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Of the miscellaneous Philippine collections mentioned above, 

 specimens were received from the following sources: 



Father M. Vanoverbergh, Lepanto and Bontoc plants for identifi- 

 cation 383 



Father F. Sanchez, Bengiiet plants for identification 24 



A. D. E. Elmer, purchased 512 



Federico R. Bona, Lepanto plants for identification 153 



E. D. Merrill, Century XII Philippine Plants 100 



C. F. Baker, flowering plants (for identification) and fungi (pre- 

 sented) 653 



F. C. Gates, for identification, chiefly from Laguna Province 798 



O. F. Sevrens, Benguet plants for identification 81 



J. P. Eskridge, Negros plants for identification 57 



Miscellaneous 38 



Total 2,799 



The extra-Philippine material received in exchange has proved 

 to be especially valuable. The most valuable exchanges, for our 

 purposes, have been those received from the Botanic Garden at 

 Edinburgh, Scotland, and from the Botanic Garden at Buiten- 

 zorg, Java, the former institution sending plants from India and 

 from China, the latter plants from Java. Following is a sum- 

 mary of the extra-Philippine material : 



S. F. Light, Manila, Japanese plants, presented 25 



National Herbarium, Melbourne, Victoria, Australian plants, 



exchange 50 



H. Winkler, Breslau, Germany, Bornean plants, exchange 106 



C. G. Lloyd, Cincinnati, Ohio, American and European fungi.... 24 

 H. H. Travers, New Zealand plants from Prince Roland Bona- 

 parte, exchange 100 



E. J. Butler, Pusa, India, Indian fungi, exchange 100 



J. Kneucker, Karlsruhe, Germany, Glumaceae exsiccatae 274 



Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa., O. E. Jennings, Isle of 



Pines plants, exchange 126 



Mauritius Forestry Department, Mauritius plants, exchange.... 76 

 Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, 111., tropical Amer- 

 ican plants, exchange 102 



Rev. C. King, Ambasi, Papua, New Guinea plants, exchange.... 119 



Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, England, fungi, exchange 59 



Botanical Institute, Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan, Liu 



Kiu plants, exchange 238 



United States National Herbarium, Palmer and Riley, Cuban 



plants, exchange 140 



H. Yanagawa, Koshun, Formosa, Formosan plants, exchange.... 121 



Buitenzorg Botanical Garden, Javan plants, exchange 530 



2,190 



