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were reduced to 8. polyandra Brand. Vidal also transferred to Symplo- 
cos, PresVs Garlea oblongifolia and described also 8. montana, to which 
Rolfe gave the name 8. luzoniensis ; thus up to the end of the year 1886 
but four valid species of the genus were known from the archipelago. 
In my monograph of the family 2 the number of species of Philippine 
Symplocos was increased to seven, two additional species being described, . ' 
8. floridissima and S. Cumingiana; and 8. ferruginea, a well-known 
species of the Indo-Malayan region, was credited to the archipelago. 
Since botanical work has been prosecuted by the Americans, considerable 
progress has been made, and in the present paper no less than 16 species 
are considered, of which thirteen are found in Luzon, nine being endemic 
to this island. Two species are found in Mindanao, S. confusa and 
S. Ahernii, both being also found in Luzon, but not yet known from 
the intermediate islands. The Island of Palawan (Paragua) has three 
species, of which two, 8. palawanensis and 8 . Foxworthyi, are new and 
confined to that island, the third, S. oblongifolia, being rather widely 
distributed in the archipelago. Of the following smaller islands but 
single species are known from each : Dinagat, S. ferruginea var. philip- 
pinensis ; Culion, Dumaran, and Guimaras, S. oblongifolia ; Mindoro, 
8. adenophylla var. Merrittii; Panay, S. depauperata var. sordida. Of 
the 16 species found in the Philippines but one extends beyond the limits 
of the archipelago, S. confusa , a species not rare in the Malayan region ; 
the remaining 15 species being endemic, at least in their peculiar 
Philippine varieties. 
As in other regions, most of the species found in the Philippines 
grow at the higher altitudes, the highest point in the archipelago at which 
Symplocos has been found being near the summit of Mount Halcon, 
Mindoro, where 8. adenophylla var. Merrittii grows at an altitude of 
about 2,500 meters above the sea. Three species, >5?. patens, 8. polyandra, 
and 8. oblongifolia, are found at lower elevations, from 10 to 600 meters 
above the sea, and it is rather remarkable that these low-country species 
have the largest leaves. 
I am greatly indebted to Mr. Merrill , who has sent me all the 
Syriiplocos material preserved in the herbarium of the Bureau of Science, 
and most of the present paper is based on this extremely valuable collec- 
tion. Descriptions of all the species have been given, as from the 
abundant material at hand it has been possible to amend and amplify 
the descriptions of species previously considered. 
2 Pflanzenreich, 6 (IV, 242), (1901), 1-100. 
