216 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
CICCA Linnaeus 
Cicea acidissima Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 700 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 486; 
ed. 3, 3 (1879) 105, t. 303=CICCA ACIDA (Linn.) Merr. Interpret. 
Herb. Amb. (1917) 314 (Averrhoa acida Linn., Cicca disticha Linn., 
Phyllanthus distichus Muell.-Arg., Phyllanthus acidissimus Muell.- 
Arg.). 
This species is widely distributed in the Philippines in cul- 
tivation but is nowhere abundant. It is certainly of prehistoric 
introduction into the Archipelago and a purposely introduced 
species. Blanco’s Cicca acidissima is the whole basis of Phyl- 
lanthus acidissimus Muell.-Arg., non Noronh. The genus Cicca 
seems to be sufficiently distinct from Phyllanthus; see C. B. 
Robinson in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 87. 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, March, 1914 (Mer- 
ril: Species Blancoanae No. 617). 
PHYLLANTHUS Linnaeus 
Phyllanthus carolinianus Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 691, non Walt.=Phyllan- 
thus kirganelia Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 480; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 96, 
non Willd.=PHYLLANTHUS NIRURI Linn. 
There is very little doubt as to the correctness of this reduc- 
tion, Blanco’s description agreeing in all essentials, the form 
described by him being a small one: “Esta planta a lo mas se 
hace de un palmo de alto.” The species is very common through- 
out the settled areas of the Philippines at low altitudes and 
would certainly have been observed by Blanco. To this species 
I also reduce Kirganelia pumila Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 713 
(pumilla) (sp. nov.), ed. 2 (1845) 493, ed. 3, 3 (1879) 117, 
the type of Phyllanthus pumilus Muell.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15” 
(1866) 349, this also being a small form: “a lo mas de un palmo 
de altura.” Blanco’s descriptions of both fit Phyllanthus niruri 
Linn. better than any other Philippine species known to me. 
See Robinson in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 81, 86. 
Illustrative specimen from Batangas Province, Luzon, August, 
1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 101). 
Cicca decandra Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 701 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 487; 
ed. 3, 3 (1879) 106 t. 239=PHYLLANTHUS RETICULATUS Poir. 
This species is common and widely distributed in the Philip- 
pines at low altitudes. 
Illustrative specimens from Manila, Luzon, October, Decem- 
ber, 1913, locally known as tintatintahan (Tagalog; from Sp. 
tinta—ink, the black berries sometimes used to make ink) (Mer- 
rill: Species Blancoanae Nos. 596, 674). 
