DECEMBER 14, 1908] Tunk&R ScogE or New PLANTS 509 
leaf axil or axils of the fallen leaves along the twigs, green, 
subglabrous; pedicels about 5 mm. long, sparingly strigose, 
ascending or divaricate, scattered, subtended by a minute bract, 
Strict; calyx greenish, strigose, subtended by 1 to 8 very 
minute bracts, campanulate, 2 mm. long, nearly as wide 
across the top; the 5 broadly rounded segments strigose on 
the outer side, finally spreading rotately, persistent; petals 
5, white, 3 mm. long, the larger ones nearly 2 mm. wide, 
oblong, broadly rounded at the apex, inserted upon the rim 
of the calyx throat, glabrous; stamens 20, inserted upon the 
base of the corolla and falling with it; filaments glabrous, 
free, subequal, 2.5 mm. long; anther 0.5 mm. long and 
equally as wide, basifixed, base bilobed, dehiscing laterally; 
style pubescent, 3 mm. long, terminated by a subentire 
capitate stigma; ovary inferior; fruit not seen. 
Type specimen 9873, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, April, 1908. 
This handsome tree was discovered in humid woods at 
4500 feet. The flowers are sweetly fragrant. 
It would be referred to S. betula Brand, but for the 
petioles, sparsely flowered spicate racemes, and strigose 
calyx. 
Symplocos curtiflora Elm. n. sp. 
Slender tree, 7 m. high; wood odorless and tasteless, sappy 
white throughout, easily cutting; bark smoothish, mottled, 
green beneath the epidermis, its inner layer white; branches 
lax and numerous, smooth, brown. Leaves glabrous, submem- | 
branous, similarly pale green on both sides, flat or only - 
slightly conduplicate on the upper side, alternatingly scat- - 
tered 1 cm. apart, glabrous, the subentire margins with a _ 
minutely involute callous edge, narrowly elliptic or broadly : 
lanceolate, apex more or less abruptly acuminate, base acute | 
to cuneate, the average ones 7 cm. long by 2.5 cm. wide - 
across the middle; petiole glabrous, 5 to 8 mm. long; midvein 4 
yellowish green in the dry state, prominent beneath, the 4 
to 6 pairs of lateral nerves obseure and coarsely anastomo-- f 
sing. Flowers not seen; infrutescence simple, 1 cm. long, 
axillary, glabrous, dark green; fruits lighter green, glabrous, 
Menace irc sip. v mm. imd * em. thick. below eas 
