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BiRMA at Durunja, alt. 1000 ft, Griffith'^ Yunan at Ponsee, /. Anderson, \ 



A small tree, clothed except on the old wood with stiff setose hairs. Leaves 9-11 | 



by 1-2 J iB., attenuate above and below, setosely serrate, more sparingly hairy on both 



surfaces; petioles | in. Pedicels 1 in. or less, unequal. Flowers red. Sepals ^i^-^ ^ 



elliptic, obtuse. Styles 5, connate below. ] 



**** Flowers from the axils of fallen leaves, sessile solitary or aggregate, 

 Styles 4, I 



8. S. cerea, Griff, ms. ; ovary densely hairy. Grif, Itin. Notes^ 200. 



Bhotan Himalaya, at Murichom, alt. 3500 ft., Griffith, 



A small tree. Leaves 7-10 by 4-5 in., cuneate-obovate, acute, setosely serrate, gla- 

 brous on both sides, veins below with distant setose scales; petioles 4 in.* scaly. 

 Flowers 1 in. diara. Sepals orbicular, densely scaly externally. Fetals orbicuiar- 

 obovate, white with the base blood-red, waxy. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



S. STERCULIPOLTA, Griff. Itiu. uotes, 198, Bhotan. — Probably S. napaulensis 



S. FERRUGiNEA, Griff. Itiu. notcSj 120, Bhotan. 



S. MiCRA^THA, Griff. Itin. notes, 71, Khasia. — Probably S. Roxhurghii. 



9. STACHVURUS, Sieb. & Zucc. 



Glabrous shrubs or small trees. Leaves serrate, membranous. Flwer^ 

 small, in short lateral spikes or racemes. Bracts % connate at the basa 

 Sepals 4, strongly imbricate. Petals 4, free. Stamens 8 ; anthers dehiscing 

 by slits. Ovary 4-celled; style simple, stigma capitate-peltate; ovules 

 nianjr. Berry 4-celled. Cotyledons elliptic, radicle short.— DiSTRiB. 2 known 

 species, a Japanese and a Himalayan. 



1. S. bimalaicus, Ilooh.f. <& Thorns; Benth. in Joum. Linn. Soc. v. 

 55 ; leaves shortly petioled attenuate-acuminate, berries subsessile subglobose. 

 Indeterm. Wall. Cat. 7417. 



Eastern Temperate Himalaya; Nipal, TFaZZicA; Sikkim, alt. 5-8000 ft., /- -P--^"' 

 Bhotan, Griffith, , 



A small-tree with straggling branches. Leaves 4-6 by lJ-2 in., ovate, with a ^ou".^ 

 base, firiely serrate, the veins strongly reticulated beneath; petioles i-| in. f^P*'' 

 2-3 in., erect. Berries the size of a small pea. 



10. SCKZMA, Reinw. 



Trees with papery evergreen leaves. Peduncles usually erect, ^^\^^^^^^ 

 solitary, or the uppermost shortly racemed. Flowers handsome, 2-braci 

 late. Sepals 5, subequal. Petals 5, much larger, connate at ^^^'^^^^f 

 outermost concave and sub-cucuUate. Stcimens many, adnate to the oas ^^ 

 the petals. Ovary 5- (rarely 4-6-) celled ; styles.siiiiple or slightly ^^f\^' 

 the apex with broad spreading stigmas ; ovules 2-6 in each cell, ^^rj ,^ 

 laterally, sub-pendulous. Capsule woody, depressed-globose, ^^^^ iTiimil 

 with a persistent axis. Seeds flat, kidney-shaped, dorsally winged, ^ : 

 central, albumen scanty; cotyledons foliaceous, flat or crumpled, ^^^^^ 

 bent ; radicle inferior, curved upwards. — DiSTiOB. Tropical Asia. >^V 

 about 7- f , 



mollis 



lis, Dyer; leaves quite entire with nearly simple 1^*®^ Ljung. 

 peduncles 1 iu. with minute white warts, fruit pubescent when y 

 Gordonia mollis. Wall. Cat. 1458. 



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