THE PHILIPPINE JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, C. BOTANY. 
Vou. IX, No. 3, JUNE, 1914. 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS 
By E. D. MERRILL * 
(From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, 
Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I.) 
The tenth paper under the above title consists of the descrip- 
tions of new species in the following families: Gramineae, Cy- 
peraceae, Moraceae, Loranthaceae, Olacaceae, Hernandiaceae, 
Rutaceae, Meliaceae, Buxaceae, Celastraceae, Icacinaceae, Ster- 
culiaceae, Theaceae, Dilleniaceae, Lecythidaceae, Flacourtiaceae, 
Araliaceae, and Ebenaceae. The genus Worcesterianthus of the 
Olacaceae, is proposed as new, while the genera Buettneria and 
Firmiana are new to the Philippine flora. A few species of 
older authors have been recorded from the Archipelago for the 
first time and a few changes in nomenclature are proposed. 
A total of eighty-six species are described as new. The last 
number of thé series appeared in the year 1912.’ 
GRAMINEAE 
ISACHNE R. Brown 
ISACHNE CONFERTA sp. nov. 
Planta parva, prostrata, ramosa, ramis floriferis erectis vel 
suberectis, 6 ad 8 cm longis; foliis numerosis, lanceolatis, acumi- 
natis, circiter 2 cm longis, subtus leviter pilosis, supra scabridis ; 
paniculis exsertis, angustis, 1 ad 2 cm longis, vix 5 mm latis, 
ramis paucis, erectis, 4-1-floris; spiculis confertis, circiter 1.8 
mm longis, plus minusve purpureis; glumis sterilibus tenuiter 
7- vel 9-nerviis, supra leviter hispidis; glumis fertilibus ellip- 
soideis vel elliptico-oblongis, inferioribus glabris,. 1.6 mm longis, 
superioribus 4 brevioribus, apice minute ciliatis. 
A small, slender, prostrate, branched plant, rooting at the 
nodes, the flowering branches erect or suberect, 6 to 8 cm long. 
Sheaths rather lax, longer than the internodes, glabrous; ligule 
a ring of short white hairs. Leaves lanceolate, about 2 cm long, 
2.5 to 3 mm wide, narrowed to the acute base and the acuminate 
* Associate Professor of Botany, University of the Philippines. 
* Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 259-357. 
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