PHILIPPINE BOTANICAL LITERATURE, V. ^83 



no further stops in the Philippines, visited the Moluccas and other islands 

 as far as New Guinea, and was again in Mauritius by June 4. 



With the doubtful exception of Menichea rozata, no specific names were 

 originated in this work, but several plants were figured and described, a 

 majority of them Philippine. Those figured from this Archipelago are 'ie 

 roucou" pi. 13, Bixa orellana L. ; "la sapotte negro" pZ. lIt-16, Diospyros 

 ehenaster Retz. ; "la bergkias," pi. 11, 18, which he believed to be only an 

 introduced plant in the Philippines, a species of Gardenia, referred by De- 

 Candolle to G. thunbergiana L. f., somewhat resembling G. longiflora Vidal, 

 but not agreeing exactly with any recent collections; "la pandacaqui," pi. 

 19, Tabernaemontana pandacaqui Poir., subsequently described from Son- 

 nerat's collections, and erroneously localized as from New C4uinea; "le rima 

 ou fruit a pain," pi. 51-60, Artocarpus rima Blanco, visually reduced to 

 A communis Forst.; "Je cacao," pi. 01, 62, Theobroma cacao L.; "le petit 

 citron doux," pi. 63, Triphasia trifoliata (L.) DC; "la houette," pi. 90, 01, 

 Ceiba pentandra (L.) Gaertn., here said to be native; "la menichea rozata." 

 pi. 92, 93, on which Butonica rosata Miers was in part based, Barringtonia 

 racemosa (L.) Eoxb. ; "la manssanas," pi. 94, Zizyphus jujuba L. Two other 

 Philippine plants are figured from collections made before his arrival in 

 the Islands, "la pagatpate," pi. 10, 11, Sonneratia caseolaris (L.) Engl., and 

 "le bonet quarre ou la Commergona," pi. 8, 9, Barringtonia asiatica (L. ) 

 Kurz. Reference is made on page 196 to the introduction into Mauritius 

 in 1768 by Prevost of the nutmeg, afterwards described from .Sonnerat's 

 collections as Myristica philippensis Lam., Mauritius afterwards serving as 

 a centre of distribution for this species into other tropical countries. 



Many of his collections subsequently formed a part of Commerson's her- 

 barium, and have occasionallj^ been credited to the latter, who never visited 

 the Philippines, being prevented by imfavorable conditions on the occasion 

 of his chief attempt. (C. B. Robinson.) 



Sonnerat, P. Voyages aux Indes orientales et a la Chine, fait par ordre du Roi, 

 depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781. i-xvi. 1-318, i-viii, 1-298, pi. I-I40. Paris, 

 1782. 



This work is more or less supplementary to the preceding and only pages 

 104-119 of the second volume relate to the Philippines. No further description 

 is given of species from the Archipelago, but there are interesting notes on the 

 cultivation of many important plant products. He appears to have made 

 but the one visit. (C. B. Robinson.) 



Turczaninow, N. Description des Elaeocarpees des collections asiatiques de MM. 

 Cuming et Zollinger. Bull. 8oc. Nat. Mosc. 19= (1846) 489-496. 



The following species are described from the Philippines: Elaeocarpus 

 nitidus Turcz., non Jack, which Turczaninow himself later ^ reduced to 

 E. oblongus Gaertn., Moeanera isotriclui (=^ Elaeocarpus isotrichus (Turcz.) 

 F.-VilL), and M. midtiflora {=E. multiflorus (Turcz.) F.-Vill.). 



Turczaninow, N. Decas secunda generum adhuc non descriptorum adjectis 

 descriptionibus nunnullarum specierum Byttneriacearum. Bull. Soc. Nat. 

 Mosc. 19' (1846) 497-510. 



Four genera and five species are described as new, based on Cuming's 

 Philippine plants; Hexagonotheca cordata (^=^Berrya ammonila Roxb.), 

 Antherotriche lanceolata {^Anisoptera thurifera Blanco), Pterocalymna 

 paniculata (^Lagerstroemia paniculata (Turcz.) Vid.), Gonostegia opposit- 

 ifolia and G. alternifolia (both =^Memoralis pentandra (Roxb.) Wedd.). 



'L. c. 31 ^ (1858) 235. 



