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The species is not represented in our Philippine collections, 

 and the type may not have come from the Archipelago. It is 

 indicated on the original label as "Philippines herb. D. Commer- 

 son sans nom," and on a second label "Philippines. Plantes re- 

 coltees par Sonnerat et donnees a Commerson." Sonnerat on 

 his voyage to India and China ^ stopped at Malacca, a locality 

 within the known range of Elaeodendron viburnifolium, and he 

 may have collected the specimen there. Or again he may well 

 have collected it in the Philippines at Jolo (Yolo)- on his first 

 voyage, where he stopped for a short time after leaving Zam- 

 boanga (Sambouangue). The Sulu Archipelago, including Jolo, 

 has been very slightly explored from a botanical standpoint, and 

 a species growing in or near the mangrove swamps on the east 

 coast of Borneo is certainly to be expected in similar habitats 

 in Sulu Archipelago. Whether or not the type was really from 

 the Philippines, Aegiphila viburnifolia Juss. is clearly identical 

 with Elaeodendron subrotundum King, and Jussieu's specific 

 name should be adopted for the species. 



For the common Philippine form to which I erroneously ap- 

 plied the binomial Euonymus viburnifolius * another name is 

 necessary, and I can now see no reason why Euonymus cochin- 

 chinensis Pierre should not be adopted, as I can detect no con-^ 

 stant differential differences between it and E. philippinensis 

 Merr. & Rolf e. The synonymy will then be as follows : 



EUONYMUS COCHINCHINENSIS Pierre Fl. Forest. Cochinch. 4 (1894) t. 

 309; Pitard in Lecomte Fl. Gen. Indo-Chine 1 (1912) 873, fig. 108. 

 Euonymus tiynorensis Turcz. in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 31 ' (1858) 447; 

 F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1880) 46; Vidal Phan. Cuming. Philip. (1885) 

 103, non Zipp. 

 Euonymus philippinensis Merr. & Rolfe in Philip. Journ. Sci. 3 

 (1908) Bot. 238. 



Indochina, Thorel 2080!, Harmand, Godefroy!, Pierre! (all det. 

 Pitard). Siam, Annandale 1585!, 1829!. Malay Peninsula, 

 Pahang, Burn-Murdoch! (all det. as E. javanicus Blume). I 

 refer the following Philippine material here: Luzon, Cagayan 

 Province, Adduru 68, 179: Ilocos Norte Province, Bur. Sci. 33209 

 Ramos: Benguet Subprovince, Elmer 6462, Bur. Sci. 3551 

 Mearns, Williams 102 A: Pangasinan Province, For. Bur. 21677 

 Domingo, For. Bur. 19Jf52 Agama: Nueva Ecija Province, Bur. 



'Sonnerat, P., Voyage aux Indes Orientales et a la Chine 2 (1782) 

 99-103. 



•Sonnerat, P., Voyage a la Nouvelle Guinee (1776) 136. 

 * Philip. Journ. Sci. 9 (1914) Bot. 312. 



