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Philippines and New Britain. — E. Naudiniana F.v.M., Philippine Islands and 

 New Britain (see Part XII, p. 81). Mr. E. D. Merrill, then Botanist, Bureau of Science; 

 Manila, Philippine Islands, drew my attention to the fact that Eugenia binacag Elmer 

 (" All Manobos know it as ' Binacag ' ") (" Leaflets Philippine Botany," vol. vii, p. 

 2,351, 1914), and Eucalyptus binacag Elmer (op. eit., vol. viii, p. 2,776, 1915), Agusan 

 Province, Mindanao, Philippines, are synonyms of the above species. Elmer adds, 

 " In my opinion there are more than one species of Eucalyptus in the island of Mindanao." 

 See also Merrill in Philippine Journal of Science," C. Botany, x, 3rd May, 1915, 207. 



The following paper by Merrill is interesting because it not only deals with the 

 synonymy of E. Naudiniana, but with certain " doubtful species " referred to in Part I 

 of the present work. 



"An Interpretation of Rurnphius's Herbarium Amboinense," by E. D. Merrill, p. 401. (Publication 

 Xo. 9. Philippine Bureau of Science, Manila, 1917). 



Eucalyptus deglupta Blume Mos. Bot. I (1849), 83. 



Populus deglubata Reinw. ex Blume I.e. in syn. 



Eucalyptus versicolor Blume Mus. Bot. I (1849), 84 (type!). 



Eucalyptus mulliflora Rich ex A. Gray Bot. Wilkes U.S. Explor. Exped. (1854), 554. 



Eucalyptus Naudiniana F. Muell. in Austral. Journ. Pharm. (1886), 239, Bot. Centralb. 28 (1886), 



179. 

 Eugenia binacag Elm. Leaf. Philip. Bot. 7 (1914), 2351. 

 Eucalyptus binacag Elm. I.e. 8 (1915), 2776. 

 Arbor versicolor Rump. Herb. Amb. 3 : 122, t. 80. 



Rurnphius's material, on which his figure and description of Arbor versicolor were based, was from 

 Ceram, not from Amboina. The description and the figure, as far as they go, are unmistakably a Euca- 

 lyptus. I feel quite confident that Eugenia deglupta Blume, from Celebes ; E. versicolor Blume, from 

 Ceram ; E. mulliflora Rich and E. binacag Elm., of Mindanao ; and E. Naudiniana F. Muell., of the Bis- 

 mark Archipelago, are all referable to a single species, which is now definitely known from a half-dozen 

 localities in Mindanao, from New Guinea, and from the Bismark Archipelago, and with the inclusion of 

 Blume's species, from Celebes and Ceram. There is not a character given by Blume for either Eucalyptus 

 versicolor or E. deglupta by which the two can be definitely distinguished from each other or from Euca- 

 lyptus Naudiniana F. Muell. Eucalyptus moluccana Roxb., as described, must represent a different species, 

 at least entirely different from Eucalyptus Naudiniana F. Muell. and the Philippine synonyms cited here 

 Eucalyptus versicolor Blume is based wholly on Rurnphius's description of Arbor versicolor, and it is to be 

 noted that Blume, by error, cites t. 53 instead of t. 80 as representing the species. The latter figure is 

 Eugenia subglauca Koord and Valeton, as I have here determined it (see p. 395). 



Eucalyptus sarassa Blume, Mus. Bot. 1 (1849) 84, unaccompanied by any word of description, was 

 based on Kaju sarassa Rumph., incidentally mentioned by Rumphius, Herb. Amb. 3, 122, following the 

 description of Arbor versicolor. It is indeterminable from any data now available, and there is little or no 

 evidence that it belongs to Eucalyptus. 



Taking the above synonyms in order, Eucalyptus deglupta and Populus deglubata 

 will be found under " Doubtful Species " in Part I, p. 12 of the present work ; E. versicolor 

 at p. 17; E. multiflora and E. Naudiniana, both under E. Naudiniana, Part XII, pp 

 79-81, and Part LXI, p. 13. Eugenia binacag amd Eucalyptus binacag have been 

 already dealt with (quoting Elmer); E. Sarassa, see Part I. p. 16. 



