THE FLORA OF MANILA. 
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I am indebted to Prof. Isaac Bayley Balfour of the Royal Botanic Gardens 
at Edinburgh, and to Mr. W. Craib of the Kew Gardens for abstracts of 
certain articles and notes bearing on the case. 
MELIACEAE. 
SANDORICUM Cav. 
SANDORICUM KOETJAPE (Burm. f.) comb. nov. 
Melia koetjape Burm. f. FI. Ind. (1768) 101. 
TricMlia nervosa Vahl Symb. 1 (1790) 31. 
Sandoricum indicum Cav. Diss. 4 (1787) 359, t. 202, 203. 
In accordance with the rules governing priority of specific names, the 
above combination is necessary in the case of this common and well known 
species; it is unfortunate that the specific name indicum, long in use, must 
be replaced by such a barbarous one as koetjape. 
POLYGALACEAE. 
SALOMONIA Lour. 
SALOMONIA CILIATA (L.) DC. Prodr. 1 (1824) 334. 
Poly gala ciliata L. Sp. PI. (1753) 705. 
Salomonia ohlongifolia DC. 1. c.; Benn. in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 1 
(1872) 207. 
This species is widely distributed in the Philippines and is not uncommon. 
Previous authors have identified the local form with Salomonia ohlongifolia 
DC., but Trimen," who has examined the specimen in Hermann’s herbarium 
on which Linnaeus based his FI. zeyl. 270, and later his Polygala ciliata, 
is authority for the statement that Linnaeus’ type quite corresponds with 
Salomonia ohlongifolia DC. Manifestly the specific name ciliata should be 
applied to the present form, and if the species described under this name 
in Hooker’s “Flora of British India” is really distinct, then it should receive 
a new name. 
EUPHORBIACEAE. 
EUPHORBIA L. 
EUPHORBIA PROSTRATA Ait. Hort. Kew. 2 (1789) 139; Boissier in 
DC. Prodr. 15" (1862) 47. 
Specimens of this species were collected in waste places about Manila 
by Doctor C. F. Millspaugh of the Field Museum of Natural History, in 
November, 1911. In habitat it is very similar to the common and widely 
distributed Euphorbia thymifolia Burm., at once distinguishible by its 
capsules being glabrous except for the ciliate-hispid keels of the cocci. 
The species is otherwise represented in our herbarium by Wilson 228 
from Cuba, and by Ridley 123, 126 from Christmas Island (south of 
Java). The species is undoubtedly of American origin, and has previously 
not been reported from the Philippines. 
'Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 24 (1888) 146. 
