The Philippine Journal of Science, C. Botany. 
Vol. VII, No. 1, April, 1912. 
ADDITIONAL PHILIPPINE SYMPLOCACEAE, II. 
By A. Brand. 
(Sorau, Germany.) 
Since the publication of my first paper under the above title ^ 
a considerable number of specimens of Symplocos have been 
collected in the Philippines, and in addition to the material 
secured through the medium of recent exploration, there is now 
preserved in the herbarium of the Bureau of Science, a set of 
specimens collected by Mr. A. Loher in Luzon in the year 1906, 
distributed from the Kew Herbarium. This accumulated mate- 
rial has been submitted to me by Mr. Merrill for study, and I 
have fortunately been able to examine the Philippine specimens 
distributed by Mr. A. D. E. Elmer, preserved in the Delessert 
Herbarium. 
Three new species of Symplocos described by Mr. Elmer ^ 
which were previously known to me only by description, are 
represented in the Delessert Herbarium by cotypes. I consider 
that two of his proposed species are valid, but the third, S. 
angnlaris Elm., I must consider to be a synonym of S. Cu- 
mingiana. It is not surprising that Mr. Elmer considered Sym- 
plocos angularis to be a distinct species, for Symplocos 
Cumingiana has exceedingly variable leaves, and specimens with 
small, somewhat coriaceous leaves look quite different from those 
with large chartaceous ones. Having now a large series of 
specimens of S. Cumingiana, a species previously rather imper- 
fectly known to me, I must confess that I erred in referring to 
it For. Bur. 825U Curran & Merritt ® ; I now consider that this 
number represents a distinct species, readily distinguished from 
S. Cumingiana by its bright leaves and purplish midribs. 
In the material examined two additional new species were 
discovered, so that the total number now known from the 
Archipelago has been increased to twenty-six. The new species 
‘ This Journal 4 (1909) Botany 107-110. 
^Leafl. Philip. Bot. 2 (1908) 508-610. 
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