Excerpt from Fragmenta Florae Philippinae Contributions to the Flora of the Philippine Islands
With this pamphlet I purpose to begin a series of publications which will be devoted to the investigation of our Asiatic colonial Flora.
Up to this time, many different nations, English, French, Dutch and above all the Spanish, (to mention only the names of Blanco, Villar and Vidal.), have taken part in the investigations of the flora of the Philippines.
Now that these in many respects little known Islands, have come into the possession of the United States, it will be an honorable task for the American botanists to devote their energies to the plant world of the Philippines.
Realizing the importance of the theme. I have undertaken to work up the old and new collections belonging to the Berlin Museum.
Prof. Wardurg has permitted me the use of his extensive and extremely valuable Philippine material, which collection, with the duplicates of the plants that Mr. Merrill. and Capt Ahern have been so assiduously collecting iu the Philippines, and have sent to the Berlin Museum, has formed the most important foundation for my publication. In order to secure a reliable starting-point for all determinations, it is absolutely necessary to compare the plants with the types contained in the European herbaria.
The work of the Spanish botanists, which was carried on with a diligence deserving of great praise, failed in many cases of the expected results, because they were not in a position to study the originals of the early established species.
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