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in-northern Luzon and in the Batanes Islands to a limited extent, 
but is rarely found in cultivation in the central and southern 
parts of the Philippines. It has certainly been introduced into 
the Archipelago, from China, but its introduction was equally 
certainly prehistoric. 
Illustrative specimen from Los Bafios, Laguna Province, 
Luzon, June, 1914, comm. E. Quisumbing (Merrill: Species 
Blancoanae No. 42). 
POUZOLZIA Gaudichaud 
Urtica villosa Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 695; ed. 2 (1845) 483; ed. 3; 3 
(1879) 99, non Salam.=POUZOLZIA ZEYLANICA (Linn.) Benn. 
Urtica japonica Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 694; ed. 2 (1845) 482; ed. 3, 3 
(1879) 99, non Thunb.=POUZOLZIA ZEYLANICA (Linn.) Benn. 
 etion villosa Blanco was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to 
Pouzolzia indica Gaudich., a synonym of P. zeylanica (Linn.) 
Benn. There is no reason for considering Urtica villosa Blanco 
and Urtica japonica Blanco other than forms of the variable 
Pouzolzia zeylanica Benn., although Fernandez-Villar referred 
the latter to Pouzolzia viminea Wedd. 
“ Hlustrative specimen from Batangas Province, Luzon, August, 
Pediat (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 486). 
PIPTURUS Weddel 
» Ustica baccifera Blanco FI, Filip. (1837) 695, non Linn.=Urtica aldeee: 
cens Link; Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 483; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 100, t. 
71=PiPTURUS ARBORESCENS (Link) C. B. Rob. (Pipturus asper 
The species is very common and widely distributed in the Phil- 
ippines, its universal Tagalog name being dalonot. 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
October, 1913 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 354). 
LORANTHACEAE 
LORANTHUS Linnaeus 
TOR 
Peer... oe 
; Lonicera symphoricarpos Blanco Fi. Filip. (1837) 161, non peed —LORAN- 
THUS PHILIPPENSIS Cham. & Schlecht. ; Blanco oP. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 
4164; ed. 3, 1. (1877) 296. 
“The description is not good by any means, but Blanco was iprob- 
ably correct in admitting the species in his second edition as 
Loranthus philippensis Cham. & Schlecht. The species is very 
common in those parts of Luzon from which Blanco received 
most of his material. 
i Mustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal oe on. 
October; 1913 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 322). 0 
