I. 

 The synonymy of the Philippine species of Symphorema 



by 



J. Perkins. 



In 1863 TuECZANiNow published the description of a plant of 

 Cuming's, in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou II, p. 212 (1863), giving it 

 the name of Scxegleewia , in honor of Serqius Sczegleew. The new 

 genus was recognized by Turgzaninow a* belonging to the Verbe- 

 naceae^ and has, as he says, the habit of the Sphenodesmaceae. 

 The plant, being from Luzon, was named Scxegleewia higonensis. 

 Bentham and Hooker perceived that Scxegleewia must be united 

 with Sympliorema and cite Cumes^g's number 648, on page 1159, 

 vol. II of Genera Plantarum. 



In both his Revision, p. 212 (1886), and in his Sinopsis, p. 202 

 (1883), YiDAL agrees with the view of Bentham and Hooker, and in 

 his Flora Forestal t. 75, Fig. F gives a drawing of the plant. 



Llanos, in his Revis. etc. in Mem. Acad, cienc. Mad. 1858 

 reprinted in Fl. Filipinas ed. 3. IV. p. 105, has recognized, that 

 Blanco in his Flora had described a species of Sginphorema under 

 the name of a Lauraceous plant, and he identifies the Litsaea luxonica 

 of Blanco with Symjjhorema invohicrahtm Spreng. Villar, in 

 Fl. Filipinas ed. 3. IV. nov. append, p. 162 (1880), accepts the identi- 

 fication of Llanos, and calls the plant Sgmphorema luxonica and 

 quotes as synonyms Litsaea luxonica Blanco and Symphorema in- 

 volucratum Llanos (not Roxb.). 



It seems strange, that Father Blanco, in his 2'' edition of the 

 Flora de Filipinas, should have described this plant as belonging to 

 the Lauraceae, a family qnit^' different in nearly all its characters 



J. Perkins, Fragmenta florae Fliilippinae. \ 



