288 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
does not appear in Index Kewensis, and Fernandez-Villar ap- 
pears to have overlooked it in compiling the Novissima Ap- 
pendix to the third edition of Blanco’s Flora de Filipinas. The 
species presents considerable variation and is very widely dis- 
tributed in the Philippines; see Merrill, Interpret. Herb. Amb. 
(1917) 392. 
Illustrative specimen from Taytay, Palawan, May, 1913 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 311). 
Myrtus communis Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 422; ed. 2 (1845) 295; ed. 3, 
2 (1878) 182 non Linn. =DECASPERMUM BLANCO! Vid. Phan. Cu- 
ming. Philip. (1885) 112, 172. 
This species is of rather wide distribution in the Philippines, 
Blanco’s material being from Angat. 
Illustrative specimen from Angat, Bulacan Province, Luzon, 
September, 1913 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 568). 
EUGENIA Linnaeus 
Eugenia jambos Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 416; ed. 2 (1845) 290 (yambos); 
ed. 3, 2 (1878) 175 (yambos), non Linn. =EUGENIA JAVANICA Lam. 
This species is widely distributed in the Philippines at low 
altitudes in cultivation, but is not found wild. It is certainly 
of prehistoric introduction into the Archipelago and a purposely 
introduced species. The pink, turbinate, fleshy fruits are edible; 
the species is known in the region about Manila as macupa. 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, March, 1914 (Mer- 
rill: Species Blancoanae No 616). 
Calyptranthes jambolana Willd.; Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 418=Syzygium_ 
jJambolanum DC.; Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 293 (Syzigium jambu- 
lanwm); ed. 3, 2 (1878) 180, t. 174—=EUGENIA CUMINI (Linn.) 
Merr. Interpret. Herb, Amb. (1917) 394 (Eugenia jambolana Lam.). 
This species is common and widely distributed in the Phil- 
ippines, undoubtedly introduced although thoroughly naturalized. 4 is 
Eugenia djouat Perr., described from Philippine material, is 
an exact synonym. It is widely known as duhat. 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, March, 1911 (Mer- 
rill: Species Blancoanae No. 288). sty : 
Calyptranthes makal Blanco Fl. Filip. (1887) 419, non Raeusch.=Calyp- 
tranthes zuzygium Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 293; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 
179, non Sw.=EUGENIA CLAUSA C. B. Rob. ; RE 
No new species was intended by Blanco in either case, but he 
attempted to refer the Philippine plant under observation to 
a previously described one. Fernandez-Villar reduced Blanco’s 
species to Eugenia operculata Roxb., a species that does not 
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