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or without glands or gland-like projections at the base; see 
Merrill Interpret. Herb. Amb. (1917) 322. 
Illustrative specimen from Samar, May, 1914 (Merrill: Species 
Blancoanae No. 20). 
ACALYPHA ANGATENSIS Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 750 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 
(1845) 516; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 150. 
Acalypha tomentosa Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 750 (sp. nov.) ; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 
151—=ACALYPHA ANGATENSIS Blanco. 
There is no doubt that the two species described by Blanco 
are identical, but the former has page priority. Acalypha to- 
mentosa was excluded by him in the second edition of the “Flora 
de Filipinas,” but included by Naves and Villar in the third. 
In the original description Blanco observes “Se distinguen poco 
entre si [A. angatensis and A. tomentosa] estos dos arboles.” 
Acalypha angatensis Blanco is, I consider, referable to the form 
that has been described as Acalypha grandis Benth. var. velutina 
Muell.-Arg., but this being so Blanco’s specific name is much 
older than Acalypha grandis Benth. or any of its synonyms. 
Fernandez-Villar retained Acalypha angatensis as a distinct spe- 
cies, and Mueller considers it under his section Huacalypha, 
Pleurostachyae, Hypandrae [de Candolle Prodromus 15’ (1866) 
805]. Blanco described Acalypha angatensis as having short 
petioles and in having monoecious flowers, the staminate ones 
above the pistillate ones in the same spike. This is not true of 
normal Acalypha grandis, which is usually dioecious. However, 
some of our material (Elmer 5727) agrees with Blanco’s deserip- 
tion in the short petioles and in the disposition of the flowers, 
and I am not able to distinguish this specimen specifically from 
Acalypha grandis var. velutina or from A. angatensis Blanco. In 
the rather abundant duplicate material collected in Angat and 
destined for issue to illustrate Blanco’s species, many of the speci- 
mens present only male, or only female flowers; about six 
specimens present male flowers and female flowers in different 
inflorescence on the same branches, and one specimen presents 
the male flowers in the same spike with the female ones and above 
the latter as Blanco describes the species. Anes 
Illustrative material from Angat, Bulacan Province, Luzon, 
September, 1913 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 333). 
RICINUS Linnaeus | 
RICINUS COMMUNIS Linn.; Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 761; ed. 2 (1845) 523; 
ed. 3, 3 (1879) 161. 
The Linnean species was correctly interpreted by Blanco. 
Common and widely distributed in waste places in and about 
