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44. Lodhra apicalis, nob. — Symplocos apicahs, Thwaites, I. c. 

 p. 187. In Ceylonia : non vidi. 



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45. L. coboxata, nob. — Symplocos coronata, Thwaites, I. c. 

 p. 187. In Ceylonia : non vidi. 



46. L. Yerhtjelli, nob. — Symplocos Verhuelli, Jungh. SfVriese, 

 PI. JVov. Ind. Batav. i. p. 12; Walp. Itep.vi.p. 458. In Sumatra 

 et Java : non vidi. 



47. L. ribes, nob. — Symplocos ribes, Jungh. Sf Vriese, I. c. p. 

 11 ; Walp. Hep. vi. p. 458. In Java : non vidi. 



48. L. XAiNTTnoPHYLLA, nob. — Symplocos xanthophylla, Jungh. 

 fy Vriese, I. c. p. 11 ; Walp. Ann. vi. p. 458. In Java: non vidi. 



49. L. microcarpa, nob. — Symplocos microcarpa, Champion in 

 Keio Journ. J5ot. iv. p. 303. In Hongkong (Champion) : non vidi. 



50. L. crassifolia, nob. — Symplocos japonica, Benth. (non 

 A. DC.) in Kew Journ. Bot. iv. p. 308. In Hongkong (Champion) : 

 non vidi. 



Evidently a distinct species. 



51. L. jataxica, nob. — Symplocos javanica, Kurz in Flor. Brit. 

 Burma, ii. 145. In Burma (Tenasserim) et insulis Malayanis 

 usque Java: non vidi. 



Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute at both ends, 



rus 



j 



5-8 in. long, on a densely pubescent petiole 6-9 lines long ; branch- 

 ing axillary racemes ; flowers pubescent, 1 line long ; ovary 3- 

 locular ; drupe ovoid, 3 lines long ; nut ovate, contracted towards 

 the apex, 1-seeded. 



Bobua. 



The history of this extensive genus is somewhat complicated. 

 It was first established by the elder De Candolle in 1828, who 

 placed it in Combretacece, from a fancied resemblance of its typi- 

 cal species to Bruguiera 1 . This type was the Bobu of Adanson 

 and the Eugenioides of Linnaeus ; and it obtained from various 

 authors many synonyms, which further complicated the matter. 

 Prof. De Candolle, perceiving the mistake of his father, rightly 

 placed the genus in Symplocacece in 1844, but as a mere synonvni 

 of Symplocos 2 . Its species, of Asiatic growth, are all of insular 



1 Prodr. iii. p. 28. a Prodr. via. p. 246. 



