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compressed, brown when dry. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic or 

 ovate-elliptic, shortly and sharply acuminate, the base more or less cu- 

 neate, both surfaces brown when di'y ; the lower paler, dull, and with 

 sparse transverse reticulations ; main-nerves 6 to 9 pairs, pale and pro- 

 minent on the lower surface like the midrib, depressed on the upper; 

 length 3-5 to 7 in.; breadth 1-75 to 3 in.; petioles -25 to '4 in.; stipules 

 cartilaginous, united into a short more or less persistent ring with some 

 short bristly processes inside it. Flowers crowded, to the number of 4 

 or 5, in a multibracteate solitary glomerulus borne at the apex of a short 

 branch between two leaves ; the branch bearing in its lower third a 

 pair of lanceolate bracts about '5 in. long. Female glomerulus qaite 

 sessile, about '3 in. long and 4 in. broad ; the male glomerulus some- 

 what larger than the female, borne on a short compressed peduncle '4 

 to '75 in. long and enveloped for the lower two-thirds of its length in a 

 loose sheath formed of two acuminate partly conjoined bracts. The 

 outer bracteoles of each glomerulus longer and thicker than the inner, 

 broad, very concave, and forming a persistent involucre ; the middle 

 bracteoles broadly ovate-rotund with terminal caudate appendages ; the 

 inner ones narrower and embracing the flowers by pairs, appendiculate. 

 Flowers sessile, aboat "25 in. long. Calyx '1 in. long, coriaceous, cam- 

 panulate, the mouth truncate and with 4 or 5 minute distant acute 

 teeth. Corolla salver-shaped, about '2 in. long ; the tube short and 

 "wide ; the limb longer than the tube, with 4 broad blunt spreading 

 lobes ; anthers 4 to 6, linear-oblong. Fruit sessile, sub-globular, smooth, 

 crowned by the small annular calyx, "3 to "35 in. in diam. ; pericarp 

 thick ; seed solitary, sub-globular, hard. 



Perak: ScortecMni; Bidley 9835 ; King's Collector 783, 6031, 8166. 

 Singapore : Ridley 10931. Johore : Ridley 4213. 



The fruit when ripe is said to be blue, and the flowers variously pale-green or 

 white. 



VAR. angustifolia, King & Gamble : leaves rather more coriaceous 

 than in the typical form, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 3 to 4 in. long 

 and 1"25 to 1*4 in. broad. 



Malacca : Qoodenough 1856. Negri Sembilan : Ridley 1856. 



Flowers are absent in both the specimens cited here. When these are obtain- 

 ed, they may afford characters to separate this as a good species. 



2. Saprosma ScoRTECHiNir, King & Gamble, n. sp. A shrub, glab- 

 rous except the midrib and nerves of the leaves on the lower surface ; 

 young branches thicker than a crow-quill, with pale-brown spongy bark. 

 Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic, shortly and bluntly acuminate, the 

 base cuneate ; both surfaces brown when dry; the upper glabrous ; the 



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