206 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
near the base; lateral nerves 8 to 12 on each side of the midrib; 
petiolules 1 to 1.5 cm long. Panicles up to 50 cm long, axillary, 
rather few flowered, lax, nearly glabrous or the branchlets 
somewhat pubescent. Flowers 5-merous. Petals oblong-elliptic, 
obtuse, 7 to 8 mm long, rather densely gray-pubescent exter- 
nally. Filaments 4 mm long, glabrous; anthers 1.5 mm long. 
Carpels 5, gray-pubescent, the style-arms stellately spreading, 
1.5 to 2 cm long. Samaras usually 3 to 5 from each flower, 
thickly coriaceous, glabrous, plane, not at all twisted, rounded 
at the apex, about 12 cm long, 3.5 to 4 em wide, prominently 
reticulate. 
Luzon, Laguna Province, grounds of the College of Agricul- 
ture at Los Bafios, For. Bur. 20881 Villamil (type), in flower, 
Feb. 25, 1914, also fruiting material from the same tree, May, 
1914 (Species Blancoanae No. 606), For. Bur. 20350 Celestino, 
May, 1913, from the same tree; Cayticling, For. Bur. 22337 
Mariano, January, 1911, with very young flowers. 
A species well characterized by its large, prominently reticu- 
late samaras, its pubescent petzais, glabrous filaments, and stel- 
lately spreading styles or style-arms. It is entirely different 
from Ailanthus philippinensis Merr. in vegetative characters, 
flowers, and fruits. f 
HARRISONIA Jussieu 
Paliurus perforatus Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 174 (sp. nov.) ; ed. 2 (1845) 
122; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 220—=HARRISONIA PERFORATA (Blanco) 
Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 236, 
Paliurus dubius Blanco op. cit. 175 (sp. nov.); 123; 221—=HARRISONIA 
PERFORATA (Blanco) Merr. eo, 
Fagara piperita Naves in Blanco FI. Filip. ed. 3 (1877-83) ¢. 23, non Linn. = 
HARRISONIA PERFORATA (Blanco) Merr. 
This species is fairly common on dry hills about Manila. 
There is no doubt as to the identity of the two species described 
by Blanco. Harrisonia bennetii Hook. f. is a synonym. 
_Illustrative specimen from near Mandaloyon, Rizal Province, 
Luzon, April 20, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 433). 
SAMADERA Gaertn 
Manungala pendula Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 306 (gen. et sp. nov.) =Niota 
tetrapetala Poir.; Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 213; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 
35=SAMADERA INDICA Gaertn. 
The form that Blanco originally described as a new genus 
and species he later correctly reduced to Niota tetrapetala Poir., 
which, however, is in turn a synonym of Samadera indica Gaertn. 
The species is a very characteristic one, widely distributed in 
