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library, selected with special reference to the Philippine flora. The de- 

 struction of this herbarium and library, together with all the notes and 

 records of the Forestry Commission, was a very great loss to Philippine 

 botany, and it is imperative that a new herbarium and a new botanical 

 library be established. The plants of the present enumeration form the 

 basis of the new herbarium, and a beginning has been made on the library 

 which already contains the leading works on the Philippine flora and 

 many of the standard reference works. 



The present status of the Philippine flora is rather peculiar. On one 

 hand we have Blanco's "Flora de Filipinas," with a large number of un- 

 certain species or inidentifiable descriptions, and on the other hand we 

 have Fernandez- Villar's "Novissima Appendix" to the third edition of 

 Blanco's Flora, in which scores of species are credited to the Philippines 

 which do not extend to the Archipelago, chiefly the species of British 

 India. The genus Pandanus is a good illustration of the latter condition. 

 Fernandez-Villar credits 17 species of Pandanus to the Philippines, while 

 Dr. Warburg, a botanist who collected extensively in the Philippines, in 

 his recent monograph of Pandanacece,^ credits, and probably correctly so, 

 but 14 species of the whole family to the Archipelago, several of which 

 are there described as new, and 5 of Blanco's species considered as doubt- 

 ful or at least unknown. The same condition obtains also in such genera 

 as Ficus, Eugenia, etc. In consideration of the fact that there are now 

 credited to the Philippines so many species that do not extend to the 

 Archipelago, there is need of special care in identifications lest more 

 species should be erroneously credited to the Islands. No doubt errors 

 will be found in the identifications in this paper, but in cases where there 

 was much doubt concerning the identity of any particular specimen it 

 has been entered without specific name, often with the related species 

 noted, and this is especially the case where the related species has not 

 been previously credited to the Archipelago. The total number of speci- 

 mens in the collection is 853 ; of these a considerable per cent were not 

 in condition for accurate identification, and are not mentioned in the 

 following paper, others are entered under their proper genera ^fithout 

 specific names, when the material was in such condition that the genus 

 could be accurately determined. Species accredited lo ihc Philippines 

 for the first time, regarding which especially careful identifications have 

 been made, are in the following article preceded hv an asterisk. 



In the present enumemt idu there are represented 66 families, 325 gen- 

 era, and about 400 species. Of these 400 species, 81 are presumably en- 

 demic to the Archiplago, M are reported from the Philippines for the 

 first time, and 5 are described as new. 



The sequence of families niul trenera is that adopted hv TMi.trlor and 

 Prantl in "Die Naturlicheu I'lhui/.enrainilien." 



' Engler's Pflanzenreich 3: 1900. 



