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GUTTIFERAE 
CRATOXYLON Blume 
Hypericum aegyptium Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 615 (aegiptium); ed. 2 
(1845) 430; ed. 3, 2 (1879) 418, non Linn. =CRATOXYLON FORMO- 
SUM (Jack) Dyer. 
_ The species is common and of wide distribution in the Philip- 
pines. The leaves are commonly acute or minutely acuminate, 
more rarely slightly retuse at the apex as Blanco described the 
form he had. 
Illustrative specimen from Taytay, Palawan, May, 1913 (Mer- 
ruil: Species Blancoanae No. 632). 
Cratoxylon hornschuchii Llanos Frag. Pl. Filip. (1851) 86; F.-Vill. & Naves 
in Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 3, 4* (1880) 65, non Bluyome=CRATOXYLON 
CELEBICUM Blume [C. floribundum (Turcz.) F.-Vill.]. 
Cratoxylum sumatranum Naves in Blanco FI. Filip. ed. 3 (1877-83) t. 308, 
non Blume=CRATOXYLON CELEBICUM Blume. 
Llanos’s conception of Cratoxylon'hornschuchii Blume was 
reduced by Fernandez-Villar to C. sumatranum BI., a species 
that does not extend to the Philippines. The description applies 
very closely to Cratoxylon floribundum F.-Vill., a species based 
on Philippine material, but which I am unable to distinguish 
from Cratozylon celebicum Blume. C. floribundum F.-Vill. is, 
however, considered by Gagnepain to be identical with C. clan- 
destinum Blume, so that apparently a critical examination of 
Blume’s types will be necessary to settle the status of the three 
species involved. 
Illustrative specimen from Rizal Province, Luzon, November, 
1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 390). 
__>Hypericum olympicum Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 613; ed. 2 (1845) 429; ed. 
@ 8, 2 (1878) 416, non Linn.=CRATOXYLON BLANCO! Blume. 
? Cratoxylon hornschuchii Naves in Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 3 (1877-83) t. 254, 
non Blume=CRATOXYLON BLANCO! Blume. 
Cratoxylon blancoi Blume is merely a new name for Hypericum 
olympicum Blanco, non Linn., and hence the species must be 
interpreted from Blanco’s description. There are but two pos- 
sible interpretations of Blanco’s species, one the broad-leaved, 
short-petioled form with the leaves subacute to rounded or 
cordate at the base, and one the narrow-leaved form which is 
Cratoxylon floribundum (Turcz.) F.-Vill. which I consider to 
be identical with C. celebicum Blume, and which Gagnepain, 
Not. Syst. 1 (1909) 20, refers to C. clandestinum Blume. Cratoxy- 
lon blancoi is certainly not the same as C. arborescens (Vahl) 
