EUPHORBIACEAE 295 
opposite Guadalupe, Rizal Province, Luzon, April, 1914, (Merrill: 
Species Blancoanae No. 642). 
Adelia glandulosa Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 814 (sp. nov.) =ALCHORNEA 
RUGOSA (Lour.) Muell.-Arg. (A. javensis Muell.-Arg.). 
Tragia innocua Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 479; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 94, non 
Linn. —=ALCHORNEA RUGOSA (Lour.) Muell.-Arg. 
Adelia glandulosa Blanco is not included in the second or in 
the third edition of the Flora de Filipinas, but in the Novissima 
Appendix it is reduced by Fernandez-Villar to Alchornea javensis 
Muell.-Arg.—A. rugosa Muell.-Arg. The entire description con- 
sists of a single line: “Hojas con cuatro glandulas en la parte 
superior,” with the additional statement that it is a shrub from 
Santa Maria, Ilocos, the leaves being used as a remedy for 
rheumatism. Correspondence sent to the municipal authorities 
of Santa Maria regarding this plant elicited no answer. Alchor- 
nea rugosa is common and widely distributed at low and medium 
altitudes in the Philippines, and the correctness of Fernandez- 
Villar’s reduction of Blanco’s Adelia glandulosa is at least reason- 
ably certain. Blanco’s description of Tragia innocua conforms 
absolutely with Mueller’s species, which he otherwise described 
as Adelia glandulosa. Fernandez-Villar was wrong in reducing 
it to Alchornea villosa Muell.-Arg., a species that does not extend 
to the Philippines. _ 
Illustrative specimen from Montalban, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
December, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 725). 
CLEIDION Blume 
Niota ? globosa Blanco FI. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 214 (sp. nov.) ; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 
35—CLEIDION SPICIFLORUM (Burm. f.) Merr. Interpret. Herb. 
Amb. (1917) 322 (C. javanicum Blume). 
Blanco’s species was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to Claoxylon 
indicum Hassk., but the description does not apply at all to Hass- 
karl’s species. The description was based on a fruiting specimen 
only and is very imperfect; it agrees in all respects with Cleidion 
spiciflorum Merr. except that the petioles are not all “‘cortos,” 
some being decidedly elongated, while others are short. The 
leaf characters, size and characters of the fruit, solitary long 
peduncled flowers (i. e. fruits) given by Blanco are characters — 
of Cleidion spiciflorum Merr.; moreover, the species is common 
and widely distributed in the Philippines at low and medium 
altitudes, and is found in abundance in all the provinces near 
Manila from which Blanco received his material. 
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