THE PHILIPPINE 
Journal of Science 
VoL. XIV APRIL, 1919 No. 4 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, XV 
By E. D. Merrill 
{From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of 
Science, Manila, P. 1.) 
This series of papers was commenced in 1904,^ the present 
contribution being essentially like the preceding ones. In the 
series have been included the descriptions of new genera and 
species, notes on nomenclature and on obscure species, and records 
of known genera and species not previously reported from the 
Philippines. Fourteen genera and about one thousand one hun- 
dred fifty-five species, including those of the present paper, have 
been described as new. 
The present paper consists chiefly of the descriptions of one 
hundred new or presumably new species, with the records of 
eighteen previously known ones not hitherto recorded from 
the Philippines. Nine genera are for the first time recorded 
as Philippine; namely, Tripogon, Festuca (introduced), Crypto- 
coryne, Haemato carpus, Citriobattts, Erodium (introduced) , Vil- 
laresia, Sloanea, and Cloezia. Of these Citriobatus and Cloezia 
are of special interest from the standpoint of phytogeography. 
Cloezia has hitherto been known only from New Caledonia, 
where it is represented by six species, the seventh species oc- 
curring in the mountains of northeastern Mindanao. Citriobatus 
* Merrill, E. D. New or noteworthy Philippine plants, I, Govt. Lab. Publ. 
{Philip.) 6 (1904) 1—18; II, op. cit. 17 (1904) 1-47; III, op. cit. 29 (1905) 
1-50; IV, op. cit. 35 (1905) 1-77; V, Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 
169-246; VI, op. cit. 3 (1908) Bot. 219—267; VII, op. cit. 4 (1909) Boti 
247-330; VIII, op. cit. 5 (1910) Bot. 167-257; IX, op. cit. 7 (1912) Bot. 
257-357; X, op. cit. 9 (1914) Bot. 261-337; XI, op. cit. 10 (1915) Bot. 
1-84; XII, op. cit. 10 (1915) Bot. 287-349; XIII, op. cit. 13 (1918) Bot. 
1-66; XIV, op. cit. 13 (1918) Bot. 263-333. 
165368 365 
