THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



C. Botany 



Vol. VII NOVEMBER, 1912 No. 5 



NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, IX. 



By E. D. Merrill. 



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



and the Department of Botany, University of the Philippines, 



Manila, P. I.) 



The last paper published under this title appeared in the 

 year 1910,^ and the present contribution, like the preceding 

 numbers of the series, is composed of descriptions of presumably 

 new species, records of species previously described which have 

 recently been discovered in the Philippines, notes on nomencla- 

 ture, synonymy, etc- Two new genera are proposed, Freeria, 

 of the Icacinaceae, and Macgregorianthus, of the Thymelaeaceae. 

 Four genera, previously not reported from the Archipelago, are 

 included, Parishia, Suriana, Cansjera, and Vallaris. One hun- 

 dred presumably new species are described, all dicotyledons, 

 while about 10 species, previously described from extra-Phil- 

 ippine material, are recorded from the Archipelago for the first 

 time. As is the case with the preceding numbers of the series, 

 all the material on which the present paper is based is preserved 

 in the Herbarium of the Bureau of Science. 



CHLORANTHACEAE. 



CHLORANTHUS L. 

 CHLORANTHUS PHILIPPINENSIS sp. nov. 



Species C. henryi Hemsl. ut videtur valde affinis, differt flor- 

 ibus multo minoribus, circiter 2.5 mm longis. 



An erect, simple, glabrous herb about 40 cm high, from aro- 



'This Journal, 5 (1910) Botany 167-257. 

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