432 MERRILL. 



BUBSERAOE^. (p. 30). 



Guiacum abilo Blanco ed. 1, 30; Idea abilo Blanco ed. 2, 256 = Garuga abilo 

 (Blanco) Merr. in Govt. Lab. PiibL 35 (1905) 73 ! G. mollis Turcz., is a 

 synon_vni, and (1. floribiinda Decne., ex descr., a quite ditTerent species. 



CHALLETIAOEJ^: (p. 32). 



Riana tricapsularis Blanco ed. 1, 8.50; ed. 2, \2Q=Dichapetalutn friciipsulare 

 (Blanco) Merr. in ({ovt. Lab. Publ. 35 (189.5) 35. Apparently a very distinct 

 endemic species. 



■ OLACINEyE (Icacifiaeece). 



PHYTOCRENE Wall. 



Phytocrene bianco! (Azaola) Kadsura hiancoi Azaola in Blanco Fl. Filip. 

 ed. 2 (IS45) 594; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 118; Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. 27 (1905) 15. 

 Schizandra elongata F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 4, non Hook. f. et Th. Phytocrene 

 luzonicnsis H. Baill, in Adansonia 10 (1872) 28, et in DC. Prodr. 17 (1873) 10. 

 Gynocephalum luzoniense Llanos ex Baill. 11. cc. as syn. 



Luzon, Province of Rizal (1661 Merrill) March, 1903; 2439 Ahcni's collector) 

 January, 1905: Province of Laguna (Alberto) May, 1905. 



Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp, Keithley (447 Mrs. Clemens) March, 1906. 



In my treatment of Blanco's species ^ I considered Kadsura blancoi as a 

 doubtful species, following F.-Villar in treating it as a Marinoliaceous plant. 

 However, a careful examination of Blanco's description shows that the plant 

 can not be a Kadsura or a ScTiizandra. The description is verj' imperfect, but 

 from the gross characters and the friiit description the species can belong to 

 no other genus than Phytocrene "fruto en una cabezuela 6 capitulo que 

 contiene mas de setenta frutos, de trcs lados, & nianera de los del platano, 

 musa, apinados 6 reunidos sobre un receptaculo que pesaba 25 a 30 libras." 

 In the one specimen that I have seen in fruit, the heads weighed about 15 

 pounds. The locality from which the material came, on which the description 

 of. Kadsura bhuwoi was based, is not given, but the specimens undoubtedly 

 came from one of the provinces near Manila, Rizal, Laguna or Bulacan. After 

 a careful consideration of the matter I do not hesitate to refer the species to 

 Phytocrene, adopting Azuohi's name as tiic earliest one for it an<l reducing 

 to it Phytocrene luzoniensis II. Baill. 



A second species of tlie genus, perhaps Phytocrene macrophylla Blunie, is 

 represented by material collected near Davao, Mindanao (Nos. 2765, 2995 M'il- 

 iianis) . 



AMPELIDArE.E (]>. 33). 



Clssus pedata Blanco, ed. 1, 71; t<l. 2, 52, non \Aiin= Tel rasliynia kinceo- 

 lariuni (Boxb.) Planch. ! /J/r/ (/rr/ .s ik-scriptidn is entirely too short and imperfect 

 to warrant the above identification from the description alone, but the Tagalog 

 name Ayo, cited by him, is almost universally and quite consistently applied to 

 I'Utnchon's species which is conmidn in tlie l*liilip]iiMes. 



^ I'ublicalions of lh< liunint nf <!i>rcniiiiriil Laboratories, Maniln. (I!t()5), 

 No. 27, 15. 



