Slerculia.] xxiv. sterculiace.e. 273 



to Penang. Distrib. Cochin-China, Burma, Java and Sumatra. 

 Native names : Dudanak ; Saburu ; Sakelat ; Unting-Unting 

 Besar. 



var. ensifolia Ridl. S. ensifolia Masters, in Hook. fil. F.B.I. 

 i. 359 ; King, I.e. 70. 



A shrub 8 to 12 ft. tall, or even shorter. Leaves narrow lanceo- 

 late, or oblanceolate acuminate, 6 to 10 in. long, 1-5 in. to 2'5 in. 

 wide. Flowers 75 in. long in simple pendulous racemes, i ft. 

 or more long. Hab. In dense forests, usually at some altitude 

 up to 3000 ft. Bindings, Gunong Tungul. Perak; Thaiping 

 Hills. Province Wellesley, Kubang Ulu (Curtis). Penang, near 

 the Waterfall and Moniot's Road. 



(12) S. rostrata Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. iv. 7. 



A small tree about 20 ft. tall. Leaves obovate-oblong, acute 

 with a short cusp, base rounded; nerves 12 pairs, elevate beneath, 

 8 in. long, 3 in. wide, dull green above, glabrous with a few hairs 

 on midrib and nerves, beneath yellowish ; nerves hairy ; petioles 



2 in. long, hairy. Panicle 6 in. long. Branches few short hairy. 

 Male flowers "i in. long red, lobes lanceolate not tailed, tips connate, 

 tube campanulate very short; anthers 5. Follicles 4, elongate- 

 lanceolate acuminate stalked 4 in. long with a long terete curved 

 beak as long, 2 in. across. Seeds 6 in a follicle, '5 in. long. Hab. 

 Pahang at Telom, on the river-bank, rare (Ridley). 



(13) S. brachycarpa Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Sac. S. Br. 79, p. 63. 

 Tree 50 to 60 ft. tall, 8 to 12 in. through. Leaves elliptic or 



obovate-eiliptic, abruptly acuminate, chartaceous, base rounded or 

 shortly cuneate glabrous except nerves beneath; nerves 9 pairs 

 elevate beneath, as are the conspicuous reticulations, all sprinkled 

 with stellate hairs; midrib prominent, red-stellate-hairy, 6 to 11 in. 

 long, 3 to 5-5 in. wide; petioles 1*5 to 2 in. long, red-hairy. Racemes 



3 to 3'5 in. long, slender densely red-hairy. Flowers remote; 

 pedicels '25 in. long. Sepals '2 in. long, broad lanceolate acuminate 

 blunt, densely hairy. Stamen-column half as long and as wide. 

 Seed oblong. Hab. Hill forests at 3000 ft. altitude. Selangor. 

 Sempang mines (Ridley). Perak, Batang Padang district (Kunstler). 



(14) S. hispidissima Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 54, p. 30. 

 Shoots roughly red-hairy. Leaves elliptic or oblong, base 



broad, truncate, shortly cordate, tip cuspidate, membranous above 

 covered with scattered pale hairs, with stellate tufts on nerves 

 and reticulations, beneath more thickly covered with stellate 

 hairs and long rough hairs ; midrib densely tomentose with stellate 

 hairs and long hairs mixed; nerves 7 to 10 pairs, 4 to 6 in. long, 

 2 to 3 in. wide. Panicles numerous crowded at the ends of the 

 branches, 6 to 8 in. long, densely rough-hairy. Branches i in. 

 long. Male flowers, 3 in. long, tube campanulate, lobes as long, 

 linear, ciliate. Staminal column as long as tube; anthers 8. 

 Female flowers and fruit unknown. Hab. Rare, Selangor, at Ulu 



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