432 MKHIMIvL. 
RUK8ERACK-K (p. :^0). 
Guiacum abilo Blanco ed. 1, 30; Idea ahilo Blanco ed. 2, 256=Garupa tt6i7o 
(Blanco) Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. 35 (1005) 73 ! G. mollis Tnrcz., is a 
synonym, and G. florihunda Dccne., ex descr., a quite different species. 
CHALLETIACE^ (p. 32). 
Riana tricapsularis Blanco ed. 1, 850; ed. 2, 126= Dichnpetalum tricapsulare 
(Blanco) Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. 35 (1895) 35. Apparently a very distinct 
endemic species. 
OLACIXE^ (Icacinaccw). 
PHYTOCRENE Wall. 
Phytocrene blancoi (Azaola) Kadsura hiancoi Azaola in Blanco Fl. Filip. 
ed. 2 (1845) 594; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 118; Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. 27 (1905) 15. 
Schizandra elongata F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 4, non Hook. f. et Th. Phytocrene 
Ivzoniensis H. Baill, in Adansonia 10 (1872) 28, et in DC. Prodr. 17 (1873) 10. 
Gynocephalnm luzoniense Llanos ex Baill. 11. cc. as syn. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal (1661 Uernll) March, 1903; 2439 Xliern's collector) 
January, 1905: Province of Laguna [Alberto) May, 1905. 
Minda:n^ao, Lake Lanao, Camp, Keithley (447 Mrs. Clemens) March, 1906. 
In my treatment of Blanco's species' I considered Kadsura hiancoi as a 
doubtful species, following F.-Villar in treating it as a Magnoliaceous plant. 
However, a careful examination of Blanco^s description shows that the plant 
can not be a Kadsura or a l^chizandra. The description is very imperfect, but 
from the gross characters and the fruit description the species can belong to 
no other genus than Phytocrene "fruto en una cabezuela 6 capftulo que 
contiene m5s de setenta frutos, de tres lados, a manera de los del plfitano, 
musa, apiitados 6 reunidos sobre un receptaculo que pesaba 25 a 30 libras." 
In the one specimen that I have seen in fruit, the heads weighed about 15 
pounds. The locality from which the material came, on which the description 
of Kadsura hiancoi was based, is not given, but the specimens undoubtedly 
came from one of the provinces near Manila, Rizal, Laguna or Bulacan. After 
a careful consideration of the mattei: I do not hesitate to refer the species to 
Phytocrene, adopting Azaola's name as the earliest one for it and reducing 
to it Phytocrene luzoniensis H. Baill. 
A second species of the genus, perhaps Phytocrene macrophylla Blume, is 
represented by material collected near Davao, Mindanao (Nos. 2765, 2995 Wil- 
liams), 
AMPELIDACE.q<: (p. 38). 
Cissus pedata Blanco, ed. 1, 71; ed. 2, 52, non l.djm. = Tetra8tigma lanceo- 
larium (Roxb.) Planch. ! Blanco's description is entirely too short and imperfect 
to warrant the above identification from the description alone, but the Tagalog 
name Ayo, cited by him, is almost universally and quite consistently applied to 
Planchon's species which is common in the Philippines, 
"Publications of the Bureau of Government Laboratories, Manila, (1005), 
No. 27, 15. 
