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2956 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
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Pg Thespesia sublobata Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 882 (sp. nov.); ed. 3, 
2 (1879) 338, t. 355=THESPESIA LAMPAS (Cav.) Dalz. & Gib. 
This species is not uncommon in the Philippines and is widely 
distributed. It has all the appearance of being an introduced 
plant in the Archipelago. 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
October, 1913 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 561). 
GOSSYPIUM Linnaeus 
Gossypium herbaceum Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 534; ed. 2 (1845) 374; ed. 
3, 2 (1879) 329, non Linn.=GOSSYPIUM PUNCTATUM Sch. & Thon. 
The species Blanco described was interpreted by Fernandez- 
Villar as Gossypium herbaceum Linn., but material of the com- 
monly cultivated form in Batangas shows that this cotton is 
not the Linnean species, but that it falls in the third section of 
the genus as defined by Watt, fuzzy-seeded cottons with free 
bracteoles [The Wild and Cultivated Cotton Plants of the 
World (1907) 163] and is G. punctatum Sch. & Thon. or perhaps 
a form of G. hirsutum Linn. The form distributed herewith is 
certainly Blanco’s Gossypium herbaceum, as it is the common. 
type cultivated in Batangas, whence Blanco secured his speci- 
mens, and agrees with his description. 
Illustrative specimen from Batangas Province, Luzon, Feb- 
ruary, 1915, there known as bulac (Merrill: Species Blancoanae 
No. 761). 
Gossypium perenne Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 587 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 
376; ed. 8, 2 (1879) 8830=GOSSYPIUM ARBOREUM Linn. 
This species, as described by Blanco, is apparently the same 
as Gossypium arboreum Linn., although the Linnean species 
does not appear in our rather extensive Philippine collections, 
and if it still occurs in the Archipelago, then it must be very 
rare and local. Blanco definitely states that it was in former 
times commonly cultivated, but that its cultivation was being — 
abandoned on account of the small yield of fiber. The reduction 
to Gossypium arborewm Linn. was made by Fernandez-Villar. — 
The form described in the paragraph following Gossypiwm 
perenne Blanco under the name “fernambuco” is Gossypium 
brasiliense Macf. 
GOSSYPIUM PANICULATUM Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 539 (sp. nov.) ; ed- 
2 (1845) 378; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 881. 
This species was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to Gossypiudd 
barbadense Linn., but specimens of the cotton commonly cul- 
tivated in the Bocas provinces of Luzon, that agree perfectly 
with Blanco’s original description, show that Gossypium pani- — 
