The Philippine Journal of Science, C. Botany. 

 Vol. IX, No. 3, June, 1914. 



NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS 



By E. D. Merrill^ 



(From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, 

 Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I.) 



The tenth paper under the above title consists of the descrip- 

 tions of new species in the following families: Gramineae, Cy- 

 peraceae, Moraceae, Loranthaceae, Olacaceae, Hernandiaceae, 

 Rutaceae, Meliaceae, Buxaceae, Celastraceae, Icacinaceae, Ster- 

 culiaceae, Theaceae, Dilleniaceae, Lecythidaceae, Flacourtiaceae, 

 Araliaceae, and Ebenaceae. The genus Worcesterianthus of the 

 Olacaceae, is proposed as new, while the genera Buettneria and 

 Firmiana are new to the Philippine flora. A few species of 

 older authors have been recorded from the Archipelago for the 

 first time and a few changes in nomenclature are proposed. 

 A total of eighty-six species are described as new. The last 

 number of the series appeared in the year 1912.^ 



GRAMINEAE 



ISACHNE R. Brown 

 ISACHNE CONFERTA sp. nov. 



Planta parva, prostrata, ramosa, ramis floriferis erectis vel 

 suberectis, 6 ad 8 cm longis ; foliis numerosis, lanceolatis, acumi- 

 natis, circiter 2 cm longis, subtus leviter pilosis, supra scabridis ; 

 paniculis exsertis, angustis, 1 ad 2 cm longis, vix 5 mm latis, 

 ramis paucis, erectis, 4-1-floris; spiculis confertis, circiter 1.8 

 mm longis, plus minusve purpureis; glumis sterilibus tenuiter 

 7- vel 9-nerviis, supra leviter hispidis; glumis fertilibus ellip- 

 soideis vel elliptico-oblongis, inferioribus glabris, 1.6 mm longis, 

 superioribus ^ brevioribus, apice minute ciliatis. 



A small, slender, prostrate, branched plant, rooting at the 

 nodes, the flowering branches erect or suberect, 6 to 8 cm long. 

 Sheaths rather lax, longer than the internodes, glabrous; ligule 

 a ring of short white hairs. Leaves lanceolate, about 2 cm long, 

 2.5 to 3 mm wide, narrowed to the acute base and the acuminate 



* Associate Professor of Botany, University of the Philippines. 

 'Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 259-357. 



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