NEW PHILIPPINE PLANTS FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF 

 MARY STRONG CLEMENS, I. 



By Elmer D. Merrill. 



(Fro)ii the Botanical Section of the Biological Lahuiatory, Bureau of Science, 



Manila, P. I.) 



From Decenil)er, 1905, to October, 1!)()7, Chaplain Joseph Clemens of 

 the Seventeenth United States Infantry, accompanied by his wife, was 

 stationed at Camp Keithley, Lake Lanao, Mindanao, and during this time 

 Mrs. Clemens made extensive botanical collections which were forwarded 

 from time to time to this herbarium for study. In the two years during 

 ' which collections were made, somewhat over 1,200 numbers of plants 

 were sent to Manila, besides a very extensive supplementary collection 

 of unnumbered material. 



Lake Lanao is located at an altitude of about 760 meters above the 

 sea, and C*amp Keithley is situated near the lake on the ridge between it 

 and the Sulu Sea, the highest point on the reservation being about 815 

 meters above sea level. The region is subject to heavy rainfall, and 

 during parts of the year fogs are very prevalent, so that the humidity 

 is relatively high. The district was entirely unexplored Ijotanically, 

 and the collection, iis was to be expected, has shown an unusually 

 high percentage of novelties, containing many genera hitherto unknown 

 from the Philippines, several apparently undescribed genera, many species 

 new to the Archipelago, and a great number of undescribed species, while 

 the range of many plants, previously known only from Luzon, has been 

 extended to Mindanao. A number of novelties from this collection have 

 been included in my previous papers, among them several new species, as 

 well as genera and species new to the Philippines. The material still 

 contained so much of interest that it was thought advisable to prepare 

 and publish a series of two or three papers, for the greater part based 

 on this collection. 



The Lake Lanao region, politically, is one of the nuist turbulent 

 districts in the Pliilippines, and has been under firm control during the 

 recent years of American occupation only, and after several campaigns 

 against the fanatical Moros who inhabit the region. Spanish authority 

 was only nominal Ijefore the year 1898, while even at the present date 

 the district can not be considered a safe one for the traveler. Minor 



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