INTRODUCTION 9 
second editions under binomial or trinomial names, about 1,136. 
Numerous changes in specific names occur, but these are dif- 
ficult to detect except by the tedious comparisons of descriptions, 
as when a name used in the first edition was altered in the 
second one, the fact was not stated; there are no references 
to the first edition. In many cases changes of names were 
purely arbitrary, while others were made in Blanco’s attempt 
to reduce his own species to those of other authors; most such 
changes are erroneous. The numerous typographical errors in 
the second edition are probably due largely to the fact that 
Blanco died before the work was printed, so that proof reading 
devolved on individuals with little botanical knowledge. 
In the second edition four of the generic names proposed 
by Blanco in the first edition were discarded for those of 
other authors, and the following new genera were described, 
all of which fall as synonyms: Elcana [=Cerbera], Legazpia 
[=Torenia], Salgada [=Cryptocarya], Llanosia [=Ternstroe- 
mia], Quirosia [=Crotalaria], and Salceda [=Thea]. Thus of 
the genera proposed and described by Blanco in the two editions 
of his work the only valid ones are Lunasia, Malaisia, and 
Palaquium, with Soala remaining as one of entirely doubtful 
status. 
THE THIRD EDITION OF BLANCO’S FLORA DE FILIPINAS 
The sumptuous third edition of Blanco’s Flora de Filipinas * 
was prepared many years after Blanco’s death and is entirely 
the work of Fathers Celestino Fernandez-Villar and Andrés 
Naves. The Flora de Filipinas is included in the first three 
volumes and, with slight and unimportant changes, is an exact 
reprint of the second edition with the addition of Latin transla- 
tions of Blanco’s descriptions. The authors practically succeeded 
only in extending the contents of Blanco’s compact second edi- 
2 _ *Flora de Filipinas por el P. Fr, Manuel Blanco, Agustino Calzado, 
_ adicionada con el manuscrito inédito del P, Fr. Ignacio Mercado, las obras 
del P. Fr. Antonio Llanos y de un apéndice con todas las nuevas investiga- 
ciones Botdnicas referentes al Archipielago Filipino. Gran Edicion hecha 
& expensas de la Provincia de Agustinos Calzados de Filipinas bajo la 
direccién cientifica y literaria de los PP, Agustinos Calzados Fr. Andrés 
Naves y Fr. Celestino Fernandez-Villar. 1 (1877) XXX + 1-350, index 
I-VI; 2 (1878-79) 1-419, index I-VIII; 3 (1879) 1-271; index I-VI; 4* 
(1880) XVIII + 1-108; 47 (1880) VI + 1-63; 4* (1880-83) IX + 1-875, 
tt. 473. [See Merrill, E. D. The Dates of Publication of the Third Edition © 
of Blanco’s “Flora de Filipinas.” Philip. Journ. Sci. 12 (1917) Bot. 
118-116.Ju 
