THE GENUS RADERMACHERA HASSK. 337 
Stereospermum banaibanai Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 314; 
Vidal Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 203; Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 132. 
Stereospermum seemannii Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 21 (1884) 314; Vidal 
1. cc. 132, 203. 
Stereospermum quadripinnatum F.-Vill. Nov. App, (1883) 151; Vidal Sinopsis 
Atlas (1883) t. 73, f. A (inaccurate). 
Radermachera quadripinna Seem, in Journ. Bot. 8 (1870) 147. 
Stereospermum pinnatum F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1883) 151. 
Luzon, without locality, Cuming 1182, 996 : Province of Benguet, Sablan, Elmer 
6157, April, 1904: Province of Zambales, For. Bur. 5800 Curran, January, 1907; 
For. Bur. 6081/ Aguilar, January, 1907 ; Botolan, Merrill 2925 : Province of Pangas- 
inan, Salasa, For. Bur. 9628 ZschoJclce, December, 1907 : Province of Rizal, Montal- 
ban, Loher 4323, March, 1891; Antipolo, Merrill 1729, March, 1903: Province of 
Bataan, Mount Mariveles, Whitford 24, April, 1904; For. Bur. 7 25, 1540, 1541, 
1550, 1542, 1566 Borden; For. Bur. 342, 185, 51p S Barnes ; For. Bur. 2424 Meyer, 
January, 1905; Williams 588, February, 1904: Province of Camarines Sur, Ahern 
61, February, 1902. Mindoko, For. Bur. 9717 Merritt, February, 1908. 
Var. glabra var. nov. 
Differt a typo omnibus partibus glabratis. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal, Bosoboso, For. Bur. 2671 Ahern’s collector, January, 
1905 (type) ; Antipolo, For. Bur. 469 Ahern’s collector; Dec. Philip. For. FI. 174; 
Loher 4322, March, 1903: Province of Bataan, Mount Mariveles, For. Bur. 2469 
Borden, January, 1905; Bur. Sci. 5177 Foxworthy, April, 1908: Province of Ca- 
gayan, For. Bur. 6660, 11303 Klemme, April, 1907, 1908: Province of Isabela, Casi- 
guran, Bur. Sci. 3121 Mearns, June, 1907. Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp Keithley, 
Mrs. Clemens 274, February, 1906. 
This is the most common and widely distributed species of the genus in the 
Philippines, being somewhat variable, and its synonomy is rather complicated, 
due primarily to Blanco’s imperfect descriptions, and to various later inter- 
pretations of these. The leaves are bi- and tripinnate, frequently on the same 
specimen, and the flowers vary in size from 2.5 to 3 cm in length, but on all the 
specimens cited above, both under the species and the variety, the flowers are 
uniformly described by the collectors, as far as the field notes show, as pink or 
pale purple and marked with yellow inside. 
I have .adopted the first valid specific name available, taken from Milling tonia 
pinnata Blanco, although so far as I have observed, and in the large series of 
specimens examined, the leaves are never simply pinnate. It is universally known 
to the natives as Banaibanai, a name normally applied to no other species, other 
than the following one, and with the exception of the discrepancy as to leaves, 
Blanco’s description applies very closely. The species is very abundant in the 
regions from which Blanco received most of his material. The disposition of 
Blanco’s Millingtoma quadripinnata necessitated careful consideration, but I have 
here reduced it to Radermachera pinnata (Blanco) Seem., although in this I 
am at variance with both Seemann and Rolfe, who have previously worked over 
the Philippine species of this genus. Knowing thoroughly the flora of the region 
about Manila, and the contiguous provinces, it does not seem probable that this 
species, if distinct from R. pinnata, as considered by Blanco, should have escaped 
our notice, but up to the present time there is nothing in our herbarium to 
which Blanco’s description applies so well as to the material here considered to 
represent Radermachera pinnata. It seems rather curious that Blanco should 
have described it under two different names, neither of which apply well to 
the species, for none of the above specimens have simply pinnate leaves, and 
