NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VII. 



By E. D. Merrill. 



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



Manila, P. I.) 



The present contribution is, like the preceding papers of the series, 

 composed of misceUaneous diagnoses of apparently previously undescribed 

 species in various families, and records of various species previously 

 described and now found for the first time in the Philippines. A number 

 of nomenclatural changes are included, in accordance with the rules of 

 priority, and notes are added on some previously obscure or little-known 

 species. Four genera, Emlolanthera, Everettiodendron, Grceniopsis, and 

 Aheniia are proposed as new, while the representatives of no less than 

 twenty-one genera, previously unrecorded from the Philippines are enu- 

 merated, Boottia, Anacolosa, Illicium, Erythrophloeum, Kingiodendron, 

 Azadirachia, Heynca, BlacMa, Galearia, Microdesmis, Ostodes, Stro- 

 pliiohlachia, Pleiogynium, Lepionycliia, Trichadenia, Ochrosia, Willough- 

 bya, Coptosapelta, Damnacantlius, Grccnea, and Litosanthes. Twenty- 

 five species previously described by various authors from extra-Philippine 

 material are here recorded from the Archipelago for the first time, while 

 eighty-five species are described as new. On account of the rule adopted 

 by the Vienna Botanical Congress, requiring Latin diagnoses of all 

 species proposed after January 1, 1908, short diagnoses have been 

 added, and in cases where it has been necessary to consider species 

 proposed since that date, but which were without the required diagnosis, 

 this has been added. 



ALISMACE.5^. 



BOOTTIA Wallich. 

 Boottia renifolia sp. nov. 



Planta aquatica, glabra; foliis reniformibus, longe petiolatis, apice 

 late rotundatis, basi cordatis, circiter 8 cm latis, nervis 7 ad 9; spathis 

 unisexualibus, tubulosis ; floribus masculinis vulgo binis, exsertis, antheris 

 9, pistilli rudimentiis pulviformibus ; fioribus femineis circiter 2.5 cm 

 diametro, solitariis, pedicellatis ; stylis 6, bifidis; staminodiis 9 quorum 

 6 linearibus, 3 capitatis. 



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