366 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
the leaves as compound, all data given by Blanco apply word 
‘for word to Plectronia glandulosa (Blanco) Merr., which Blanco 
otherwise described as Ixora glandulosa. The young branchlets 
with their characteristic distichous leaves were erroneously in- 
terpreted by Blanco as compound leaves. 
Illustrative specimen from Mount Mariveles, Bataan Province, 
Luzon, March, 1915 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 897). 
GUETTARDA Linnaeus 
Guettarda vermicularis Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 723 (sp. nov.) ; ed. 2 (1845) 
500; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 125 =GUETTARDA SPECIOSA Linn. 
Blanco’s description applies unmistakably to this species, which 
is widely distributed along the seashore throughout the Philip- 
pines; his specimens were from the seashore at Bauang, Batan- 
gas Province, Luzon. Fernandez-Villar was entirely wrong in 
reducing it to Anneslea fragrans Wall. of the Theaceae, as no 
representative of this genus is known from the Philippines, and 
moreover Blanco’s description does not in the least apply to 
Wallich’s species. 
Illustrative specimen from Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte Province, 
November, 1916 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 1045). 
COFFEA Linnaeus 
COFFEA ARABICA Linn.; Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 156; ed. 2 (1845) 110; 
ed. 3, 1 (1877) 198, t. 53. 
The Linnean species was correctly interpreted by Blanco. 
Coffee was introduced by the Spaniards and is now found 
throughout the Archipelago in cultivation. It was formerly cul- 
tivated on a large scale in some provinces, but the industry was 
largely destroyed by the introduction of the coffee blight, 
Hemileia vastatriz, about 1890. 
Illustrative specimen from Batangas Province, Luzon, August, 
1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 590). 
PAVETTA Linnaeus 
PAVETTA MEMBRANACEA Blanco Fi. Filip. (1837) 59 (sp. nov.)= _ 
Pavetta sambucina Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 41; ed. 3, 1 (1877) _ 
75, t. 246, non DC. : 
The species Blanco described as a new species in the first edi- 
tion of his Flora de Filipinas he erroneously reduced in the © 
second edition to Pavetta sambucina DC., a species that does 
not occur in the Philippines. Likewise Fernandez-Villar erro- 
neously reduced it to Pavetta angustifolia R. & S., a species that 
also does not extend to the Philippines. Blanco’s Pavetta mem- 
branacea is a valid species, and his name is the oldest one and 
