I. NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS. IV. 



Bv Elmkk D. INIerkili,, Botanist. 



LIBRARY 

 NEW YORK 

 BOTANICAL 

 INTRODUCTION. GARDEN 



The present })ublication iiicludes five papers, two by myself, the 

 first a continuation of the series "Xew or Xoteworthy Philippine 

 Plants/' the first three numbers having already been issued as 

 previous publications of this Bureau, ISTos. 7, 17, and 29 ; the 

 second paper consists of notes on some of the more interesting 

 plants of Cuming's Philippine collection, recently received from 

 the British Museum; the remaining three have been submitted by 

 the following botanists: Dr. E. Hackel, Graz, Austria, "Notes on 

 Philippine Gramineai"; H. N. Eidley, director of the Botanic 

 Garden, Singapore, "Scitimincte Philippinenses" ; and C, B. Clarke, 

 Kew, England, "Philippine Acanthaceas." To these gentlemen I 

 \vish to extend my thanks for their kindness in examining the 

 material sent to them and for preparing the accompanying papers. 



CYPERACE.E. 



Carex rhynchachaenium C. B. Clarke, sp. nova. 



Hemiscapo.sa, innovationum foliis culraum superaiitibus, 3 ad 4 mm. 

 latis. Spicis pluribus, remotis, terminal! masculi, 8 mm. longa, 1 mm. 

 lata; utriciilis 5 ad 6 mm. longis, striis longitudinalibus 15, pilosis; mice 

 ellipsoidea tiigona, rostro crasse cylindvico; styllo vix ullo. rami* 3. oblon- 

 gis brevissimis. C. ligatcv Boott., affinis. 



Luzon, Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles; altitude 1.100 m. (6983 

 I^liiier) Xovcmber, 1004. 



COMMELINACE.E 



Forrestia philippinensis sp. nov. 



A nearly glabrous, suberect plant about 1 m. bigb, with caudate-acuminate 

 leaves which are narrowed below to the elongated petiole, axillary, dense, 



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