RG SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
following the description of Calamus gracilis. Moreover, Blan- 
co’s description applies unmistakably to the present interpreta- 
tion of the species, and not to Calamus ornatus Blume. The 
leafiets are described as: “‘Hojuelas lanceoladas, con tres nervios 
notables, y en los dos laterales una hilera de pelos tiesos en la 
pagina superior y en la inferior una sola hilera de lo mismo.” 
This is a character of Calamus maximus as here interpreted, 
but Calamus ornatus Blume var. philippinensis Becc. is without 
such hairs. 
Illustrative specimen from Bosoboso, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
March, 1915, there known as palasan (Merrill: Species Blanco- 
anae No. 879). 
Calamus gracilis Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 267 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 
186; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 332, non Roxb.=CALAMUS BLANCO! Kunth. 
This species is manifestly very closely allied to Calamus usita- 
tus Blanco (C. mollis Auct., non Blanco), and is perhaps identical 
with it. I have seen no specimen of Cuming 1225, or Loher 
1376, on which Beccari based his conception of Calamus blancot, 
but our Batangas material of talola seems to agree with the 
figure given by Beccari, taken from Cuming 1225, and with the 
description. Cuming’s specimen was from Ilocos Norte Prov- 
ince, Luzon, from his own list of localities. Batangas is the only 
province, so far as our collections and data show, where talola 
is in use as a name for Calamus, and it is apparently generally 
applied to the specific form distributed herewith. The closely 
allied Calamus usitatus Blanco (C. mollis Auct., non Blanco), 
is known in the same locality as talolang lutukan. The striking 
differences are that in talola the leaflets are constantly solitary, — 
while in talolang lutukan, and in very many of our numerous 
specimens of Calamus usitatus some of the leaflets are frequently 
paired on the same side of the rachis. It was erroneously re- 
duced by Naves to Calamus buroensis Mart., a species that does 
not extend to the Philippines. 
Illustrative specimen from Mount Batulao, Batangas Preeines 
Luzon, February, 1915, there known as talola (Merrill: sipncine A 
Blancoanae No. 791). 
DAEMONOROPS Blume 
Calamus mollis Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 264 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 184; 
ed. 3, 1 (1877) 329=DAEMONOROPS MOLLIS a comb. nov. 
(D. gaudichaudit Mart.). a: 
This is one of the commonest rattans at low and caine 
altitudes in Luzon, is abundant in all the provinces contiguous 
to Manila, is universally and rather exclusively known as ditdn, 
