THE PHILIPPINE 
1916 % 
Journal of Science 
NOTES ON THE FLORA OF BORNEO 
By E. D. Merrill 1 
( From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of 
Science, Manila, P. I.) 
The flora of the great Island of Borneo is very imperfectly 
known, and for this reason it has been quite impossible to work 
out in detail the phytogeographic relationships between the 
Philippines and Borneo. From the geographic proximity of 
the islands, definite phytogeographic relationships are to be 
expected, yet so far as publications go, and so far as collections 
already made have been studied, the cases of special distribution 
of species between the Philippines and Borneo are strikingly 
weak when compared with those between the Philippines and 
the islands to the south and southeast of the Archipelago. 
With the object of determining more in detail just what 
the relationships of the Philippine and Bornean floras are, an 
attempt has been made, in the past five or six years, to secure 
Bornean botanical material for purposes of study and comparison 
with that originating in the Philippines. Through the kindness 
of Mr. J. C. Moulton, director of the Sarawak Museum, Kuching, 
Sarawak, a native collector was secured, who worked intermit- 
tently for the Bureau of Science for several years under Mr. 
Moulton’s direction, the specimens thus collected being trans- 
mitted to the Bureau of Science from time to time. Additional 
collections were made in Sarawak by Dr. F. W. Foxworthy in 
1908 for the Bureau of Science. Important collections were 
also received in exchange, notably a nearly complete set of 
Charles Hose’s Sarawak collections from the British Museum, 
C. Botany 
VOL. XI 
MARCH, 1916 
No. 2 
1 Associate professor of botany, University of the Philippines. 
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