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APRIL 20, 1912] Two Score or New PLANTS 1477 
lanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, 
April and March respectively, 1910. 
Both of these numbers were collected in heavy woods of 
rather damp moist soil along the Patoo river from 750 to 1750 
feet elevation. 
Leaves relatively broader than in the type of U. hallieri 
Merr. and apex always rounded, never pointed nor even acute. 
Other distinctive marks will no doubt be found when both flowers 
and fruits of the two species are known. 
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SYMPLOCACEAE. 
Symplocos brandii Elm. n. sp. 
Slender and erect tree; stem terete, 1.25 dm. thick or thicker, 
10 m. high, its main branches mainly at the top; wood soft, sappy 
white, without odor or taste; bark smooth, greenish gray and 
brown mottled, reddish brown on the branches; branchlets di- 
varicate, lax, rather numerous, glabrous. Leaves copious, 
alternate, chartaceous, horizontal or descending, broadly lan- 
ceolate or oblongish, the caudate tips strongly recurved, the 
base acute to subcuneate, darker green on the upper shallowly 
folded side, subglaucescent beneath, glabrous, the entire mar- 
gins pellucid punctate, 5 to 8 cm. long, 1.5 to 2.5 em. wide, curing 
yellowish green or flavo-virens especially on the nether side; 
midrib yellowish and raised beneath, sunken along the upper 
side; primary lateral pairs 3 to 5, the basal pairs much ascend- 
ing, the upper ones divaricate, their tips more or less united 3 
mm. beneath the edge, reticulations rather numerous and visible 
from both sides; petiole glabrous, yellowish in the dry state, 
conspicuously eanieulate along the upper side. Infrutescence 
chiefly from the uppermost leaf axils, ascending, upon yellowish 
green 1.5 to 3.5 em. long glabrous stalks; fruits sessile, few, 
scattered, ellipsoid or more cylindric in shape, 7.5 mm. long, 4 
mm. thick, truncately rounded at both ends, smooth, nearly 
purplish black when fully mature, turning yellowish green while 
drying, with a stone-like seed. 
Type specimen 12304, A. D. E. Elmer, Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 1910. 
