128 SIR DIETRICH BRANDIS—AN ENUMERATION 
racemose few-flowered panicles, shorter than leaf. Calyx-seg- _ 
ments puberulous on both sides. Anther-cells very unequal; 
connective prolonged into a conical appendage, as long as anther. 
Ovary pubescent, indistinctly 5-ribbed; style glabrous, cylindric, 
ribbed, longer than ovary. Fruit glabrous, globular, rostrate. 
25. Varica BANCANA, Scheff. in Nat. Tidschr. Nederl. Ind. 
xxxi. (1870) 348; Burck in Ann. Jard. Buitenz. vi. (1887) 229, 
t. 27. 
Bangka, Sumatra. 
Style longer than ovary ; stigma 5-6-lobed. 
26. V. SCHEFFERI, Brandis.—Dryobalanops Schefferi, Hance 
in [London] Journ. Bot. xiv. (1876) 307. 
Sumatra, district Lampong (Scheffer). 
Youngest parts and inflorescence with rusty-brown stellate 
pubescence. Leaves glabrous, coriaceous, elliptic lanceolate ; 
secondary nerves 12-14 pairs, arching, alternating with shorter 
intermediate ones; tertiary closely reticulate ; blade 4-6 in., 
petiole 4 in. long. Flowers nearly 4 in. long, on pedicels as long 
as calyx, in axillary panicles branching from the base. Fruit 
globose, glabrous, apiculate, 3 in. diam.; segments of fruiting-calyx 
ovate-oblong, obtuse, glabrous, indistinctly 3-nerved, 14 in. long, 
edges of lower half reflexed. 
Structure of flowers agrees with V. bancana; the two species 
differ, however, in the leaves and length of fruiting-calyx. 
Subgenus III. SYNAPTEA, Griff. 
Ovary frequently entirely or partially immersed in receptacle. 
Segments of fruiting-calyx unequal, two expanding into long 
wings. 
A. Eastern Peninsula. 
1. Ovary entirely or partially immersed in receptacle ; 
Sruit adnate to base of fruiting-calyx. 
27. V. Dxznr, King in Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, lxii. pars 2 
(1893), 106.—Synaptea Dyeri, Pierre, Fl. For. Cochinch. fase. 16 
(1891), t. 241.— Pl. III. figs. 15-17. 
Perak, Cochinchina. 
A large tree; leaves coriaceous, elliptic, obtuse; secondary 
nerves 11-13 pairs; tertiary reticulate. Flowers 4 in. long. 
Anthers adnate to a thick, fleshy connective, prolonged into a 
