164 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
Illustrative specimcr from Riza! Province, Luzon (Merrill: 
Species Blancoanae No. 798). 
Cnestis volubilis Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 885 (sp. nov.) =Cnestis trifolia 
Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 270 (nom. nov.); ed. 3, 2 (1878) 136, 
non Lam.=Rourea volubilis Merr. (R. heterophylla Planch.) =SANTA- 
LOIDES VOLUBILE (Blanco) Schellenb. 
The species is fairly common and is of wide distribution in 
the Philippines. It is distinctly variable in its vegetative charac- 
ters, not only in the number of its leaflets, but in their size 
and shape. 
Illustrative specimens from Taytay, Palawan, May, 1913 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 368). 
AGELAEA Solander 
Castafiola trinervis Llanos in Mem. Acad. Cienc. Madr. 2 (1859) 505; 
F.-Vill. & Naves in Blanco FI. Filip. ed. 3, 47 (1880) 103 =AGELAEA 
TRINERVIS (Llanos) comb. nov. 
Fernandez-Villar reduced this to Connarus monocarpus Linn., 
a species that does not extend to the Philippines. The descrip- 
tion applies unmistakably to some trifoliolate species of Con- 
naraceae, and the only species of the family known from the 
Philippines that conforms with Llanos’s description is Agelaea, 
and the Philippine form that has been referred to A. wallichii 
Hook. f. This is widely distributed in the Philippines at low 
altitudes, Llanos’s material being from Angat, Bulacan Province, 
Luzon. It appears to be specifically distinct from Agelaea 
wallichti Hook. f. 
Illustrative specimen from Mount Maquiling, Laguna Province, 
Luzon, August, 1917, comm. C. Mabesa (Merrill: Species Blan- 
coanae No. 1059). 
CNESTIS Jussieu 
CNESTIS DIFFUSA Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 386 (sp. nov.) =Cnestis — 
polyphylla Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 270 (poliphylla) ; ed. 3, 2 (1878) _ 
137, non Lam.=Cnestis corniculata Blanco op. cit. 386; 270; 138, non 
Lam. (C. ramiflora Griff., 1854). 
The species is widely distributed in Luzon, and there is no 
doubt in my mind but that the two species Blanco described 
are identical. Blanco’s specific name, Cnestis diffusa, is appar- 
ently the oldest valid one for the species. For a discussion of 
the synonymy see Merrill in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 127. 
lilustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
January, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 252). 
