346 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
apparently the correct disposition of it. Like many submerged 
or partly submerged aquatic plants, it is exceedingly variable 
in its vegetative characters. 
DOPATRIUM Hamilton 
Kyrtandra aristata Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 18 (sp. nov.) =Cyrtandra 
aristata Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 13 (Cirtandra); ed. 3, 1 (1877) 
24=? DOPATRIUM JUNCEUM (Roxb.) Ham. 
Blanco’s description is the whole basis of Didymocarpus aris- 
tata (Blanco) F.-Vill. Novis, App. (1883) 150, and of Dopatrium 
aristatum Hassk. in Flora 47 (1864) 56. Among all the Philip- 
pine species that grow in the habitat indicated, that at all ap- 
proach Blanco’s description, Dopatrium junceum Ham. is the only 
one that I can suggest as its proper place of reduction. It most 
certainly is no gesneriaceous plant, as considered by Fernandez- 
Villar, and while it may ultimately prove to be distinct from 
Dopatrium junceum Ham., I am confident that Hasskarl was cor- 
rect in referring it to this genus. Blanco’s material was from 
Malinta, near Manila, where it grew in open wet places at low 
altitudes. 
TORENIA Linnaeus 
Vandellia multiflora Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 505, non G. Don=TORENIA 
BLANCOI nom. nov. 
This species was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to Torenia 
asiatica Linn., a species that does not extend to the Philippines. 
It is not included in the second or third editions of the Flora de 
Filipinas. Blanco states that his species is “comin en todas 
partes,” but as here interpreted this is not true, as so far the 
species has appeared in our collections from but three localities. 
Except for this statement his description applies almost exactly, 
although the flowers are not especially numerous. The plant 
is prostrate, spreading, the branches 4-angled, up to 20 cm 
in length. Leaves broadly ovate, short-petioled, 1.5 cm long or 
less, rounded or obtuse, rather coarsely toothed, glabrous or 
slightly hairy. Flowers pale bluish-purple, axillary, solitary, 
the pedicels pubescent, 5 mm long or less. Calyx prominently 
5-ridged, not winged, ciliate-hirsute, about 6 mm long, in fruit 
about 8 mm long. Corolla 1 cm in length. Capsule about as 
long as the calyx, the calyx-teeth 5, lanceolate, acuminate, equal, 
1.5 mm long. Its alliance seems to be with Torenia benthamiana 
Hance, but the Philippine species has much smaller flowers. 
Illustrative specimen from near Fort William McKinley, Rizal 
Province, Luzon, October 18, 1914, on boulders in bamboo thickets a 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 157). 
