A' PRELIMINARY REVISION OF PHILIPPINE COMBRETACE/E, 



Hv E. 1). Merbill 



(From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, 



Manila, P. I.) 



This small group has been worked over chiefly with a view to clearing 

 up some points connected with the genua Terminalia, some species of 

 which are of importance from a forestry standpoint, as the timber is at 

 least locally utilized to a greater or less extent. Four years ago 1 

 published a key to the Philippine species of Terminal™,?, recognizing 

 eleven species, the same number that is recognized in the following con- 

 sideration, although several of the species admitted in the previous paper 

 have been shown by additional material to be invalid, and have here been 

 reduced. In the interim a single new species has been described, and a 

 second one is proposed below. Some changes in nomenclature have also 

 become neeessarv. and a few of the specimens previously referred to 

 certain species, due to misinterpretation of these, have now been referred 

 to their proper ones. Additional material is required to thoroughly work 

 out the relationships of the forms in the section Bialata, Terminalia 

 calamansanai (Blanco) Rolfe, and related forms, while as yet the flowers 

 of Terminalia quadrialata are unknown. '/'. magarapali \ id., a very 

 distinct species, judging from the very short description, has not as yet 

 been rediscovered. 



Table showing >}><■ distribution of Indo-Malayan, Chinese, Formosan, and 

 Philippine Combfetacea . 



Philip- 

 pines. 



Anogeissua .. 

 Calycopteris. 

 Combii'tiiTii 

 Lumnitzera . 

 Qutequalis ... 

 Terminalia .. 



Total 



Formosa. China. 



Malay 

 Penin- 

 sula. 



Malay 

 Archi- 

 pelago. 



Britten 

 India. 



Publication* nt the Bureau of Government Laboratories 17 i 11)04 i 31-36 



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