THE PHILIPPINE 
Journal of Science 
C. Botany 
Vol. Ill JULY, 1908 No. 3 
NOTES ON PHILIPPINE BOTANY. 
By Elmee D. Merrill and R. A. Rolfe. 
(From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, 
Manila, P. I., and, from the Kew Herbarium, London, England.) 
The following paper was in greater part written at Kew, in November 
and December, 1907, while Mr. Merrill was at the Kew Herbarium study- 
ing the types of Philippine plants preserved there, and comparing the 
recently collected material with the rich Philippine collections, and 
the very extensive series of Indo-Malayan and Chinese plants preserved 
at Kew. Through the kindness of Lieutenant-Colonel D. Prain, Direc- 
tor of the Eoyal Gardens, Kew, Mr. E. A. Eolfe, assistant in charge 
of the Philippine collections in the Herbarium, was allowed to assist 
at this work during a part of each day. The Kew Herbarium con- 
tains more than 25,000 specimens of Philippine plants alone, includ- 
ing the duplicate material forwarded by the Bureau of Science, which is 
by far the largest collection of Philippine plants extant, with the excep- 
tion of that of the Bureau of Science. 
A number of species were encountered during the progress of the 
work, which had apparently not been hitherto described, the descriptions 
of many of these being included in the following paper. Various species 
previously described from other regions were found in the material 
examined, and whenever these sjiecies had not been reported from the 
Philippines, they have been included. A certain number of errors were 
met with in the work of the several botanists who have published papers 
on the Philippine flora, and whenever possible, these have been corrected ; 
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