APOCYNACEAE 318 - 
Illustrative specimen from Mount Batulao, Batangas Province, 
Luzon, August, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 482). 
ICHNOCARPUS R. Brown 
Echites caudata Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 106; ed. 2 (1845) 77; ed. 3, 1 
(1877) 148, t. 97, non Linn.=ICHNOCARPUS OVATIFOLIUS A. DC. 
Prodr. 8 (1844) 485. 
Blanco’s conception of the Linnean species was reduced by 
Fernandez-Villar to Ichnocarpus frutescens R. Br., a species not 
definitely known from the Philippines. IJchnocarpus navesii 
Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 313 is the same as 
de Candolle’s species. It is common and widely distributed in 
the Philippines at low and medium altitudes and is very generally 
known as hinguio. 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
October, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 456). 
NERIUM Linnaeus 
Nerium oleander Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 104; ed. 2 (1845) 75; ed. 3, 1 
(1877) 140, t. 37, non Linn. =NERIUM INDICUM Mill. (N. odorum 
Soland.). 
This species is widely distributed in the Philippines in culti- 
vation, is nowhere spontaneous, and never produces fruit in the 
Archipelago. It is very generally known under its Spanish name 
adelfa and was undoubtedly introduced into the Philippines by 
the Spaniards. 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, February, 1915 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 819). 
WRIGHTIA R. Brown 
~»Anasser laniti Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 112 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 81; 
f ed. 3, 1 (1877) 149, t. 4O=WRIGHTIA LANITI (Blanco) Merr. in 
Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 27 (1905) 59 (Wrightia ovata A. DC.). 
This species is common and widely distributed in the Philip- 
pines, and it is abundant in those regions from which Blanco 
received most of his botanical material. It is universally known 
in the Tagalog provinces, at least, as laniti. It ‘may prove to 
be identical with W. pubescens R. Br. 
Illustrative specimen from Rizal Province, Luzon, November, 
1911 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 562). 
PARSONSIA R. Brown 
Echites spiralis Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 110 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 79; 
ed. 3, 1 (1877) 146, t. 310=PARSONSIA CONFUSA Merr. 
Fernandez-Villar reduced this to Parsonsia rheedii F.-Vill. 
(Heligme rheedii Wight), a species that does not extend to the 
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