ON THE IDENTITY OF EVODIA TRIPHYLLA. 
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son had an opportunity of examining Lamarck's type, the Phil- 
ippine plant collected by Sonnerat, in the Herbarium of the Paris 
Museum of Natural History. He has supplied me with a carbon 
rubbing showing form and venation of characteristic leaves of 
the type, and with the following note "All Philippine numbers 
here are determined as Evodia triphylla Lam. : there is no doubt 
about the correctness of the determinations, Gaudichaud 255, 
Barthe s. n,, Cuming 1819, Loher 199, and the type." The leaf- 
form and venation of the type, as shown by the carbon rubbing 
made by Doctor Robinson, is quite the same as in our abundant 
material of Melicope luzonensis Engl. There is, hence, no doubt 
but that Fagara triphylla LB,m.^Evodia triphylla DC, is really 
a species of Melicope, that, so far as is known, is confined to 
the Philippine Islands. The synonymy of the Philippine plant, 
as well as of the Asiatic forms referred to DeCandolle*s species 
by various authors, through error, needs adjustment. 
Chamisso ^ considered the species under Zanthoxylum refer- 
ring to it a Philippine plant collected by himself, but arbitrarily 
changed the name to Zanthoxylum lamarkianum, Blanco * a 
little later described the same form as Fagara octaiidra (non 
Linn.). Champion ^ referred Cuming 1819 to his Zanthoxylum 
pteleaefolium, that species being based in part on Cuming's 
specimen. Bentham ^^ later reduced this, together with Fagara 
triphylla Lam., to his Evodia lanfiarckiana, the latter name 
being a transfer of Chamisso's Zanthoxylum lamarkianum, 
Vidal and Fernandez-Villar referred the Philippine material to 
the correct genus, but to the wrong species, Melicope ternata 
Forst. Recently Engler^^ has redescribed the species as Meli- 
cope luzonensis, while the most recent description is that given 
by Mr, Elmer'" as Melicope odorata. I can see no valid reason 
for distinguishing the latter species. 
The full synonymy of the Philippine form is given below: 
MELICOPE TRIPHYLLA (Lam.) comb. nov. 
Fagara triphylla Lam. Encycl. 2 (1788) 447. 
Evodia triphylla DC. Prodr. 1 (1824) 724; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 1 
(1875) 448 p.p., quoad Philip.; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 34; 
Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1886) 100, Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. 
(1886) 74. 
' Linnaea 5 (1830) 58. 
•Fl. Filip. (1837) 67, ed. 2 (1845) 48. 
•Bentham in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. 3 (1851) 330. 
Fl. Hongk. (1861) 59. 
Perk. Frag. FL Philip. (1905) 161. 
Leafl. Philip. Bot. 2 (1908) 476. 
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