THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



Vol. XIV APRIL, 1919 No. 4 



NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, XV 



By E. D. Merrill 



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

 Science, Manila, P. I.) 



This series of papers was commenced in 1904,^ the present 

 contribution being essentially like the preceding ones. In the 

 series have been included the descriptions of new genera and 

 species, notes on nomenclature and on obscure species, and records 

 of known genera and species not previously reported from the 

 Philippines. Fourteen genera and about one thousand one hun- 

 dred fifty-five species, including those of the present paper, have 

 been described as new. 



The present paper consists chiefly of the descriptions of one 

 hundred new or presumably new species, with the records of 

 eighteen previously known ones not hitherto recorded from 

 the Philippines. Nine genera are for the first time recorded 

 as Philippine; namely, Tripogon, Festuca (introduced), Crypto- 

 coryne, Haematocarptts, Citriohatus, ErodiuTn (introduced) , Vil- 

 laresia, Sloanea, and Cloezia. Of these Citriohatus and Cloezia 

 are of special interest from the standpoint of phytogeography. 

 Cloezia has hitherto been known only from New Caledonia, 

 where it is represented by six species, the seventh species oc- 

 curring in the mountains of northeastern Mindanao. Citriohatus 



* Merrill, E. D. New or noteworthy Philippine plants, I, Govt. Lab. Publ. 

 {Philip.) 6 (1904) 1-18; II, op. cit. 17 (1904) 1-47; III, op. cit. 29 (1905) 

 1-50; IV, op. cit. 35 (1905) 1-77; V, Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 

 169-246; VI, op. cit. 3 (1908) Bot. 219-267; VII, op. cit. 4 (1909) Bot. 

 247-330; VIII, op. cit. 5 (1910) Bot. 167-257; IX, op. cit. 7 (1912) Bot. 

 257-357; X, op. cit. 9 (1914) Bot. 261-337; XI, op. cit. 10 (1915) Bot. 

 1-84; XIT, op. cit. 10 (1915) Bot. 287-349; XIII, op. cit. 13 (1918) Bot. 

 1-66; XIV, op. cit. 13 (1918) Bot. 263-333. 



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