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CELASTRACEAE 235 
Illustrative specimen from Angat, Bulacan Province, Luzon, 
December, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 744). 
SEMECARPUS Linnaeus f. 
SEMECARPUS CUNEIFORMIS Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 220 (sp. nov.) ; 
ed. 2 (1845) 155; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 276, t. 75. 
Semecarpus anacardium Blanco op. cit. 216; 152; 275, non Linn. f.=SEME- 
CARPUS CUNEIFORMIS Blanco (S. perrottetii March.). 
This species is common and widely distributed in the Phil- 
ippines and is especially abundant about Manila. There is no 
reason to consider that Blanco’s Semecarpus anacardium is other 
than a mere form of his S. cuneiformis. Both are manifestly 
the same as the species later described, from specimens collected 
in Manila, as Semecarpus perrottetii March. ; see Merrill in Philip. 
Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 289. The species is commonly known 
as ligas (Tagalog), and to many persons it is a violent contact 
poison, the symptoms of poisoning being the same as those 
caused by Rhus toxicodendron Linn. 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, February, 1913 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 283). 
CELASTRACEAE 
CELASTRUS Linnaeus 
DIOSMA SERRATA Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 168 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 
119; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 2183—CELASTRUS PANICULATA Willd. (C. 
polybotrys Turez.). 
This species is common and widely distributed in the Philip- 
pines, and Blanco’s description agrees entirely with Willdenow’s 
species to which it was reduced by Fernandez-Villar. 
Illustrative specimen from Angat, Bulacan Province, Luzon, 
September, 1913 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 346). 
GYMNOSPORIA Wight & Arnott 
Cupania spinosa Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 184 (sp. nov.) ; ed. 2 (1845) 204; 
ed. 3, 2 (1878) 17=GYMNOSPORIA SPINOSA (Blanco) Merr. & Rolfe 
in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 109 (G. montana F.-Vill., non 
Roxb.). 
This species is common and widely distributed in the Phil- 
ippines and presents considerable variation in its vegetative 
characters; that is, in size and shape of its leaves. The 
spines are never very prominent. 
Illustrative specimen from Angat, Bulacan Province, Luzon, 
September, 1913 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 349). 
