432 
MERRILL. 
BURSERACE2E (p. 30). 
Guiacum abilo Blanco ed. 1, 30; Idea abilo Blanco ed. 2, 256=Garuga abilo 
(Blanco) Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. 35 (1905) 73 ! <7. mollis Turcz., is a 
synonym, and G. floribunda Decne., ex descr., a quite different species. 
CHALLETIACE2E (p. 32). 
Riana tricapsularis Blanco ed. 1, 850; ed. 2, 126=Dichapetalum tricapsulare 
(Blanco) Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. 35 (1895) 35. Apparently a very distinct 
endemic species. 
OLACINE2E ( Icacmacece ). 
PHYTOCRENE Wall. 
Phytocrene blancoi (Azaola) Kadsura blancoi Azaola in Blanco FI. Filip, 
ed. 2 (1845) 594; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 118; Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. 27 (1905) 15. 
Schizandra elongata F.-Vill. Nov. App. (1880) 4, non Hook. f. et Th. Phytocrene 
luzoniensis H. Baill, in Adansonia 10 (1872) 28, et in DC. Prodr. 17 (1873) 10. 
Gynocephglum luzoniense Llanos ex Baill. 11. cc. as syn. 
Luzon, Province of Rizal (1661 Merrill) March,. 1903 ; 2439 Ahern’s collector) 
January, 1905: Province of Laguna (Alberto) May, 1905. 
Mindanao, Lake Lanao, Camp, Keithley (447 Mrs. Clemens) March, 1906. 
In my treatment of Blanco’s species 3 I considered Kadsura blancoi as a 
doubtful species, following F.-Villar in treating it as a Magnoliaceous plant. 
However, a careful examination of Blanco’s description shows that the plant 
can not be a Kadsura or a Schizandra. The description is very imperfect, but 
from the gross characters and the fruit description the species can belong to 
no other genus than Phytocrene “fruto en una cabezuela 6 capftulo que 
contiene nias de setenta frutos, de tres lados, a manera de los del platano, 
musa, apinados 6 reunidos sobre un receptaculo que pesaba 25 a 30 libras.” 
In the one specimen that I have seen in fruit, the heads weighed about 15 
pounds. The locality from which the material came, on which the description 
of Kadsura blancoi was based, is not given, but the specimens undoubtedly 
came from one of the provinces near Manila, Rizal, Laguna or Bulacan. After 
a careful consideration of the matter I do not hesitate to refer the species to 
Phytocrene, adopting Azaola’s name as the earliest one for it and reducing 
to it Phytocrene lusoniensis H, Baill. 
A second species of the genus, perhaps Phytocrene macrophylla Blume, is 
represented by material collected near Davao, Mindanao (Nos. 2765, 2995 Wil- 
liams) . 
A MPELI D ACE2E (p. 33). 
Cissus pedata Blanco, ed. 1, 71; ed. 2, 52, non Lam = Tetrastigma lanceo- 
larium (Roxb.) Planch. ! Blanco’s description is entirely too short and imperfect 
to warrant the above identification from the description alone, but the Tagalog 
name Ayo, cited by him, is almost universally and quite consistently applied to 
Planchon’s species which is common in the Philippines. 
5 Publications of the Bureau of Government Laboratories, Manila, (1905), 
No. 27, 15. 
