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well-known species are spelled quite diilerently from their accepted 

 form to-day. One example from Camell's work, published in the 

 year 1704, is sufficient to illustrate this point: Camell's "Conyza 

 Helenitis odoris salviae' ' is undoubtedly the plant known to-day 

 as Blumea balsamifera DC, and Camell gives the following native 

 names for his species, which should be compared with those given 

 under Blumea halsamifera on page 139 : Samhon, Lacarhulan, 

 Lagdanbulan, Anacadbulan^ Olacdanbulan, Guitingf/vitan, Gabuen, 

 Lalacdan, Ayolan, Alibon, Hantilibun. 



None of the names of these earlier authors, not found in later 

 publications, are included in the present publication, for the reason 

 that we can not accurately identify many of the species. 



So far as the dialects of the various names were determinable 

 they have been specified by the following abbreviations : B., Bicol; 

 Cag., Cagayan; Ig. , Igorrote; II., Ilocano; Mang. , Mangyane; 

 Pamp., Pampangan; Pang., Pangasinan; Sp., Spanish; Sp.-Fil. , 

 Spanish-Filipino; T. , Tagalog; V., Visayan ; Z., Zambales. Fre- 

 quently, where the dialect of the name is not specified, the name of 

 the island or province where the name is used has been given in 

 parentheses. It has been impossible to identify the dialects of a 

 large number of the names for the reason that many of the Spanish 

 investigators did not consider such data of sufficient value to warrant 

 recording the same. With the exception of the data compiled from 

 the herbarium of this Bureau, the authority for the dialects of the 

 various names is that of the several Spanish investigators, and cer- 

 tain allowance must be made for errors. 



Most of the Spanish authors gave little or no attention to accen- 

 tuation, and frequently where accent marks were given they were 

 erroneously placed. In the present paper an attempt has been made 

 to properly accent the various words, and with this end in view all 

 the names have been carefully checked over with various native 

 employees of the office familiar with many of the dialects. 



As the names have been compiled from different works of Spanish 

 authors, it is to be presumed that the latter recorded the native 

 names by the phonetic system of spelling, giving the different letters 

 the same values as in the Spanish language. A cursory examination 

 of the following work will show at once that there is a great varia- 

 tion in the spelling of the same word, e and i, o and u, and fre- 

 quently i and y have the same values and are interchangeable. With 

 the exception of ng, which is pronounced like Jig in sing, bring, 



