26 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
were reduced to those described by other authors, but fifty-five 
of the sixty-eight reductions are erroneous. Llanos, however, 
realized the importance of preserving botanical material, which 
his predecessor, Blanco, and his immediate successors, Fernan- 
dez-Villar and Naves, failed to appreciate. He prepared and 
sent botanical specimens representing at least some of his species 
to the de Candolle Herbarium at Geneva, Switzerland, and 
to the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle at Paris, France, where 
they are still preserved. In his method of work he also showed 
superiority over his colleagues in the Philippines in that he cor- — 
responded with various European botanists. 
FERNANDEZ-VILLAR AND NAVES 
The work of Fernandez-Villar and Naves in interpreting 
Blanco’s species is fully treated under the Novissima Appendix, 
page 14. 
MERRILL 
In organizing the botanical work for the Philippine Govern- — i 
ment in 1902 it soon became apparent that a special effort must 
be made to locate and to determine the status of as many of 
Blanco’s species as possible. Preliminary work on the subject © : 
at once showed that the reductions proposed by Fernandez- 
Villar and Naves were very inaccurate. Accordingly, utilizing 
the work of Fernandez-Villar and Naves as a basis, work was 
commenced in 1903 in compiling data regarding Blanco’s species, 
and this work was completed the following year and published 
in April, 1905.*° 
Fernandez-Villar and Naves placed to their entire satisfaction 
all but about ten or twelve of the species described by Blanco, 
but an elementary knowledge of the Philippine flora showed — 
at once that a high percentage of their reductions was wrong, 
as in numerous cases Blanco’s species were reduced to those 
of other authors that were not known to occur in the Archi- — 
pelago. My work was compiled when my knowledge of the Phil- 
ippine Flora was exceedingly limited, when the local herbarium, 
the preparation of which was commenced in 1902, contained 
but a few thousand specimens, and when the library facilities 
available in Manila were very inadequate. . 
The species were arranged in the Bentham and Hooker se- 
quence of families, under each Blancoan species being given 
‘the references to the first and second editions, the native names 
” Merrill, E. D. A Review of the Identifications of the Species described 
in Blanco’s Flora de Filipinas. Govt. Lab. Publ. [Philip.] 27 (1905) 1-182. 
