INDEX TO PHILIPPINE BOTANICAL LITERATURE, III. 
By Elmer D. Merrill. 
(From the botanical section, Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, 
Manila, P. I.) 
Berkeley, M. J. Contributions to the Botany of H. M. S. Challenger, XXXVIII, 
Enumeration of the Fungi collected during the Expedition of H. M. S. Chal- 
lenger, 1874-75. (Journ Linn. Soc. Bot. 1 6 (1878) pp. 38-54.) 
On pages 45 to 48, thirty-five species and varieties of Philippine fungi are 
enumerated from “Camiguin, Malanipa and Malamon (Philippines).” Sev- 
eral species of fungi are described as new. 
Britton, N. L. Botanical Exploration of the Philippines. (Journ. N. Y. Bot. 
Card. 5 (1904) pp. 40-41.) 
A short account of R. S. Williams’ collecting trip in the Philippines. 
Conard, Henry S. The Waterlilies, a Monograph of the Genus Nymphaea. ( Car- 
negie Inst. Publ. 4 (1905) pp. 1-279.) 
In the genus Nymphaea 34 species are recognized, two of which are 
credited to the Philippines, Nymphaea pubescens Willd. (N. lotus Linn., 
in part and Philippine authors ), British India to the Philippines, Java and 
Australia, and N. stellata Willd., south and southeast Asia, the Philippines, 
Java and Borneo. 
Engler, A. Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Araceae, X. (Engl. Bot. Jahrb. 3 
(1900) pp. 110-143.) 
The following Philippine species are described: Rhaphidophora perkin- 
siae, R. copelandii, B. merrillii, R. warburgii; Aglaonema densinervium, A. 
latifolium, and Alocasia culionensis, while Epipremnum mirable Schott., is 
credited to the Archipelago. 
Haviland, G. D. A Revision of the Tribe Naucleeae (Nat. Ord. Rubiaceae). 
(Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 33 (1897) pp. 1-94, plates 4.) 
Seven genera are recognized of which five are represented in the Phil- 
ippines by the following species: Sarcocephalus cordatus Miq., India to 
Australia, S. glaberrimus Miq., Celebes and Philippines, S. junghuhnii 
Miq., Malaya; Adina multifolia n. sp., endemic; Nauclea gracilis Vid., 
endemic, N. philippinensis (Vid.) Hav., endemic, N. strigosa Korth., Borneo, 
Philippines, N. nitida n. sp., endemic, N. media n. sp., endemic, N. forsterii 
Seem., Philippines to Samoa, N. purpurascens Korth., Java, Borneo, Celebes, 
N. bartlingii DC., endemic, N. reticulata n. sp., endemic; Mitragyna 
speciosa Korth., Borneo and New Guinea, M. diversifolia (Wall.) Hav., 
India to Malaya; Uncaria pedicellata Roxb., India to New Guinea, U. 
insignis DC., Borneo, U. velutina Hav., endemic, U. setiloba Benth., Amboina 
and U. hookeri Vid., Borneo. 
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