The Philippine Journal of Science, C. Botany. 
Vol. IX, No. 3, June, 1914. 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS 
By E. D. Merrill 1 
( From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, 
Bureau of Science, Manila, P. I.) 
The tenth paper under the above title consists of the descrip- 
tions of new species in the following families: Gramineae, Cy- 
peraceae, Moraceae, Loranthaceae, Olacaceae, Hernandiaceae, 
Rutaceae, Meliaceae, Buxaceae, Celastraceae, Icacinaceae, Ster- 
culiaceae, Theacecte, Dilleniaceae, Lecythidaceae, Flacourtiaceae, 
Araliaceae, and Ebenaceae. The genus Worcesterianthus of the 
Olacaceae, is proposed as new, while the genera Buettneria and 
Firmiana are new to the Philippine flora. A few species of 
older authors have been recorded from the Archipelago for the 
first time and a few changes in nomenclature are proposed. 
A total of eighty-six species are described as new. The last 
number of the series appeared in the year 1912. 2 
GRAMINEAE 
ISACHNE R. Brown 
ISACHNE CONFERTA sp. nov. 
Planta parva, prostrata, ramosa, ramis floriferis erectis vel 
suberectis, 6 ad 8 cm longis ; foliis numerosis, lanceolatis, acumi- 
natis, circiter 2 cm longis, subtus leviter pilosis, supra scabridis ; 
paniculis exsertis, angustis, 1 ad 2 cm longis, vix 5 mm latis, 
ramis paucis, erectis, 4-1-floris; spiculis confertis, circiter 1.8 
mm longis, plus minusve purpureis; glumis sterilibus tenuiter 
7- vel 9-nerviis, supra leviter hispidis; glumis fertilibus ellip- 
soideis vel elliptico-oblongis, inferioribus glabris, 1.6 mm longis, 
superioribus % brevioribus, apice minute ciliatis. 
A small, slender, prostrate, branched plant, rooting at the 
nodes, the flowering branches erect or suberect, 6 to 8 cm long. 
Sheaths rather lax, longer than the internodes, glabrous; ligule 
a ring of short white hairs. Leaves lanceolate, about 2 cm long, 
2.5 to 3 mm wide, narrowed to the acute base and the acuminate 
1 Associate Professor of Botany, University of the Philippines. 
1 Philip . Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 259-357. 
261 
