248 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
distributed in the Philippines and is characterized by having 
small scattered spines on the trunk and branches, but with very 
few or no spines on the ultimate branchlets. 
Illustrative specimens from Batangas Province, Luzon, August, 
1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 638) ; Arayat, Pampanga 
Province, Luzon, (a topotype) (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 
686). 
ELAEOCARPACEAE 
ELAEOCARPUS Linnaeus 
Vallea calomala Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 489 (sp. nov.) =Aceratium calo- 
mala Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 306 (comb. noy.); ed. 3, 2 (1878) 
204=ELAEOCARPUS CALOMALA (Blanco) Merr. in Philip. Journ, 
Sci. 10 (1915) Bot. 43 (EZ. isotrichus F.-Vill., E. philippinensis Warb., 
Monocera isotricha Turcz.). 
A species of wide distribution at low and medium altitudes in 
_Luzon and Mindoro. By some authors it has been referred to 
Elaeocarpus oblongus Gaertn.; the status of Gaertner’s species 
is very uncertain. 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
February, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 276). 
ELAEOCARPUS SYLVESTRIS Blanco FI. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 306; ed. 3, 
2 (1878) 208. 
This was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to Elaeocarpus oblongus 
Gaertn., a species not definitely known from the Philippines, 
and one to which Blanco’s description does not at all apply. 
His specimens were from Cebu, the tree there known as cabalte 
or cabilte, and his description unmistakably applies to Elaeo- 
carpus. ‘The description is too imperfect to warrant an identi- 
fication of the species from it alone, and no species of the genus 
in our herbarium bears the native name cited by Blanco. The — 
petals are divided into about twelve fimbriae, the stamens are 
about twelve in number, awned, and the fruit is described as 
being smaller than a pea. The clue to the identity of this species 
is in the native name, or in more comprehensive collections of 
Elaeocarpus from Cebu than we possess at the present time. — 
TILIACEAE 
BERRIA Roxburgh 
Triopteris polyandra Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 380 (poliandra) (sp. nov.) ; 
ed. 2 (1845) 268; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 188—BERRIA AMMONILLA Roxb. 
This reduction was made by Fernandez-Villar, but in my previ- 
ous consideration of Blanco’s species I doubted the correctness __ 
of it, stating that Fernandez-Villar’s reduction was “certainly — 
