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Leaves coriaceous, main nerves 10 to 12 pairs, 



inconspicuous ; pedicels longer than the flower, 



slender ... ... ... ... 2. S. Penangtana. 



Flower-buds embraced by large concave imbri- 

 cate bracts ... ... ... ,., 3. S. spicifera. 



Imperfectly known species ... ... 4:. S. lurida. 



1. SwiNTONiA ScHWENKii, Teysm. and Binn. Cat. Horti Bogor. 

 (1866) p. 230. A tree; young branches slender, glaucous. Leaves 

 sub-coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, shortly and ob- 

 tusely acuminate, the edt^es sub-undulate, the base slightly narrowed 

 but usually rounded ; both surfaces obscurely I'eticulate, the lower paler 

 when dry; main nerves 14 to 18 pairs, spreading and mtlier straight : 

 length 3 to 6 in., breadth 125 to 15 in. ; petiole 1*25 to 15 in. slender, 

 with a slight swelling at the very base. Panicles crowded at the ends 

 of the branches in the axils of the upper leaves, slender, usually longer 

 than the leaves, pedunculate ; the branches short, alternate, spreading, 

 the ultimate branchlets cymose. Flowers polygamous, 'l in. diam., on 

 very short pedicels. Segments of the calyx united only at the base, 

 orbicular, concave, glabrous. Petals oblong, obtuse, pubescent on both 

 surfaces, rapidly enlargifig in the ripe fruit and reflexed, 2*5 in* long, nar- 

 rowly oblong, coriaceous, veined. Drupe oblong, smooth, -75 in. long. 

 Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Vol. XXXIX, Pt. 2, (1870), 75 ; Engler 

 in DC. Mon. Phan. lY, 2.32. Anauxanopetaluin Schivenkii, Teysm. and 

 Binneud. in Miquel Journ. I, 368. Astropetalum 2, Griffith, Notul. IV, 

 415. 



Malacca: Griffith, No. 11 56; Maingay, No. No. 486.— Distrib. 

 Sumatra. 



I have followed Sir Joseph Hooker and Dr. Engler in identifying 

 this Malacca species of Stvintonia with S, Schwenkii, T. B., although 

 the specimens in the Calcutta Herbarium hardly bear this out. la 

 the Calcutta Herbarium there are authentic specimens of Ananx- 

 anopetalnm Schwenkii — the name originally given to the species by 

 Teysm. and Binn. These specimens were collected in the Buitenzoro- 

 garden and were sent out by its authors. They are therefore practi- 

 cally type specimens, for as the authors explain (Miq. Journ. Bot. I^ 

 369) the species was named in the Buitenzorg gai-den from specimens 

 taken from trees originally received from Sumatra by Major Schwenk. 

 Dr. Anderson in .861 also collected in the Buitenzorg garden specimens 

 of the same. These Buitenzorg specimens all agree in having flowers 

 with rather long pedicels. Now, in desciibing S. Schwenkii in the Fi. 

 Bi-. India from the Malacca specimens, Sir Joseph Hooker makes it a 

 diagnostic mark of the species, as understood by him, that the flowers 



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