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(1883) 25, t. 46, f. A; Koord. & Valeton Bijdr. Boorasoort. Java 

 5 (1900) 334; Perk. Frag. FI. Philip. (1904) 118; Whitford in 

 Philip. For. Bureau Bull. 10 ' (1911) 34, pi H, 15. 

 Grymania aalicifolia Presl Epim. Bot. (1849) 193. 

 Parinarium salicifolium Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 1 ' (1855) 357; F.-Vill. 



1. c. 76; Vid. Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (1886) 121. 

 Parinarium multiflorum Miq. 1. c. 356. 



Parinarium racemosum Vid. Cat. PI. Prov. Manila (1880) 29. 

 This species is very widely distributed in the Philippines, and is re- 

 presented in the herbarium of the Bureau of Science by about 60 speci- 

 mens, from all parts of the Archipelago from northern Luzon to southern 

 Mindanao. What is manifestly the oldest specific name is here adopted, 

 for Blume's species was reduced to Parinarium griffithianum Benth. by 

 Koorders and Valeton, which reduction is apparently correct. Blume's 

 name, being by far the oldest one, must be adopted. The species is a 

 widely distributed one, extending from the Andaman Islands through 

 Sumatra, Borneo, and Java to New Guinea and northern Australia. 



PARINARIUM LAURINUM A. Gray Bot. Wilkes U. S. Explor. Exped. 

 (1854) 490, pi. 55; K. Schum. & Lauterb. Fl. Deutsch. Schutzegeb. 

 Siidsee (1901) 341. 

 Parinarium scabrum Merr. in Philip. For. Bureau Bull. 1 (1903) 



22, non Hassk. 

 Parinarium mindanaense Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. (June, 1904) 119. 

 Parinarium racemosum Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. (Philip.) 17 



(October, 1904) 19, non Vidal. 

 Parinarium curranii Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1910) Bot. 264. 

 Luzon, Province of Albay, For. Bur. 10575 Curran, June, 1908. 

 Masbate, Merrill 2614, May, 1903 (type of P. racemosum Merr.-P. curranii 

 Merr.). Palawan, Malampaya Bay, For. Bur. 11253 Manalo, January, 

 1908, Merrill 7255, September, 1910. Mindanao, Province of Surigao, 

 Ahem 375: Butuan Subprovince, La Paz, Miller s. n., July, 1910: District 

 of Davao, Warburg 14484, in herb. Berlin (type of P. mindanaense Perk.), 

 Elmer 11237, 12383. 



There appears to be no doubt as to the specific identity of all the 

 Philippine material cited above, and equally as little doubt as to the 

 identity of the Philippine form with Parinarium laurinum A. Gray. The 

 type of Parinarium, laurinum was from the Samoan Islands, and is well 

 figured and illustrated by Gray. The species is also represented in the 

 herbarium of the Bureau of Science by Vaupel 237 from Samoa (dis- 

 tributed as Parinarium insularum A. Gray), a specimen that agrees 

 perfectly with the original description and plate of Parinarium laurinum 

 A. Gray, but not with P. insularum A. Gray. This specimen in all essential 

 characters also agrees with the Philippine material. 



Parinariutn laurinum A. Gray is known from the Samoan, Fiji, Solomon, 

 and Admiralty Islands, and in consideration of the general character of 

 the Polynesian flora, its discovery in the Philippines is not at all surprising. 

 A considerable number of species are known only from the Philippines and 

 Polynesia, and a still greater number are represented in the two regions 

 by very closely allied forms. In a collection of plants made in Samoa 

 by Vaupel, which I have examined carefully, the similarity between the 



