X, C, 4 | Merrill: Plantae Wenzelianae, III 283 
calycibus extus dense pubescentibus; staminibus circiter 100; 
ovario 3-loculare. 
A tree about 10 m high, the branches terete, the ultimate ones 
about 5 mm in diameter, pale brownish, prominently ciliate-hir- 
sute with spreading hairs as are the petioles and the midrib and 
nerves on the lower surfaces of the leaves. Leaves coriaceous, 
greenish when dry, oblong to oblong-ovate, 18 to 22 cm long, 
7 to 9 cm wide, subequally narrowed to the acute base and the 
rather prominently acuminate apex, the acumen apiculate, the 
upper surface shining, sparingly ciliate-hirsute with scattered, 
long, pale, weak hairs, the margins entire or very obscurely 
and distantly denticulate; lateral nerves about 10 on each side 
of the midrib, very prominent, curved-anastomosing, the reticu- 
lations lax; petioles about 1.5 cm long, prominently long ciliate- 
hirsute. Inflorescence terminal and in the uppermost axils, 
paniculate, many-flowered, up to 138 cm long, rather densely 
brown-pubescent, branched from or near the base. Flowers 
white, rather crowded on the ultimate branchlets, 8 to 9 mm in 
diameter, sessile or shortly pedicelled, the bracts lanceolate, 
acuminate, up to 3.5 mm long, pubescent. Calyx about 3 mm long 
and wide, rather densely pubescent, the lobes subreniform, about 
1 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, rounded, much shorter than the tube. 
Corolla-lobes suborbicular, spreading or reflexed, about 4 mm in 
diameter, externally very slightly and obscurely pubescent with 
short scattered hairs. Stamens about 100, obscurely pentadel- 
phous; filaments glabrous, 3 to 4 mm long. Ovary densely 
pubescent, 3-celled; style glabrous, 4 mm long. 
LEYTE, Buenavista, near Jaro, C. A. Wenzel 1022, July 24, 1914, in 
forests, altitude about 500 meters. 
A species allied to Symplocos patens Presl, but at once distinguished 
from that species by its much larger leaves, more numerous stamens, petals 
nearly glabrous externally, and especially by its indumentum, the young 
branches, petioles, and both surfaces of the leaves with long, spreading, 
weak, pale or brownish hairs. : 
SYMPLOCOS PACHYPHYLLA sp. nov. § Bobua. 
Arbor circiter 6 m alta, floribus exceptis glabra; foliis crasse 
coriaceis, oblongo-obovatis, usque ad 20 cm longis, subacutis vel 
obtusis, basi decurrento-acuminatis, margine integris vel obscure 
denticulatis, nervis utrinque circiter 10, tenuibus; inflorescentiis 
axillaribus, spicatis, simplicibus, circiter 1 cm longis, floribus 
confertis; calycibus extus pallide pubescentibus; petalis glabris, 
circiter 5 mm longis; staminibus circiter 75, obscure pentadel- 
phis, filamentis glabris, usque ad 9 mm longis; ovario 3-loculare; 
fructibus ovoideis, circiter 9 mm longis. 
