84 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
scrobiculata or to the manifestly very closely allied S. purpwreo- 
vaginata Boeckl., or S. multifoliata Boeckl. The distinctions 
between the three species are not clear to me. 
Illustrative specimen from Angat, Bulacan Province, Luzon, 
December, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 680). 
PALMAE 
CORYPHA Linnaeus 
Corypha umbraculifera Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 228; ed. 2 (1845) 160; ed. 
3, 1 (1877) 290, non Linn. =CORYPHA ELATA Roxb. 
Naves considered that Blanco correctly interpreted the Lin- 
nean species, but I have followed Beccari in considering the 
Philippine plant referable to Corypha elata Roxb. The species 
is found throughout the Philippines at low altitudes, in river 
valleys, open grasslands, etc., and is the largest palm found 
in the Archipelago. The leaves are up to 3 m in diameter, 
suborbicular, the segments about 100, extending one-half to two- 
thirds to the base; the very stout petioles are about 3 m long. 
The species flowers at maturity and then dies. The great ter- 
minal inflorescence is conical in shape, up to 7 m high, the lower 
branches up to 3.5 m in length, the upper gradually shorter. 
It is known to the Tagalogs and Visayans as buri or buli and 
to the Ilocanos as silag. 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
October, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 412). 
LIVISTONA R. Brown 
Corypha minor Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 229 (Coripha) (sp. nov.); ed. 2 
(1845) 161 (Coripha); ed. 3, 1 (1877) 290, non Jacg.=LIVISTONA 
BLANCO! Merr. nom. nov. 
Corypha minor Blanco is unmistakably a species of Livistona, 
the palms of this genus being widely known in the Philippines 
as anahao. His description of the leaves is definite in the state- _ 
ment that the petioles were unarmed: “Peciolos sin aguijones.” 
For this reason the reduction of Corypha minor Blanco to — 
Livistona rotundifolia Mart., is inadmissible, the latter, based 
wholly on Saribus Rumph. Herb. Amb. 1: 42, t. 8, having spiny 
petioles. The Philippine species with smooth petioles are Livis- — 
tona merrillii Becc. and L. whitfordii Becc., but Livistona blancot — 
Merr., as here interpreted, differs remarkably from both of 
these in its short leaf-segments and in its much more slender 
petioles. Naves reduced Corypha minor Blanco to Livistona ~ . 
rotundifolia Mart., and in part to L. papwana Becc.; the former 
has spiny petioles, while the latter does not occur in the Phil- 
