The Philippine Journal op Science. C. Botany. 
Vol. VII, No. 4, September, 1912. 
NOMENCLATURAL AND SYSTEMATIC NOTES ON THE FLORA 
OF MANILA. 
By E. D. Merrill. 
(From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of 
Science, and the Department of Botany, University of the Philippines, 
Manila, P. I.) 
In connection with the proximate publication of my “Flora of 
Manila” ^ it has been found necessary to make certain changes 
in nomenclature in order to bring the work into conformity with 
the at present generally accepted code of botanical nomencla- 
ture, that of the Vienna Botanical Congress, as modified by the 
additional list of nomina conservanda adopted by the Brussels 
Botanical Congress. Then too a rather intensive exploration of 
the region covered by the “Flora of Manila” has brought to light 
a few apparently undescribed species, and a number of forms, 
previously described from extra-Philippine material, which have 
never been definitely recorded as growing in the Archipelago. 
For the former it has become necessary to prepare diagnoses 
and descriptions, and for the latter it has been considered worth 
while to record them as Philippine species. The author does not 
consider that a publication of the nature of the forthcoming 
“Flora of Manila” is the proper place in which to describe new 
species, to make new combinations, to enter into extended dis- 
cussions of disputed points in nomenclature, or to discuss the 
validity or nonvalidity of species. Accordingly such matters 
are considered in the present paper, so that the “Flora of Manila” 
will contain no descriptions of new species, no new names, and 
no new combinations. 
The following paper contains the descriptions of five presum- 
ably new species, and the names of about 13 additional species 
now definitely recorded from the Archipelago for the first time. 
‘Bureau of Science Publication (1912). 
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