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and usually shining, dark greenish-brown when dry; margins entire 

 or very shortly serrate, recurved when dry ; 6 to 12 in. long, 2-5 to 

 5 in. broad ; midrib stout, much raised beneath, impressed above ; 

 main-nerves 10 to 13 pairs, raised beneath, curving upwards to 

 and along the margin; secondary nerves few or none; reticulations 

 transverse, parallel, not prominent ; petiole "7 to 1'3 in. long, stout, 

 glabrous. Inflorescence of simple spikes, strobilate when young and 

 scarcely -5 in. long, in flower 1-5 to 2 in. long with pubescent rachis, 

 in fruit reaching 3 in. long with stout nearly glabrous rachis, in 

 the axils of upper leaves or the young branchlets below them ; bracts 

 broadly ovate, acute, concave, minutely grey or tawny-pubescent ; 

 bracteoles 2, lanceolate-acute, -1 in. long, all early deciduous ; buds 

 ovoid, grey-pubescent. Calyx-tube "075 in. long; lobes 4, ovate-acute, 

 blunt, -1 to '15 in. long, both grey-pubescent. Corolla-tube short, 

 lobes 5, white, oblong, acute, "25 in. long, 5-nerved. Stamens in 5 

 bundles opposite the corolla-lobes, about 60 ; filaments very slender, 

 outer ones longer than corolla-lobes ; anthers rounded, minute. Ovary 

 and disk glabrous ; style curved, -25 in. long, stigma capitate ; cells 3, 

 ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit ovoid-oblong, 1 to 1-5 in. long, -75 to 1 in. 

 broad, waxy greenish-white when half ripe, dark blue when ripe ; pale 

 brown, shining, smooth, obscurely angled when dry ; surmounted by 

 the calyx-rim -15 in. broad with erect calyx-teeth ; exocarp thick, fleshy ; 

 endocarp very hard, woody, with 8 sharp star-like ridges ; cells 3. Seeds 

 1 to 3, testa thin fibrous, albumen fleshy, embryo straight, radicle long. 

 Brand Monog. Sympl. 52. Doxoimna rigidum, Miers in Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. Ser. 2. Bot. I. 104. Barringtonia rigida, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. 

 Br. Ind. II. 510. 



Pebak : Wray 1294, 3207 ; Scortecliini 2046 ; Ki7ig's Collector 4246, 

 4277, 4613, 5045, 5048, 6095, 6179, 7260, 7898, 8543, 10013. Selangor : 

 Eidley 10544. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 767, 965. Singapore : 

 Cantley 50; Eidley 1798, 5960. 



22. Symplocos eubiginosa. Wall. Cat. 4432 (1829). A large shrub 

 or a tree sometimes reaching 70 to 100 feet in height and 15 to 20 in. 

 or more in diam. of stem ; branches stout, grey, nearly glabrous ; 

 branchlets stout, angled, glabrous or cinnamomeous- or ferruginous- 

 hirsute ; leaf-buds lanceolate, "3 to -4 in. long. Leaves coriaceo- 

 chartaceous ; obovate-oblong, acute or shortly and abruptly acuminate 

 at apex, cuneate at base ; glabrous above, pubescent especially on 

 the nerves beneath, the pubescence pale rusty-brown, pale greenish- 

 brown when dry ; margins shortly dentate especially on the upper 

 half, sometimes nearly entire, recurved ; 5 to 11 in. long, 2 to 4 in. 

 broad ; midrib stout, prominent beneath, impressed above ; main- 



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