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104 _ SPECIES) BLANCOANAE 
IRIDACEAE 
ELEUTHERINE Herbert 
Antholyza meriana Blanco F]. Filip. (1837) 24 (Antholiza) ; ed. 2 (1845) 
18; ed. 8, 1 (1877) 33, t. 100, non Linn. =ELEUTHERINE PALMI- 
FOLIA (Linn.) Merr. (£. plicata Herb.). 
This was placed by Naves under Sisyrinchium palmifolium 
Linn., which, as I interpret it, is the same as Eleutherine plicata 
Herb. The species is occasionally found in cultivation in the 
Philippines, having been introduced from tropical America at 
an early date. In some regions it is naturalized and is locally 
abundant. 
Illustrative specimen from Tacloban, Leyte, comm. Felix 
Franco, locally known as hagusahis, October, 1916 (Merrill: 
Species Blancoanae No. 1034). 
MUSACEAE 
MUSA Linnaeus 
Blanco described eighteen varieties of the banana, all but four 
being placed under Musa paradisiaca Linn., these four being 
erroneously placed under Musa trogloditarum Linn. He states 
that fifty-seven varieties of the banana were known from the 
Philippines, this statement apparently being taken from Delgado 
(Hist. Filip., 553-560). The forms placed under Musa troglod- 
itarum Linn. apparently represent three or four distinct. spe- 
cies: Musa textilis Née, the abaca plant; Musa glauca Roxb., a 
nonsoboliferous banana, the only one of this type known from the 
Philippines; and Musa errans (Blanco) Teodoro. Those placed 
under Musa paradisiaca Linn. are in part cultural forms. and 
varieties of this species, in part varieties of Musa sapientum 
Linn. The probabilities are very great that most of the forms 
of the ordinary banana described by Blanco are also to be found 
in cultivation in other parts of Malaya and in India, but without 
comprehensive collections of living plants for purposes of com- 
parison, it is impossible definitely to refer named Philippine 
forms to named extra-Philippine ones. In the following con- 
sideration I have closely followed Teodoro’s rather intensive 
study of Philippine bananas in Philip. Journ. Sci. 10 (1915) 
Bot. 379-421, t. 7-18, who has given detailed descriptions and 
excellent figures of the flowers and fruits of many of the forms 
Blaneo described. 
Musa troglodytarum Linn. var. dolioliformis Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 855 
(var. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 174; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 312=MUSA GLAUCA 
Roxb. 
There is little doubt that this remarkably distinct form is 
