The Philippine Journal of Science, C. Botany. 
Vol. XII, No. 5, September, 1917. 
NEW PHILIPPINE SHRUBS AND TREES 
By E. D. Merrill^ 
{From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of 
Science, Manila) 
The present paper consists for the most part of the descriptions 
of forty-five presumably new species of Philippine trees and 
shrubs, in the families Chloranthaceae, Myristicaceae, Saxifraga- 
ceae, Cunoniaceae, Leguminosae, Rutaceae, Simarubaceae, Sa- 
biaceae, Sapindaceae, Celastraceae, Elaeocarpaceae, Gonystyla- 
ceae, Guttiferae, Combretaceae, Myrtaceae, Symplocaceae, Eri- 
caceae, Ebenaceae, Laganmceae, Thymelaeaceae, and Verbefia- 
ceae. A few changes in nomenclature are included. The genera 
Elaeodendron and Pleurostylia are here recorded from the Philip- 
pines for the first time, and the new genus Trifidacanthus is pro- 
posed and described in the Leguminosae. 
Two characteristic new species of Xanthostemon are note- 
worthy, as are two new species of Symplocos with 3-partite 
calyces, a character hitherto unrecorded for the Symplocaceae. 
The southeastern element in the Philippine flora is emphasized 
not only by the two additional species of Xanthostemon, but 
by the discovery of a second species of Ascarina in the Philip- 
pines. The Philippine form of Pleurostylia is apparently iden- 
tical with a New Calendonian variety of P. wightii W. & A. The 
widely distributed Vaccinium commonly known as V. villarii Vid. 
is reduced to the Moluccan V. myrtoides Miq. The continental 
element in flora is emphasized by the discovery of Englehardtia 
colebrookeana Lindl. in northern Luzon. 
CHLORANTHACEAE 
ASCARINA Forster 
ASCARINA RETICULATA sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 8 m alta, glabra; foliis oblongo-ellipticis ad 
oblongo-obovatis, coriaceis, utrinque distincte reticulatis, in sicci- 
tate brunneis, usque ad 9 cm longis, obtuse acuminatis, basi 
acutis, margine crenatis vel serrulato-crenatis ; nervis primariis 
utrinque circiter 15 cum venularum reti utrinque conspicuo; pani- 
* Professor of botany, University of the Philippines. 
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