168 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
the Flora de Filipinas, as he states: “Planta comun en las huer- 
tas de Manila, y que ignoro si es indigena, o si ha sido trahida 
de China, segun dicen.” It is now very abundant and thoroughly 
naturalized. Its common Tagalog name macahia simply means 
“ashamed” and was probably transferred to this plant from the 
less common and less sensitive Biophytum sensitivum DC. 
Illustrative specimen from Los Bajios, Laguna Province, Lu- 
zon, June, 1913 comm. E. Quisumbing (Species Blancoanae 
No. 36). 
ADENANTHERA Linnaeus 
Mimosa virgata Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 737, non Linn.=Mimosa punctata 
(?) Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 508; ed. 8, 3 (1879) 139, non Linn,= 
ADENANTHERA INTERMEDIA Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) 
Bot. 228. 
Blanco’s species was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to Adenan- 
thera pavonina Linn., a species that occurs in the Philippines 
only as a rarely cultivated one. It is very similar and closely 
allied to the Linnean species, differing in its seeds being half 
jet black and half bright red. In vegetative and floral charac- 
ters it is very similar to Adenanthera pavonina Linn., but in 
seed characters is like Adenanthera bicolor Moon and is an 
apparent intermediate between these two species. 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
November, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 169). 
ENTADA Adanson 
Adenanthera gogo Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 353 (sp. nov.) =Entada pur- 
saetha DC.; Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 247; ed. 8, 2 (1878) 96= 
ENTADA PHASEOLOIDES (Linn.) Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 9 
(1914) Bot. 86 (Entada scandens DC.). 
This species is widely distributed in the Philippines at low 
and medium altitudes and is universally known in the Archi- 
pelago as gogo. The crushed stems are extensively utilized by 
the natives as a substitute for soap, its special use being for 
washing the hair. The synonymy of the species is rather com- 
plicated, but Entada phaseoloides is the oldest valid name under 
the Vienna and Brussels codes. See Merrill 1. c. 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
November, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 740). 
PARKIA R. Brown 
Mimosa peregrina Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 737; ed. 2 (1845) 509; ed. 3, 
3 (1879) 189, non Linn.=PARKIA JAVANICA (Lam.) Merr. (Parkia 
roxburghii Don). 
