510 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, ART. 24 
the middle, at the base subtended by a few minute bracts, 
bearing at the apex vestiges of the 5 calyx segments, 2- 
celled. ; 
Type specimen 9802, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, Negros, April, 
1908. 
On a lightly wooded ridge at 3750 feet. Known to the 
Visayans as ‘“‘Pun-pun’’. 
Differs from the preceding by its much shorter infru- 
tescence and subsessile fruits. These characters in addition 
to the petioles prevent it from being placed with S. betula 
Brand. 
Symplocos angularis Elm. n. sp. 
Shrubby tree, about 6 m. high and with a 1.5 dm. 
thick stem; bark smooth, brown; branches numerous, ascend- 
ing; wood not hard, yellowish. Leaves ascending, coriaceous 
or submembranous, glabrous, when dry turning to the charac- 
teristic yellowish green color, flat, alternatingly scattered along 
the dark green and glabrous twigs, oblanceolately oblong, 
the larger blades 1 dm. long by 4 em. wide above the mid- 
dle, apex obtuse to acute, base attenuate, quite variable in 
size, entire or finely serrate especially above the middle; pet- 
iole 0.5 to 1 em. long, stout, glabrous, flattened on the 
upper side; midnerve very prominent beneath and grooved 
on the upper side, the 7 to 9 lateral pairs comparatively 
inconspicuous, the reticulations numerous and quite evident. 
Inflorescence spicate, chiefly from the lowermost leaf axils; 
the spikes solitary or on floriferous branchlets, 2 or even 3 
from the same place, varying from 1 to 5 em. in length, 
glabrous or thinly cinereous when young; flowers evenly scat- 
tered along the rachis, upon short very thick pedicels, usual- 
ly subtended by bracts; involucral bracts dry, acute, brown, 
unequal, subpersistent, short cinereous pubescent on the dor- 
sal side; calyx thick, similarly pubescent, turbinate, 3mm. 
long, nearly as broad as the throat, its 5 obtuse segments 
only one third the length; corolla dull or creamy white, 3 
to 5 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, oblongish, obtuse at apex, 
falsely united at the base, occasionally unequal in size, delicate | 
and soon wilting; stamens of the same color, indefinite, 
