250 MEUKILL. 



Vidal y Soler, Sebastian. C'atSlogo metodieo dc las ])lantas leno.-ias silvcstres y 

 cultivadas obscrvadas en la provincia de Manila. (1880) pp. 1 48. (Reprint 

 from Rei-ista de Monies 4 (1880).) 



In this work 531 species are enumerated, in which tlie toUowinii new- 

 names appear: Fittosporum feniandezix, Aegle deccuidra, Dysojcyiuni blancoi, 

 i'arinaritim racentosuni, Mcdinilla lagunae, Homalium harnndtie, and Clero- 

 dendron navesianum, but most of them are scarcely more than nomina nuda. 

 Many of the errors in identifications were corrected later by Vidal in his 

 Rev. PI. \'asc. Filip. (1886). The introduction contains nnich of interest 

 regarding tlie types of Philippine forests. 



Usteri, Alfred. Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Pliilipiiincii imd liner N'egetation. 

 mit Ausblickeit auf Nachbargebiete. (Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung 

 der philosophischen Doktorwiirde der Universitat Zurich, 1905, pp. 1-lGG, 

 with 29 text-tigures and 2 plates.) 



This work contains a sketch of the geology- and plant geography of the 

 Philippines, meterology and climatology, notes on the islands of Guimaras. 

 C'ebu and Negros, a consideration of the different plant formations, notes on 

 various cultivated plants, sugar culture, etc., and a catalogue of the plants 

 collected, 1,431 species being enumerated from tlio Philippines. 1,303 from 

 Java, 3 from Penang, 65 from Labuan, and about 100 from Singapore. In 

 the enumeration of Philippine plants Piper usterii C. DC, and the variety 

 plurifistulosum C. DC. are described, and in the Orchidaceae the name 

 Dendrohinni usierii Schltr. appears as a nomen nudum, later described in 

 Bull. Herb. Boiss. II. 6 (1900) 458. Another new species is Selaginella 

 usierii Hieron., with a very imperfect description. Under the Algae the 

 following new species are described: Phormidittin usierii Schmidle, and 

 Myxobactron nslerianum Schmidle, the latter the type of a new genus. 

 Many species are credited to the Philippines for the first time. 



Warburg, 0. Pandanaceae. (Das Pflunzenreich, 3 (1900) pj). 1-97.) 



Three genera, Hararanga, Freycinetia and Pandinms arc recognized, the 

 first with but a single species confined to the Solomon Islands and New 

 Guinea, the other two genera widely distributed, Freycinetia with 02 species 

 and PandanuH with 156. The Philippine forms recognized are Frri/cineiia 

 ferox Warb., /-'. luzonensis Presl, F. sphaerocephala Gaudich.. /•'. ridalii 

 Hemsl., F. jagorii Warb., F. phiUppine-nsis Hemsl.. and F. scitbripes Warb.. 

 all endemic, and Pandanus icciorius Sol. [P. odoratissimus L. f.. /'. siiiralis 

 P.lanco, P. blancoi Kth.). The species described by Blanco, I', r. ml lulus. I', 

 sabotan, P. gracilis, P. malaiensis and P. radicans are all considered doubtful 

 species. Since the publication of ^^•arburg's m()nogra]ih a second s])ecies of 

 Sararanga (>S'. philippinensis) lias been foimd in flic riiili])|)iiu's. and several 

 species of Freycinetia and Pandanus liave lieen (h'seribed as new. while niosi 

 of the species described by Blanco have been satisfactorially dispused of. 

 (See. Uovt. Lab. Publ. 17, 27, 29; /'A/////. .I'n(rn. Sci. 1 (llXtO) Siippl : 

 Elmer, Leaflets J'hilip. Hnl. 1 ( I'.XXi).) 



Williams, R. S. Notes on Luzon Mosses. (The BryalogisI, 8 ( I'.M).")) pp. 7S SO.) 

 .\ |)(»|nilar account of some of the species observed while on a eolleeling tri]) 

 in Luzon, including notes on forms observed about .Manila, in the I'rovince of 

 liat;i;in. and in (lie Piovinee of l'eiiL;\iet . 



