378 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
Conyza cappa Ham., and placed it under Inula cappa DC., a 
species not known from the Philippines. There is every reason 
to believe that the plant Blanco intended was a form of the 
variable, common, and widely distributed Blumea lacera DC. 
His description, however, is wholly inadequate and is translated 
as follows: Leaves lanceolate, decurrent, the margins with ob- 
tuse teeth, the upper surface rough, the lower villous. A plant 
two feet high utilized by the natives for the same purposes as 
Blumea balsamifera DC. 
Conyza gouani Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 629, non Willd.=Conyza erosa 
Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 439 (sp. nov.); ed. 3, 3 (1879) 19=? 
BLUMEA LACINIATA DC. 
The form described by Blanco is widely distributed in Luzon, 
but it is not clear whether or not it is identical with B. laciniata 
DC. The specimens selected to illustrate Blanco’s species are 
apparently more robust and less pubescent than the form he 
described. 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
January, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 257). 
PLUCHEA Cassini 
Baccharis indica Linn.; Blanco Fl. Filip. (18387) 627; ed. 2 (1845) 438; 
ed. 3, 3 (1879) 17=PLUCHEA INDICA (Linn.) Less. 
The Linnean species was correctly interpreted by Blanco. It 
is widely distributed along the seashore in the Philippines. 
Illustrative specimen from Pasuquin, Ilocos Norte Province, 
Luzon, November, 1916 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 989). 
EPALTES Cassini 
Cotula quinqueloba Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 626; ed. 2 (1845) 436; ed. 3, 
3 (1879) 15, non Linn. f.=EPALTES AUSTRALIS Less. in Linnaea 
5 (1831) 148. 
Cotula quinqueloba Blanco was reduced by Fernandez-Villar 
to Centipeda orbicularis Lour., but this reduction is impossible 
as Blanco’s description does not at all apply to Loureiro’s spe- 
cies, although Centipeda orbicularis Lour.—C. minima (Linn.) 
Willd. is not uncommon in the Philippines. Blanco’s descrip-. 
tion applies unmistakably to Epaltes australis Less., which grows 
in the habitats indicated by Blanco. The species is of very local 
occurrence in the Philippines, growing as a weed in dried out 
rice paddies. See J. R. Drummond ex Merrill & Rolfe in Philip. 
Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) 126 for a critical note on Lessing’s species. 
Illustrative specimen from Manila, Luzon, January, 1915 © : 
(Merrill: Species Blancoanae No, 773). 
