Champereia manillana (Blume) Merr.

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64&* Ohampereia maniliana (Blume)
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Malulucban Blanoo
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OPILIACEAE
CHAM PEREIA Griffith
Malulucban Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 188; ed. 2 (1845) 133; ed. 3, 1 (1877)«
238=CHAMPEREIA MANILLANA (Blume) Merr.
Govantesia malulucban Llanos in Rev. Cienc. Nat. Madrid 15 (1865) 191
(gen. et sp. nov.); F.-Vill. & Naves in Blanco FI. Filip, ed. 3, 4*
(1880) 44=CH AM PEREIA MANILLANA (Blume) Merr. in Philip.
Journ. Sei, 7 (1912) Bot. 233.
This species is common and widely distributed at low altitudes
in the Philippines, and presents considerable variation. Malu-
lucban, as described by Blanco, was not intended as a generic
name, but merely the native name of a plant that he could not
refer to its proper genus. Govantesia malulucban Llanos, pub-
lished as a new genus and species, is manifestly Champereia
manillana Merr. This genus and species has been overlooked
by all later authors except Fernandez-Villar; it does not appear
in Index Kewensis, in Engler & Prantl’s Natürlichen Pflanzen-
familien, or in De Dalla Torre & Harms’s Genera Siphonoga-
marum. Philippine specimens have been referred by Vidal to
Champerißia griffithiana Planch., but Gamble, Journ. As Soc.
Beng. 752 (1912) 278, considers that; the Malay Peninsula form
is distinct from the Philippine one. Synonyms of Champereia
manillana, the specific name dating from 1850, are Cansjera
manillana Blume, Opilia cumingiana Baill., O. mamllana Baill.,
and Champereia cumingiana Merr.; perhaps also Champereia
griffithiana Planch, and C. griffithii Kurz.
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon,
January. 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 641) .
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