Two new variants ofIlex (Aquifoliaceae) from Eastern Asia and the Philippines

1980 ◽  
Vol 91 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 577-579
Author(s):  
T. R. Dudley
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Eastern Asia

Systematics of Hymenophyllum subgenus Mecodium (Hymenophyllaceae) in Taiwan

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 753-767
Author(s):  
Tian-Chuan Hsu ◽  
Yu-Fang Huang ◽  
Yi-Shan Chao
Keyword(s):  
Phylogenetic Relationships ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Common Element ◽  
Morphological Investigation ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
The Status ◽  
Molecular Phylogenetic ◽  
A New Species ◽  
Independent Species

Abstract—Hymenophyllum subg. Mecodium, composed of the taxonomically notorious H. polyanthos and approximately 15 other closely related taxa, is a common element of filmy fern communities in the tropical and subtropical moist forests. In Taiwan, although only H. polyanthos and one or two closely related taxa were recognized in recent studies, considerable morphological variation has been observed among populations throughout the island. Thus, we conducted an extensive morphological investigation, as well as a molecular phylogenetic analysis, to clarify the specific diversity and phylogenetic relationships within Hymenophyllum subg. Mecodium in Taiwan. Field and herbaria surveys helped in recognizing five morphs in Taiwan, mainly differentiated by the combination of certain traits, viz., the presence or absence of stipe wings, general frond size and shape, degree of laminar crispation, sori position, and involucre shape. The different morphs had diverse ecological preferences. The phylogenetic tree, inferred from the sequences of the plastid loci rbcL and rps4-trnS, demonstrated that Hymenophyllum subg. Mecodium materials in Taiwan comprise several well-supported lineages, mostly corresponding to the classification based on morphology. Comparing with the protologues and type specimens of 34 related scientific names, the five morphs are herein recognized as five independent species. A new species, Hymenophyllum exquisitum, is described here. Also, the status of H. paniculiflorum is reconfirmed and that of H. fujisanense, H. parallelocarpum, and H. punctisorum reinstated. Only H. exquisitum and H. parallelocarpum are endemic to Taiwan among all the species studied. In addition, the names Hymenophyllum blumeanum, H. integrum, H. microsorum, H. polyanthos, H. tenellum, and H. wrightii are now excluded from the regional flora, and several related taxa from China, Taiwan, and the Philippines are treated as synonyms. This study unravels the deep phylogenetic relationships within Hymenophyllum subg. Mecodium in Taiwan and Eastern Asia.

Awarded with Eternity: Specifics of the Burial Practices in the Ancient Cultures of the Pacific Region at the Turn of the Eras

2018 ◽  
pp. 34-47
Author(s):  
Андрей Табарев ◽  
Andrey Tabarev
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
Tropical Zone ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
Western Mexico ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Japanese Archipelago ◽  
Similar Formation

The paper deals with various aspects of the complex academic issue of studying the culture genesis in the Pacific Region based on the archeological data. Periods of strong cultural surges, milestones in the development of technologies and economy, crucial events in economy and social domain are of acute interest within the scope of the outlined problem. Such periods include the era turn (the 2nd century BC – 3–4th centuries AD), i. e. “The time of great leaders and stone tombs”. The research focuses on two regions – the southern part of the Japanese Archipelago (Kyushu, Ryukyu and Okinawa islands) and the tropical zone of the Pacific coast of America (from Western Mexico to the northern Chile) – and to individual parts of the South-Eastern Asia (the Philippines, Indonesia). The findings obtained in the course of the research confirm the hypothesis about similar formation scenarios of the tribal elite and accompanying components of architecture, arts and commerce in objects of “prestigious technologies” in the ancient cultures of the tropical and subtropical zones of the Pacific Region.

scholarly journals ISOLATION OF ASP TOXIN-PRODUCING NITZSCHIA FROM THAILAND

2008 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. L.J. Romero ◽  
T. Lirdwitayaprasit ◽  
Y. Kotaki ◽  
N. Lundholm ◽  
J. Relox Jr. ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Positive Result ◽  
Toxin Production ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Eastern Asia

Nitzschia navis-varingica is recognized as the major ASP toxin producer other than Pseudo-nitzschia species. Surveys on the distribution and the toxin production of this diatom has been conducted in a few countries in eastern Asia and expanded to Thailand. Eighteen isolates from Thailand showed the positive result for the ASP toxin production is DA and IB, although the ratio of IB was much lower than those of the isolates from southern countries including Okinawa, Japan, the Philippines and Vietnam.

The New Philippine Government

1919 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 415-428
Author(s):  
Maximo M. Kalaw
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
American Government ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
European Colonization ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
Philippine Government ◽  
Colonial Government ◽  
Far Eastern ◽  
First Time

When the American government decided for the first time to try the experiment of colonial government in the Philippine Islands, they had no light to guide them save the experience of other European nations which had colonies in Far Eastern Asia. Ignorant of Philippine conditions, the American statesmen at first thought that the problem of governing the Islands was similar to the task of the European powers in governing our neighbors, Java, the Malay States, and India. Their first idea was, therefore, to study the colonial systems of these countries. One of the first public documents printed by the American Congress, in 1899, accompanying the Treaty of Paris, was devoted to the study of the colonial systems of the Orient with a view to their application in the Philippines. But upon a closer observation of Philippine conditions they found that the principles of European colonization would not work in the Islands, not only because American aims were more altruistic but because political conditions were entirely different. Roughly, colonial government in the neighboring countries is based on the existence of native rulers, rajahs or princes, whose authority has been for centuries recognized by the natives themselves. Apparently and ceremoniously the native princes still rule, but in reality it is their respective European “advisers” or “resident-generals” who are the actual rulers. Instead of establishing a new form of government, abolishing the rajahs and native rulers, the Dutch and the English simply improved the native institutions, using these same rulers as instrumentalities through which to impose their own governments.

The Future of Western Dependencies in South Eastern Asia and the Pacific

1943 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 909-919
Author(s):  
Lennox A. Mills
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Future ◽  
Peace Settlement ◽  
Divergent Development ◽  
Set Up

The future of South Eastern Asia and the Philippines is one of the most complicated problems with which the peace settlement will have to grapple. There is a certain broad similarity between the countries concerned which is likely to be a trap for the unwary. It seems so simple to set up free and democratic governments, to equip and train citizen armies to defend their independence, and to raise the standard of living. It also seems reasonable to assume that if the 145,000,000 people of South Eastern Asia and the Philippines could be federated, their combined resources would go a long way towards enabling them to maintain their independence.Unfortunately, deep-seated differences based on race, religion, and history are the dominating influences, and overshadow the similarities of strategic and economic weakness and lack of independence. Disunion bids fair to increase as a result of the nationalism which is beginning to appear. The Burmese regard themselves as a master race, and have an inflated sense of their own power and superiority because of their former conquests in Thailand and Assam. The Thais have something of the same feelings towards the Malays and the Cambodians of Indo-China. One reason why the Malays asked the British to establish a protectorate over the peninsula was to safeguard their independence against Thai ambitions. This fear and hostility have been strengthened by Thai annexation in 1943 of four of the nine Malay States, and a claim to most of the others. The Malays, Indonesians, and Filipinos come from the same racial stock, but so far as the latter are concerned, centuries of divergent development have made the differences more important than the similarity in racial characteristics which is noticeable among the three peoples.

Migrations and the Settlement of Mindanao

1965 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick L. Wernstedt ◽  
Paul D. Simkins
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Natural Increase ◽  
Asian Countries ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Present Rate ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Land Pressure

One of the more serious obstacles to economic progress and human betterment in many of the less developed countries is the dense settlement of the present cultivated land, coupled with a rapidly increasing population. In much of southern and eastern Asia where most of the good land has been occupied by relatively dense agricultural populations for centuries and where rapidly declining mortality has sharply increased the rate of population growth, heavy land pressure is both chronic and acute. A rapidly increasing population is particularly characteristic of the Philippines where crude birth rates have remained more or less stable at about 50 per thousand since 1900 and where death rates have dropped progressively and are now about 20 per thousand. The present rate of natural increase, approximately three per cent per year, is not only higher than in most Asian countries, but is also higher than in most countries of the world. If this rate of population growth continues unabated, and the evidence suggests that it is more likely to accelerate rather than diminish in the near future, the population of the Philippines will double well before the end of the present century.

scholarly journals Unknown Suns: Laszlo Hudec, Antonin Raymond and the Rising of a Modern Architecture for Eastern Asia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anamaria Andreea Anghel ◽  
Joseph Cabeza-Lainez ◽  
YingYing Xu
Keyword(s):  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Modern Architecture ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
Syntactic Approach ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Surprising Fact ◽  
Japan And China

The purpose of this article is to disclose the strenuous efforts of Laszlo Hudec in China and Antonin Raymond in Japan and India to create a modern architectural stance by heralding an incipient space syntax. In the turn of the 19th Century, for dynastic, politic and economic reasons, Eastern Asia had very little modern Architecture. It is a surprising fact that, out of happenstance, two European architects Antonin Raymond and Laszlo Hudec, had to intervene to remedy this situation, to the point of becoming 20th Century icons in Japan and China. Their fruitful careers spanned over thirty years and included locations, like Tamil Nadu or the Philippines. The Oriental territories were not an easy ground for the bold architectural achievements that they produced. Despite of faraway strangeness and uncountable personal losses, in revolutions and wars, which eventually forced them both to leave for the United States of America and never to return, they were successful in the manner of establishing a broad avenue for Modern Asian Architecture which is still recognisable today thanks to their systematic approach. However, theirs is an endangered heritage and the intention of this article is to be a just remembrance of in which way such actions could be performed, how they predated by many years a syntactic approach to architectural composition and why their legacy should be preserved.

A new species of Gastrochilus (Aeridinae, Vandeae, Orchidaceae) and a new record species from Yunnan, China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 282 (1) ◽  
pp. 66 ◽  
Author(s):  
QIANG LIU ◽  
YUN-HONG TAN ◽  
JIANG-YUN GAO
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Diversity ◽  
New Record ◽  
Field Investigation ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Other ◽  
Eastern Asia ◽  
New Record Species ◽  
Small Genus ◽  
A New Species

Although Gastrochilus Don (1825:32) is a small genus, its generic and interspecific relationships are still not well understood (Seidenfaden1988, Tsi 1996, Pridgeon et al. 2014, Zou et al. 2015). It comprises 64 species collectively distributed from China, India and Sri Lanka through eastern Asia and southern Japan to Indonesia and the Philippines (Kumar et al. 2014, Govaerts et al. 2015, Raskoti 2016). China is the centre of species diversity for the genus, which contains 39 species, 19 of which are believed to be endemic (Tsi 1999, Chen et al. 2009, Yi et al. 2012, Kumar et al. 2014). During our field investigation in southeastern Yunnan, two unusual species of this genus were discovered. After undertaking a comprehensive literature and herbarium review, these two species were identified as G. sect. Gastrochilus Don (1825: 32), which is characterized by stout stem with large cauline leaves. One is a new record for China, and the other is the new species.

Disaster Medicine Training in the Philippines

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (S2) ◽  
pp. S27
Author(s):  
Teodoro Javier Herbosa
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
Disaster Medicine
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