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disposition of it. The wax gourd is widely cultivated in the 
Philippines and is universally known as condol, the native name 
cited by Blanco. 
LAGENARIA Seringe 
Cucurbita lagenaria-oblonga Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 772 (var. nov.) ; ed. 
2 (1845) 531; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 175 =LAGENARIA LEUCANTHA (Lam.) 
Rusby (L. vulgaris Seringe). 
Cucurbita lagenaria-villosa Blanco op. cit. 772 (var. nov.); 532; 175= 
LAGENARIA LEUCANTHA (Lam.) Rusby. 
Lagenaria leucantha (Lam.) Rusby (L. vulgaris Seringe) is 
commonly cultivated in the Philippines, but does not occur wild. 
It is probably of prehistoric introduction. The two forms de- 
scribed by Blanco are manifestly the same species, which pre- 
sents great variation in fruit characters. It is commonly known 
as opo or upo. 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
January, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 600). 
TRICHOSANTHES Linnaeus 
Trichosanthes amara Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 774; ed. 2 (1845) 583; ed. 
3, 3 (1879) 178, non Linn.=(pro parte) TRICHOSANTHES CUCU- 
MERINA Linn. 
Blanco certainly included representatives of two genera in 
his description of Trichosanthes amara; one, flowering speci- 
men, a Trichosanthes; and the other, fruit, certainly Luffa acu- 
tangula Roxb., var. The species was reduced by Fernandez- 
Villar to Trichosanthes palmata Roxb., a species not known 
from the Philippines; by Cogniaux to Luffa acutangula Roxb. 
var. amara C. B. Clarke, which is possibly correct as to the fruit 
described by Blanco; and by myself as certainly identical with 
Trichosanthes quinquangulata A. Gray. As to the flowers Blan- 
eo’s description of the corolla with “las cinco partes del limbo, 
laceradas” is unmistakably Trichosanthes; as to the fruits “con 
cobertera en el extremo, angulosa y larga” unmistakably a Luffa. 
On the whole I now consider that the Trichosanthes part of the 
description agrees better with T. cucumerina Linn. as locally in- 
terpreted, than with T. quinquangulata A. Gray; Blanco would 
certainly have mentioned the very large and prominent bracts 
of the latter species. Trichosanthes cucumerina is common in 
the vicinity of Manila, and is widely distributed in the Philip- 
pines at low altitudes, growing in thickets in the settled areas. 
CUCURBITA Linnaeus 
Cucurbita sulcata Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 773 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 
532; ed. 3. 3 (1879) 177, t. 3200=CUCURBITA MAXIMA Duchesne. 
The common squash is cultivated throughout the Philippines — 
