16 

 PITTOSPORACE^. 



PITTOSPORUM. 



1. Leaves lanceolate or oblong lanceolate; fruit 8 mm. long or 



less (1) /'. pcntandrum 



1. Leaves oblanceolate to obovate; fruit 1 to 3 cm. long. 



2. Inflorescence terminal (2) P. odoratum 



2. Inflorescence from the branches below the leaves; 

 fruit very resinous. 



3. Fruit oblong (3) P. resiniferum 



3. Fruit orbicular (4) P. resiniferum orbictilatiim 



(1) Pittosporum pentandrum (Blanco) Merrill, Govt. Lab. Publ. 27:19. 



1905. Aquilaria pentandra Blanco, Fl. Filip. ed. 1, 373. 1837; 



Limonia laureola Blanco, 1. c, ed. 2, 251. 1845; ed. 3, 2:101; Naves, 



1. c, ed. 3, pi. 128. Pittosporum brachysepalum Turcz. Bull. Sec. 



Nat. Mosc. 27:366. 1854; Rolfe, Journ. Bot. 23:210. 1885; Vidal, 



Phan. Cuming. Philip. 95. 1885; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. 50. 1886; 



Ceron, Cat. PI. Herb. 18. 1892. Pittosporum fernandezii Vidal, Cat. 



PI. Prov. Manila, 17. 1880; Sinopsis, Atlas, t. S. f. A. 1883; Rev. 



PI. Vase. Filip. 50. 1886; F.-Vill. Nov. App. 13. 1880; Ceron, Cat. 



PI. Herb. 18. 1892. Pittosporum florihundum F.-Vill. Nov. App. 13. 



1880, non W. et A. 

 Specimens examined: Philippines (1050, 1427 Cuming), 1830-40. Luzon, 

 Province of Bataan, Lamao River (3177 Merrill), October, 1903; (1937, 

 Borden), (2228 Meyer), December, 1904; Dinalupihan (1483 Merrill), 

 January, 1903. Province of Zambales, Botolan (2951 :\Ierrill). May, 1903. 

 Province of Rizal, Bosoboso (1159 Ahern's collector), June. 1904; (2804 

 Merrill), July, 1903; Antipolo (1308 Merrill), February. 1903. Province 

 of Benguet (6052 Elmer), March 1904. Culion Island (500 Merrill), 

 December, 1902. Guiraaras Island (219, 291 Gammill), January. 1904. 



This species is very common and widely distributed in the Philippines, 

 being characteristic of those localities which by the Tagalogs are called 

 "Parang" — that is, land which was once forested but from which the 

 valuable timber trees have been removed, so that it is now covered with 

 thickets of shrubs and small trees. The species is universally known to 

 the Tagalogs as Mamalcs, and to the Visayans to a greater or less extent 

 as Boloncoyon. Vidal states that his Pittosporum fernandezii is very 

 closely related to P. brachysepalum, and after a careful examination of 

 the figures, descriptions, cotype of P. brachysepalum, and specimens cited 

 above, it has been concluded that the two species are identical, and also 

 identical with Blanco's Aquilaria pentandra, which being the earliest name, 

 is here retained, there being absolutely no doubt as to the identity of 

 Blanco's species. A species apparently closely related to Pittosporum 

 floribundum W. et A., and undoubtedly the form credited to the Pliilippines 

 by F.-Villar as the latter. 



(2) Pittosporum odoratum, sp. nov. Pittosporum glabratum Vidal, 



Sinopsis, Atlas, t. 8. f. B. 1883; F.-Vill. Nov. App. 13. 18S0, non. 

 Lindl. 

 A small tree about 7 m. high, with oblanceolate to narrowly obovate 



