ARALIACEAE 995 
I have little hesitation in reducing the latter species and in 
adopting Blanco’s specific name for it, as it is the only species 
among the very numerous Philippine representatives of the 
genus that conforms at all with Blanco’s description. 
Polyscias odorata Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 225 (sp. nov.) =Paratropia 
crassa Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 158 (nom. nov.); ed. 3, 1 (1877) 
285—=SCHEFFLERA ODORATA (Blanco) Merr. & Rolfe in Philip. 
Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 117. 
Polyscias obtusa Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 226 (sp. nov.) =Paratropia 
obtusa Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 159 (nom. nov.); ed. 3, 1 (1877) 
285=SCHEFFLERA ODORATA (Blanco) Merr. & Rolfe. 
Both of Blanco’s species were reduced by Fernandez-Villar 
to Heptapleurum venulosum Seem., a species that does not extend 
to the Philippines. There is absolutely no doubt that a single 
species is represented by Blanco’s descriptions. The species is 
widely distributed in the Philippines at low altitudes, often 
growing as a pseudo-epiphyte, i. e., rooting on decayed places 
on tree trunks. Its most general Tagalog name is galamai amo. 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
January, 1915 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 833). 
Nauclea digitata Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 102 (sp. nov.); ed. 3, 1 
(1877) 188 (non Scheffiera digitata Forst.) =SCH EFFLERA BLANCOI 
Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 109. 
This species is widely distributed in Luzon, growing in forests 
at medium altitudes as a pseudo-epiphyte. It was reduced by 
Fernandez-Villar to Heptapleuwrum cephalotes C. B. Clarke, a 
species that does not extend to the Philippines. 
Illustrative specimen from Batangas Province, Luzon, August, 
1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 103). 
NOTHOPANAX Miquel 
Aralia tripinnata Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 223 (sp. nov.) =Panax fruti- 
cosum Linn.; Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 156 (fruticossa), ed. 3, 1 
(1877) 281, t. 77=NOTHOPANAX FRUTICOSUM (Linn.) Miq. 
The species that Blanco described as new in the first edition 
of his Flora de Filipinas he correctly reduced to Panax fruticosum 
Linn. in the second edition. The species is cultivated throughout 
the settled areas of the Philippines and is certainly an introduced 
plant in the Archipelago. Its common Tagalog name papua 
simply means “curly.” 
Illustrative specimen from Obando, Bulacan Province, Luzon, 
November, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 850). 
