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and no technical knowledge of the subject. It affords a good 
illustration of the fact that in spite of what has been done in 
the past thirteen years, we have really but made a beginning on 
the botanical exploration of the Philippines. 
In the present paper one genus and forty species are described 
as new, while the genus Schuurmansia is new to the Archipelago. 
This latest addition to the list of Philippine Ochnaceae is of 
considerable phytogeographical interest, as it adds another genus 
to the already long list that indicates the close geographical 
relationships of the Philippine flora to that of the islands to 
the south and southeast. Hallier 1 who has recently considered 
the genus, has removed the Bornean Schuurmansia angustifolia 
Hook. f. as the type of a new genus, Schuurmansiella, leaving 
Schuurmansia with seven species, confined to Amboina, New 
Guinea, Ternate, Halmaheira, and New Mecklenburg. To these 
may now be added two additional species in Luzon ; one described 
as new in the present paper, and the other transferred to Schuur- 
mansia from Calophyllum, where it was originally described by 
Fernandez-Villar. 
GRAMINEAE 
RAMOSIA genus novum 
( Festucae , Eufestucae) 
Spiculae oblongo-ovatae, leviter compressae, 1- ad 3-florae, laxe 
paniculatae, rhachilla inter flores elongata, vix articulata, glabra, 
ultra flores fertiles producta gluma vacua valde reducta ins- 
tructa; floribus hermaphroditis. Glumae 2 inferiores vacuae, 
acutae vel acuminatae, 5- vel 7-nerves, obscure carinatae, inae- 
quales ; florentes acutae, membranaceae, quam vacuis paullo 
longioribus, 7- vel 9-nerves, basi leviter inflatae, inter nervis 
obscure sulcatae. Palea 2-carinata. Stamina 2. Styli dis- 
tincti, tenui, stigmatibus plumosis. Caryopsis glabra, nitida, 
nigra, anguste oblonga, teres, libera. Gramen humile simplex, 
foliis planis. Panicula laxa, spiculis breviter pedicellatis, glumis 
distantibus. 
RAMOSIA PHILIPPINENSIS sp. nov. 
Glabra, e basi prostrata usque ad 20 ad 30 cm alta; foliis 
lanceolatis, acuminatis, membranaceis, usque ad 6 cm longis et 
5 mm latis, vaginis quam internodiis brevioribus, margine cilia- 
tis; paniculis exsertis, simplex, 5 ad 9 cm longis, ramis paucis, 
2 ad 4 cm longis; spiculis purpureis, oblongis, breviter pedicel- 
1 Hallier f. Ueber die Luxemburghieen-gattungen Schuurmansia, Schuur- 
mansiella und Blastemanthus. Recueil Trav. Bot. Neerl. 10 (1913) 340-355. 
