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C. curag Blanco and G. meyenicunus Schauer are considered as doubtful, 
imperfectly known or unrecognizable species. All the species enumerated 
from the Philippines are endemic to the Archipelago. 
Brand, A. Symplocaceae. (Das Pflanzenreioh, 6 (1901) pp. 1-100.) 
A single genus, Symplocos, is recognized, containing 281 species, of which 
the following are credited to the Philippines: Symplocos patens Presl, 8. 
patens var. ciliata (Presl) Brand, 8. ftoridissima Brand, 8. polyandra 
(Blanco ?), Brand 8. ferruginea Roxb., 8. oblongifolia (Presl) Vidal, 8. 
cumingiana Brand, and 8. luzoniensis Rolfe, all endemic with the exception 
of 8. ferruginea. (See also Brand in Perkins Frag. FI. Philip, pp. 36-37.) 
Brotherus, V. F. Contributions to the Bryological Flora of the Philippines, I. 
(Ofversigt af Finslca Vetenslcaps-Societetens Forhcmdlmgar (1904-05) 47, 
No. 14, pp. 1-12.) 
Forty species of Philippine mosses are enumerated, mostly from the collec- 
tions of Merrill, Copeland and Elmer. The following species are described 
as new: Dicranoloma perarmatum, Macromitrium merrillii, Orthomnium lo- 
heri, Entodon longidens, 8ematophyllum piliferum and Hypnodendron cope- 
landii. 
Buchenau, Fr. Alismataceae. (Das Pflcmzenreich 16 (1903) pp. 1-66.) 
No species of the family is credited to the Philippines, but since the 
publication of the monograph the widely distributed Sagittaria sagittifolia 
L., has been found in Mindanao. The other two families considered by 
Buchenau in the same work, Scheuchzeriaceae and Butomaceae, are not 
represented in the Philippines. 
Buchenau, Fr. Juncaceae. (Das Pflanzenreioh 25 (1906) pp. 1-284.) 
No species of the family is credited to the Philippines, but the widely 
distributed J uncus effusus L., is found on the mountains of Luzon and 
Mindanao, and at least one other species of the genus is found in northern 
Luzon. 
Christ, H. Zur Farnflora von Celebes. (Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. II. 4 (1904) 
pp. 33-44.) 
Forty-nine species are enumerated, many of which extend to the Philip- 
pines. 
Christ, H. Filices Borneenses. Fougeres receuillies par les expeditions des 
Messieurs Nieuwenhuis et Hallier dans la partie equatoriale de Borneo. 
(Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. II. 5 (1905) pp. 92-140, plates 1.) 
An enumeration of 155 species, many of which are described as new, with 
numerous references to species extending to the Philippines. 
Christ, H. Filices Insularum Philippinarum. (Bull. Herb. Boiss. 6 (1898) pp. 
127-154; 189-210, plates 3.) 
Two hundred and seventy-one species of ferns and fern allies are enumer- 
ated, the list being based on the collections made by A. Loher. A number 
of species are credited to the Philippines for the first time and the following 
described as new: Alsophila lepifera J. Sm., var. congesta, A. fuliginosa; 
Hymenophyllum subdemissum and H. discosum; Lindsaya loheriana and L. 
capillacea ; Lomaria fraseri Cunn., var. philippinensis ; Plagiogyria glauca 
Kunze var. philippinensis j Asplenium loherianum, A. contiguum Kaulf., var. 
bipinnatifldum ; Athyrium sarasinorum Christ, var. philippinense ■ Aspidium 
loherianum, A. grammitoides, A. fauriei Christ var. elatius; Polypodium 
loherianum, P. subobliquatum, P. sagitta, P. anomalum, P. lagunense ; and 
Angiopteris cartilagidens. 
