THE FLORA OF MOUNT PULOG. 309 
teristic Malayan genera which are represented in other parts of the 
Philippines with from one to many species have not been found on Mount 
Pulog. 
The material on which the present paper is based was for the most 
part collected by Messrs. H. M. Curran, M. L. Merritt, and T. C. 
Zschokke, of the Bureau of Forestry, in January, 1909, supplemented by 
smaller collections made by Mr. E. D. Merrill and Dr. E. B. Copeland in 
May, 1909, and by those made by Mr. R. C. McGregor in: July, 1909. 
No previous botanical collections were ever made on the mountain. 
In the following enumeration the mosses have been identified by 
Dr. V. F. Brotherus, of Helsingfors, Finland; the scale-mosses by Herr 
F. Stephani, Leipzig, Germany; the pteridophyta by Dr. E. B. Copeland, 
Los Bajios, Luzon; Carex and Uncinia by Rev. G. Kiikenthal, Coburg, 
Germany ; Orchidaceae by Mr. Oakes Ames, North Easton, Massachusetts, 
U.S. A. Some of the Gramineae have been examined by Dr. HE. Hackel, 
Attersee, Austria, and Dr. C. B. Robinson, of this office, has identified the 
Myrtaceae, some of the Euphorbiaceae, and the Urticaceae. Dr. Warren 
D. Smith, chief of the division of mines, Bureau of Science, has kindly 
suppled the data regarding the geology of the Benguet-Lepanto region. 
To the above gentlemen the authors are under obligations for assistance 
supplied. Unless otherwise stated in the text, the other identifications 
are by E. D. Merrill. 
Material from Mount Pulog as yet unidentified and hence not con- 
sidered in this paper comprises rather an extensive collection of lichens, 
a considerable number of scale-mosses collected by Mr. McGregor, a few 
mosses, and a small collection of fungi, principally Polyporaceae. Many 
of the data used in the introduction are taken from notes compiled by the 
Forestry Bureau party, and much of the success of that party was due 
to the energy and ability displayed by Mr. Curran, to whom great credit 
is due for the successful termination of the first comprehensive exploration 
of Mount Pulog. ° 
The photographs used in illustrating this paper were taken by Mr. 
Merritt, while the authors are under obligations to Major G. P. Ahern, 
Director of Forestry, for the preparation of the map, which has been com- 
piled from surveys made by Mr. Benson and by Messrs. Curran, Merritt, 
and Zschokke. ; 
; In the following systematic enumeration the material secured by 
Messrs. Curran, Merritt, and Zschokke, distributed in the Forestry Bureau — 
series, has for brevity been cited as “C. M. Z.” The material collected 
by Mr. McGregor forms a part of the Bureau of Science series. 
The systematic enumeration is by E. D. Merrill. 
