THE PHILIPPINE 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE 
C. BOTANY 
Vou. X SEPTEMBER, 1915 No. 5 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, XII 
By E. D. MERRILL * 
(From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of 
Science, Manila, P. I.) 
The preceding number of this series was published in the early 
part of the present year,’ and the present contribution is essen- 
tially like its predecessors. Seven genera are for the first time 
credited to the Archipelago, Avena, Polytoca, Angelesia, Glypto- 
petalum, Ochrocarpus, Asystasia, and Polytrema. Sixty-two 
new species are described in various families, while 18 species 
previously described from extra-Philippine material are for 
the first time credited to the Archipelago. The total additions 
to the Philippine flora in the present paper are eighty species. 
Some reductions are made, and the synonymy of some species is 
discussed, resulting in a few cases in the substitution of older 
specific names for those in more general use. All proposed 
changes in nomenclature are in accordance with the rules of the 
International Botanical Congress. 
GRAMINEAE 
AVENA Linnaeus 
AVENA FATUA L. Sp. Pl. (1753) 80; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 319; 
Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 7 (1897) 275. 
Luzon, Benguet Subprovince, Bur. Sci. 2812 Mearns, April, 1907. 
This European species is now widely distributed in Asia, northern Africa, 
and North America, a weed of cultivation. It has previously been recorded 
from the Philippines by F.-Villar, but his record has not before been verified. 
It is apparently a casual plant here and may or may not persist. 
1 Associate professor of botany, University of the Philippines. 
* Philip. Journ. Sci. 10 (1915) Bot. 1-84. 
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