EBENACEAE 303 
Illustrative specimen from Batangas Province, Luzon, Febru- 
ary, 1915 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No, 820). 
> DIOSPYROS MULTIFLORA Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 303 (sp. nov.) = 
3 Diospyros lotus (?) Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 210; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 
29, non Linn. 
Blanco’s specific name multiflora is valid for this species, for 
Diospyros multiflora Wall. Cat. (1831) No. 4144 is a nomen 
nudum and is, moreover, a synonym of Diospyros lanceaefolia 
Roxb. Diospyros canomoi A. DC. is an exact synonym of Blan- 
co’s species. The species is widely distributed in Luzon, and 
its fruits are used in stupefying or poisoning fish. Its common 
Tagalog name is canomot. _- 
Illustrative specimen from Umingan, Pangasinan Province, 
Luzon, May, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 536). 
Diospyros bifiora Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 803 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 
210; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 28=? DIOSPYROS MARITIMA Blume. 
A species of doubtful status other than that it is certainly a 
Diospyros. The native name talang and cognate forms of it 
are applied to various species of Diospyros, including D. curranti 
Merr., D. mindanaensis Merr., D. ahernii Merr., and even D. 
pilosanthera Blanco. It is suspected that the form Blanco 
described as Diospyros biflora is the same as D. maritima Blume, 
which, however, is almost universally known in the Philippines 
as canomoi. 
DIOSPYROS KAKI Linn. f.; Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 211; ed. 3, 2 
(1878) 29. 
This was described by Blanco from fruits only originating in 
Majaijai, a town on the lower slopes of Mount Banajao, Laguna 
Province, Luzon, where it was apparently cultivated. His de- 
scription conforms entirely with Diospyros kaki Linn. f., but the 
species is apparently no longer in cultivation in the Philippines. 
Malacapai Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 302, ed. 2 (1845) 210; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 
27—=DIOSPYROS MALACAPAI A. DC. Prodr. 8 (1844) 237 (type!). 
I am unable to suggest a reduction of this very imperfectly 
described form, other than that it isa Diospyros. A. de Candolle 
made Blanco’s description of malacapai the type of Diospyros 
malacapai A. DC. The Tagalog name malatapi, rather than 
malacapai, is exclusively applied in some parts of Luzon to Alan- 
gium longiflorum Merr., of the Cornaceae, but Blanco’s short 
description applies unmistakably to Diospyros. The name is 
applied also to some species of Diospyros, but the characters of 
these do not conform to Blanco’s description of Malacapai. 
