This species, not hitherto reported from the Philippines, is repre^^cnted by the 
following collections, all from Benguet Province, Luzon: Williams 1974 &ts, 
Baguio, October 10, 1904; Merrill JflSO, Pauai, border of a cold open swamp 
at an elevation of 2,040 ni, November 8, 1905; Bur. 8ci. Jt261 Mearns, Pauai, 
at an elevation of 2,100 m, July, 1907; Bur, Sci. 2191 Mearns, without definite 
locality, April, 1907. 
LILIACE.P.. 
IPHIGENIA Kunth. 
Iphigenia indica (Linn.) Kunth Emim. PI. 4 (1843) 213. 
Represented by Williams 2962, growing among grass on hillsides at an eleva- 
tion of 120 m at Santa Cruz, District of Davao, ^Mindanao, in flower and fruit, 
June 19, 1905. 
Not reported from the Archipelago in any publication devoted to Philippine 
botany, though so credited by J. D. Hooker in PI. Br. Ind. 6 (1892) 357. 
Distribution: Northwestern India to Australia. 
MORACE^*]. 
FICUS Linn. 
Ficus copelandii sp. nov. § Palaeomorphe. 
Arbor parva vel scandons: reeoptacidis sessilibus vol siibsossilibus sed 
l)reviter pseudopednnculatis; floribns liernmphroditis perpauciSj tetrameris, 
stamine uno^ ovarii rudimento parvo; floribns cecidioferis subsimilibus, 
^tamine nidlo; floribns femineis ignotis; foliis oblongis, papyraceis, basi 
inaequilaternlibns acntisqnc^ apice subito in acnnion angnstum obtusuni 
mucronatum contractis^ basi trinerviis; nervis lateralibus utriiu^ue 8-11, 
distantibus snbtus conspicuis. 
