A PRELIMINARY REVISION OF PHILIPPINE COMBRETACE/E. 
By E. D. Merrill. 
( From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, 
Manila, P. I.) 
This small group has been worked over chiefly with a view to clearing 
up some points connected with the genus Terminalia, some species of 
which are of importance from a forestry standpoint, as the timber is at 
least locally utilized to a greater or less extent. Pour years ago I 
published a key to the Philippine species of Terminalia , 1 recognizing- 
eleven species, the same number . that is recognized in the following con- 
sideration, although several of the species admitted in the previous paper 
have been shown bj^ additional material to be invalid, and have here been 
reduced. In the interim a single new species has been described, and a 
second one is proposed below. Some changes in nomenclature have also 
become necessary, and a few of the specimens previously referred to 
certain species, due to misinterpretation of these, have now been referred 
to their proper ones. Additional material is required to thoroughly work 
out the relationships of the forms in the section Bialata, Terminalia 
calamansanai (Blanco) Polfe, and related forms, while as y^et the flowers 
of Terminalia quadrialata are unknown. T. magarapali Vicl., a very 
distinct species, judging from the very short description, has not as yet 
been rediscovered. 
Table showing the distribution of Indo-Malayan, Chinese, Formosan, and 
Philippine Com bretacece. 
Genera. 
Philip- 
pines. 
Formosa. 
China. 
Malay 
Penin- 
sula. 
Millay 
Archi- 
pelago. 
British 
India. 
Anogeissus 
4 
Calycopteris. 
] 
1 
Combretum - __ 
4 
2 
10 
11 
18 
Lumnitzera _ 
2 
1 
2 
9 
•2 
Quisqualis _ _ __ __ _ 
i 
1 
1 
2 
2 
3 
Terminalia _ _______ 
n 
1 
i 
8 
10 
12 
Total _ .. 
18 
3 
4 
23 
25 
40 
1 Publications of the Bureau of Government Laboratories 17 (1904) 31-30. 
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