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MERRILL. 
CYPERACE2E. 
MAPANIA Aubl. 
Mapania macrocephala (Gaudich.) K. Sch. ex Warb. in Bot. Jahrb. 13 
(1891) 265. Hypolytrum macrocephalum Gaudich. In Freyc. Voy. Bot. (1826) 
414. Lepironia macrocephala Miq. 111. (1871) 64. pi. 27. 
Balut Island (5409 Merrill) October 8, 1906. In wet forests at 700 m. alt. 
Moluccas and the Bismarck Archipelago. ■ 
Mapania kurzii C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 6 (1904) 681. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, Atimonan (4001 Merrill) March, 1905. In 
forested ravines. 
Malayan Peninsula. 
This species was so identified by the late C. B. Clarke, but omitted from 
his list of Philippine Cyperaceae. 2 Mr. Clarke observes that the specimen 
might be the closely allied M. multispicata, but it agrees well with No. 11476 
Ridley from Singapore, determined by Clarke as M. kurzii, and also with the 
description of that species. 
SCIRPODENDRON Kurz. 
Scirpodendron costatum Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 38 2 (1869) 85; 
Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 6 (1894) 684. 
Palawan, San Antonio Bay (5257 Merrill) October 17, 1906. Forming dense 
thickets along a small stream at about 10 m. above sea level. The genus new 
to the Philippines. 
Ceylon, Malayan Peninsula, Java, Australia and Samoa. 
ARACE2E. 
CYRTOSPERMA Griff. 
Cyrtosperma griffithii (Hassle.) Schott, in Oest. Bot. Woclienbl. (1857) 61; 
Engler in DC. Monog. Phan. 2 (1879) 271. Lasia merkusii Hassk. Cat. Bog. 
(1844) 59; PI. Jav. Rar. (1848) 161; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 3 (1855) 177. 
Mindoko, Bulalacao (B. S. 1515 Bermejos) September, 1906. Samar, Boron- 
gan (5218 Merrill) October, 1906. 
Java, Borneo and the Fiji Islands. 
This species is rather abundant in the Visayan Islands and was observed 
by the author at several localities on the east coasts of Samar and Mindanao in 
October, 1906. It is extensively cultivated in some places, notably Borongan, 
and probably does not occur strictly wild in the Philippines. At Borongan 
and other places where it was observed it was grown in ravines in coconut groves, 
the petioles often being 8 feet in length and 3 to 4 inches in diameter and the 
leaf-blades 5 feet in length. The genus is new to the Philippines. 
M AGN OLI ACE2E. 
KADSURA Kaempfer. 
Kadsura scandens Blume FI. Jav. Schizandreae (1836) 9 t. 1; Miq. FI. Ind. 
Bat. I 2 (1859) 19; King in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 58 2 (1889) 375; Ann. Bot. 
Gard. Calcutta 3 (1891) 221. pi. 71. Sarcocarpon scandens Blume Bijdr. 
(.1825) 21. 
2 This Journal, Bot. Sec. C. (1907), 2, 109. 
