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Subgenus I. — Hopea. 



1. Symplocos odoratissima, Choisy ex Zoll. Syst. Verz. 136 (1854). 

 A tree with spreading branches reaching 60 to 70 feet in height and 

 18 to 24 in. in diam. of stem ; branches grey, stout ; branchlets dark 

 greyish-brown, angled, striate, minutely puberulous ; leaf-buds acumi- 

 nate, '15 in. long. Leaves thinly coriaceous ; elliptic or elliptic-obovate 

 or elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate at apex, cuneate or slightly 

 rounded at base ; glabrous on both surfaces ; margin entire or serrate, 

 blackish-brown when dry; 3 to 6 in. long, 2 to 2-5 in. broad; midrib 

 slender, prominent beneath, impressed above ; main-nerves 8 to 10 

 pairs, arching upwards to and along the margin where they meet in an 

 intramarginal looped nerve near it ; reticulations transverse, not pro- 

 minent; petiole "4 to '6 in. long, flattened above. Inflorescence of 

 grey-pubescent panicles, 1-5 to 2 in. long, axillary to the upper leaves, 

 longer in fruit and stouter ; branches paniculately racemose ; bracts very 

 small, deciduous ; bracteoles 2, below the calyx-tube, ovate-acute, 

 reflexed, "05 in. long; pedicels '15 in. long. Calyx-tube '05 in. long, 

 pubescent ; lobes 5, as long as tube, rounded. Corolla-tiihe very short ; 

 lobes ovate-obtuse, -15 in. long, pubescent on back, ciliate, white. 

 Stamens in 5 bundles opposite corolla-lobes, very many, 80 to 100 in 

 all ; filaments slender ; anthers rounded. Ovary villous ; style thick, 

 •075 in. long, stigma lobed ; cells 3, ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit an 

 ampulliform drupe, '4 to '5 in. long, '25 in. broad, lower part rounded, 

 upper cylindrical, crowned by the calyx-rim and connivent lobes, the 

 calyx-rim -075 in. broad ; exocarp corky, rusty-brown, slightly pubescent ; 

 endocarp hard. Seeds 1 to 3, usually 1 only perfect ; testa membranous, 

 albumen fleshy ; embryo shghtly curved, -15 in. long, radicle long. 

 Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. Pt. 2, 468; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. VII. 148; Brand 

 Monog. Sympl. 35. Dicalyx odoratissimus, Blume Bijdr. 1116, 



Perak : King's Collector 10030, 10411, 10777. Singapore : Piidley 

 4428 (this latter specimen has leaves up to 8 in. long and 3*5 in. 

 broad). — Distrib. Sumatra {Beccari 834), Java, Borneo {Beccari 

 4014). 



This is var. divaricata, Brand, which seems to us hardly separable, unless by the 

 leaves being almost entire. In the Java and Sumatra specimens of G. odoratissivia 

 the leaves are markedly serrate. 



2. Symplocos fulvosa. King & Gamble, n. sp. A very large tree, 

 reaching 150 feet in height (Scortechini) ; branchlets dark-brown, young 

 ones and innovations densely lerruginous-tomentose. Leaves chartaceo- 

 coriaceous ; elliptic, abruptly long blunt-acuminate at apex the acumen 

 often curved, cuneate or attenuate at base ; glabrous and shilling above, 



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