690 
ROBINSON. 
Cuming 1012: Province of Rizal, Antipolo, Merrill 1321; Bosoboso, For. Bur. 
2969 Ahern’s collector; Montalban, Merrill 5069, For. Bur. 2^5^ Ahern’s collector. 
Mindoro, Baco, Merrill 1181. Leyte, Palo, Elmer 7101. Mindanao, District of 
Davao, Davao, Copeland s. n. 
This species is mentioned by Giirke in the Pflanzenfamilien as belonging to 
the section Myxa; it has, however, the calyx strongly 10-ribbed, quite as it is in 
American species belonging to the sections Gerascanthus and Pilicordia, and as 
the corolla does not persist beyond flowering time, it is to be included in the 
latter. All species recorded as belonging to either of the two last sections are 
tropical American, all those of Pilicordia being Brazilian, and this is apparently 
a case of remarkable geographical distribution. 
The types of C. cumingiana and C. propinqua are not identical, but subsequent 
collections have united the two series. The Mindanao and Leyte specimens have 
leaves with acute bases, and thicker styles, one of the Montalban numbers has 
the acute bases but the slender styles found in all the rest. 
Local name, Anonang lalaqui, Mindoro. 
Endemic. 
SPECIES EXCLUSA. 
C'ordia olitoria Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 123. 
Certainly to be excluded from the family; reduced by F.-Villar to Pisonia 
inermis Forst. (Nyctaginiaceae) . 
2. EHRETIA Linn. 
Styles single, bifid. 
Leaves serrate - 1 . E. acuminata 
Leaves entire. 
Calyx increasing in fruit, fruit 4-6 mm diameter, corolla-tube 4 to 6 mm 
long 2. E. navesii 
Calyx not increasing in fruit, fruit smaller, corolla-tube shorter. 
3. E. philippinensis 
Styles two, undivided, more rarely single and deeply parted 4. E. microphylla 
1. Ehretia acuminata R. Br. Prodr. (1810) 497. 
E. polyantha DC. Prodr. 9 (1845) 503. 
E. virgata Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 127, non Sw. Prodr. (1788) 47. 
E. onava DC. 1. c,. 511. 
Luzon, Province of Cagayan, San Vicente, For. Bur. 11298 Klemme : Province 
of Nueva Ecija, near San Jose, For. Bur. 8Jf79 Curran: Province of Zambales, 
between Castillejos and Aglao, For. Bur. 58^8 Curran: Cabuuan, For. Bur. 6938 
Curran: Province of Rizal, San Mateo, For. Bur. 1131 Ahern’s collector ; Bosoboso, 
Merrill lSJf6, 1857'; Caytilabag, Bur. Sci. 21 Foxworthy ; Antipolo, Merrill 1679, 
For. Bur. 1/58 Ahern’s collector. 
Although both Naves and F.-Villar agreed in interpreting Blanco’s species 
quite differently, there can be no doubt that it and therefore E. onava, which was 
based on it, should be reduced to E. polyantha. The latter is clearly synonymous 
with E. acuminata, although, in that species, the corolla-tube is said to be very 
short, and its lobes 3 mm long, in Philippine material the tube is nearly 1 mm, 
and the lobes rarely 2.5 mm, the leaves also varying from elliptic-oblong, as 
described for E. acuminata, almost to orbicular. 
Local names, opa, Cagayan; bala.gla, Nueva Ecija; calibinung, baliwit, Zam- 
bales; tanaua, panau, malaanonag, canawa, Rizal. The names from near Manila 
suggest Blanco’s onava. 
Himalayas to Japan and Australia. 
