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recognizing four species, 8. quadripinnatum (Blanco) F.-Vill., the form 
so identified by F.-Yillar and Vidal, 8. pinnatum (Blanco) F.-Vill., to 
which is referred a specimen collected by Cuming (no. 1517), which is 
certainly not the same as the plant Blanco described, S. banaibanai 
(Bureau) Bolfe, and 8. seemannii Bolfe, the latter described as new, 
based on Cuming 996, a very fragmentary specimen, which had been 
referred by Seemann to Rader much era quadripinna. Vidal 5 follows 
Bolfe in his consideration of the Philippine species of the genus. In 
1905, the present author described Radermachera elmeri, and in the fol- 
lowing year, R. biternata, this being a history of the Philippine forms 
up to the present time. 
The difficulty has been to determine just what the plants were 
that Blanco described, and from an examination of his descriptions, 
both of which are imperfect, the conclusion has been reached that both 
of Blanco’s descriptions apply to only one species, for which the earlier 
name pinnata is here adopted, although none of the specimens so identified 
have pinnate leaves, and no specimens seen from the Philippines have 
4-pinnate leaves. The local name, Banaibanai, is almost invariably ap- 
plied to the form below considered to represent Radermachera pinnata 
(Blanco) Seem., and is one of the names cited by Blanco. The other 
native name cited by Blanco, Bo tong manoc, meaning “chicken bone,” 
is of little value in establishing the identity of the species, as it is applied 
indiscriminately by the natives to a number of totally different trees. 
The only native name cited by Blanco under Milling tonia quadripinnata, 
is Baticulin, but this name is almost invariably applied to various arbores- 
cent Lauraceae at the present time. 
Nine species of Radermachera are recognized in the following paper, 
considerably more than is known from all other regions combined. In 
my treatment of the older species, based on Blanco’s two Millingtonias, 
I am at considerable variance with Seemann, and entirely at variance 
with Bolfe, in my conception as to what Blanco really intended to 
describe, but my conclusions have been based on considerable field 
knowledge, extending over a period of six years, as well as a very exten- 
sive series of specimens from all parts of the Philippines, and especially 
rich in individual collections from the provinces about Manila, from 
which Blanco received most of the material on which his Flora de Fili- 
pinas was based. 
5 Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 132; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 203. 
