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MERRILL. 
Cansjera manillana Blume is the same as Champereia griffithiana Planch.; 
I had previously proposed to take up the name Champereia cumingiana," 
at least for the Philippine form, as it antedates Planchon’s specific name. 
I was not sure, however, that the Philippine plant was the same as the 
Indian one, although at Kew the Philippine material had been referred to 
Planchon’s species. The type of Cansjera manillana Blume was collected 
in the Philippines by Perrottet, and the type of Opilia manillana Baill., 
was also a Perrottet specimen, undoubtedly the same collection. Baillon 
does not cite Blume’s Cansjera manillana, and the use of the same specific 
name by both authors may have been merely a coincidence, or Baillon may 
have neglected to cite Blume’s previous publication (as Cansjera) . 
The first actual description of the plant seems to have been Blanco’s 
Malulucban,^ but this name has no standing, not being a binomial. Many 
authors have considered that Malulucban, and species similarly described 
by Blanco, to be of generic rank, but I believe this to be unwarranted. 
Blanco certainly did not intend them for genera, but simply as descriptions 
of species that he was unable to place in the Linnean system to his 
satisfaction; this is made manifest by the fact that the names both in the 
text and in the index are included in parentheses. 
The numerous Philippine specimens have been distributed in part as 
Champereia griffithii Planch., and in part as C. cumingiana (Baill.) Merr. 
While there is some variation in vegetative characters, I am of the opinion 
but that a single species is represented, and that its proper name is 
Champereia manillana (Blume) Merr. 
PORTULACACEAE. 
PORTULACA L. 
PORTULACA PILOSA L. Sp. PI. (1753) 445. 
Luzon, Province of Cavite, Mendez Nunez, Bur. Sei. H53 Mangubat; 
Province of Rizal, Mariquina, For. Bur. 5207 Curran; San Juan del Monte, 
Guerrero: Province of Pangasinan, Tayug, Bur. Sci. 8297 Ramos. 
Not previously reported from the Philippines. Widely distributed in 
tropical America, introduced in the Philippines and naturalized. 
ANONACEAE. 
ARTABOTRYS R. Br. 
ARTABOTRYS UNCINATUS (Lam.) comb. nov. 
Anona uncinata 'Lam. Encycl. 2 (1786) 127. 
Unona uncinata Dun. Monog. Anon. (1817) 105, t. 25; DC. Prodr. 1 
(1824) 90. 
Artabotrys odoratissumus R. Br. Bot. Reg. 423; Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 
1 (1872) 54; King in Ann. Bot. Card. Calcutta 4 (1893) 44, pi. 55. 
This species occurs in the Philippines only as an introduced and 
cultivated plant. Sir George King expresses the opinion that it is truly 
wild only in southern India and in Ceylon; it is, however, much cultivated 
in India, and in other tropical countries. 
° This Journal 1 (1906) Suppl. 50. 
' FI. Filip. (1837) 186. 
