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1353. Peeak: Wmy 3387; Scortechini 900; King's Collector 925, 

 4376, 4395, 4683, 5235, 6219, 7091, 8646, 11019. Pahang : Ridley in 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, III. 318. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 956.— 

 DisTRiB. Assam, Burma, Java {Forbes 682, 798, 861, 1203), Sumatra 

 {Forbes 2614, 2691, 3150 ; Beccari 842), the Moluccas, the PhiUppines, 

 and S. China. 



The leaves in this species are very variable ; for instance, those of King's Collector 

 Nos. 4395, 4683 have oblong-lanceolate leaves 6 to 8 in. long and about 2 in. broad, 

 with more distant nerves, and are nearly glabrous beneath ; but some of the leaves 

 approach very nearly to those of other specimens, and we cannot therefore separate 

 it as a variety. The marked elongation of the fruiting inflorescence is another 

 source of difficulty in superficial identification. 



9. Symplocos Eidleyi, King & Gamble, n. sp. A medium-sized 

 tree ; branchlets glabrous, angled, striate ; leaf-buds acuminate, glabrous. 

 Leaves coriaceous ; ovate or oblong, acuminate at apex, attenuate at 

 base; glabrous on both surfaces, shining above, greenish-yellow when dry; 

 margins entire or remotely and faintly denticulate, recurved ; 3 to 4 in. 

 long, 1 to 1'5 in. broad ; midrib slender, raised above ; main-nerves 8 

 to 9 pairs, raised on both surfaces, straight, meeting in a looped intra- 

 marginal nerve ; secondary nerves few ; reticulations prominent, raised 

 above ; petiole -3 in. long, channelled above. Inflorescence of sessile or 

 very short few-flowered axillary racemes, as long as the petiole ; racbis 

 silky-pubescent ; bracts and bracteoles orbicular, ciliate, pubescent ; 

 pedicels none or very short. Calyx-lobes orbicular, thin, ciliate, -1 in. 

 broad, concave ; tube very short. Corolla-tube very short, lobes ovate, 

 •12 to -15 in. long, 3-5-nerved, white. Stamens about 50, in bundles 

 opposite the corolla-lobes ; filaments slender, the outer ones a little 

 longer than the corolla-lobes ; anthers rounded. Ovary ViWomq, 3-celled, 

 ovules 2 in each cell ; disk glabrous ; style thick, -1 in. long, stigma 

 capitate, lobed. Fruit not known. 



SiNGAPOBE : Biclley 5684. 



A species very closely allied to S. phijllocalyx, Clarke, of N. India and China, and 

 to S.japonica, A. DC. of Japan. 



■ 10. Symplocos celastrifolia. Griff. MS. ; Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. III. 575 (1882). A tree (?) ; branchlets smooth, slender, 

 glabrous. Leaves chartaceous ; elliptic or elliptic-oblong, shortlj^ and 

 bluntly acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; glabrous on both surfaces, 

 greenish-brown above, yellowish beneath when dry ; margins crenate, 

 slightly recurved; 2*5 to 5 in. long, 1-5 to 2*25 in. broad; midrib 

 slender, impressed above ; main-nerves 6 to 8 pairs, irregular, not pro- 

 minent, at first straight, then curving upwards and branching to meet 



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