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nate, rounded or obtusely rhomboid at base; glabrous and shining 

 above, glabrous beneath except on the midrib, yellowish when dry; 

 margins entire or obscurely and distantly serrate, slightly recurved ; 

 2 to 4 in. long, -7 to 1"5 in. broad ; midrib slender, impressed 

 above, minutely pilose beneath ; main-nerves about 5 to 7 pairs, 

 indistinct, curved upwards and meeting in an intramarginal looped 

 nerve rather distant from the margin ; secondary nerves and reticula- 

 tions slender, obscure ; petiole -2 in. long, bordered above by the 

 decurrent margin of the blade and minutely pilose. Inflorescence 

 a short fascicle of axillary cymes or racemes -5 to '7 in. long, 

 ashy-pubescent ; bracts very minute ; pedicels slender, -15 in. long ; 

 bracteoles 3, minute, ovate, acute, ciiiate. Calyx-lobes 5, rounded, 

 obtuse, '05 in. long, pubescent without. Corolla-lobes oblong, obtuse, 

 •1 to "15 in. long, glabrous, 5-nerved ; tube very short or almost none. 

 Stamens in 5 bundles opposite the corolla-lobes, about 20 to 25 or some- 

 times more ; filaments slender, outer ones exsert ; anthers minute, 

 rounded, emarginate. Ovary depressed at top, disk glabrous, cells 3 ; 

 style slender, '075 in. long, ending in a flattened 3-lobed stigma. Fruit an 

 ampulliform drupe, ovoid below for '2 in. in length, -15 in. in diam., 

 glabrous, 5-6-ribbed, tipped by a cylindric beak -05 in. long and by the 

 persistent calyx-lobes ; exocarp thin, endocarp hard, furrowed, furnished 

 within with 3 to 6 strong ribs, enclosing a much-lobed seed ; testa 

 thin ; albumen fleshy ; embryo very slightly curved, *15 in. long. Miq. 

 PI. Ind. Bat. I. Pt. 2. 467 ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 574 ; 

 Koord. & Val. Bijdr. 7. 150; Brand Monog. Sympl. 34. Dicalyx 

 tinctorius, Bl. Bijdr. 1116. 



Penang : Curtis 3171. Perak : Wray 1865, 2418, 2466, 2739, 3561 ; 

 Scortechini 128, 1527 ; King's Collector 1042, 2021, 3003, 4739, 5175, 

 5337, 10525. Selangor : Bidley 8209. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 

 958 ; Griffith (K.D.) 3665 ; Holmbcrg 867. Johore : G. King. Singa- 

 pore : Murton 143 ; Bidley 3626a, 8209. — Distrib. Sumatra {Forbes 

 2355, 2358, 2563, 2812) ; Java {Forbes 218) ; Borneo {Beccari 2380 ; 

 Haviland 1024, 1545). 



After a great deal of trouble the seed with albumen and embryo were separated. 

 The walls of the shell of the fruit are furnished inside with projecting ribs, so that the 

 sseed resembles that of a small walnut and the embryo is slightly curved, long and narrow, 

 and might be called straight. Koorders & Valeton's description is thus confirmed. 



7. Symplocos spicata, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 40 (1814), and Fl. Ind. II. 

 541 ; Wall. Cat. 4417 ; A.DC. Prod. VIII. 254 ; Wight 111. 1. 150 ; Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. I. Pt. 2. 465; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. Madr. cxlix; Brandis For. Fl. 

 300 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 239 and For. Fl. II. 146 ; 

 Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 573 ; Trimen PI. Ceyl. III. 104 ; 

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