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THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 
DEPARTMENT CF AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES 
BUREAU OF SCIENCE 
MANILA 
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE BUREAU 
January 21, 1922, 
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Director, Botanic Gardens 
Singapore, S* S. 
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X was very glad indeed to secure the additional data in your 
letter of January 7 regarding the Brownlowia from Joara ! ^ay. ^-s soon 
as I seoure the results of the comparison from Kew with the Philippine 
material-, I will communicate .vith you again* Curiously, in a large 
shipment of duplicate plants from Par burg*s collection made in 
18SG-89 In various part-a. of the Malay Archipelago, I find an unnamed 
specimen of the same species from Celebes vith the erroneous 
identification The sne si a . so it looks as though the Malay Peninsula 
form were really the 3 ame as B, rie&elii . ttie type of 'thick, was from 
the Moluccas* This would give the range as from Pehang, 5..r awak, 
Sandakan, Mindanao, Celebes, Moluccas, which is not^unexpected 
distribution, in view of the fact that the plant is a littoral species 
and the fruits or seeds are doubtless adapted for dissemination by- 
ocean currents* 
?ery truly yours, 
Elmer D. Merrill 
Director, Bureau of faience. 
EDM 
