304 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
Cunalon Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 304; ed. 2 (1845) 212; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 
31=DIOSPYROS CUNALON A. DC. Prodr. 8 (1844) 237 (type!). 
A species of doubtful status, known only from Blanco’s de- 
scription. A. de Candolle made the description the basis of 
Diospyros ? cunalon A. DC., but while the status of the species 
is doubtful, it is certainly a Diospyros. Blanco’s specimens were 
from Cebu, where the tree was known as cunalon. Specimens 
of Diospyros ahernt Merr. appear in our herbarium bearing 
the Visayan name canalon, but this species does not conform 
to Blanco’s description, as the stamens are 16, all basal, not 8, 
of which 4 are basal and 4 inserted on the tube as Blanco de- 
scribes them. 
SYMPLOCACEAE 
SYMPLOCOS Linnaeus 
Guettarda polyandra Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 500 (sp. nov.); ed. 3, 
3 (1879) 126=SYMPLOCOS POLYANDRA (Blanco) Brand in Engl. 
Pflanzenreich 6 (1901) 36, excl. syn. S. racemosa, S. spicata, S. villarii, 
S. pseudo-spicata, et descr.). 
There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Blanco’s Guet- : 
tarda polyandra is the species later described by Presl as Carlea 
oblongifolia—Symplocos oblongifolia Rolfe; Brand, 1. c., 55. 
Fernandez-Villar reduced Guetiarda polyandra to Symplocos 
racemosa Roxb., being correct as to the generic reduction, but 
wrong as to the species. Vidal erred in citing Guettarda polyan- 
dra Blanco as a synonym of his Symplocos villarti, but made 
the reduction with expressed doubt, while Brand erred in taking 
up Blanco’s name as the oldest valid one for Symplocos villarii i 
Vidal. Blanco’s description, “Hojas enteras +. * *., Hopes 
en las ramas en espigas disticas,” in Symplocos applies only to — 
the species previously known as S. oblongifolia among all the 
Philippine forms. Widely distributed in the Philippines, and 
also occurring in Borneo. 
Illustrative specimens from Taytay, Palawan, May, 1913 (Mer- 
rill: Species Blancoanae No. 312) ; Luzon (Merrill: Species Blan 
coanae No. 661). . . 
OLEACEAE 
JASMINUM Linnaeus 
? Mogorium aculeatum Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 9 (sp. nov.), ed. 2 (1845) 7; 
ed. 3, 1 (1877) 13, t. 445=JASMINUM ACULEATUM (Blanco) Walp. 
ex Hassk in Flora 47 (1864) 50; Merr. in Govt. Lab. (Philip.) Publ. 
35 (1905) 76. ee 
Blanco’s species was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to Jasmi- 
