EUPHORBIACEAE 223 
Adelia papillaris Blanco FI. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 562 (pappilaris) (sp. nov.) ; 
ed. 3, 3 (1879) 225, t. 381=MALLOTUS PAPILLARIS (Blanco) Merr. 
in Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 238. 
Blanco’s description is entirely inadequate, consisting only of © 
the following: “‘Adelia pappilaris. Adelia de pezones. Arboli- 
tos dioicos con las cagillas cubiertas no de barbas sino de pezones 
cortos. Guadalupe.” The species is still abundant in dry 
ravines just across the Pasig River from Guadalupe, a few kilo- 
meters from Manila. In taking up Blanco’s specific name for 
the species, l. c., a full description was given by me. It was 
reduced by Fernandez-Villar to Mallotus zollingerit Muell.-Arg., 
a species that does not occur in the Philippines. Pax & K. 
Hoffmann reduce it to Mallotus tiliifolius (Blume) Muell.-Arg., 
a disposition of it that I am not prepared to accept although it 
is manifestly allied to this coastal species. It is of local oc- 
currence at low altitudes in Pampanga, Rizal, and Batangas 
Provinces, Luzon. 
Illustrative specimen from Batangas Province, Luzon, August, 
1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 50). 
Croton volubilis Llanos in Mem. Acad. Cienc. Madr. 4 (1856) 503 (volubile) 
(sp. nov.); F.-Vill. & Naves in Blanco FI. Filip. ed. 3, 4° (1880) 
1083—=MALLOTUS REPANDUS Muell.-Arg. 
In this reduction I merely follow Fernandez-Villar who may 
have seen a specimen of Llanos’s species. The original descrip- 
tion is as follows: “Croton volubile. Mihi viditur species 
nova. Fructus (et cocca) magna sunt. Ad. sylv. opp. de Angat. 
Flores non vidi.” If Llanos’s species was a Mallotus, then it 
must be either Mallotus repandus Muell.-Arg. or Mallotus flor- 
ibundus Muell.-Arg. the only scandent species of the genus in 
the northern Philippines. Mallotus floribundus is unknown 
from north of Tayabas Province, Luzon, while M. repandus is 
of wide distribution in Luzon and the other large islands of 
the Archipelago at low and medium altitudes and has been col- 
lected in Angat. Llanos may have had specimens of Omphalea 
bracteata (Blanco) Merr. 
Illustrative specimen from Rizal Province, Luzon, March, 
1915 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 842). 
MELANOLEPIS Reichenbach f. Me Zollinger 
Adelia monoica Blanco FI. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 561 (sp. nov.) ; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 
224, t, 218—MELANOLEPIS MULTIGLANDULOSA (Blume) Reichb. 
& Zoll. (Mallotus moluccanus Muell., non Croton moluccanus Linn.). — 
Blanco’s description is imperfect and, apparently, in some 
respects erroneous. There is little doubt, however, but that 
