RUBIACEAE 269 
caban, Rizal Province, Luzon, March, 1914 (Merrill: Species 
Blancoanae No. 444). 
Morinda citrifolia Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 149, non Linn.= Morinda ligulata 
Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 105 (sp. nov.); ed. 3, 1 (1877) 196= 
MORINDA BRACTEATA Roxb. 
Morinda royoc Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 148; ed. 2 (1845) 105; ed. 3, 1 
(1877) 193, non Linn. =MORINDA BRACTEATA Roxb. 
I believe the form that Blanco described as Morinda royoe to 
be nothing more than the common Morinda bracteata Roxb. (M. 
ligulata Blanco), erroneously described as subscandent. The 
description consists only of the statement that it reclines over 
neighboring trees, that the leaves are opposite, ovate, oblong, 
keeled, the petioles short, the flowers and fruit as in culit, i. e., 
Morinda ligulata Blanco—M. bracteata Roxb. It was said to 
be common in Malinta, near Manila, slightly known to the 
natives, but there called tumbong asong hapay, tumbong aso be- 
ing a common name for both Morinda citrifolia Linn. and M. 
bracteata Roxb. The data regarding its medicinal use were ap- 
parentiy copied from works of other authors. Fernandez-Villar 
reduced it to Morinda tinctoria Roxb., where it certainly does 
not belong. Morinda bracteata Roxb. is very common and widely 
distributed in the Philippines, by some authors considered a 
synonym of Morinda citrifolia Linn., by others a variety (brac- 
teata) of that species. 
Illustrative specimen from Taytay, Palawan, May, 1913 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 280). 
Coffea volubilis Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 157 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 111; 
ed. 3, 1 (1877) 200=MORINDA VOLUBILIS (Blanco) Merr. in Philip. 
Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 137, cum deser. 
Fernandez-Villar reduced Blanco’s species to Morinda tinctoria 
Roxb., where it certainly does not belong. I have connected 
certain Luzon material with Blanco’s species and have redescribed 
it as Morinda volubilis (Blanco) Merr. I feel fairly confident 
that this interpretation of Coffea volubilis Blanco is correct. 
Morinda umbellata Blanco FI. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 110; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 197, 
non ? Linn. =MORINDA MICROCEPHALA Bartl. 
This reduction follows Fernandez-Villar’s disposition of the 
form that Blanco described. It is not certain, however, that 
the Philippine Morinda microcephala Bartl. is specifically dis- 
tinct from the widely distributed Morinda umbellata Linn. 
BORRERIA. ‘G. FW. Meyer 
Spermacocé mutilata Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 43 (sp. nov.); ed. 3, 
1 (1877) 80 (mutilada) =BORRERIA HISPIDA (Linn.) K. Sch. (Sper- 
macoce hispida Linn.). 
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