A PRELIMINARY REVISION OF PHILIPPINE COMBRETACE/E, 



By E. D. Merrill. 



{From the Botanical Section of the Biolotjical I.ahoratory, Bureau of Science, 



Manila, P. I.) 



This small gi'oup has been worked over chiefly with a view to clearing 

 up some points connected with the genus TcriiiinaUa. some species of 

 which are of importance from a forestry standpoint, as the timber is at 

 least locally utilized to a greater or less extent. Four years ago I 

 published a key to the Philippine species of Terminalia,^ recognizing 

 eleven species, the same number that is recognized in the following con- 

 sideration, although several of the species admitted in the previous paper 

 have been shown by additional material to be invalid, and have here been 

 reduced. In the interim a single new s|)ecies has Ijeen described, and a 

 second one is proposed below. Some changes in nomenclature have also 

 become necessary, and a few of the specimens previously referred to 

 certain species, due to misinterpretation of these, have now been referred 

 to their proper ones. Additional material is required to thoroughly work 

 out the relationships of the forms in the section Bialata; Tcnninalia 

 calamansanai (Blanco) Bolfe, and related forms, while as yet the ilowers 

 of Terminalia quadrialata are unknown. T. niar/arapali Yid., a very 

 distinct species, judging from the very short description, luis not as yet 

 been rediscovered. 



Table shoicing the distribution of Indo-MaUiyan, Chinese, Forinosan. and 

 Philippine Couibretaeea-. 



^Publications of the Bureau of Government Laboratories 17 (1904) 31-.3t). 

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