90 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
Cocos mamillaris Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 722 (mammilaris (sp. nov.) ; 
ed. 2 (1845) 499 (mamilaris) ; ed. 3, 3 (1897) 123=COCOS NUCIFERA 
Linn., var. 
Blanco’s species was reduced by Naves to Cocos nucifera Linn. 
var. lansiformis Mig. without sufficient reason. The palm is 
much smaller than the usual form of Cocos nucifera, the trunk 
much more slender, a little larger than that of Areca catechu, 
flowering freely when less than a meter high, and the fruits 
are very much smaller, as indicated by Blanco. 
Illustrative specimen from Nagcarlan, Laguna Province, Lu- 
zon, March, 1915 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 858). 
NIPA (Nypa) Wurmb ar 
Nipa litoralis Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 662 (sp. nov.) =NIPA FRUTICANS 
Wurmb; Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 461; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 68, t. 386. 
The form proposed by Blanco as a new species, Nipa litoralis, 
was correctly reduced by him in the second edition of the Flora 
de Filipinas to N. fruticans Wurmb. The species is found along 
tidal streams, within the influence of salt or brackish water, 
throughout the Philippines, and is locally of great economic 
importance, its leaves being used to thatch houses, the sap se- 
cured from the peduncles of the pistillate inflorescences being one 
of the chief sources of the alcohol distilled in the Archipelago. 
Illustrative specimen from Malabon, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
September, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 420). 
ARACEAE 
POTHOS Linnaeus 
Batis hermaphrodita Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 791 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 
544; ed. 8, 3 (1879) 197=POTHOS HERMAPHRODITUS (Blanco) 
comb. nov. (Pothos longifolius Presl). 
As imperfect as is Blanco’s description, there is no other plant 
known from the Philippines to which it can apply. Naves re- 
duced it, by error, to Pothos chapélieri Schott, a species that 
does not extend to the Philippines. It is widely distributed in 
Luzon at low and medium altitudes. 
Illustrative specimen from Mount Maquiling, Laguna Prov- 
ince, Luzon, November, 1912 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae — 
No. 57). are 
RHAPHIDOPHORA Hasskarl 
Pothos pinnata Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 646; ed. 2 (1845) 450; ed. 3, 3 
(1879) 48, t. $89, non Linn. =RHAPHIDOPHORA MERRILLI! Engl. 
Bot. Jahrb. 37 (1905) 115. 
This species was reduced by Naves to Epipremnum medium 
Engl., a species that was credited to the Philippines by the 
