Reprinted from The Fhilii'Pine Journal of Science. 

 Volume II, No. 4, Section C, Botany, July 15, 1907. 



INDEX TO PHILIPPINH BOTANICAL LITERATURE, II 



By Elmer D. Merkill. 



From the boliinivnl section- of the Biohxjical Lahoniloiij, JUncdii of Hciviicv. 



Anonymous. Decades Keweiisis, Docas XLII. {h'ciiy Bull. (l!)()(i) pp. 2(K)-2().'). ) 

 One Philippine sjiecies. Fcnirarpa lii~oiiira Uolfc, is described on page 201,' 

 from Noithern Luzon, the only other known species ot the genus, /■*. carnosd 

 Hook. f. et Th., extending from IS'orthern India to Yunnan. 



Boorsma, W. G. Ueher philippinische Pfeilgifte. (Hull. Vlnsl. Uol. Buitoizonj 

 6 (1900) pp. 14-18.) 



A consideration of Lnnasia aniara Blanco and Lophopctalum toxicum Loher. 

 in connection with the use of the bark as a source of arrow poison. 



Ceron, S. Catfilogo de las plantas del herbario recolectado por el personal de la 

 suprimida comisitin de la flora forcstal. (Manila (1892), pp. 1-231, plate 1.) 

 A catalogue of a portion of the plants collected in the Philippines by Yidal, 

 inclviding those eflumerated by the latter in his Revision de plantas vasculares 

 Filipinas (1886), and some collected after the publication of that tvork. A 

 number of genera and species are credited to the Philippines for the first time 

 and one new species is described, Calophyllum vidalii F.-Villar, 1. c. '329, 

 with plate, C. cuncatum Vidal and V. rolfei Vidal being cited as synonyms. 

 It is not entirely clear who is the autlior of the entire work, but Ceron's 

 name, then "Inspector generaljie-Montes" for the Philippines appears on pagx- 

 5 at the end of the introduction. Tlie enumeration of species is however 

 apparently the work of Reyino Garcia. 



Chevalier, Auguste. Monographic des Myricacees. (Theses presentees a la fa- 

 culte des sciences de Paris (1901) pp. 1-2.57, plates 9, reprint from Mem. 

 Soc. Hci. Nat. Cherhony 32 (1901.) 



Three genera. Gale, Gomptonia and Myrica are recognized, the latter con- 

 taining 51 species and many varieties, represented in the Philippines by the 

 endemic Myrica vidaliana Rolfe. Other sjx'cies of the genus have since been 

 found in the archipelago. 



Chodat, Robert. Polygalaceae novae vel parum cognitae, V. {Bull. Herb. Boiss., 

 4 (1906) pp. 233-237.) 



^ecuridaca philippinensis is described as new. 



Chodat, Robert. Consjjectus systematicus Generis Xanthoiihylii. {Bull. Hob. 

 Boiss. XX; 4 (1900) pp. 254-264.) 



Xauthophyllum bracicatum, X. pliUijrpincnsc and X. robust um are described 

 from Philippine material, the first two endemic, the last extending from the 

 Philippines to Borneo and Malaca. 



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