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Alabastra philippinensia — I 



Charles Buon Robinson 



During the years 1 903-1 905 Mr. R. S. Williams made a 

 very extensive collection of plants in the Philippine Islands on 

 behalf of the New York Botanical Garden. At the time a high 

 proportion of the species represented had not yet been described ; 

 but the indefatigable work of the American botanists in the islands 

 has since brought the most of them to light through other sources. 

 Many still remain unpublished, however, and the present paper 

 is intended to call attention to some of these, and to add a few 

 miscellaneous notes upon the flora of this interesting region. All 

 types of newly described species are in the herbarium of the New 

 York Botanical Garden. 



TAXACEAE 



PoDOCARPUs LATiFOLiA Bl, Enum. PI. Jav. 89. 1827 



This name should be used instead of P. Bluutci Endl. Syn. 

 Conif 208. 1847, which is its indubitable synonym. P. latifolia 

 \V\.. is generally discarded because of P. latifolia Wall., but the 

 latter was published in PI, As. Rar. i: 26. //. jo. 1829, and 

 this is antedated by Blumc's species. P. latifolia R. Br. ; Bcnn. 

 PI. Jav. Rar. 40. 1838, is a third and still later species. 



P. latifolia Bl. is represented in this herbarium by the follow- 

 ing Philippine numbers : 



Northern Luzon : Province of Benguet, Baguio, Williams lojj. 



Central Luzon: Province of Bataan, Lamao River, and Mt. Mari- 

 veles, Williams J gg, 62^, 75.?, 75J ; Forestry Bureau (coll. Barnes) 

 i^y, ig-i; Copeland 2^^ ; Whitford rj^j. 



TYPHACEAE 



TvPHA ORiENTALis Prcsl, Epimel. Bot. 239. 185 i 

 The type of this species is Cuming 176J, certainly from the 

 Philippines, the locality assigned by Presl being the island of 



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