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BRAND. 
general construction. Common names Ditaman, Puso-puso, Buta-huta {Bataan) ; 
Balah-hd-haa (Guimaras Island). 
Endemic. 
In regard to the nomenclature of this speeies. Dr. C. B. Robinson, of the N. Y. 
Botanical Garden, writes to Mr. Merrill in March, 190G as follows: ''Symplocos 
ohlongifolia cannot stand for the Philippine plant as tliere is an older S. ohlongi- 
folia published as such by Casaretto in Novaruni Stirpium Brasiliensium Decades. 
It is on page 31, Xo. 28, and thus in the third decade, which appeared according 
to itself in August, 1842, the fourth decade being dated October, 1842 * * » 
Carlea ohlongifolia of Presl did not appear before 1849, and so it requires a new 
name." Concerning tliis matter, Symplocos ohlongifolia Casar., being only a 
synonym of S. lanceolata, requires no new name among those botanists who do 
not acknowledge the maxim "once a synonym always a synonym." 
10. S. betula Brand, sp. nov. 
Arbor, cortice laevi^ argenteo-cinereo, ramulis glabris^ purpureo-brun- 
neis, striatis. Folia subsessilia, chartacea, 5-8 cm. longa, 2-2.5 cm. 
lata, oblongo-elliptica, iitrimquc gla})errimaj margine leviter imdulataj 
apice sensim attenuata, basi cuiieata vel subrotundata, costa supra 
impressa. Spicae axillares, sinipliees, ca. 2 cm. longae, densiflorae; 
bractcae calycis tiibo distiiicte breviores, calyx glal>er, lobis rotundatis 
tubo paulo brevioribus; corolla alba, calyce triplo longior; stamina ea. 
2^, corolla sublongiora; stylus claviformis cum ovario glaber. Fructus 
ignotus. 
A tree 4 meters high, the trunk 5 centimeters in diameter, with white fragrant 
flowers growing on the old crater-rim in dense thickets, at an altitude of 1,000 
meters in the Lamao Forest Reserve, Mount Mariveles, Province of Bataan, Luzon, 
type specimen Xo. 6283 Forestry Bureau, collected by H. M. Curran, February, 
1907. 
11. S. Cumingiana Brand in Pflanzenreicli 6 (1901), 58. 
Arbor (?) ramulis gla1)ris. Folia 6-11 cm. longa, 2.5-5 cm. lata, 
valde variabilia, elliptica vel oblonga, leviter undulata, utrimque gla- 
berrima, breviter apiculata in petiolum brevissiiuum sensim attenuata. 
Spicae puberulae, 5-8-florae; bracteae sericeae, la^ceolato-acutae; caly- 
cis tubus subglaber, lobi rotundati- serieei; corolla calyce duplo* longior; 
stamina ca. 25; ovarium glabrum. Fructus 11 mm. longus, brunneus, 
glaber, nigosus, cylindricus, trilocularis, exocarpio tenui. 
Specimens previously examined: Luzon, Province of Batangas ( 1403 Cuming) : 
Province of Xueva Kcija, Caraballo Mountains (2133, 2148 Yidal) : Province 
of Camarines, Mount Isarog, (322G Vidal) . 
It is rather strange that this species, which appears to be not uncommon in 
Luzon, has not as yet been rediscovered by the American botanists. 
Endemic. 
12. S. Whitfopdii Brand, sp. nov. 
Frutex glaberrimus, cortice purpureo-l)runnoo, sti-iato. Folia coriacea, 
3-5.5 cm. longa, 15-25 mm. lata, elliptica vel oblongo-lanceolata, bre- 
viter apiculata, basi cuneata, erenata; costa supra impressa; petiolus 
