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ented in our Amboina collection, but the species has been 

 reported from Amboina, two collections, by Brand. It is 

 barely possible, however, that the Amboina specimens I have 

 referred to Symplocos syringoides Brand * represent Arbor 

 aluminosa; one of these specimens bears the native name kayu 

 reha, the second and really essential part of this name manifestly 

 corresponding to leha cited by Rumphius as the Amboinese name 

 of Arbor aluminosa. In size this shrub also agrees with Rumph- 

 ius's description, but the leaves are but very slightly toothed, 

 while Rumphius's figure presents leaves prominently toothed. 

 Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 315, refers Arbor aluminosa to 

 his Decadia aluminosa, but Decadia aluminosa was actually 

 described from Cochin-China specimens. Loureiro's generic 

 description is faulty, as shown by S. LeM. Moore in Journ. Bot. 

 42 (1914) 148, who has critically examined Loureiro's type 

 specimen in the herbarium of the British Museum. His con- 

 clusion is as follows: 



On the whole, I think it likely that D[icalyx] aluminosa may be S[ym- 

 plocos] syringoides, as such it has been written up provisionally in the 

 National Herbarium. 



However, Symplocos syringoides Brand is a species known 

 only from Amboina, and as species go in Symplocos it seems 

 rather improbable that the Cochin-China specimen actually 

 described by Loureiro is identical with the Amboina plant. 

 Dicalyx aluminosus Blume, Bijdr. (1826) 1117, was based essen- 

 tially on specimens from Java and Nusa Kambangan and is 

 Symplocos aluminosa (Blume) Brand. Both Loureiro's and 

 Blume's specific names were from Rumphius, but the plants 

 actually described are not Arbor aluminosa Rumph. If the syn- 

 onymy given by Brand, Engl. Pflanzenreich 6 (1901) 40, is cor- 

 rect, the earliest valid specific name is Symplocos javanica 

 (Blume) Kurz, for Symplocos ferruginea Roxb., 1814, is merely 

 a nomen nudum. 



Hasskarl, Neue Schlussel (1866) 186, has suggested that 

 Parens muscarum Rumph. Herb. Amb. 7: 16, t. 9, f. 2, may be a 

 Symplocos. There is nothing in the description that would 

 indicate this, while the figure presents a seedling or sapling shrub 

 with galls on the leaves. The status of Parens muscarum 

 Rumph. is quite undeterminable. The native name cited by 

 Rumphius is ay lala. 



* Philip. Journ. Sci. 11 (1916) Bot. 304. 



