INDEX TO PHILIPPINE BOTANICAL LITERATURE, VL 



By E. D. Merrill. 



(From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, 



Manila, P. I.) 



Baker, J. G. Handbook of the Aiuaryllidaceae including the Alstroemerieae and 

 Agaveae (1888) XII+216. 



Sixty-one genera are recognized, and all the species known to the author 

 are described. Very few species are definitely credited to the Philippines, 

 but several of those considered are found in the Archipelago, especially as 

 introduced and cultivated plants. Indigenous and endemic species are very 

 few in the Philippines. Two endemic species of Orinuni are admitted, C. 

 cumingii Baker and C. gracile E. Meyer; I have seen the types of both and 

 consider them referable to a single species. Eurycles sylvestris Salisb. is the 

 only other species definitely credited to the Philippines. 



Bargagli-Petmcci, G. Le specie de Pisonia della Regione dei Monsoni. Nuovo 

 Giorn. Bot. Ital. N. S. 8 (1901) App. 603-625, t. 4. 



Twenty-one species are recognized, of which two are definitely recorded 

 from the Philippines, Pisonia excelsa Bl., and P. aculeata Linn. Several 

 additional species have been found in the Archipelago, P. longirostris T. & B., 

 P. alba Span, (cult.), and apparently some undescribed forms. 



Beccari, 0. New or Little-known Philippine Palms. Leafl. Philip. Bot. 2 (1909) 

 639-650. (Article 36.) 



Seven species are enumerated including the following described as new: 

 Areca ipot, Pinanga negrosensis, P. rigida, Eeterospathe elmeri, and Calamus 

 eln\erianus. 



Beccari, 0. Asiatic Palms - Lepidocaryeae, Part 1. The species of Calamus. 

 Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 11 (1908) 1-578; plates 231, (folio). 



A consideration of all the species of the genus known to the author, in 

 which the following 17 Philippine representatives are described and figured: 

 Calamus mollis Blanco, C. meyenianus Schauer, C. blancoi Kunth, C. cumin- 

 gianus Becc, C. ornatus Bl. var. philippinensis Becc, C. merrillii Becc. n. sp., 

 C. moseleyanus Becc, C. spinifolitis Becc, G. trispermus Becc, C. maniUensis 

 H. Wendl., C. microsphaerion Becc, C. ramulosus Becc, C. vidalianus Becc, 

 C. siphonospathus Mart, with the varieties farinosus, sublaevis, oligolepis 

 (minor), oligolepis (major), and polylepis Becc, C. microcarpus Becc, 

 C. dimorphacanthus Becc, and C. discolor Mart. Sixteen of the seventeen 

 Philippine species are endemic, and the seventeenth (G. ornatus Bl.), Malay 

 Peninsula, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo, is represented in the Philippines by 

 an endemic varietJ^ 



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