96 MERRILL AND ROLFK. 



otlier ovident errors will need to be considered at a later date when more • 

 complete mateiial is available for stndy. Mr. .1. K'. Drummcmd kindly 

 examined eritieally the material in Crunfonic and a jnirt of that in 

 Coiiijioylldc. and his notes aiT inchided in the |ircseiit i)a[)er. earh note 

 being followed by his initials. 



Sixteen species are described as new, and no less than fourteen genera, 

 previously unknown from the Philii»j)ines, are recorded for the tirst time, 

 while a])proximately fifty species, previously described by various authors 

 from extra-Philippine regions are here first credited to the Archipelago. 



IIYI)K()(^HAKITA(^E.i:. 



HYDRILLA Ricliar.l. 



Hydrilla verticillata (l..f.) Roylo 111. Bot. llinial. (1S30) 1. .?77;,- Prosl 

 Bemerk. (1844) 112: Casj). in Fringsh. Jahrb. 1 (1858) 4!I4 : Ilonk. f. Fl. IJrit. 

 Iiul. 5 (1888) 059; C. H. Wright ex Forbes & llemsl. in Journ. Liun. Soe. Bot. 

 36 (1!)()3) 1 ; Naves Nov. A pp. (1883) 214. 



Scriiiciila vcriicUlata Linn. f. 8nppl. (1781) 410; Roxb. PL Coroniandel 2 

 (1798) i. IG.'i. 



Luzo-N, Province of Tayabas. Wliitford 830: Province of Ri/.al. Lolicr l-'tU.L 

 MixuA.NAO, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, Mrs. Clemens. 



Previously enumerated from tlu> Philippines by Naves but as .so many of 

 his records are erroneous, it has been thought best again to enumerate the 

 species from tiie Archipelago. 



Central Europe tiirough 1r()])ical Asia to Australia and tlie ]\lasparene Tslajids. 



LILIACE.E. 



SMI LAX Tourn. 



Smilax leucophylla Hiume Enuni. PI. .Tav. 1 (1830) 18; A. DC. Monog. Plian. 

 1 (1878) 200; Naves Nov. App. ( 18S3) 203. 



Hniilax vicnria Kiinth iMiuin. 5 (1850) 2(;2; ^lerr. in Philip, .bmrn. Sci. 1 

 (1900) Suppl. 35. 



Kmilax latifoUa Blanco Fl. Fiiij.. (■<!. 2 (1845) 548; ed. 3. 3:204. non K. I'.r. 



timiln.T iii<ier()])h)illa Naves Nov. App. (1883) 202, non Roxl). 



Ll'zox. I'lDviiUT (if I'ataan. .Mount Marixcles. Merrill .il^ I : Pi(>\iiuc of Hi/.al. 

 McrriU ni.i; For. Hiir. ISll Mieni's collector; Lolnr l'.l.,'.i. lU.l',. 



Sinilax vicarin Kiinth was based on Blanco's dcsiriplion of S. hitifolid. non 

 11. P.r., the specimens cilcd above agrecMiig witii nhtiicu's descri])! ion. .\t tlie 

 same time tliey seem to agree in all essential eliaracters with authentically named 

 <S'. leiico])}tjilla Blnme in Herb. Kew, and accoidingly Kunlii's species is iieie 

 rediu-ed, it ])reviously having been consideied a doubtful one. 



.lava. I'oiiieo and ( '.' ) the .Malay Peninsula. 



ASPARAGUS I. inn. 



Asparagus lucidus Lindl. Hot. I.'i'g. 30 iisin Miscid. 2'.t. no. ;iil; Kaker in 

 .loiiin. Linn. Soc. Hot. 14 (1H75) 005. 



\,\\. dolichocladus Mi irill A INdl'e \ar. nox . 



Dilfering from the typical form in its short ^a'dicels. which do not 

 exceed 1..") mm in length, and in its phylloclades, some of which are 4.5 



