The Philippine Journal of Science, C. Botany. 
Vol. IX, No. 4, August, 1914. 
PLANTAE WENZELIANAE, II 
By E. D. Merrill * 
( From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, 
Manila, P. I.) 
The first paper of this series was published in November, 
1913 1 in which twenty-eight species were proposed as new. 
One of these, Scleria trigona Merr., has been indicated to me 
by the Rev. G. Kiikenthal, to whom a specimen was sent, as 
being identical with Scleria motleyi C. B. Clarke, the type of 
which was from Borneo, but the species also credited to the 
Philippines in its original place of publication 2 ; Scleria trigona 
Merr. should then be reduced to S. motleyi C. B. Clarke. 
During the past year Mr. Wenzel has prosecuted his field 
work with energy, extending his numbered series to somewhat 
over 900. The material, submitted to me for identification, has 
presented a high percentage of novelties, and accordingly this 
second paper of the series has been prepared. The present 
paper contains the descriptions of forty-three species, proposed 
as new, with notes on several previously described ones. The 
genera Kunstleria of the Legunmiosae and Nothophoebe of the 
Lauraceae, are credited to the Philippines for the first time. A 
representative of the peculiar monotypic genus Trigonopleura, 
of the Euphorbiaceae is in the collection, which on further study 
may prove to be specifically distinct from the Malaya Peninsula 
species; a specimen of this has been sent to Kew for comparison 
with the type. 
ZINGIBERACEAE 
ALPINIA Linnaeus 
ALPINIA WENZELII sp. nov. § Hellenia. 
Planta glabra, usque ad 90 cm alta; foliis 5 ad 8, lanceolatis, 
tenuiter acuminatis, usque ad 13 cm. longis, 1.6 cm latis; pani- 
*Associate Professor of Botany, University of the Philippines, Manila, 
P. I. 
1 Philip. Journ. Sei. 8 (1913) Bot. 363-390. 
3 L. c. 2 (1907) Bot. 104. 
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