CRUCIFERAE 157 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon (Merrill: Species 
Blancoanae No. 304). 
CRUCIFERAE 
CARDAMINE Linnaeus 
Cardamine glandulosa Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 521 (sp. nov.) =Cardamine 
impatiens (?) Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 363; ed. 3, 2 (1879) 306, 
non Linn. =NASTURTIUM INDICUM (Linn.) DC. 
This species is widely distributed in the Philippines, extending 
from sea level to an altitude of at least 1,600 meters. It is no- 
where abundant and is usually found along ditches and small 
streams. 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
December, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 553). 
BRASSICA Linnaeus 
Sinapis sinensis Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 520 (non Gmel.?) =Sinapis juncea 
Linn.; Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 362; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 304=BRASSICA 
JUNCEA (Linn.) Coss. 
Brassica orientalis Blanco op. cit. 519; 361; 303, non Linn.=BRASSICA 
JUNCEA (Linn.) Coss. 
The form originally described by Blanco as Sinapis sinensis, 
which may or may not be the same as Sinapis sinensis Gmel., 
and later as Sinapis juncea Linn., is certainly only a form of 
Brassica juncea (Linn.) Coss., where it was placed by Fernandez- 
Villar. Brassica orientalis Blanco seems to be merely a dwarfed 
form of B. juncea (Linn.) Coss., although Fernandez-Villar 
reduced it to Brassica nigra Koch, a species not definitely known 
from the Philippines. 
_IMustrative specimen from Alabat Island, December, 1916 
(Merrill: Species Blaneoanae No. 1056). 
Sinapis brassicata Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 362; ed. 3, 2 (1879) 305, 
non ? Linn.=BRASSICA JUNCEA (Linn.) Coss. var. 
The form I have interpreted as Sinapis brassicata Blanco is 
the plant that has long been cultivated by Chinese, and, to a 
less degree, by native gardeners, under the name of pechai or 
petchai. This form is extensively cultivated about Pasig and 
is undoubtedly the plant intended by Blanco; it is perhaps Bras- 
sica pekinensis (Lour.) Skeels. By Fernandez-Villar it was 
referred to Brassica campestris Linn. 
-Ilustrative specimen from Pasig, Rizal Province, Luzon, Jan- 
uary, 1915 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 770). 
