Murraya paniculata (L.) Jack

M URRAYA Linnaeus
Connapus foetens Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 525 (sp. nov.) = Connarus santa-
toides Blanco t e. ed. 2 (1845) 366 (nom. nov.) ; ed. 3, 2 (1879) 314,
t. i55= MURRAY A PAN ICU LATA (Linn.) Jack.
Murraya odorata Blanco FI. Filip, ed. 2 (1845) 256 (sp. nov.); ed. 3, 2
(1878) 111== MURRAYA PAN1CULATA (Linn.) jack.
This species is very widely distributed in the Philippines at
low and medium altitudes and is common in most parts of the
Archipelago; it is occasionally also cultivated for its fragrant
flowers. It is universally known in the Philippines as camuning.
Blanco’s specimens of Murray a odorata were from the forests
of Angat, the species being very imperfectly characterized. I
am confident, however, that Murray a odorata Blanco is identical
with the form that Blanco otherwise described as Connarus
foetens and as Connarus santaloides, all being synonyms of Mur-
raya paniculata (Linn.) Jack (M. exotica Linn.). Fernandez-
Villar’s reduction of it to Feronia elephantum Corr. is wholly
wrong, Correa’s species not being a native of the Philippines
while Blanco’s description does not at all conform with its
characters.
Illustrative specimen from near Mandaloyon, Rizal Province,
%&m, April, 1914 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 2U).
MEHHI LL1
SPECIES 33LANCOANAE NO.
£4§* Mmrraya puaiomlata l&im* > Jaok
Ocnn&rus footena Blaaoo ’ '
Qom&ruB santaloides Blanco
Murraja odorata Blanoo
Mur raya exotioa 2»iim.
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