THE PHILIPPINE 
Journal of Science 
C. Botany 
vol. y 
AUGUST, 1910 
No. 3 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, VIII. 
By E. D. Merrill. 
(From the Botanical Section of the. Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, 
Manila, P. I.) ^3 
The following paper is largely composed of the descriptions of about 
100 new species of Philippine plants, that have been worked out from 
time to time during the past year. In the paper will also be found the 
descriptions of four proposed new genera, Astrocalyx and C ephalomedi- 
nilla of the Melastomataceae , Curraniodendron of the Saxifragaceae , and 
Pygmaeopremna of the Verbenaceae, A number of species previously de- 
scribed by various authors are here recorded from the Philippines for 
the first time, while several previously considered Philippine forms are 
admitted for the purpose of discussion, additional data being available. 
Following the rules of priority in nomenclature, a few new combinations 
have been made. 
GRAMINEiE. 
ANDROPOGON Linn. 
Andropogon citratus DC. Cat. Hort. Monsp. (1813) 78. 
Cymbopogon citratus Stapf in Kew Bull. (1906) 322, 357, cum lamina. 
Andropogon schoenanthus Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 39, ed. 2 (1845) 27, ed. 3, 
1 (1877) 50; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 339, non Linn. 
This species is commonly cultivated in the Philippines, although not on a 
commercial scale. I have never seen it in flower, but chemical analysis of the 
oil extracted from it shows the species to be Andropogon citratus DC., and not 
A. schoenanthus Linn. 
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