Casearia.] lxii. samydace^. 831 



Bruas. Perak (Scortechini) : Gunong Keledang (Ridley). Disfrib. 

 Cambodia, Malay islands. 



(3) C. velutinosa Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 75, p. 34. 

 Shrub. Branches velvety flexuous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 



oblong to ovate acuminate, base rounded or shortly narrowed ; 

 nerves 12, prominent beneath, depressed above; glabrous above, 

 softly tomentose beneath, 6 to 10 in. long, 3 to 4-5 in. wide ; petioles 

 tomentose, -2 in. long. Heads -15 in. across. Flowers -i in. 

 across. Sepals imbricate, pubescent, 5 sub-orbicular, oblong 

 hairy outside. Petals o. Stamens 10, glabrous; anthers small 

 introrse. Staminodes forming a tube with them, sub-spathulate 

 hairy. Ovary conic. Stigma large capitate. Capsule -5 in. long, 

 dehiscing into 3 narrow boat-shaped valves. Hab. Forests, local. 

 Perak, Gunong Keledang. Bindings, Lumut ; Bruas (Ridley). 



(4) C, latifolia Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 75, p. 34. 

 C. albicans King, I.e., not of Wallich nor of Clarke. 



A big shrub or tree (Wallich), about 10 ft. tall with flexuous 

 white slender branches, quite glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous 

 dark green, elliptic-ovate long-acuminate, base rounded ; nerves 

 fine, 8 pairs, slightly raised beneath, reticulations fine conspicuous, 

 8 in. long, 4 in. wide; petioles -2 in. long. Heads small, axillary 

 usually many-flowered. Bracts short, ovate. Buds globose, 

 glabrous pedicelled. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid, yellow, -5 in. long. 

 Hab. Hill forests. Perak, Ulu Bubong (Kunstler 10869), Penang 

 (WalHch 7197 (i), 7432) halfway up Western Hill; Pulau Betong 

 (Curtis). 



(5) C. esculenta Roxb. Fl. Ind. ii. 422 ; Clarke, I.e. ii. 592 ; 

 King, I.e. 17. 



Shrub or treelet up to 20 to 30 ft. tall, glabrous. Branches 

 white, flexuous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong acute, 

 base cuneate or round, edge obscurely undulate (or not) ; nerves 

 6 to 8 pairs, 3 to 4 in. long, 1-5 to 2-25 in. wide. Heads many- 

 flowered; pedicels -2 in. long, all glabrous. Calyx teeth 4 ovate. 

 Fruit oblong-ovoid, i in. long, valves broad, ovate. Hab. Malacca 

 (Griffith, Maingay), rare. Disirib. India. 



Griffith's Malacca specimens are identical with another one collected by 

 him in Khasyia in Kew Herbarium, and I should conclude it was an error 

 of localisation to refer them to the peninsula were it not for Maingay's 

 specimens. 



(6) C, leucolepis Turez, Bull. Soe. Nat. Mosc. i. 463. 

 Glabrous plant with stout branches. Leaves distant, thinly 



coriaceous or membranous, oblong blunt or bluntly acuminate, 

 base inaequilateral rounded or sub-cordate, edge minutely crenulate ; 

 nerves slender, 10 pairs, 4 to 6 in. long, 2-5 to 3 in. wide ; petioles 

 •2 in. long. Flowers several in short heads of woolly bracts. 

 Pedicels slender, -15 in. long. Sepals 4, oblong blunt inside 

 pubescent. Stamens 8, shorter ; anthers ovate acute. Staminodes 



