122 SIR DIETRICH BRANDIS—AN ENUMERATION 
Leaves pale, shining on both sides, glabrous, but petioles 
puberulous. The lowest flower of a branch often quite at the 
base, so as apparently to stand in a bifurcation of the panicle. 
Bracts lanceolate, deciduous. Anthers with short truncate ap- 
pendix, the 10 outer on very short filaments. Ovary pubescent; 
style short; stigma capitate, densely papillose. Fruit spherical, 
terminated by the indurated style. Lobes of fruiting-calyx 
linear-lanceolate. Dyer in Journ. Bot. 1878, 101, supposed that 
this might be Dryobalanops Schefferi, Hance. The narrow linear 
segments of the fruiting-calyx makes this impossible. 
7. Varica SCORTECHINII, Brandis.—Retinodendron Scorte- 
chinii, King in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, lxii. pars 2 (1893), 
128.— Pl. III. fig. 9. 
Poongah (Curtis, n. 2984) (Siam), in the northern part of 
Malay Peninsula; Pahang (Ridley, n. 2438), on the east side of 
the Malay Peninsula; Perak (Scortechinz, n. 1940). 
Leaves glabrous, secondary nerves 12-16 pairs, curved and 
terminating in distinet intramarginal veins, alternating with 
shorter intermediate nerves; tertiary nerves reticulate. Inflores- 
cence, calyx, and outside of petals densely clothed with tawny 
stellate hairs. Anthers ovate-oblong, connective prolonged into 
a short conical appendage; the 5 inner episepalous anthers on 
longer filaments than the 10 outer ones. Ovary stellate- 
tomentose; style ribbed, as long as ovary; stigma conical, 
consisting of numerous fleshy linear lobes. Fruit globose, 
rugose; pericarp thick, hard, coriaceous. Cotyledons thick, 
fleshy, bifid, on the outer surface with cerebriform furrows. 
Cells filled with starch. 
8. V. RIDLEYANA, Brandis in Hook. Ic. Plant. tab. 2401.— 
Pl. IIT. fig. 5. 
Singapore (Ridley, nn. 2758 a, 4449). 
Glabrous, except inflorescence, calyx, and outside of petals, 
which are clothed with minute stellate hairs. Secondary nerves 
9-7 pairs, no intermediate nerves; tertiary closely reticulate. 
Fruit oblong, 2 in. long, obliquely rostrate, verrucose, supported 
by the indurated, but not enlarged calyx-segments. Cotyledons 
plane-convex, bifid. The cells filled with starch ; hypocotyl as 
long as embryo. 
