284 The Philippine Journal of Science 1915 
A tree about 6 m high, entirely glabrous except the flowers. 
Branches terete, brownish, the very young branchlets somewhat 
compressed or angled. Leaves thickly coriaceous, yellowish- 
green, oblong-ovate, 10 to 20 cm long, 6 to 8.5 em wide, apex 
subacute to obtuse or even rounded, base narrowed, decurrent- 
acuminate, margins entire or obscurely denticulate; lateral nerves 
about 10 on each side of the midrib, slender, irregular, anasto- 
mosing, the reticulations lax; petioles 1 to 1.5 em long. Spikes 
axillary, solitary, the rachis stout, about 1 cm long. Flowers 
numerous, crowded, yellow. Bracts subcoriaceous, ovate, obtuse, 
concave, externally appressed, pale or silvery-pubescent, 2.5 to 
3 mm long. Calyx about 4 mm long, appressed pale-pubescent 
externally, the lobes 5, broadly ovate rounded, about 1.5 mm long. 
Corolla-lobes reflexed, glabrous, oblong, about 5 mm long, 3 mm 
wide, rounded. Stamens at least 75, obscurely pentadelphous, 
the filaments slender, glabrous, up to 9 mm in length. Ovary 
3-celled ; style glabrous, about 8 mm long. Fruits ovoid, smooth, 
not at all angular or compressed, about 9 mm long. 
LEYTE, Buenavista, near Jaro, C. A. Wenzel 1132, September 23, 1914, in 
forests, altitude about 500 meters. 
A species in the group with Symplocos cumingiana Brand (S, angularis 
Elm.), but with much larger, quite differently shaped leaves, larger flowers, 
and much more numerous stamens. 
CAPRIFOLIACEAE 
VIBURNUM Linnaeus 
VIBURNUM PLATYPHYLLUM sp. nov. § Euviburnum. 
Arbor alta, glaberrima; foliis chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, us- 
que ad 22 cm longis, integris vel obscure undulatis, basi acutis 
ad obtusis, apice acuminatis apiculatisque, nervis utrinque cir- 
citer 7, distantibus, prominentibus, subtus in axillis glandulosis; 
inflorescentiis umbellato-corymbosis, amplis, multifloris, pedun- 
culatis, circiter 16 cm longis latisque; floribus circiter 5 mm 
longis, corollae tubo cylindraceo, lobis erectis; fructibus anguste 
ovatis, compressis, circiter 9 mm longis. 
A tall tree, entirely glabrous. Branches terete, dark-colored 
when dry, sparingly lenticellate, the younger ones dark reddish- 
brown. Leaves ovate to oblong-ovate, 9 to 22 cm long, 4 to 10 
cm wide, firmly chartaceous to subcoriaceous, pale olivaceous 
and somewhat shining when dry, margins entire or minutely 
and obscurely undulate, apex gradually narrowed to the usually 
elongated and rather slender acumen, the acumen coarsely apic- 
ulate, base obtuse to acute; lateral nerves about 7 on each side 
