312 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
accepted Persoon’s specific name perwviana is the oldest one for 
the species. Thevetia peruviana (Pers.) Merr. occurs in the 
Philippines only as a cultivated plant; it was introduced from 
Mexico by the Spaniards at an early date, either for ornamental 
purposes or for its use in medicine, or both. 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, September, 1914 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 518). 
PARAMERIA Bentham 
Echites torosa Llanos Fragm. Pl. Filip. (1851) 59; Blanco FI. Filip. ed. 
3, 4* (1880) 42, non Jacq. =PARAMERIA BARBATA (Blume) K. 
Schum. (P. philippinensis Radlk.). 
Llanos’s description is very: short, but. it can apply to no other 
Philippine species. Parameria barbata is common and widely 
distributed in the Philippines at low altitudes and is generally 
known to the Tagalogs as ductung ahas and paragtong ahas. 
In Index Kewensis Llanos’s name erroneously appears as Ecdy- 
santhera torosa. I cannot distinguish this Philippine form 
from Parameria barbata (Blume) K. Schum. 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
November, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 140). 
AGANOSMA G. Don 
Echites repens Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 109, non Jacq.=Echites pro- 
cumbens Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 78 (sp. nov.); ed. 3, 1 (1877) 
145, t. 428=AGANOSMA ACUMINATA G. Don. [A. marginata G. 
Don, Holarrhena macrocarpa F.-Vill., H. procumbens Merr. in Govt. 
Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 27 (1905) 59]. 
This species is of wide distribution in the Philippines. The 
follicles are distinctly more slender than Blanco describes them; 
he states that they are as thick as one’s finger. 
Illustrative specimen from Taytay, Palawan, May, 1913 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 372). 
CHONEMORPHA f Don 
Tabernaemontana elliptica Blanco Fl. Filip. (1887) 115 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 
(1845) 83; ed. 8, 1 (1877) 152, non Thunb.—=CHONEMORPHA 
BLANCO! nom. nov. [Chonemorpha elliptica Merr. & Rolfe in Philip. © 
Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 121, non Tabernaemontana elliptica Thunb.]. 
This species is widely distributed in Luzon, but it is nowhere © 
abundant; it occurs in the primeval forest at low and medium © 
altitudes. Blanco’s species was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to 
Chonemorpha macrophylla Don, an allied but distinct form, 
which does not extend to the Philippines. As Blanco’s original _ 
specific name was preoccupied, a new name is apparently neces- 
sary for the species, as proposed above. . 
