ANACARDIACEAE : 233 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, April, 1914 (Mer- 
rill: Species Blancoanae No. 2). 
ANACARDIUM Linnaeus 
Cassuvium reniforme Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 322 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 
227; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 60, t. 116=ANACARDIUM OCCIDENTALE Linn. 
The cashew tree was introduced from Mexico at an early date 
in colonial history through the Acapulco-Manila galleons and 
is now cultivated, and in some localities at least subspontaneous, 
throughout the Philippines in the settled areas at low and 
medium altitudes. It is universally known as casoy. 
Illustrative specimen from Taytay, Palawan, May, 1913 (Mer- 
rill: Species Blancoanae No. 411). 
SPONDIAS Linnaeus 
Spondias dulcis Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 390; ed. 2 (1845) 273; ed. 3, 2 
(1878) 143, t. 132, non Forst.=SPONDIAS PURPUREA Linn. 
This ‘species is common in cultivation in many parts of the 
Philippines, being especially abundant in the region immediately 
- gouth of Manila. It is commonly known as strihuelas (corrup- 
tion of Spanish ciruela=plum). Blanco’s species was reduced 
by Fernandez-Villar to Spondias purpurea Linn., which I pre- 
viously thought to be erroneous and referred S. dulcis Blanco 
to S. lutea Linn.; see Govt. Lab. Publ. 27 (1905) 36; I now con- 
sider Fernandez-Villar’s reduction to be the correct one. 
Spondias lutea Linn. does not occur in the Philippines unless 
as a species introduced within the past few years. S. purpurea 
Linn. must have been introduced into the Philippines from 
Mexico at an early date. In and about Manila it is entirely 
deciduous in the dry season, flowering in March, the leaves 
appearing immediately after anthesis. 
Illustrative specimen from Pasay, Rizal Province, Luzon, April, 
1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 639). 
Poupartia pinnata Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 392 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 
274; ed. 8, 2 (1878) 146=SPONDIAS PINNATA (Linn. f.) Kurz (S. 
mangifera Blume). 
This sylvan species is widely distributed in the Philippines; 
it is rarely cultivated for its edible fruits. Blanco was wrong in 
applying the Tagalog name dao to this species, which properly 
belongs to his Paliuwrus dao—Dracontomelum dao Merr. and 
Rolfe, The almost universal native name for Spondias pinnata 
in the Philippines is libas. 
Illustrative specimen from Laguna Province, Luzon, February, 
1913 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 314). 
