300 
Robinson; 
while fresh, tlie remainder was taken from dried plants. The results arc 
as follows : 
Collection number. 
Species, 
3-meroiis. 4-nierous. 
M€rrm7H27 
Phil. PL sor, - — 
Mcrnll762y 
Bur. Sci. UOO^ 
Merrill 16hS 
MerrUl lUii — 
Merrill 76U 
Murill7GU7 
Merrill 76/40 
Merrill 7644 
Bar. Sci. 13U5 
PhU. PI, 812 .- -- 
MeiTiinryS/, 
Bur. Sci. 1U15U 
Bur. Sci. 99S0 
Mrif. Clema)it 'tU 
Jinr. Sci. 9907 _._,__ 
Bur. S(n. 9766.... 
Merrill 7510 
liur. Sci. .%00 
For. Bur. XW _. 
E. 
E. 
E. 
E. 
E. 
E. 
E. 
E. 
E. 
E. 
E. 
E. 
E. 
E. 
E. 
E. 
E. 
E. 
E. 
E. 
E. 
filicaule 
'podophtjUvm 
hengiictensr.. 
luU'ffCcns 
lut€»cen8 
1 (?) 
scapiger am 
glomeraimii 
merriUii 
vavlahile 
purpureum var, 
discolor 
purpareuv} 
plumheum 
luzonense 
glaucescena — 
Ingunaase 
lagunenfc 
itcriptum 
banaf>ar.}i»e 
ednle 
nngii.'<tttt>nii 
45 
67 
50 
100 
100 
50 i 
50 
5-1110 rolls. 
2 
85 
<» 
148 
100 
11 
50 
48 
100 
•SO 
50 
60 
20 
10 
20 
45 
So far as this is a sufficient test, the character seems reliable. It may 
-be added that where different collection numbers have l)oen referred to the 
same species, their flowers agree in thi^ respect in almost every case 
investigated. The only exception known to me is with E. podoplnjUum 
Wedd., noimally tetramerous. Two collections so identified, Merrill 6171 
and Bur. Sd.' 9356, have been noted on the sheets as pontHmeroiis. 
Further examination of tlie former showed that of two flowers dissected 
(Hie was tetramerous and one pontamerous; tbe latter was prepoiKleratino:ly 
pentamerous, four receptacles giving 22 pentamerous flowers and on y 
3 tetramerous. There are four other rhilipinne species about which 
discordant statements have been made. E. siiiiiihni.'^ was described _ 
as tetramerous or pentamerous, dissection of six additional flowers sho\\e 
that tliey at least were all pentiimerous. Uv. Elmer's examination ot 
the flowers of E. pfrlJippinnhse disclosed both numbers, mine showed five 
onlv.-* Similarlv in E. spinulusum, he found trimerous as well as tetra- 
merous flowers, 1 found the latter number only.''"' 
Finallv. AVeddell calls E. longifolhiw doubtfully tetramerous." 
flowers were examined from one receptacle of the broad-leaved p a* 
Cuming V>f>. ten were pentamerous, the eleventh was in poor condition )ii 
Eleven 
f 
^Tliis .loiiinal 5 {V.)]\) But. oU), 
*Uali. I'liiliiK Bot. 3 (]!)10) 888; This Journal 
"I^afl. Pliilip. Hot. 2 ( IDOS) 4(iS; This Journal 
"DC. PhkU-. 16^ (ISr.O) 1S4. Soo Uelow, pajre 
5 (Itni) lict. 524. 
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