THE PHILIPPINE 
Journal of Science 
C. Botany 
VOL. XIII MARCH, 1918 No. 2 
NEW SPECIES OF BORNEAN PLANTS 
By E. D. Merrill 1 
( From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of 
Science, Manila) 
In the past two years I have published three papers on the 
Bornean flora, 2 the present one being essentially like those 
already issued. These papers have been the necessary pre- 
liminary ones in preparation for the publication of my “Biblio- 
graphic Enumeration of Bornean Plants” the manuscript of 
which is now completed, and which is to be published by the 
Sarawak Museum. No new species are described in the enume- 
ration, but only those species are included that have been de- 
scribed from or credited to Borneo. 
The present paper consists of the descriptions of sixty-one 
new or presumably new species in the families Magnoliaceae, 
Connaraceae, Leguminosae, Rutaceae , Meliaceae, Euphorbiaceae, 
Sterculiaceae, Dilleniaceae, Passifioraceae, Flacourtiaceae, Myrta- 
ceae, Araliaceae, Clethraceae, Myrsinctceae, Oleaceae, Gentiana- 
ceae, Asclepiadaceae, and Rubiaceae. 
MAGNOLIACEA.E 
ILLICIUM Linnaeus 
ILLICIUM STAPF1I sp. nov. 
Illicium sp. Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 4 (1894) 128, cum descr. 
To Stapf’s diagnosis I add the following data from our re- 
cently collected material: Leaves up to 17 cm long and 9 cm 
1 Professor of botany, University of the Philippines. 
2 Merrill, E. D., Notes on the Flora of Borneo, Philip. Journ. Set. 1 1 
(1916) Bot. 49-100: Contributions to our knowledge of the flora of Borneo, 
Journ. Str. Branch Roy. As. Soc. 76 (1917) 75-117: Alabastra Borneensia, 
op. cit. 77 (1917) 189-247. 
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