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possible the plant should be compared with at least the generic 

 description before accepting the scientific name to which the 

 native name refers. 



Most of the names in the present work not compiled from data 

 on the specimens now in the herbarium have been taken from the 

 following works: Blanco, "Flora de Filipinas," first edition, 1837, 

 and second edition, 1845; Fernandez-Villar and Naves, "Novis- 

 sima Appendix ad Floram PhiHppinarum, " 1880-1883; Vigil, 

 "Diccionario de los nombres vulgares que se dan en filijHnas a mu- 

 chas plantas usuales y notables," 1879; Vidal, S., "Sinopsis de 

 familias y generos de plantas leiiosas de filipinas," 1883; "Reseiia 

 de la flora del archipielago filipino," 1883; "Revision de plantas 

 vasculares de filipinas," 1886; Ceron, "Catalogo de las plantas del 

 herbario," 1892; Puigdulles, "Apuntes para el me j or conocimien- 

 to, clasificacion, y valuacion de las principales especiales arboreo- 

 forestales de filipinas, " 1895; Tavera, "Plantas medicinales de fili- 

 pinas, " 1892; Espejo, "Cartilla de agricultura filipina," 1892; 

 ' 'Catalogo de la exposiciun general de las islas filipinas, ' ' Madrid, 

 1887; "Guia oficial de las iolas filipinas," 1898. 



In many instances much difficulty was experienced in properly 

 referring many of the native names recorded in some of these 

 works to the accepted scientific names of to-day, due to the present 

 chaotic state of Philippine botany. The greatest difficulty v*'as met 

 with in attempting to properly refer the many names given by 

 Blanco, for, in spite of all the work done on the Philippine flora 

 since the publication of Blanco's "Flora de Filipinas," his species 

 are to-day very imperfectly known. In most cases in referring 

 the native names given by Blanco to their scientific names I have 

 followed F.-Villar in his generic identifications, as given in the 

 Novissima Appendix, but, except in the case of widely distributed 

 and well-known species, his specific identificati(jns have been 

 discarded. In identifying Blanco's species F.-Villar made few 

 errors in his generic identifications, l:»ut his specific identifications 

 of a large per cent of the species can not be accepted. 



The present paper enumerates about 5,000 plant names used by 

 natives of the Philippines, and has been compiled chiefly from the 

 publications of the various Spanish botanists who have worked on 

 the flora of the Archipelago. So far as possible these names have 

 been compared with the names on specimens in the herl)arium of 

 this Bureau for verification. It seems that in the past there was 



