140° SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
appear to me to be specifically identical with the Angat material 
representing Buginvillea racemosa Blanco. Most of our speci- 
mens, now so referred, are, however, from shrubs and small 
trees, and nearly all of them have been determined as Pisonia 
umbellifera Seem. From the descriptions and botanical material 
available in Manila it is very difficult to distinguish between 
Seeman’s and Blume’s species. Whatever the species is, it is 
widely distributed in the Philippines at low and medium altitudes. 
lllustrative specimen (a topotype of Buginvillea racemosa) 
from Angat, Bulacan Province, Luzon, December, 1914 (Merrill: 
Species Blancoanae No. 754). 
Cordia olitoria Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 123 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 88; 
ed. 3, 1 (1877) 159, t. 44—=PISONIA ALBA Spanoghe in Linnaea 15 
(1841) 342. 
This form occurs in the Philippines only as an introduced and 
cultivated plant, strongly characterized, in nature, by its leaves 
being very pale-green, the younger ones frequently yellowish-,; 
white or nearly white. In Manila, although common in cultiva- 
tion, it very rarely produces flowers, and I have observed but.a_ 
single flowering branch during fifteen years’ residence; in the 
southern Philippines, however, it apparently flowers more freely. 
From its Tagalog names maluco and coles maluco it is suggested 
that it may have been introduced into the Philippines from the 
Molucea Islands. Blanco’s species was erroneously reduced by 
Fernandez-Villar to Pisonia inermis Forst., non Jacq. It seems 
very probable that Zollinger was correct in reducing Pisonia 
alba Spanoghe and P. sylvestris T. & B. to a single species, but 
although the new name proposed by him, Pisonia olitoria Zoll.- 
in Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. 14 (1857) 154, is not valid, it in- 
validates the transfer of Blanco’s specific name, which is older 
than Spanoghe’s, to Pisonia. Pisonia olitoria was proposed by 
Zollinger without any reference to Cordia olitoria Blanco. — 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, Angust, 1914 —— 
rill: Species Blancoanae No. 134). 
AIZOACEAE 
MOLLUGO Linnaeus 
Glinus lotoides Linn.; Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 418; ed. 2 (1845) 288; ed. 
3, 2 (1878) 169=MOLLUGO LOTOIDES (Linn.) O. Ktze. (M. hirta: 
Thunb.). 
The Linnean species was correctly ditnepobhil by Blanco. It 
is of local distribution in waste places in and about towns at 
