PONTEDERIACEAE—LILIACEAE 95 
CYANOTIS D. Don 
Tradescantia cristata Jacq.; Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 231; ed. 2 (1845) 163; 
ed. 3, 1 (1877) 293=CYANOTIS CRISTATA (Linn.) Roem. & 
Schultes. 
The species was correctly interpreted by Blanco but properly 
belongs in the genus Cyanotis. It is to be noted that this is not 
the plant figured by Naves, as representing Blanco’s species, 
in the third edition of the Flora de Filipinas, ¢. 83, the figure 
being Commelina nudiflora Linn. It is widely distributed in 
the Philippines at low and medium altitudes in the settled areas. 
Illustrative specimen from near Fort William McKinley, Rizal 
Province, Luzon, October, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae 
No. 155). 
; FLOSCOPA Loureiro 
Tradescantia geniculata Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 232; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 294, 
non Jacq., nec Lour.=FLOSCOPA SCANDENS Lour. 
This species is widely distributed in the Philippines at low 
and medium altitudes. It was omitted from the second edition 
of the Flora de Filipinas, but was included by F.-Villar and 
Naves in the third edition. 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
November, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 118). 
PONTEDERIACEAE 
MONOCHORIA Presl 
Pontederia vaginalis Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 255; ed. 2 (1845) 178; ed. 3, 
1 (1877) 320, t. 466, non Burm. f.=MONOCHORIA HASTATA (Linn.) 
Solms. 
This species is common and widely distributed in the Philip- 
pines at low altitudes in fresh-water swamps, along streams 
and stagnant pools, etc., and is abundant about Manila. 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, December, 1913 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 419). 
LILIACEAE 
ALOE Linnaeus 
Aloé humilis Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 256; ed. 2 (1845) 179; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 
321, t. 95, non Linn. =ALO& VERA Linn. © 
Naves reduced this to Aloé barbadensis Mill., which is a syn- 
onym of Aloé vera Linn. The plant is still cultivated on a very 
limited scale in gardens in Manila and in some of the larger 
towns of the Philippines, being widely known as sdbila. It 
rarely flowers in the Philippines. 
Illustrative specimen from Batangas, Bataigis Province, 
