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glabrous and dull beneath, ferruginous-brown when dry ; margins 

 faintly crenate-serrate, with a row of glands, sHgbtly recurved ; 3 to 

 4-5 in. long, 1-25 to 2 in. broad; midrib slender, slightly impressed 

 above ; main-nerves 6 to 8 pairs, the lowest pair close to the margin, 

 the rest gradually more distant upwards, curved upwards to and along 

 the margin where they meet in a looped intramarginal nerve ; reticu- 

 lations many, forming an elegant network; petiole '75 in. long. 

 Inflorescence of tripartite sessile panicles of racemes, the racemes 

 1 to 2 in. long, densely ferruginous-tomentose ; bracts and bracteoles 

 minute, hidden in the tomentum ; pedicels thick, -05 in. long ; flowers 

 white, then yellowish. Calyx-Uibe short ; lobes very short, rounded, 

 densely tomentose without. Corolla-tube short ; lobes ovate-oblong, 

 glabrous, -15 in. long, 3-5-nerved. Stamens many, obscurely separated 

 in bundles ; filaments slender ; anthers very small rounded. Ovary 

 and disk glabrous, style glabrous, -075 in. long, stigma capitate; 

 cells 3. Fruit unknown. 



Perak : Scortechini 563, 567. 



3. Symplocos nivea. Brand Monog. Sympl. 36 (1901). A tree, 

 reaching 50 to 60 feet in height; branchlets slender, rounded, dark 

 brown, glabrous ; leaf-buds ovate-acuminate, tawny-pubescent. Leaves 

 chartaceo-coriaceous ; elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acute or acuminate at 

 apex, cuneate at base ; glabrous and shining above, glabrous and pale 

 beneath, dark olive-brown when dry; margins obscurely undulate- 

 crenate, recurved; 3 to 4 in. long, 1 to 1-75 in. broad; midrib slender, 

 impressed above ; main-nerves 5 to 6 pairs, irregularly spaced and 

 often branched, at first straight then curved upwards to and along 

 the margin where they anastomose in a looped intramarginal nerve ; 

 reticulations obscure ; petiole slender, -3 to '4 in. long. Inflorescence 

 an axillary panicle of villous racemes 2 to 3 in. long, the racemes 

 12-15-fl6wered ; bracts and bracteoles ovate-lanceolate, villous, quickly 

 caducous; pedicels slender, -2 in. long. Calyx-tube adnate to the 

 ovary; lobes 5, oblong-obtuse, -1 in. long, glabrous, persistent. Corolla 

 pure white ; lobes twice as long as those of the calyx. Stamens 

 about 60, as long as the corolla. Ovary glabrous, 1-celled, ovules appa- 

 rently 2 ; style slender from a conical villous base. Fruit unknown. 



Penang: at Pulau Boetong, Government Hill and Muka Head, 

 Curtis 715. 



4. Symplocos pulvekulenta. King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree (?) ; 

 ultimate branchlets and inflorescence grey- or golden-pulverulent-scaly ; 

 leaf-buds lanceolate-acuminate. Leaves membranous ; obovate, abruptly 

 short acuminate at apex, cuneate often unequally at base ; glabrous on 

 both surfaces except on the nerves, olive-green when dry ; margins 



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