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THE PHILIPPINE 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 
C. BOTANY 
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Vou. V NOVEMBER, 1910 : No. 5 
THE FLORA OF MOUNT PULOG. 
(Concluded. ) 
By E. D. Merritt and M. L. Merrirr. 
(From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, and 
from the Bureau of Forestry, Manila, P. 1.) 
CLETHRACE. 
CLETHRA Linn. 
1, C. luzonica Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 29 (1905) 38. 
Extending from the lower to the upper limits of the mossy forest, and one of 
the characteristic trees of this formation, C. WV. Z. 18055, 18067, 18086, McGregor 
8860, Merrill 6576. 
‘Common at higher altitudes throughout the Benguet-Lepanto region; endemic. 
Ig., amogk. 
ERICACEA. 
DIPLYCOSIA Blume. 
\ 
1, D. luzonica (A. Gray) Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sei. 2 (1907) Bot. 293, 
1. ec. 3 (1908) 378. 
Mossy forest, extending to its upper limits, C. MW. Z. 18048. 
Higher mountains of northern and central Luzon, also in Mindanao; endemic. 
RHODODENDRON Linn. 
1, R. subsessile Rendle in Journ. Bot. 34 (1896) 357; Merr. in Philip. Journ. 
Sei. 3 (1908) Bot. 379. 
In ravines, pine region below the mossy forest, OC. M. Z, 18172, and also on 
exposed grass-covered slopes of the summit, above the mossy forest, a depauperate 
form, C. M. Z. 18035. 
Higher altitudes of the Benguet-Lepanto region, apparently closely allied to the 
Formosan 7’. oldhami Maxim.; endemic. 
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