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1. Symplocos, Linn. 

 Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, often turning yellow when dry, 

 entire or toothed. Floioers white, sometimes red, in axillary simple or 

 compound spikes or racemes, sometimes in few-flowered fascicles, occa- 

 sionally reduced to one flower ; bracts small, solitary at the base of the 

 pedicels ; bracteoles 1 to 3, small, at the base of the flower. Calyx-tube 

 adnate, short when in flower, campanulate, often enlarged in fruit ; lobes 

 5, imbricate. Petals 5 in one series, or 6 to 10 in two series, free or 

 somewhat connate, or sometimes connate in a tube, imbricate. Stamens 

 adnate to the corolla, at the base of the petals or higher up the tube, 

 numerous, many-seriate, the outer the longest ; filaments filiform, or 

 sometimes flattened; anthers short, dehiscing in longitudinal parallel 

 cells. Ovary inferior, or semi-superior, 2-5-celled ; style filiform ; 

 stigmas capitate, slightly lobed ; ovules 2, pendulous from the inner 

 angle of each cell. Fruit an oblong, ovoid or sub-globose drupe ; endo- 

 carp woody or thin, often ridged or ribbed, 1-3-seeded. Seeds usually 

 1 only (by abortion) ; embryo terete, straight or curved, in the centre 

 of fleshy albumen ; cotyledons much shorter than the radicle. — 

 DisTRiB. Warmer regions of Asia, Australia and America, species 

 about 290 to 300. 



Filaments more or less pentadelphous ; corolla-tube divided 

 nearly to the base (Subg. I. Hopea) : — 



Fruit (where known) more or less ampulliform ; embryo 

 curved (Sect. i. Paluka) : — 



Inflorescence compound, branching at any rate at the 

 base : — 

 Branches of the inflorescence paniculately racemose, 

 drupe nearly '5 in. long- 

 Branches of the inflorescence racemose : — 



Racemes densely ferruginous-tomentose ; pedicels 



scarcely "05 in. long, thick . . 



Racemes ferruginous-villous ; pedicels -2 in. long, 



slender; leaves elliptic, under 4 in. long 



Racemes pulverulent ; pedicels -2 in. long, slender ; 



leaves obovate 



Racemes glabrous or slightly pubescent ; pedicels longer 



than '05 in., slender : — 



Leaves over 4 in. long and 2 in. broad ; calyx-lobes 

 glabrous 



Leaves under 4 in. long and 1'5 in. broad; calyx- 

 lobes pubescent . . 

 Branches of the inflorescence spicate : — 



Leaves beneath and inflorescence glabrous or nearly so ; 

 endocarp of seed thin 



Leaves beneath and inflorescence ferruginous-villous ; 

 endocarp of seed hard, bony . . 



1. S. odoratissima. 



.3. 



S. fulvosa. 



S. nivca. 



S. jntlverulenta. 



S. monticola. 



S. fasciculata. 



S. sjncata. 

 var. malasica. 



S. ferruginea. 

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