384 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
and the native name tagapi is apparently unknown, or, at least, 
it does not appear on any of our Philippine specimens. 
Ornithrophe triandra Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 291 (sp. nov.) =Schmidelia 
triandra Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 218 (comb. nov.); ed. 3, 2 (1878) 
42 = 
I know of no Philippine sapindaceous plant that conforms 
to Blanco’s description. The description is short and very im- 
perfect. It is certainly not Schleichera trijuga Willd., where 
it was placed by Fernandez-Villar, Willdenow’s species not ex- 
tending to the Philippines. 
Polyscias disperma Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 226 (sp. nov.) =? 
A species of wholly doubtful status, not included in the second 
or third edition of the Flora de Filipinas. Fernandez-Villar 
reduced it to Arthrophyllum diversifolium Blume, where it 
cannot possibly belong. The description, very short and im- 
perfect, is translated as follows: Leaves opposite, lanceolate, 
entire, glabrous. Petioles very short. Flowers in a terminal 
panicle, the fruit 2-seeded, epidermis bony. A non-parasitic 
shrub observed along the beach in Batangas. It is very prob- 
able that Blanco had specimens of Grumilea or Psychotria, of 
the Rubiaceae. 
Sterculia glandulosa Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 764 (sp. nov.); ed. 3, 3 
(1879) 164. 
A species of wholly doubtful status and one that cannot be 
determined from the very brief and imperfect description given 
by Blanco. Blanco himself, apparently dissatisfied with his 
original description, excluded the species in the second edition 
of his Flora. The species may not belong in the Stereuliaceae 
and is possibly a myristicaceous plant. 
Sulipa globosa Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 348 (sp. nov.) ; ed. 3, 2 (1878) 
280=? e 
Fernandez-Villar reduced this to Planchonia littoralis Blume, 
an impossible reduction of it. The fruit only is described, and 
the description is so imperfect that nothing can be made of it — e 
except that it possibly refers to some rubiaceous plant. The 
fruit was claimed by Blanco to be used in Maragondong, Gavite 
Province, Luzon, for poisoning fish, but repeated inquiries made 
in Maragondong, as to plants there used for poisoning fish, 
yielded only the well-known Anamirta cocculus W. & A., Derris | 
elliptica Benth., Croton tiglium L., and Callicarpa blancoi Rolfe. — 
