The Philippine Journal of Science, C. Botany. 
VoL. VIII, No. 5, November, 1913 
PLANTAE WENZELIANAE 
By E. D. Merrill * 
(From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, 
Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I.) 
In July of the present year I received for identification a com- 
paratively small collection of plants made by Mr. C. A. Wenzel, 
a resident of Dagami, Leyte. The collection presented such a 
high percentage of novelties that it has been considered best to 
describe the apparently new species, represented in the collection, 
in a separate paper. The collection received totaled 300 num- 
bers, representing about 275 species, of which about thirty-five 
are apparently undescribed. In the present paper twenty-eight 
species are included, the material in each case being sufficiently 
complete to warrant the preparation of diagnoses and descrip- 
tions. The remaining novelties will of necessity have to be con- 
sidered at a later date when more ample material is available for 
study. ' 
Most of the specimens were collected near Dagami, Leyte, 
and for the most part in forests below an altitude of 100 meters. 
It is to be hoped that Mr. Wenzel will continue his botanical 
exploration of the region, which is, apparently, one of very great 
interest. 
CYPERACEAE 
SCLERIA Bergius 
SCLERIA TRIGONA sp. nov. (§ Hypoporum.) 
Herba perennis, robusta, circiter 1 m alta, subglabra; vaginis 
laxis, purpureis, foliis usque ad 70 cm longis, 1.5 cm latis, 
margine scabridis, chartaceis, longe acuminatis, base leviter 
angustatis; paniculis corymbosis, foliosis, angustis, circiter 20 
cm longis; spiculis ut videtur omnibus bisexualis, 4 ad 5 mm 
longis; nuculis albis, laevis, 2 ad 2.5 mm longis, acutis, promi- 
nente trigonis, leviter hirsutis. 
An erect, tufted, perennial plant about 1 m high, the sheaths 
in their upper parts, and the infiorescence more or less pubescent, 
^Associate Professor of Botany, University of the Philippines, Manila, P. I. 
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