THE PHILIPPINE 
Journal of Science 
C. Botany 
Yol. Ill FEBRUARY, 1908 No. 1 
THE SYMPLOCACEHi OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. 
By A. Brand. 
( Frankfort a. d. Oder, Germany.) 
The first species of Syrnplocos from the Philippines, S. patens and 
S. ciliata, were described by C. Presl in 1831 in Reliquiae IIaenkeanae, 
but an examination of the types preserved in the Vienna Herbarium has 
shown that they are but forms of one species, for which the name 
S. patens was retained in my monograph of the family published in 1901. 
Although Presl’s descriptions are very complete, the species fell into 
oblivion, and it was not considered by A. DeCandolle in the Produomus, 
nor by Vidal in his publications on Philippine botany, nor in Index 
Kewensis. There can be no doubt but that the specimens on which the 
species was based were really collected in the Philippines, for the section 
of the genus to which it belongs does not occur in tropical America, to 
which region some of the species credited by Presl to the Philippines 
must be referred. 1 
In 1851 Presl described the next Philippine species of the genus, but 
did not recognize it as belonging to Syrnplocos , naming it Carlea oblongi- 
folia. In 1880-1883 F.-Villar in his Novissima Appendix erroneously 
credited to the Philippines 8. racemosa Roxb., while Vidal in 1885 erro- 
neously credited 8. spicata to the archipelago. In 1886 Vidal described 
Syrnplocos Villarii and S. pseudo spicata, but in the Pelanzeneeich both 
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