DIPTEROCARPACEAE 271 
Illustrative specimen from Limay, Bataan Province, Luzon, 
July, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 407). 
Dipterocarpus palosapis Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 312 (sp. nov.); ed. 
8, 2 (1878) 214=SHOREA PALOSAPIS (Blanco) comb. nov. [Hopea 
squamata Turez. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mose. 31* (1858) 239; Shorea 
squamata Dyer ex Vidal Rev. Pl. Vasc. Filip. (1886) 62]. 
Blanco’s entire description consists of but three and one-half 
lines, and is, of course, very imperfect and inadequate. Some 
botanists might consider his name a nomen nudum or at least 
a nomen subnudum, yet there is no doubt as to the identity of 
the species he intended to describe. The species commonly known 
as Shorea squamata Dyer is the only representative of the 
entire family Dipterocarpaceae that has: “hojas * * * 
con dos estipulas anchas en la base,” while Blanco’s description 
otherwise applies; it is not, however, similar to Dipterocarpus 
polyspermus Blanco (=Shorea polysperma Merr.), to which 
Blanco compares it, except in size. Blanco’s species was erro- 
neously reduced by Fernandez-Villar to Shorea floribunda Kurz, 
a species that does not extend to the Philippines. It is common 
and widely distributed in the Philippines, the Tagalog name 
palosapis, cited by Blanco, properly belonging to Anisoptera 
thurifera Blume; the name mayapis, however, appears on thir- 
teen different collections of Shorea palosapis as here interpreted. 
Illustrative specimen from Samar, August, 1914, comm. M. Oro 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 737). 
PARASHOREA Kurz 
Mocanera malaanonan Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 858 (sp. nov.) =Diptero- 
carpus malaanonan Blanco op, cit. ed. 2 (1845) 312 (comb, nov); ed. 
3, 2 (1878) 214=PARASHOREA MALAANONAN (Blanco) comb. nov. 
(Parashorea plicata Brandis, Shorea malaanonan Blume). 
Fernandez-Villar enumerated this under Blume’s name, Shorea 
malaanonan (Blanco) Blume, but no attempt was made to refer 
botanical material to the species until Mr. Rolfe and myself 
interpreted the species as being the same as Shorea polita Vidal; 
see Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 115. I am now convinced 
that this interpretation was erroneous; that Shorea polita is a 
valid species entirely distinct from Mocanera malaanonan Blanco; 
and that Blanco’s species is identical with the common and 
widely distributed Philippine Parashorea plicata Brandis. 
Among all the Philippine Dipterocarpaceae, Parashorea plicata 
Brandis is the only one that agrees with Blanco’s description 
in the characters of the leaves, whitish beneath, which are 
further described as wide, pointed, and a “geme” (i. e., 15 to 
