THE PHILIPPINE 
Journal of Science 
C. Botany 
Yol. Ill AUGUST, 1908 No. 4 
ALABASTRA PHILIPPINENSIA, II. 
By C. B. Robinson. 
(From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, 
Manila, P. T . ) . 
During the years 1903-1905, Mr. R. S. Williams made a collection 
aggregating 3,126 numbers of Philippine plants for the New York Bo- 
tanical Garden, where the phanerogams with the exception of certain 
families were placed in my hands for study. Many of the orchids of 
this collection were reported upon by Oakes Ames, and several of them 
became the types of new species. The first paper of the present series 1 
was also devoted to them, and therein some 12 species were described as 
new. 
The localities represented were Lamao, Baguio and vicinity, and Los 
Banos, all in Luzon ; Zamboanga and vicinity, and the country on the 
west coast of the Gulf of Davao and inland to Mount Apo, in Mindanao; 
and a few species came from Jolo. 
Owing to the other large collections made at Lamao and in Benguet, 
the great majority of the species collected at these places have already 
been described, but there still remain a few even from Luzon, while the 
Mindanao plants furnish many novelties. Not all of these are here 
described, as several must await additional collections, especially in the 
case of dioecious species, or those represented by fruiting material only. 
A nearly complete set of duplicates of this collection has been pres- 
ented to the Bureau of Science through the kindness of Dr. N. L. 
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1 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 35 (1908) 63-75. 
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