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Symplocos. | XCI. srYRACEX. (C. B. Clarke.) 583 
Nincuerries, alt. 5-7500 ft.; Wight, Gardner, Hohenacker ; common about 
Ootacamund, Beddome. 
A large tree (Beddome); branchlets soon glabrate. Leaves 3} by 13-1} in. 
acuminate or shortly acute, base cuneate or obtuse ; serratures regular, close; nerves 
9 pairs, prominent beneath; petiole j in. Spikes 1-1} in. ; bracts caducous. Calyx- 
tube 4. in., teeth Ae in., oblong, glabrous or sparsely pilose. Petals jin. Stamens 40. 
Disc and style glabrous. Fruit 4 by } in., broadly eylindrie, smooth; calyx-rim 
scarcely 4 in. wide.— Distinguished from all other Indian species by the leaves being 
serrulate from the very base. The examples marked by Wight S. nervosa are 
identical with those marked by him S. foliosa, as Beddome divined; but Wight's 
S. nervosa is not DeCandolle’s (as Beddome presumed), and the name S. nervosa has 
been so misapplied that the undisputed one of 5. foliosa is adopted here for this well- 
marked species. 
40. S. rosea, Bedd. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxv. 219 ; leaves elliptic-oblong 
sharply acuminate serrate glabrous, racemes 1-3 in. very hairy as is the calyx, 
flowers rose-coloured, fruit puberulous. Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 115, and For. 
Man. 150. 
ANAMALLAYS, alt. 2-4000 ft., Beddome. 
A large shrub; young branches petioles and inflorescence hairy. Leaves 5-6 by 
123 in.; petiole 4 in. Bracts deciduous. Calyx-lobes acute, half as long as the 
corolla. Fruit 4 in., oblong.— Description copied from Beddome. 
Van. glabrior; calyx-tube glabrous, fruit glabrous. S. racemosa, Herb. Wight, 
not of Roxb.—Courtallum and Cochin; Wight.—Leaves obovate-lanceolate, charta- 
ceous; nerves 6-7 pairs, slender, distinct, not parallel. Pedicels (in fruit) } in. 
Calyx-rim (in fruit) nearly 5 in., wide (as wide as the summit of the fruit). Wight's 
examples fit Beddome's picture so well, that this is probably not even a variety. 
41. S. acuminata, Bedd. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 117, and For, Man. 150; 
leaves obovate-lanceolate acuminate glabrous, racemes slender few-flowered 
slightly hairy, calyx glabrous, flowers $ in. diam. 
Maranan; Wynaad, very common on the Brumagherries, alt. 5000 ft., and on the 
Tirrioot Peak, Beddome. 
A small tree, or large shrub ; young shoots, peduncles and bracts minutely hairy, 
otherwise quite glabrous. Leaves 4 by 14-1} in., base attenuated, subentire. Racemes 
1-2 in.; pedicels 0-3, in. Calyx-lobes rounded or subacute, half as long as the 
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corolla,-—Not seen; description taken from Beddome. 
49, S. pulchra, Wight Ic. t. 1230 (not good) ; leaves oblong acuminate 
brown-hirsute on both surfaces, racemes 1-2 in., flowers 1-4 large. Bedd. For. 
Man. 149. ‘ 
NiranEnnrES; Sispara Ghat, alt. 3-4000 ft., Gardner, Wight, Beddome. 
A shrub; branches densely fulvous-hirsute. Leaves 44 by 12 in., base rounded, 
denticulate, chartaceous; nerves 7 pairs, distinct, very oblique; petiole 45-2 in. 
Peduncles patently rufous-hirsute ; pedicels 0-din.; bracteoles 4-3 in., linear, hirsute. 
Calyx-tube A, in., sparsely pilose ; teeth de in., ovate, glabrescent. Petals 4-4 in., 
elliptic. Stamens 50-60. ‘Disc densely pilose.— Wight's figure omits the thick, long, 
spreading brown hairs of the branches, leaves, and peduncles ; it is hence very likely 
to mislead. 
43. S. obtusa, Wall. Cat. 4424; glabrous, leaves obovate-elliptic obtuse 
subentire coriaceous, spikes 1-4 in., flowers large. A. DC. Prodr. vii. 255; 
Wight Ic. t. 1933, and IU. t. 151 b.; Thwaites Enum. 185; Bedd. For. Man. 
149. 
Sovran Maranar; Nilgherries and Anamallays, alt. 5-8000 ft., common. CEYLON; 
alt. 5-8000 ft., frequent. 
Atree. Leaves 1} by 3 in., or larger (attaining 7 by 31 in. in some Ceylon varieties), 
