THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



C. Botany 

 Vol. XIII MARCH, 1918 No. 2 



NEW SPECIES OF BORNEAN PLANTS 



By E. D. Merrill* 



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



Science, Manila) 



In the past two years I have published three papers on the 

 Bornean flora,^ the present one being essentially like those 

 already issued. These papers have been the necessary pre- 

 liminary ones in preparation for the publication of my "Biblio- 

 graphic Enumeration of Bornean Plants" the manuscript of 

 which is now completed, and which is to be published by the 

 Sarawak Museum. No new species are described in the enume- 

 ration, but only those species are included that have been de- 

 scribed from or credited to Borneo. 



The present paper consists of the descriptions of sixty-one 

 new or presumably new species in the families Magnoliaceae, 

 Connaraceae, Leguminosae, Rutaceae, Meliaceae, Euphorbiaceae, 

 Ste7xuliaceae, Dilleniaceae, Passifioraceae, Flacourtiaceae, Myrta- 

 ceae, Araliaceae, Clethraceae, Myrsinaceae, Oleaceae, Gentiana- 

 ceae, Asclepiadaceae, and Rubiaceae. 



MAGNOLIACEAE 



ILLICIUM Linnaeus 

 ILLICIUM STAPFII sp. nov. 



Illicium sp. Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 4 (1894) 128, cum descr. 



To Stapf's diagnosis I add the following data from our re- 

 cently collected material: Leaves up to 17 cm long and 9 cm 



* Professor of botany, University of the Philippines. 



* Merrill, E. D., Notes on the Flora of Borneo, Philip. Journ. Sci. 11 

 (1916) Bot. 49-100: Contributions to our knowledge of the flora of Borneo, 

 Journ. Str. Branch Roy. As. Soc. 76 (1917) 75-117: Alabastra Borneensia, 

 op. cit. 77 (1917) 189-247. 



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