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MERRILL. 
STENOM ERIS Planch. 
Stenomeris dioscoreagfolia Planch, in Ann. Sc. Nat. Ill, 18 (1852) 320. 
In an old clearing at 700 m. alt. (No. 5775). 
Endemic to the Philippines. 
IRIDACE2E. 
PATERSONIA R. Br. 
Patersonia lowii Stapf. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. II. 4 (1894) 241. pi. 20. 
f. 7-9. 
Open heaths at 2,400 m. alt. (No. 5507). Common, but very few specimens in 
flower in November. 
Borneo. 
The above is the first indigenous representative of this family to be found in 
the Philippines, several genera of the Iridacece being credited to the Philippines 
by F.-Villar and other authors, but all based on introduced and cultivated species. 
Patersonia lowii has previously been known only from Mount Kinabalu, North 
Borneo, its occurrence in the Philippines being an addition to the comparatively 
small Bornean element already known in the Archipelago. 
ZINGIBERACE2E. 
ALPINIA Linn. 
Alpinia brevilabris Presl Rel. Haenk. 1 (1830) 110. t. 17. 
In forests at 2,000 m. alt, (No. 4458 Merritt) June, 1906. 
Widely distributed in the Philippines. Endemic. 
Alpinia sp. near A. parviftora Rolfe. 
In forests at 900 m. alt. (No. 4361 Merritt) June, 1906. 
Material too imperfect and scanty for accurate identification. 
MARANTACE2E. 
PHACELOPHRYNUM Iv. Sch. 
Phacelophrynum bracteosum (Warb.) K. Sch. in Engl. Pflanzenreicli. 11 
(1902) 123. 
In forests along the Alag River at 100 m. alt. (No. 6132). 
Widely distributed in the Philippines, endemic. 
BURMANNIA CE2E. 
BURMANNIA Linn. 
Burmannia longifolia Becc. Malesia T (1878) 244; Rendle in Journ. Bot. 
34 (1896) 355. 
Terrestrial in the very mossy ridge forests 1,300 to 1,900 in. alt. (No. 5741). 
Previously collected on “Dulangao,” or more correctly “Dulangan,” a spur of 
Mount Halcon, by Whitehead, and reported by Rendle, 1. c. 
Malayan Peninsula and Borneo. 
Burmannia sp. near B. dementis Schltr. 
In dense forests at 900 m. alt, (No. 5598). The third species of the genus to 
be found in the Philippines. 
