Antidesma edule Merr.

ANTIDESMA SPICATUM Blanco PI. Filip. (1837) 794 (sp. nov.) =Anti-
desma alexiteria Blanco op. cit. ed. 2 (1845) 547; ed. 3, 3 (1879) 202,
non Linn., nec aliorum.
Blanco’s Antidesma spicatum is a valid species, and he erred
in reducing it to A. alexiteria Linn, in the second edition of his
Flora de Filipinas. It is the species described by me as An-
tidesma edule, Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 17 (1904) 26. Fer-
nandez-Villar reduced it to Antidesma ghaesembilla Gaertn., aij
impossible reduction from Blanco’s description of the 'ieaves
as “aovadas, alarg&das?*" ‘The only Philippines species of the
genus to which Blanco’s description at all applies is the form
described by me as Antidesma edule. The Tagalog name cala-
mantao cited by Blanco does not appear on any of our numerous
specimens of Antidesma, but is applied to the entirely .different
Erythrophloeum densiflorum (Elm.) Merr., of the Leguminosae;
Blanco’s description, however, is unmistakably that of an An-
tidesma. Widely distributed at low and medium altitudes in
the northern PhjHppjnes.
Illustrative specimens from Mount Arayat, Pampanga Prov-
ince, Luzon, February, 1915 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No.
718J; San Mateo, Rizal Province, Luzon, June, 1912 (Merrill:
Species Blancoanae No. 915).
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