THE PHILIPPINE 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 
VoL. 17 SEPTEMBER, 1920 No. 3 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, XVI 
By Etmer D. MERRILL 
Director and Botanist, Bureau of Science, Manila 
The sixteenth paper of this series is essentially like its prede- 
cessors, the last number having been published in 1919.1. The 
present paper contains the descriptions of about one hundred 
presumably hitherto undescribed species of flowering plants, 
with some notes on nomenclature and some proposed changes 
in generic and specific names, as well as the records for a few 
species previously described from extra-Philippine material now 
found for the first time in the Archipelago. The genera Fibrau- 
rea of the Menispermaceae, Phyllochlamys of the Moraceae, E'u- 
rycoma of the Simarubaceae, and Ixonanthes of the Linaceae are 
new to the Philippine flora, the last two being represented by 
previously undescribed species. 
A large number of the new species described in the present 
paper is from the eastern coast of Surigao Province, Mindanao, 
and the neighboring islands of Dinagat, Siargao, and Bucas 
Grande, regions in which no intensive botanical collecting has 
hitherto been done. Extensive collections were made in these 
regions by Messrs. M. Ramos and J. Pascasio, April to June, 
1919; and, as is usual in previously unexplored regions in the 
Philippines, their material contains a high percentage of pre- 
viously undescribed species. Doubtless any general collection 
made in the same regions, but at a different time of the year, 
would yield an equally high percentage of novelties. 
* Merrill, E. D., New or noteworthy Philippine Plants, XV, Philip. Journ. 
Sci. 14 (1919) 365-457. 
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