218 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
Illustrative specimens from Angat, Bulacan Province, Luzon, 
December, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 756) ; Rizal 
Province, Luzon, September, 1915 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae 
NO. 98T) 
Gyrostemon blancoi Llanos Frag. Pl. Filip. (1851) 74 (sp. nov.); F.-Vill. 
& Naves in Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 3, 4% (1880) 58=GLOCHIDION 
PHILIPPICUM (Cav.) C. B. Rob. (G. philippense Benth.). 
This reduction was made by Fernandez-Villar, and there is 
every reason to consider that it is correct. The species is com- 
mon and widely distributed in the Philippines at low and medium 
altitudes. The type of Bradleia philippica Cav.—Glochidion 
philippicum (Cav.) C. B. Rob. (G. philippense Benth.) was from 
the Philippines. 
Illustrative specimen from Angat, Bulacan Province, Luzon, 
December, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 683). 
Kirganelia nigrescens Blanco Fl. Filip, (1837) 712 (sp. nov.) ; ed, 2 (1845) 
493; ed. 3. 3 (1879) 115=? GLOCHIDION LANCIFOLIUM C. B. Rob. 
This species was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to Glochidion 
molle Blume, but Blanco’s description does not at all apply to 
that form. If Blanco’s description is correct, then my present © 
reduction of the species is wrong. I suspect, however, that in 
describing the flowers Blanco erred as to the number of parts. 
See Robinson in Philip. Journ. Sci, 4 ( 1909): Bot...90. .... 
Illustrative specimen from Rizal Province, Luzon, March, 
1915 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 905 Fi 
ANTIDESMA Linnaeus 
Cansjera grossularioides Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 73 (Cansiera) (sp. nov.) ; 
ed, 2 (1845) 53; ed. 3, 1 (1877), 99 t. 26 (as Antidesma alexiteria) = 
_... ANTIDESMA GHAESEMBILLA Gaertn. . 
This species is common and widely distributed in the Philip- _ 
pines at low and medium altitudes, being characteristic of the 
regions locally called “cogonales,” that is, those open areas 
characterized by the predominance of the cogon grass (Imperata — 
cylindrica Cyr.), the scattered trees of Antidesma ghaesembilla 
Gaertn. frequently giving the cogonales a parklike aspect. 
Blanco’s description of the leaves -as “elipticas con puntita en 
el apice” applies unmistakably to Gaertner’s species and to no 
other known Philippine species of the genus. 
Illustrative specimens from Los Bafios, Laguna Province, 
Luzon, June, 1914, comm. E. Quisumbing (Merrill: Species Blan- 
coanae No. 375); Taytay, Palawan, May, 1913 (Merrill: Spe- 
cies Blancoanae No. 488). Cae 
