HERNANDIACEAE 155 
Illustrative specimen from Mount Maquiling, Laguna Province, 
‘Luzon, March, 1913 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 56). 
Laurus martinicensis Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 317; ed. 2 (1845) 223; ed. 
3, 2 (1878) 53, non Jacq.=? CRYPTOCARYA AMPLA Merr. 
Fernandez-Villar reduced this to Beilschmiedia madang Blume, 
a species that does not extend to the Philippines, and one to 
which Blanco’s description does not at all apply. The form he 
described is certainly a Cryptocarya, and taking into considera- 
tion all the data given by Blanco is, I think; C. ampla Merr. The 
description is not sufficiently definite to be sure of the correct- 
ness of the reduction. 
CASSYTHA Linnaeus ; 
CASSYTHA FILIFORMIS Linn.; Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 321, ed. 2 (1845) 
226, ed. 8, 2 (1878) 58. 
~The Linnean species was correctly interpreted by Blanco; it is 
common and wily. distributed in the bP a oe the 
‘seashore. 
‘Tilustrative specimen from Balayan, Batangas Province, tii: 
‘zon, August, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 95). 
LAURACEAE OF UNCERTAIN STATUS 
‘Laurus lanosa Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 318 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 224; 
ed. 3, 2 (1878) 54=Lauraceae indet. 
Fernandez-Villar reduced Blanco’s species to Litsea villosa 
Blume, but the characters assigned to it by Blanco do not at 
all conform with those of Blume’s species. The description is 
too indefinite to warrant suggesting a reduction other than that 
it certainly belongs in the Lawraceae. The description of the 
inflorescence as terminal indicates that it can scarcely have been 
a Litsea. It is possibly a species of Cryptocarya. 
HERNANDIACEAE 
GYROCARPUS Jacquin 
Gyrocarpus lobatus Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 54 (sp. nov.); ed. 3, 1 
(1877) 103=GYROCARPUS AMERICANUS Jacq. 
This species was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to Gyrocarpils 
jacquinti Gaertn.—G. americanus Jacq. It is widely distributed 
‘in the Philippines at low altitudes, but is nowhere abundant. 
Illustrative specimen from Angat, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
December, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No, 755). 
HERNANDIA Linnaeus 
on Hernandia sonora Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 689; ed. 2 (1845) 478; ed. 3, 3 
(1879) 93, non Linn.=HERNANDIA PELTATA Meissn. 
This species is commonly distributed along the seashore from 
