Some Philippine Polyporaceae 
WILLIAM ALPHONSO MURRILL 
A large number of Philippine polypores have been added to 
the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden during the last 
few years, mainly through the efforts of Mr. Robert S. Williams, 
who was collecting in the islands from November, 1903 to July, 
1905, and to some extent from the collections of Mr. Elmer D. 
Merrill and Mr. A. D. E. Elmer, who sent material either to Mr. 
Ricker or myself for determination. A list of these additions to 
the herbarium is given in the following pages. 
Mr. Williams collected the most of his specimens on the Lamao 
River and elsewhere on the slopes of Mt. Mariveles across the bay 
west of Manila. At Baguio, some distance to the north, he reached 
an elevation of 5200 feet, about 1000 feet higher than Mt. Mari- 
veles, and found open pine woods, with much dead pine timber 
left by lumbermen. At Santa Cruz, on the Gulf of Davao, in 
Mindanao, he collected at an elevation of only a few hundred feet, 
and mostly in a more continuous forest than in the Lamao region. 
The specimens from Mr. Merrill and Mr. Elmer were collected 
in Luzon, Mindanao, Mindoro, Palawan, Culion, and Leyte. 
A number of Philippine species which have been seen in 
European herbaria have as yet failed to appear in these additions, 
but it is hoped that the list will be complete enough in a year or 
two more so that a fairly full synopsis of Philippine polypores will _ 
be possible. Excursions into the interior of the larger islands will 
undoubtedly bring to light a considerable number of novelties, 
while further explorations among the smaller islands will serve 
more strongly to connect the native species with their relatives in 
Formosa, China, Japan, Malacca, Borneo, Java, Celebes, New 
Guinea, Australia, and the many small neighboring islands of the 
Pacific, 
Subfamily POLYPOREAE 
CoLTRICIA CINNAMOMEA (Jacq.) Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 31: 
343. 1904. 
Luzon: Mt. Mariveles, Elmer 6949. 
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