236 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
HIPPOCRATEACEAE 
HIPPOCRATEA Linnaeus 
Hippocratea volubilis Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 27 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 
20; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 37, non aliorum=? HIPPOCRATEA INDICA Willd. 
Blanco’s description is apparently that of a Hippocratea, but 
does not apply to H. indica Willd., nor to H. obtusifolia Roxb., 
to which it was reduced by Fernandez-Villar. His statement 
that the flowers are in axillary and terminal racemes and that 
the fruits are obliquely obcordate does not apply to Hippocratea 
indica Willd. nor to any other species known to me at the present 
time. Blanco’s specific name is invalid, so that the exact status 
of the species is unimportant. 
Illustrative specimen from Batangas Province, Luzon, August, 
1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 71) ; 
SALACIA Linnaeus 
Salacia sinensis Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 26; ed. 2 (1845) 19; ed. 3, 1 
(1877) 36, t. 86, non Gmel.=SALACIA PRINOIDES (Willd.) DC. 
Comocladia serrata Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 30 (sp. nov.) =SALACIA 
PRINOIDES (Willd.) DC. 
There is no doubt whatever but that the plant Blanco described 
as Salacia sinensis is a Salacia, but the medicinal properties he 
ascribed to it apparently belong with Siphonodon celastrineus 
Griff.; this may account for Blanco’s description of the plant 
as an “arbolito,” rather than as a scandent shrub which it really 
is. Comocladia serrata was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to 
Salacia oblonga Wall., which is correct as to the genus but cer- 
tainly wrong as to the species, for Salacia oblonga Wall. is not 
known to extend to the Philippines. The species is not included 
in the second or in the third edition of the Flora de Filipinas. 
From the data given by Blanco I have no hesitation in reducing 
the species to Salacia prinoides DC., as that species is currently 
interpreted. 
Illustrative specimen from Malampaya Bay, Palawan, May, 
1913 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 371). 
SPECIES OF DOUBTFUL STATUS 
Salacia triplinervis Llanos in Mem. Acad. Cienc. Madr. 2 (1859) 500 (sp. 
nov.); F.-Vill. & Naves in Blanco FI. Filip. ed. 3, 4* (1880) 101. 
There is no description and hence the status of the species is 
indeterminable. Fernandez-Villar reduced it to Connarus mono- 
carpus Linn., but there is no justification of this, as the Linnean 
species does not occur in the Philippines. 
