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and no technical knowledge of the subject. It affords a good 

 illustration of the fact that in spite of what has been done in 

 the past thirteen years, we have really but made a beginning on 

 the botanical exploration of the Philippines. 



In the present paper one genus and forty species are described 

 as new, while the genus Schuurmansia is new to the Archipelago. 

 This latest addition to the list of Philippine Ochnaceae is of 

 considerable phytogeographical interest, as it adds another genus 

 to the already long list that indicates the close geographical 

 relationships of the Philippine flora to that of the islands to 

 the south and southeast. Hallier ] who has recently considered 

 the genus, has removed the Bornean Schuurmansia angustifolia 

 Hook. f. as the type of a new genus, Schuurmansiella, leaving 

 Schuurmansia with seven species, confined to Amboina, New 

 Guinea, Ternate, Halmaheira, and New Mecklenburg. To these 

 may now be added two additional species in Luzon ; one described 

 as new in the present paper, and the other transferred to Schuur- 

 mansia from Calophyllum, where it was originally described by 

 Fernandez- Villar. 



GRAMINEAE 



RAMOSIA genus novum 



(Festucae, Eufestucae) 



Spiculae oblongo-ovatae, leviter compressae, 1- ad 3-florae, laxe 

 paniculatae, rhachilla inter flores elongata, vix articulata, glabra, 

 ultra flores fertiles producta gluma vacua valde reducta ins- 

 tructa; floribus hermaphroditis. Glumae 2 inferiores vacuae, 

 acutae vel acuminatae, 5- vel 7-nerves, obscure carinatae, inae- 

 quales; florentes acutae, membranaceae, quam vacuis paullo 

 longioribus, 7- vel 9-nerves, basi leviter inflatae, inter nervis 

 obscure sulcatae. Palea 2-carinata. Stamina 2. Styli dis- 

 tincti, tenui, stigmatibus plumosis. Caryopsis glabra, nitida, 

 nigra, anguste oblonga, teres, libera. Gramen humile simplex, 

 foliis planis. Panicula laxa, spiculis breviter pedicellatis, glumis 

 $ distantibus. 



RAMOSIA PHILIPPINENSIS sp. nov. 



Glabra, e basi prostrata usque ad 20 ad 30 cm alta; foliis 

 lanceolatis, acuminatis, membranaceis, usque ad 6 cm longis et 

 5 mm latis, vaginis quam internodiis brevioribus, margine cilia- 

 tis; paniculis exsertis, simplex, 5 ad 9 cm longis, ramis paucis, 

 2 ad 4 cm longis; spiculis purpureis, oblongis, breviter pedicel- 



1 Hallier f . Ueber die Luxemburghieen-gattungen Schuurmansia, Schuur- 

 mansiella und Blastemanthus. Recueil Trav. Bot. Neerl. 10 (1913) 340-355. 



