226 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
Illustrative specimen from Balayan, Batangas Province, Luzon, 
August, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 532). 
MACARANGA Thouars 
Croton grandifolius Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 753 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 
518; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 153=MACARANGA GRANDIFOLIA (Blanco) 
Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 394, 
Blanco’s species was reduced by J. Mueller to Macaranga 
mappa (Linn.) Muell.-Arg., and M. mappa was credited to the 
Philippines on this reduction of Blanco’s Croton grandifolius. 
Macaranga porteana BE. André, based on Philippine material, is 
a synonym of M. grandifolia (Blanco) Merr. The species is 
common in parts of Luzon, more specially in the provinces near 
Manila, growing in thickets at low altitudes. Its common Taga- 
log name is bingabing. Pax & K. Hoffmann are entirely wrong 
in reducing this to Macaranga mappa (Linn.) Muell.-Arg., which 
is an Amboina species belonging in a different section of the 
genus; see Merrill Interpret. Herb. Amb. (1917) 319. 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
January, 1915 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 651). 
Croton lacciferum Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 752 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 
517; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 153 =MACARANGA TANARIUS (Linn.) Muell.- 
Arg. var. TOMENTOSA Muell.-Arg. 
This species is common and widely distributed at low and me- 
dium altitudes in the Philippines, a characteristic shrub or tree 
of thickets, second-growth forests, deserted clearings, etc. — 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
January, 1914, there known as binonga (Merrill: Species Blan- 
coanae No. 611). 
ACALYPHA Linnaeus 
Acalypha caroliniana Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 748; ed. 2 (1845) 515; ed. 
3, 3 (1879) 149, t. 266, non Walt.=ACALYPHA INDICA Linn. 
This species is common and widely distributed in and about 
towns in the Philippines at low and medium altitudes; it is cer- 
tainly an introduced weed in the Archipelago. ; 
Illustrative specimen from Guadalupe, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
August, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 487). 
Acalypha glandulosa Blanco Fl. Filip. (1887) 749; ed. 2 (1845) 516; ed. 
3, 3 (1879) 149, non Cav. TACALYENA AMENTACEA Roxb. (A. 
stipulacea Klotz.). 
This species is common and widely distributed in the Philip- 
pines at low altitudes, the type of Acalypha stipulacea Klotz. 
being from Rizal Province, Luzon. It is exceedingly variable in 
vegetative characters, the petioles long or short, the leaves with 
