THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



C. Botany 



Vol. IV JUNE, 1909 No. 2 



ADDITIONAL PHILIPPINE SYMPLOCACE/E, I. 



By A. Brand. 

 (Frankfurt a. d. Oder, Germany.) 



Among the Symplocos material collected in the Philippines during 

 the years 1907 and 1908, submitted to me by Mr. E. D. Merrill for 

 identification, I have found no less than five new species and one new 

 variety, so that the number of Philippine species of the genus known to 

 me has now been increased to twenty-one. 1 Two of the species previously 

 described, 8. floridissima and 8. Cumingiana, have been rediscovered 

 for the first time by the American botanists. The new species all belong 

 to the section Bobua, and accordingly the key to the species given in my 

 previous paper 2 must be changed as follows : 



1. Inflorescentiae compositae. 



' 2. Folia ramis adpressa, imbricata 3. 8. imbricata 



2. Folia patentia, hand imbricata. 

 3. Corolla extus sericea. 



4. Stamina ca. 100; folia basi valde angustata 4. 8. patens 



4. Stamina ca. 60; folia basi plerumque rotimdata 5. 8. floridissima 



3. Corolla extus glabra. 



4. Stamina ca. 100. 6. 8. polyandra 



4. Stamina 25-50. 



5. Inflorescentiae glabrae 7. 8. llutchinsonii 



5. Inflorescentiae pilosae. 

 6. Fructus globosus. 



7. Inflorescentiae axillares 8. 8. ferruginca 



7. Inflorescentiae! terminates 9. S. Ahernii 



6. Fructus ellipsoideus 10. 8. adenophylla 



1 Three species, Symplocos fragrans, 8. curtiflora, and 8. angularis, recently 

 described by Mr. Elmer in his Leaflets of Philippine Botany, 2 (1908) 508-510, 

 are at present known to me only by description. 



2 This Journal, 3 ( 1908) Botany 4. 



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