248 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



nerves 10 to 13 pairs, parallel, very prominently raised beneath 

 and usually impressed above, curving upwards to and along the 

 margin ; secondary nerves few or none ; reticulations many, pro- 

 minent, transverse, parallel; petiole thick, densely pubescent, -5 to 

 1 in. long. Inflorescence of simple erect spikes, from the axils of upper 

 leaves or from the young branchlets below them ; spikes 1 to 2 in. long, 

 softly cinnamomeous-pubescent, the rachis stout especially in fruit ; 

 flowers about 12 to 16 in each spike, each flower supported by a broad 

 ovate rounded bract '175 in. long and two ovate-acute bracteoles "1 in. 

 long. Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, -06 to -07 in. long ; tube as 

 long as lobes. Corolla-tube short, lobes white, oblong, -15 in. long, 

 3-nerved, glabrous. Stamens in 5 bundles opposite to the corolla-lobes, 

 usually about 30 ; filaments unequal, the outer ones longer than the 

 corolla-lobes ; anthers minute, round. Ovary and disk glabrous, style 

 slender, about -15 in. long, stigma capitate or lobed ; cells 3. Fruit an 

 ovoid-oblong drupe, -4 in. long, '25 in. broad, surmounted by the calyx- 

 rim -1 in. in diam., pale brownish-yellow when dry, glabrous or softly 

 pilose ; exocarp thin, crustaceous, fragile ; endocarp woody, faintly 

 ridged; seeds usually 3. A. DC. Prod., VIII. 257; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. 

 Pfc. 2. 466 ; Clarke in Hook, f . Fl. Br. Ind. III. 580 ; Brand Monog. 

 Sympl. 53. Loclhra rubiginosa, Miers in Journ. Linn. Soc. XVII. 

 299. 



Penang: Wallich 4432; C^lrtis 528, 1692; G. King. Perak : 

 Scortechiniimb; King's Collector 5192, 5771, 7112, 8105, 10015, 10021. 

 Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 955 ; Griffith (K.D.) 3652. Johore : Bidley 

 11115. Singapore: Gantley 72; Bidley 4117.— Distrib. Sumatra 

 {Forbes 1991), Borneo {Bcccari 1216, Haviland 1679, 3480). 



Subgenus II. — Cordyloblaste. 



23. Symplocos confusa, Brand Monog. Sympl. 88 (1901). A shrub, 

 5 to 8 feet high (Lobb) ; branchlets rough, dark brown, marked with pro- 

 minent cushion-like scars, uppermost ones and innovations ferruginous- 

 pubescent. Leaves chartaceous ; variable in shape, elliptic-oblong to 

 ovate-lanceolate bluntly acute at apex, attenuate often unequally at 

 base ; margins entire or slightly undulate, recurved ; glabrous on both 

 surfaces; 3 to 4 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. broad ; midrib slender ; main-nerves 

 irregular, about 6 pairs ; secondary nerves and reticulations also irregular, 

 indistinct ; petiole '2 to '3 in. long, slightly pubescent. Inflorescence of 

 very short, 1-4-flowered, axillary, grey-silky racemes about -25 in. long ; 

 bracts very small, ovate-acute ; bracteoles also minute, 2 to each pedicel ; 

 pedicels -05 to -1 in. long; flowers white, sweet-scented. Calyx-tube 

 458 



