310 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
Illustrative specimen from Los Bajios, Laguna Province, Luzon, 
May, 1914, comm. F. C. Gates and N. Catalan (Merrill: Species 
Blancoanae No. 462). 
ALYXIA R. Brown 
Brabejum ? concatenatum Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 40 (sp. nov.); 
ed. 3, 1 (1877) T3=ALYXIA CONCATENATA (Blanco) comb. nov. 
(Alyxia monilifera Vidal). 
This species is widely distributed in the Philippines, but it is 
usually not found below altitudes of 700 meters. Blanco’s spe- 
cies was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to Alywia lawrina Gaudich., 
a species not known from the Philippines. The description is 
poor, but applies sufficiently well to the species later described 
by Vidal as Alyxia monilifera. Vidal referred to his Alyzxia 
monilifera Blanco’s Brabejum lucidum, but Cebu material agree- 
ing with Blanco’s description has persuaded me that Brabejum 
lucidum is entirely different from Alyxia monilifera Vidal, and 
accordingly Blanco’s Brabejum lucidum (non Alyxia lucida 
Wall.) has been redescribed as Alyxia blancoi Merr. in Philip. 
Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) Bot. 330. 
Illustrative specimen from Bosoboso, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
November, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 159). 
Brabejum ? lucidum Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 40 (sp. nov.); ed. 3, 
1 (1877) 74=ALYXIA BLANCOI Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 7 (1912) 
Bot. 330, 
Blanco’s specific name is invalidated in Alyzxia by A. lucida 
Wall., an entirely different species. Fernandez-Villar referred 
it to Alyxia stellata R. & S., a species not known from the Phil- 
ippines, and I previously referred it to Alyxia monilifera Vid. 
Specimens from Cebu, the region from which Blanco secured his _ 
specimens of Brabejum lucidum, that agree with his descrip- _ 
tions indicate clearly that the form he described is different 
from Vidal’s species; it apparently represents a distinct, valid 
species, which I have called Alyxia blancoi Merr. I havea speci- 
men of this under the Visayan name layo from Bolohon, Cebu, 
the type locality of Blanco’s species. : 
Brabejum ? pinnatum Blanco FI. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 40 (sp. nov.); ed. 
3, 1 (1877) 74=? ALYXIA sp. e 
Blanco’s material of this was from Cebu, for which he cites 
the Visayan name layo. He has unquestionably described a 
branch with distichous leaves as a pinnate leaf, but definitely 
describes the “leaflets” as opposite. All our Philippine material 
of Alyxia has verticillate leaves. A translation of Blanco’s de- 
scription is as follows: Leaves opposite, even-pinnate. Leaflets 
