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BRAND. 
general construction. Common names Ditaman, Puso-puso, Buta-buta (Bataan) ; 
Balah-bd-ban (Guimaras Island). 
Endemic. 
In regard to the nomenclature of this species, Dr. C. B. Robinson, of the N. Y. 
Botanical Garden, writes to Air. Merrill in March, 1906 as follows: “S 'ymplocos 
oblongifolia cannot stand for the Philippine plant as there is an older S. oblongi- 
folia published as such by Casaretto in Novarum Stirpium Brasiliensium Decades. 
It is on page 31, No. 28, and thus in the third decade, which appeared according 
to itself in August, 1842, the fourth decade being dated October, 1842 * * * 
Carlea oblongifolia of Presl did not appear before 1849, and so it requires a new 
name.” Concerning this matter, Symplocos oblongifolia Casar., being only a 
synonym of /S', lanceolata, requires no new name among those botanists who do 
not acknowledge the maxim “once a synonym always a synonym.” 
10. S. betula Brand, sp. nov. 
Arbor, cortice laevi, argenteo-cinereo, ramulis glabris, purpureo-brun- 
neis, striatis. Folia subsessilia, ehartacea, 5-8 cm. longa, 2-2.5 cm. 
lata, oblongo-elliptica, ntrimque glaberrima, margine leviter undulata, 
apice sensim attenuata, basi cuneata vel subrotundata, costa supra 
impressa. Spicae axillares, simpliees, ca. 2 cm. longae, densiflorae; 
bracteae calyeis tubo distincte breviores, calyx glaber, lobis rotundatis 
tubo paulo brevioribus ; corolla alba, calyce triplo longior; stamina ca. 
25, corolla sublongiora; stylus claviformis cum ovario glaber. Fructus 
ignotus. 
A tree 4 meters high, the trunk 5 centimeters in diameter, with white fragrant 
flowers growing on the old crater-rim in dense thickets, at an altitude of 1,000 
meters in the Lamao Forest Reserve, Mount Mariveles, Province of Bataan, Luzon, 
type specimen No. 6283 Forestry Bureau, collected by H. M. Curran, February, 
1907. 
11. S. Cumingiana Brand in Pflanzenreich 6 (1901), 58. 
Arbor (?) ramulis glabris. Folia 6-11 cm. longa, 2.5-5 cm. lata, 
valde variabilia, elliptica vel oblonga, leviter undulata, utrimque gla- 
berrima, breviter apiculata in petioliun brevissimum sensim attenuata. 
Spicae puberulae, 5-8-florae; bracteae sericeae, lanceolato-acutae ; caly- 
cis tubus subglaber, lobi rotundati sericei ; corolla calyce duplo longior ; 
stamina ca. 25; ovarium glabrum. Fructus 11 mm. longus, brunneus, 
glaber, rugosus, eylindricus, trilocularis, exocarpio tenui. 
Sqiecimens previously examined: Luzon, Province of Batangas (1463 Cuming ) : 
Province of Nueva Ecija, Caraballo Mountains (2133, 2148 Vidal) : Province 
of Camarines, Mount Isarog, (3226 Vidal). 
It is rather strange that this species, which appears to be not uncommon in 
Luzon, has not as yet been rediscovered by the American botanists. 
Endemic. 
12. S. Whitfordii Brand, sp. nov. 
Frutex glaberrimus, cortice purpureo-brunneo, striato. Folia coriacea, 
3-5.5 cm. longa, 15-25 mm. lata, elliptica vel oblongo-lanceolata, bre- 
viter apiculata, basi cuneata, crenata; costa supra impressa; petiolus 
