170 ENUMERATION OF PHILIPPINE PLANTS ^922 



22. ELAEIS Jacquin 



ELAEIS GUINEENSIS Jacq. Select Am. (1763) 280, t, 172; Merr. Fl. 



Manila (1912) 126; Brown & Merr. in Philip. Bur. Forestry Bull. 



18 (1919) 84, t. 30, 81. 

 Cultivated for ornamental purposes, and producing fruits abundantly. 

 A native of tropical Africa. African oil palm. 



28. COCOS Linnaeus 



COCOS NUCIFERA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 1188; Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 



716, ed. 2 (1845) 495 (nucigera) , ed. 3, 3 (1879) 123, t. 36U; Naves 



Novis. App. (1882) 282; Vidal Sinopsis Atlas (1883) 42, t. 9U, f. 



D; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 3 (1855) 64 (incl. var. macrocarpa Miq. var. 



saccharina Miq.) ; Merr. Fl. Manila (1912) 125, Sp. Blancoanae 



(1918) 89, 90. 



Cocos mamillaris Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 722 (mammilaris) , ed. 2 



(1845) 499, ed. 3, 3 (1879) 123. 



Very extensively cultivated in the Philippines, especially in those regions 



where the dry season is not too prolonged; one of the most important 



agricultural crops of the Archipelago. Pantropic in cultivation, probably 



a native of Polynesia, certainly not a native of the Philippines. Coconut. 



Local names: Coco (Sp.) ; cocotero (Sp.) ; gira-gira (Sbl.) ; i-ing (It.); 



iniug (Ibn.) ; lobi (S. L. Bis.) ; lubi (C. Bis.) ; niog (Ilk., Bik., Bis., Ibn., 



Tag.) ; ngot-ngot (Pamp., Sbl.) ; ongot (Ibn.) ; ponlaing (Sub.) ; punlaing 



(Yak.). 



24. NYPA Wurmb 



{Nipa Thunb.) 



NYPA FRUTICANS Wurmb in Verh. Bat. Genoots. 1 (1779) 350; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. 3 (1855) 150; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 284; Vidal 

 Sinopsis Atlas (1883) 42, t. 94, /. C; Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 

 461, ed. 3, 3 (1879) 68, t. 3S6; Becc. in Webbia 1 (1905) 357; 

 Merr. Fl. Manila (1912) 125, Sp. Blancoanae (1918) 90; Brown 

 & Merr. in Philip. Bur. Forestry Bull. 18 (1919) 98, t. S8-U 

 (mostly as Nipa). 

 Nipa fructicans Thunb. in Vet. Akad. Nya Handl. Stockh. 3 (1782) 



231. 

 Nipa fruticosa Lam. ex Perr. in Mem. Soc. Linn. Paris 3 (1824) 132; 



C. B. Rob. in Philip. Joum. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 306. 

 Nipa litoralis Blanco Fl. Filip. (1837) 662. 

 Along tidal streams in brackish swamps throughout the Philippines, in 

 favorable habitats gregarious over large areas. India, through Malaya 

 to tropical Australia. 



Local names: Anipa (Ibn.) ; lasa (Tag.) ; nipa (Sp.-Fil.) ; paiiid (Tag.) ; 

 pinog (It.); pinok (Ibn.); saga (Sbl.); sasa (Pamp., Tag.), tata (Ibn.). 



EXCLUDED GENERA AND SPECIES 



Bentinckia renda Mart.; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 280. 

 BoRASSUS DiCHOTOMA White; Naves op. cit. 281. 

 BORASSUS FLABELLiFORMis Linn.; Naves op. cit. 280. 



