Auaust 1, 1914] New Symprocos FROM MINDANAO 2321 
above the middle, the basal two thirds concrete with the 
ovary and subglabrous, the upper one third 5-segmented; 
sepals yellowish green, 0.5 mm long, wider, broadly rounded 
and finely ciliate along the margins; corolla segments 5, 
caducous, 2 mm long or longer, oblong, puberulent on the 
outer side, similar in color or white; stamens also white, 
two to three times as many, inserted upon the base of the 
corolla and falling with them; filaments glabrous, 1 to 2 
mm long or longer; anthers brown in the dry state, yel- 
lowish when fresh, less than 0,83 mm across, orbicular, 
with notched bases, dehiscing laterally; ovary imbedded, 
apex truncate; style 3 mm long, subglabrous or puber- 
ulent, thinnest across the middle, terminated by a darker. 
brown, green in the fresh state, capitate stigma. 
Type specimen number 14121, A. D. E. Elmer, Cabad- 
baran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, Mindanao, Oc- 
tober, 1912. 
In stony soil of a steep wooded slope of Cawilanan peak 
at 4250 feet altitude. ''Magotingdacol" in Manobo. 
Not Symplocos fragans Elm. nor Sumplocos curtiflora Elm., 
yet not so definite from the latter because the type is in 
fruit only. Certainly not Symplocos depauperata Merr. nor 
Symplocos luzonensis Vid. The Benguet species by Merrill is 
furfurascent on the twigs and had a dwarfed or depauperate 
appearance. Can Brands’ mount Banahao Symplocos merrillii 
be the same as Vidal’s species? 
Symplocos agusanensis Elm. n. sp. 
A small erect tree; stem 1 dm thick, terete, 5 m high, 
branched from the middle; wood rather soft, sappy white, 
slightly bitter, ordorless; bark smooth, gray and brown mot- 
tled, the inner side of the same color as the wood, the 
middle portion greenish; main branches divaricate, laxly re- 
branched; twigs terete, brown, the young glabrate apical por- 
tion only subterete. Bud  bract 6 mm long, subglabrous 
or appressed hairy on the dorsal side, acuminately pointed, 
the sides strongly imbricate; leaves alternatingly scattered 
toward the ends of the branchlets, not numerous, horizontal, 
the acute to acuminate ee recurved, very smooth and glabrate 
