438 MERRILL. 
Hose, Bishop. A Catalogue of the Ferns of Borneo and some of the adjacent 
islands which have been recorded up to the present time. (Journ. Straits 
Branch R. A. Soc. 32 (1899) pp. 31-84.) 
In this paper 430 species are enumerated, many of which extend to the 
Philippines. 
Loher, A. Lophopetalum toxieum Loher. {Icon. Bogor. 1 (1897) pp. 56-67, 
plate 16.) 
Lophopetalum toxieum , from Luzon, figured and described, with a note 
regarding the use of its bafk by the Negritos as a source of arrow poison. 
Massee, George. Fungi Exotici, II, Philippine Islands. (Kew Bull. (1899) 
p. 176.) 
Nine species of fungi are recorded from Loher’s Philippine collections, 
of which one, Favolus purpureus, is described as new. 
Masters, Maxwell T. A General View of the Genus Pinus. (Journ. Linn. Soc. 
Bot. 35 (1904) pp. 560-659, plates 4.) 
In this paper 73 species are considered, two of which are Philippine, 
Pinus insularis Endl., endemic, and P. merkusii Jungli. et DeVr., Luzon, 
Sumatra, Borneo and ( ?) the Shan States. 
Pearson, H. H. W. On some Species of Dischidia with Double Pitchers. (Journ. 
Linn. Soc. Bot. 35 (1902) pp. 375-390 with one plate.) 
On page 377 Dischidia , pectenoides Pearson, is described from Luzon. 
Rehder, Alfred. Synopsis of the Genus Lonicera. (Bept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 14 
(1903) pp. 27-232, plates 20.) 
Of this genus, 150 species, with many .varieties and forms, are recognized, 
none of which, however, occur in the Philippines. Since the publication 
of the work, however, one or two species of Lonicera have been found in 
northern Luzon. 
Ridley, H. N. New or little known Malayan Plants. (Journ. Straits Branch 
R. A. Soc. 44 (1905) pp. 189-211.) 
Many species are described from different parts of the Malayan Peninsula, 
Borneo, etc., including one from the Philippines, Calamus lindeni Hort., 
page 200, based on a specimen from the Philippines cultivated in the 
Botanic Gardens, Singapore. On page 199 Joinvillea malayana is also 
described from material collected in Perak, Selangor and Sarawak, also 
being found in Palawan. (See Merrill in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) 
Suppl. 181.) In the same work two other papers by the same author are 
published, both bearing more or less on Philippine botany, “The Gesneracea; 
of the Malay Peninsula” 43 (1905) pp. 1-92, and “The Aroids of Borneo” 
44 (1905) pp. 169-188. 
Ridley, H. N. The Flora of Singapore. (Journ. Straits Branch R. A. Soc. 33 
(1900) pp. 27-196.) 
An enumeration of all the flowering plants and vascular cryptogams known 
to occur on the Island of Singapore, over 1,900 species being recorded from 
an area of a little over 200 square miles. Many of the species enumerated 
extend to the Philippines. 
Ridley, H. N. Grasses and Sedges of Borneo. (Journ. Straits Branch R. A. Soc. 
46 (1906) pp. 215-228.) 
An enumeration of the Cyperacecc and Graminece in recent Bornean collec- 
tions, 87 species of grasses and 99 species of sedges being enumerated, both 
numbers much smaller than in the corresponding groups in the Philippines. 
Many of the species enumerated extend to the Philippines. 
