Aucusr l, 1914] New SYwPLocos FROM MINDANAO 2323 
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On a steep forested incline in the saddle between Du- 
ros and Cawilanan peaks at 3500 feet altitude. Its Manobo 
name is “Talipsay.”” 
Symplocos curtiflora Elm., but leaves larger and less nu- 
merous, rachis more pubescent and with other minor characters. 
The leaves on number 14039 are better Symplocos cumingiana 
Brand than are ihose on my number 14091 collected in this 
same locality at a higher altitude. 
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Symplocos laeviramolusa Elm. n. sp. 
Less than a medium sized tree; stem 3 dm thick, 
straight and terete, about 15 m high, branched from above the 
middle; wood dingy or yellowish white, rater soft, entirely 
odorless and tasteless; bract relatively thick, smoothish, very 
dark or blackish brown on the surface, otherwise wood color- 
ed; main branches divaricately spreading, crookedly rebranched; 
twigs rather numerous toward the ends, frequently in subwhorls, 
shining, glabrous even the young tips, pale green, the ultimate 
branches divaricately spreading, conspicuously angular and quite 
brittle. Bud bracts 6 mm long, glabrous, imbricate, acuminately 
pointed; leaves ascending, glabrous and shining green on both 
sides, chartaceous and easily breaking, the upper side deeper 
green and more lucid, drying very similar, elliptic to ovately 
oblong, apex abruptly acute or gradually acuminate, base broadly 
obtuse or obtusely rounded, the average lamina 7 cm long by one 
half as wide across the middle, margins obscurely denticulate 
except the entire basal one third; petiole 1 cm long, also 
glabrous, fluted above, subterete; midvein dull yellow as is 
also the petiole in the dry state, ridged especially toward 
the base and upon the lower side; lateral nerves very ob- 
scure, 5 to 8 on each side, ascending, tips more or less re- 
ticulately united, reticulations equally evident from both 
sides. Inflorescence erect, glabrous and green, axillary. the 
central spike usually branched at the base into a pair of 
short divaricate branchlets, the main or middle rachis 2 cm 
long; the rachis yellowish green, terete or angular, at first 
puberulent, ultimately glabrous, bearing alternating flowers 
from the middle or from the distal end mostly; pedicel 1 
to 2 mm long, subtended by a minute bract, subglabrous, 
