NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VII. 
By E. D. Merrill. 
( From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, 
Manila, P. /.) 
The present contribution is, like the preceding papers of the series, 
composed of miscellaneous diagnoses of apparently previously undescribed 
species in various families, and records of various species previously 
described and now found for the first time in the Philippines. A number 
of nomenclatural changes are included, in accordance with the rules of 
priority, and notes are added on some previously obscure or little-known 
species. Pour genera, E mb ol 'anther a, Everethodendron, Greeniopsis , and 
Ahernia are proposed as new, while the representatives of no less than 
tweiity-one genera, previously unrecorded from the Philippines are enu- 
merated, Boottia, Anacolosa, Illicium, Erythrophloeum, Kingiodendron, 
Azadirachta, Ileynea, Blachia, Galearia, Microdesmis, Ostodes, Stro- 
phioblachia , Pleiogynium , Leptonychia, Trichadenia , Ochrosia, Willough - 
bya, Coptosapelta, Damnacanthus, Greenea , and Litosanthes. Twenty- 
five species previously described by various authors from estra-Philippine 
material are here recorded from the Archipelago for the first time, while 
eighty-five species are described as new. On account of the rule adopted 
by the Vienna Botanical Congress, requiring Latin diagnoses of all 
species proposed after January 1, 1.908, short diagnoses have been 
added, and in cases where it has been necessary to consider species 
proposed since that date, but which were without the required diagnosis, 
this has been added. 
ALISMACEYE. 
BOOTTIA Wallich. 
Boottia renifolia sp. nov. 
Planta aquatica, glabra; foliis reniformibus, longe petiolatis, apice 
late rotundatis, basi cordatis, circiter 8 cm latis, nervis 7 ad 9 ; spathis 
unisexualibus, tubulosis ; floribus masculinis vulgo binis, exsertis, antheris 
9, pistilli rudimentiis pulvif ormibus ; floribus femineis circiter 2.5 cm 
diametro, solitariis, poecdicellatis ; stylis 6, bifidis; staminodiis 9 quorum 
6 linearibus, 3 capitatis. 
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