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MERRILL. 
Zanthoxylum lamarkianum Cham, in Linnaea 5 (1830) 58. 
Fagara octandra Blanco FI. Filip. ((1837) 67, ed. 2 (1845) 48, ed. 
3, 1 : 90. 
Zanthoxylum pteleaefoUum Champ, ex Benth. in Hook. Kew Joum. 
Bot. 3 (1851) 330, p.p., quoad Cuming 1819. 
Evodia lamarckiana Benth. FI. Hongk. (1861) 59, p.p. 
Melicope ternata Vid. Sinopsis Atlas (1883) t. 2i, f. A; F.-Vill. Novis. 
App. (1880) 34, non Forst. 
Melicope luzonensis Engl, in Engl. & Prantl Nat. Pflanzenfam. 3* 
(1897) 122, nomen; Perk. Frag. FI. Philip. (1905) 161; Merr. in 
Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 35 (1906) 24, Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) 
Bot. 411, 5 (1910) Bot. 355. 
Melicope odorata Elm. Leaf!. Philip. Bot. 2 (1908) 476. 
The genesis of this rather formidable list of synonyms is 
given above. In some cases they are due to arbitrary changing 
of specific names, in others manifestly to careless work, and 
in all cases more or less to the imperfect original description. 
The species is common and widely distributed in the northern 
and central parts of the Philippines, being uniform in essential 
characters, but like most other species showing some variation 
in vegetative characters and in the denseness or laxness of its 
inflorescence. It is dioecious, but the male flowers constantly 
have 8 stamens and the female ones 8 staminodes, so that with 
flowering material the generic determination is evident if the 
flowers are examined. In gross characters, habit, leaves, leaf- 
lets, inflorescence, and fruits it strongly resembles Asiatic speci- 
mens that have variously been referred to Evodia triphylla DC., 
E. roxhurghiana Benth., etc., and which are true Evodias, having 
four stamens. The resemblances are so great that it is not 
surprising that representatives of two distinct genera have 
been referred by several prominent botanists to a single species. 
So far as can be determined at present Melicope triphylla is 
confined to the Philippines, for all the Asiatic material that 
I have had an opportunity of examining, determined as Evodia 
triphylla, has four stamens, or four staminodes. I have exam- 
ined the following Philippine material, preserved in the Her- 
barium of the Bureau of Science: 
Luzon, without definite locality, Jagor 732: Cagayan Province, Bolster 
118: Benguet Subprovince, For. Bur. 15867 Bacani, Williams 1070, Elmer 
6282, For. Bur. 18180, 18211 Curran, Merritt, & Zschokke: Province of 
Nueva Vizcaya, For. Bur. H858 Darling: Province of Bataan, For. Bur. 
3056 Borden: Province of Cavite, For. Bur. 7691 Curran: Province of Rizal, 
Bur. Sci. i671, 13562 Ramos, For. Bur. U39 Ahern’s collector, Merrill 2787, 
Phil. PI. 67 Ramos, For. Bur. 10021 Curran: Province of Laguna, Bur. Sci. 
12333 McGregor, Bur. Sci. 12025 Ramos, Holman 73: Province of Sorsogon, 
For. Bur. 10520 Curran. Mindoro, For. Bur. 67^9, 9999 Merritt, Merrill 
