200 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
MICROMELUM Blume 
Bergera inodora Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 361 (sp. nov.) =Bergera koenigli 
Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 254; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 108, non Linn.= 
MICROMELUM PUBESCENS Blume (M. molle Turcz.). 
Blanco’s species was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to Clausena 
indica Oliv., a species that does not extend to the Philippines 
and one, moreover, to which his description does not at all 
apply. The characterization of the leaves as “muy blandas, 
vellosas,” with the other data given by Blanco points unmis- 
takably to this very softly pubescent form of Micromelum pubes- 
cens Blume (M. molle Turez.). The expression: “El fruto se 
asemeja enteramente al del Piris’” is further evidence as proof 
of the correctness of this reduction, as piris is one of the common 
names of the very closely allied Micromelum tephrocarpum 
Turcz. and is also applied to M. pubescens Blume. 
Illustrative specimen from Arayat, Pampanga Province, Lu- 
zon, February, 1915 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 719). 
Bergera compressa Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 360 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 
254; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 107=MICROMELUM COMPRESSUM (Blanco) 
comb. nov. 
Andromeda japonica Blanco op. cit. 371; 261; 120, non Thunb.=MICRO- 
MELUM COMPRESSUM (Blanco) Merr. 
This species is identical with Micromelum tephrocarpum 
Turez. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 31* (1858) 867; the type of 
which is Cuming 597 from Luzon. Bergera compressa Blanco 
was erroneously reduced by Fernandez-Villar to Clausena will- 
denowti W. & A., a species that does not extend to the Philip- 
pines, while Andromeda japonica Blanco was erroneously reduced 
by him to Micromelum glabrescens Benth.; Blanco’s Bergera 
compressa, however, supplies the oldest specific name for the 
species. It is to be noted that Blanco describes the leaves of 
Bergera compressa as “simples,”’ an error of observation on his 
part; the species is, without the slightest doubt, the form as 
here interpreted. Both it and the closely allied Micromelum 
_ pubescens Blume (M. molle Turcz.) are generally known as 
piris; in Baliuag, type locality for Andromeda japonica Blanco, 
both are still known as tulibas. The species is widely distri- 
buted in the Philippines at low and medium altitudes. 
Illustrative specimen from Mount Maquiling, Laguna Prov- 
ince, Luzon, March, 1915, there known as piris (Merrill: Species 
Blancoanae No. 884). 
