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THE PHILIPPINE 
Journal of Science 
C. Botany 
Vol. Ill FEBRUARY, 190S Xo. 1 
THE SYMPLOCACE^ OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 
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By A. Br.\nd. 
{Frankfort a. d. Oder, Germany.) 
The first species of Sjjmploros from the Pliilippines, 8, patens and 
S. ciliaia, Avcre cleecril>ed by C. Presl in 1831 in RELiQUiiE ILviiNKEAX.Ti:, 
but an examination of the types preserved in the Vienna TTerbarinni has 
shown that they are but forms of one species, for which the name 
S, patens was retained in my monograpli of the family published in 1901. 
AIthonf,di FresVs descriptions are very com]>lete, the species fell into 
oblivion, and it was not considered by A. DcCandoIIc in the Prodromus, 
nor by Vidal in his publications on Pliilippine botany, nor in Txdex 
Kewensis. There can be no doubt but that the specimens on which the 
species was based were really collected in the I^iilippines, for the section 
of the genus to which it belongs does not occur in tropical America, to 
which region some of the species credited by Presl to the Philippines 
must be referred.^ 
In 1851 Presl described the next Philippine species of the genus, but 
did not recognize it as belonging to Symplocos, naming it Carlea ohlongi- 
folia. In 1880-1883 F,-Yillav in his Xovissima Appendix erroneously 
credited to the Philippines S. racemosa Roxb., wliile Vidal in 1885 erro- 
neously credited S. spicata to the archipelago. In 188G Tidal described 
Symplocos ViUarii and S. psendospicaia, but in the Pflanzexkeicji both 
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