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and is occasionally found as an escape; in Laguna Province it appears to 
be thoroughly naturalized, being found about the bases of coconut trees, 
along roadsides, etc. A native of Mexico. 
IRIDACEAE. 
ELEUTHERINE Herb. 
ELEUTHERINE PALMIFOLIA (L.) comb. nov. 
Sisyrinchium palmifolium L. Mant. 1 (1767) 122, saltern pro maxima 
parte; Naves Noviss. App. (1880) 252. 
Sisyrinchium bulbosum Mill. Gard. Diet. ed. 8 (1768) no. 3. 
Ixia americana Aubl. PI. Guian. 1 (1775) 33. 
Moraea plicata Sw. FI. Ind. Occ. 1 (1797) 82. 
Eleutherine plicata Herb, in Hot. Reg. 29 (1843) sub t. 57; Baker in 
Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 16 (1877) 100. 
Antholyza meriana Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 24, ed. 2 (1845) 18, non L. 
This American species must have been introduced into the Philippines 
at an early date, and at the present time is of local occurrence, occasionally 
cultivated, and in some places thoroughly naturalized. It was collected by 
Cuming (herb. Kew.), and has later been collected by Loher in Benguet 
Subprovince, Luzon (no. 1609), by Mr. Elmer in southern Negros, and by 
myself in eastern Mindanao. In accordance with the Vienna Code of 
Botanical Nomenclature, the above new combination seems to be necessary. 
The oldest generic name is Galatea Salisb. (1812) but Eleutherine is 
retained in the list of noniina conservanda of the Vienna Code. 
OPILIACEAE. 
CHAMPEREIA Griff. 
CHAMPEREIA MANILLANA (Blume) comb. nov. 
Cansjera manillana Blume Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 1 (1850) 246; Hallier 
f. Meded.’s Rijks Herb. 1910 (1911) 14. 
Opilia cumingiana Baill. Adansonia 3 (1862) 124. 
Opilia manillana Baill. 1. c. 
Champereia griffithiana Planch, ex Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 44 ^ 
(1875) 154; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 5 (1886) 236; Forbes & Hemsl. 
in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1894) 409. 
Champereia griffithii Kurz For. FI. Brit. Burma 2 (1877) 330; F.-Vill. 
Novis. App. (1880) 185; Vid. Sinopsis Atlas (1883) f. 81, f. D., 
Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 141. 
Champereia cumingiana Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1906) Suppl. 50. 
This common species is represented in the Herbarium of the Bureau of 
Science by about 50 specimens, from all parts of the Philippines, from 
northern Luzon to southern Mindanao. It is known from Tenasserim to 
the Andaman Islands, Penang, and the Malay Peninsula, Formosa, and the 
Philippines. So far as I have been able to determine, Blume’s Cansjera 
manillana supplies the earliest specific name, which is here adopted. 
Hallier ° f., who has seen the type in the Leiden Herbarium, states that 
'’Meded.’s Rijks Herbarium 1910 (1911) 14. 
