238 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



S. attenuata, Wall. Cat. 4426 ; A. DC. Prod. VIII. 256 ; Brand Monog. 

 Sympl. 39. 



Kedah : King's Collector 1764. — Distrib. Assam, Burma. 



8. Symplocos ferruginea, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. 40 (1814), Fl. Ind. II. 

 542. A tree with spreading branches reaching 50 to 60 feet in height 

 and 1 foot in diam. of stem ; branchlets stout, dark brown, smooth, inno- 

 vations densely ferruginous-villous. Leaves coriaceous ; elliptic or 

 elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate at apes, cuneate at base ; glabrous and 

 shining above, ferruginous-villous especially on the nerves beneath,, 

 turning yellow when dry; margins serrulate, denticulate or almost 

 entire, recurved; 5 to 8 in. long, 1-5 to 3 in. broad; midrib stout, very 

 prominent beneath, impressed above ; main-nerves 12 to 14 pairs, pro- 

 minent beneath, parallel at first and straight for some distance then 

 arching near the margin ; secondary nerves few ; reticulations obliquely 

 transverse, not prominent ; petiole -3 to -5 in. long, densely rusty -villous,, 

 thick. Inflorescence an axillary panicle of spikes, 2 to 6 in. long, 

 the spikes and panicle short in bud, longer in flower, much elongated in 

 fruit, the branches of the panicle mostly near the base, densely ferru- 

 ginous-villous ; bracts very small, ovate-acute, villous ; bracteoles under 

 each flower 3, the central one '12 in. long, ovate-acuminate, the two outer 

 shorter, ovate-acute, the three together as long as the calyx. Calyx 

 5-lobed ; lobes ovate-obtuse, -1 in. long, pubescent without. Corolla 

 5-lobed, white, rotate; tube -05 in. long; lobes -1 in. long, oblong-obtuse, 

 3-nerved. Stamens indefinite, 40 to 70, in 5 fascicles inserted on the 

 corolla-tube ; filaments slender, gradually increasing in length from the 

 inside outwards, the outer ones a little longer than the petals ; anthers 

 rounded, short. Ovary depressed, disk glabrous ; cells 3 ; style thick, 

 •1 to '2 in. long, stigma 3-lobed; ovules several in each cell. Fruit a 

 globose or ampuUiform drupe, faintly ribbed, "15 to "2 in. long, sur- 

 mounted by the persistent calyx with enlarged connivent teeth ; 

 exocarp thin ; endocarp very hard, bony, about 12-14-ribbed, globose 

 below, cylindric and very short above. Seed 1, testa thin, albumen 

 rather scanty; embryo curved, -1 to -15 in. long. Wall. Cat. 4412; A. 

 DC. Prod. VIII. 257 ; Miq. M. Ind. Bat. I. Pt. 2. 466 ; Clarke in Hook, 

 f. PI. Br. Ind. III. 574 {var. exc.) ; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. VII. 141 ; Brand 

 Monog. Sympl. 40. S. mollis, Wall. Cat. 4433 ; G. Don Gen. Syst. IV. 

 3. S. Verhucllii, Jungh. & de Vriese PI. Nov. Ind. Or. 12 ; Miq. I.e. 

 467. S. javanica, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 239 

 {sy7i. S. rubiginosa exc.) and For. Fl. II. 145. S. lachnobotrya, and 

 S. Horsfieldiana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 475. Dicalyx javanicus, 

 Blume Bijdr. 1117. 



Penang : Wallich 4433 ; Phillips ; Curtis 206 ; King's Collector 

 448 



