690 ROBINSON. 



Cuming 1012: Province of Rizal, Antipolo, Merrill 1A.II ; Bosoboso, For. Bur. 

 2969 Ahern's collector; Monfalban, Merrill 5069, For. Bur. 2 ','>'/ A hern's collector. 

 MixnoRO, liaen. Merrill tl81. Leyte, Palo, Elmer 7101. Mindanao, District of 

 Davao, Davao, Copeland $. n. 



Tliis species is mentioned by Giirke in the Pflanzenfamilien as belonging to 

 the section Myxa; it has, however, the calyx strongly 10-ribbed, quite as it is in 

 American species belonging io the sections (Icrascanthus and Pilicordia, and as 

 the corolla does not persist beyond flowering time, it is to be included in the 

 latter. All species recorded as belonging to either of the two last sections are 

 tropical American, all those of Pilicordia being Brazilian, and this is apparently 

 a case of remarkable geographical distribution. 



The types of C. cumingiana and C. propintjua are not identical, but subsequent 

 collections have united the two series. The Mindanao and Leyte specimens have 

 leaves with acute bases, and thicker styles, one of the Montalban numbers has 

 the acute bases but the slender styles found in all the rest. 



Local name, Anonang lalaqui, Mindoro. 



Endemic. 



SPECIES EXCLUSA. 



Cordia olitorea Blanco PI. Filip. (1837) 123. 



Certainly to be excluded from the family; reduced by F.-Yillar to Pisonia 

 inermi.t Korst. (Nyctaginiaccae) . 



2. EHRETIA Linn. 

 Styles single, bifid. 



Leaves serrate ]. F. acuminata 



Leaves entire. 



( alyx increasing in fruit, fruit 4-0 mm diameter, corolla-tube 4 to o' mm 



long 2. E. navesii 



Calyx not increasing in fruit, fruit smaller, corolla-tube shorter. 



3. E. philippinensis 

 Styles two, undivided, more rarely single and deeply parted 4. E. microphylla 



1. Ehretia acuminata P. Br. Prodr. (1810) 497. 



/•;. polyantha DC. Prodr. 9 (1845) 503. 



A.", rirgata Blanco PI, Filip. (1837) 127. mm S\v. Prodr. (1788) 47. 



E. onava, DC. 1. c. 511. 



Luzon, Province of Cagayan, San Vicente, For. Bur. 11898 hlcmme: Province 

 of Nueva Ecija, near San Jose, For. Bur. 8Jfi9 Curran: Province of Zambales, 

 between Castillejos and Aglao, For. Bur. 58.'i8 Curran: Cabunan, For. Bur. 6988 

 Curran: Province of Kizal, San Mateo. For. Bur. 11-11 Ahern't collector; Bosoboso, 

 Merrill 1846, 185t } I aytilabag, Bur. Sci. 21 Fomoortkyj Antipole Merrill 1679, 

 Fur. Bur. }58 Ahern's collector. 



Although both Naves and F.-Villar agreed in interpreting Blanco's species 

 quite differently, there can be no doubt that it and therefore E. onava, which was 

 based on it, should be reduced to E. polyantha. The latter is clearly synonymous 

 Willi B. acuminata, although, in that species, the corolla-1 ube is said to be very 

 short, and its lobes ,'{ mm long, in Philippine material the tube is nearly 1 mm, 

 and the lobes rarely 2.5 mm, the leaves also varying from elliptic-oblong, as 

 described for F. acuminata, almost to orbicular. 



Local names, opa, Cagayan; balagla, Nueva Ecija; calibinung, baliuit. Zam- 

 bales; tanaua, panau, malaanonag, cnnaira. Hizal. The names from near Manila 



suggest Blanco's onava. 



Himalayas to Japan and Australia. 



