RUBIACEAE 363 
Blanco’s description is altogether too short and imperfect from 
which to interpret this species, and the plant he described is cer- 
tainly not the same as Stigmanthus cymosus Lour. Fernandez- 
Villar referred it to Webera (Tarenna) odorata Roxb., where 
it certainly does not belong. The only reason for considering 
it even a rubiaceous plant is the fact that Blanco placed it with 
other genera of this family. If a rubiaceous plant, it is probably 
a Randia, but even this is a mere guess. Blanco’s specimens 
were from Calauan, Laguna Province, Luzon. 
GARDENIA Linnaeus 
Sulipa pseudopsidium Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 497 (gen. et sp. nov.); ed. 
2 (1845) 347; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 280=GARDENIA PSEUDOPSIDIUM 
(Blanco) F.-Vill. 
There is no doubt as to the correctness of referring Sulipa 
pseudopsidium Blanco to Gardenia in spite of a few discrepan- 
cies in Blanco’s description which were apparently due to faulty 
observations. I am now of the opinion that Gardenia barnesii 
Merr. is probably not specifically distinct from Gardenia pseudo- 
psidium F.-Vill. The only differences appear to be in the length 
and size of the corolla, but an examination of a large series of 
- specimens shows the corolla to be exceedingly variable. 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
December, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 655). 
Randia aculeata Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 141; ed. 2 (1845) 99; ed. 3, 1 
(1877) 183, non Linn. =GARDENIA CURRANII Merr. 
Blanco’s species was reduced by Fernandez-Villar to Randia 
dumetorum Lam., which is certainly an error, Lamarck’s species 
not being a native of the Philippines. Gardenia curranii Merr. 
is known from Bataan, Rizal, and Batangas Provinces, Luzon, and 
may prove to be referable to the genus Randia rather than to 
Gardenia. 
Illustrative specimen from Balayan, Batangas Province, Luzon, 
August, 1914, there known as sinampaga (Merrill: Species Blan- 
coanae No. 76). 
VILLARIA Rolfe 
Remijia odorata Blanco FI. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 115 (olorata) (sp. nov.) ; ed. 
8, 1 (1877) 205, t 56=VILLARIA ODORATA (Blanco) comb. nov. 
(Villaria littoralis Vid.). 
Fernandez-Villar reduced this to Randia densiflora Benth., a 
species with which Blanco’s description does not conform. Blan- 
co’s description applies unmistakably to Villaria, and to V. litto- 
ralis Vid. rather than to V. philippinensis Rolfe, although the 
