98 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
AMARYLLIDACEAE 
CRINUM Linnaeus 
Haemanthus pubescens Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 253, non Linn. f.= 
Crinum giganteum Blanco op, cit. ed. 2 (1845) 175; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 
315, non Andr.=CRINUM ASIATICUM Linn. 
CRINUM ASIATICUM Blanco op. cit. 251; 175; 314, t. 168. 
Crinum asiaticum Linn. is exceedingly variable in size, depend- 
ing on the age of the plant, its habitat, etc. It is common and 
widely distributed throughout the Philippines along the seashore. 
Haemanthus pubescens Blanco—Crinum giganteum Blanco, 
was correctly reduced by Naves in the Novissima Appendix to 
the third edition of Blanco’s Flora de Filipinas. Naves, how- 
ever, reduced Crinum asiaticum Blanco to C. gracile E. Mey., an 
endemic sylvan Philippine species. The description is short and 
imperfect, but from the fact that Blanco’s material came from 
Mandaloyon near Manila, the probabilities are very great that 
he had merely a dwarfed form of the Linnean species; certainly 
not C. gracile E. Mey. It is universally known as bacong in the 
Philippines. 
Illustrative specimen from Lamao, Bataan Province, Luzon, 
April, 1915 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 935). 
HYMENOCALLIS Salisbury 
Pancratium illyricum Blanco Fl. Filip. (1887) 251 (illiricwm) ; ; ed. 2 (1845) 
176 (illiricum) ; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 316, t. 411 (as Hymenocallis adnata 
Herb.), non Linn. =HYMENOCALLIS LITTORALIS (Jacq.) Salisb. 
Pancratium maritimum Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 252; ed. 2 (1845) 177; ed. 
3, 1 (1877) 316, non Linn.=? HYMENOCALLIS LITTORALIS (Jacq.) 
Salisb. 
This species is very common in cultivation in the larger towns 
throughout the Philippines, but is scarcely naturalized, although 
occasionally found in waste places, about deserted dwellings, etc. 
The form described by Blanco as Pancratiwm illyricum was 
reduced by Naves to Hymenocallis adnata Herb., which is cited 
by Baker as a synonym of ZH. littoralis. The Species was in- 
troduced into the Philippines, from Mexico, at an early date. 
As to Pancratium maritimum Blanco, whatever else it may be, 
it can scarcely be Pancratium maritimum Linn. The descrip- 
tion is very short and imperfect, taken from specimens observed 
by him in cultivation in Batangas Province, Luzon. I strongly .: 
suspect it to have been Hymenocallis littoralis Salisb. 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, August, 1914 Nadie . 
ril: Species Blancoanae No. 128). 
