CARYOPH YLLACEAE—N YMPHAEACEAE 4248 
Illustrative specimen from Pasay, Rizal Province, Luzon, No- 
vember, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 188). 
CARYOPHYLLACEAE 
POLYCARPON Loefling 
Polycarpon polyphyllum Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 53. (Policarpon) (sp. 
nov.) ; ed. 2 (1845). 36; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 66=POLYCARPON INDICUM 
(Retz.) Merr. (P. loeflingiae Benth. & Hook. f.). 
Blanco’s specimens were from Pasig, near Manila, but the 
“species has not been detected in this area since his time. In 
fact, it has so far been collected but once in the Philippines and 
is apparently a very rare and local species in the Archipelago. 
However, Blanco’s description applies to Polycarpon loeflingiae 
Benth. & Hook. f. in all respects, and it was reduced by F.-Villar 
to this species.. I have adopted what is apparently the oldest 
valid specific name for it, Polycarpon indicum (Retz.) Merr. 
in . NYMPHAEACEAE : nal 
hs | NELUMBIUM Jussieu ged 
Nelumbium turbinatum Blanco. Fl. Filip. (1837) 458 (sp. nov.) =Nelum- 
 * bium speciosum Willd.; Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 318; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 
“3') 228, ¢, 158=NELUMBIUM NELUMBO (Linn.) Druce. vs 
‘The form described by Blanco as a new species, N elumbium 
turbinatum, in the first edition of his Flora de Filipinas was 
correctly reduced by him in the second edition to N. speciosum 
Willd. The species occurs in a number of lakes at low altitudes 
in the Philippines, from Luzon to Mindanao. Its common ’Ta- 
galog name is baino, and its seeds are quite extensively used as 
food. 7 E ; ssi 
Illustrative specimen from Lake Bay, near Siniloan, Laguna 
Province, Luzon, January, 1915 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae 
No. 817). > VOR HOS ayo" 
pe oat iy NYMPHAEA Linnaeus yard 
‘ Nyniphaea lotus Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 456 (Nimphaea) ; ed. 2 (1845) 
"B17; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 222, non Linn. =NYMPHAEA PUBESCENS Willd. 
” (Castalia pubescens Blume), . : 
This species is widely distributed in the Philippines at. low 
altitudes in shallow lakes and in still streams. The form de- 
scribed by Blanco was considered by F.-Villar to represent the 
Linnean species, Nymphaea lotus, but Blanco’s description ap- 
plies unmistakably to N. pubescens Willd. The common Tagalog 
name is lawas. | 
‘Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, July, 1914, from 
cultivated plants originating in Lake Bay, Luzon (Merrill: Spe- 
(etes' Blancoanae No. 132).°28°°° 
