PHILIPPINE MICROMYCETOUS FUNGI 
By PAUL WEIDEMEYER GRAFF 
University of Montana 
‘Interest in the field of taxonomic mycology with reference to 
tropical localities seems at present to be on the increase. А num- 
ber of recent papers have dealt with the situation in the West 
Indies in a limited way. The situation in our Pacific possessions 
has received, as yet, so little attention that any contribution, how- 
ever limited in extent, must be of some interest. It is with this 
hope that the following enumeration of species collected in the 
Philippine Islands is offered. 
The specimens included in the following list were gathered for 
the most part in the provinces of Rizal, Laguna, Bataan, and the 
vicinity of Manila, on the island of Luzon, by E. D. Merrill and 
the writer. A few incidental collections made by others in 
various localities are also included. Where several collections 
of a species have been made in one locality or vicinity, reference has 
been made to only one, making the citations of distributional 
value rather than quantitative. All specimens cited are in the 
herbarium of the Bureau of Science, Manila. 
PHYCOMYCETES 
SYNCHYTRIUM de Bary 
SYNCHYTRIUM PUERARIAE (P. Henn.) Miyabe, Bot. Mag. Tokyo 
I9: 199. 1905. 
Aecidium Puerariae P. Henn. Bot. Jahrb. 15: 6. 1892. 
Uromyces Puerariae Diet. Bot. Jahrb. 27: 282. 1900. 
Luzon, vicinity of Manila, Merrill 7424, November 27, 1910, 
on leaves of Pueraria Thunbergii. Island of Romblon, Hallier 
397, January, 1904, parasitic on leaves and stems of Pueraria sp. 
This species was originally described as an Aecidium from ma- 
terial collected on Pueraria sericantha, from New Guinea, and 
on Pueraria Thunbergii, from Japan, by Hennings. Later it was 
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