374 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
and is universally known in the Archipelago as calabaza, a name 
of Spanish origin. The plant was undoubtedly introduced into 
the Philippines from Mexico, and at a very early date in the 
Spanish occupation. 
Illustrative specimen from Maragondong, Cavite Province, 
Luzon, October, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 152). 
CAMPANULACEAE 
SPHENOCLEA Linnaeus 
Pongatium spongiosum Blanco Fl. Filip. (1887) 86 (sp. nov.) =SPHENO- 
' CLEA ZEYLANICA Gaertn.; Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 62; ed. 3, 
1 (1877) 117, t. 143. 
Reichelia palustris Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 220 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 
155; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 277=SPHENOCLEA ZEYLANICA Gaertn. 
The form that Blanco described as a new species, Pongatium 
spongiosum, in the first edition of his Flora de Filipinas he 
correctly reduced in the second edition to Sphenoclea zeylanica 
Gaertn. There is not the slightest doubt as to the correctness 
of the reduction of Blanco’s Reichelia palustris to the same 
species. This is a widely distributed weed in the Philippines at 
low and medium altitudes in the settled areas, in low, open, wet 
places. 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, September, 1914 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 30). 
GOODENIACEAE 
SCAEVOLA Linnaeus 
Scaevola lobelia Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 147; ed. 2 (1845) 104; ed. 3, 1 
(1877) 193, t. 270, non Murr.=SCAEVOLA FRUTESCENS (Mill.) 
Krause (S. koenigii Vahl). 
This characteristic species occurs along the seashore through- 
out the Philippines. According to the idea of generic types, 
as interpreted by some American botanists, Scaevola becomes 
Lobelia, and Lobelia must receive a new name; see W. F. Wight 
in Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 9 (1905) 310. Ido not accept Wight’s 
interpretation. a 
Illustrative specimens from Taytay, Palawan, May, 1913 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 526); Baler, Tayabas Prov- 
ince, Luzon, June, 1913 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 59). 
ee 
CALOGYNE R. Brown 
Balingayum decumbens Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 187 (gen. et sp. nov-) ; ed. 
2 (1845) 132; ed. 3, 1 (1877) 237=CALOGYNE PILOSA R. Br. 
This monotypic genus proposed by Blanco was retained as 
