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with the remains of the calyx-rim -125 in. wide, pericarp very thick, 

 woody. Brand Monog. Sympl. 90. 



Peeak : King's Collector 6728. Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 961. 



25. Symplocos Scoetechinii, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree (?) ; 

 branchlets pale brown, slender, scurfy ; innovations sparsely grey- 

 pubescent. Leaves chartaceous ; oblong-lanceolate, attenuately blunt- 

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

 brown when dry, margins entire ; 4 to 5 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. broad ; 

 midrib slender, raised beneath, impressed above ; main-nerves 8 to 10 

 pairs the lowest close to the margin, the others curved upwards to meet 

 in a looped intramarginal nerve ; secondary nerves many and, with the 

 reticulations, irregular, fairly prominent ; petiole "5 in. long, channelled 

 above, slightly pubescent when young. Inflorescence of axillary or 

 pseudo-terminal racemes, •? to 1 in. long, sometimes giving the appear- 

 ance of a terminal panicle ; rachis grey-pubescent, angular ; bract and 

 2 bracteoles lanceolate-acuminate, "1 to -15 in. long; pedicels '2 in. long. 

 Calyx-tube campanulate, '2 in. long, grey-pubescent without, as are the 

 rounded obtuse -05 in. long teeth. Corolla-tube slender, funnel-shaped, 

 1 to 1-5 in. long, densely W'hite-tomentose without ; lobes -5 in. long, 

 oblong-obtuse, much imbricate in bud. Staminal-ticbe adnate to the 

 corolla-tube as far as the lobes, then free above it, top of tube truncate, 

 about 15-lobed, the lobes separable as ligules ; stamens inserted irregu- 

 larly on the tube and lobes, about 40 to 50 ; free part of filaments short, 

 slender ; anthers rounded. Ovary and disk hairy ; style slender, as 

 long as corolla-tube, stigma capitate ; cells 3, ovules 2 in each cell. 

 Fruit obovoid-oblong, obtuse, glabrous, 1-75 in. long, 1*2 in. broad, 

 crowned wnth the remains of the calyx-rim -1 in. in diam. ; pericarp 

 thick, corky ; seed 1. 



Peeak : Scortechini. 



This species comes very near to S. Maingayi in respect to its flowers and fruit, but 

 the branches are much more slender, the dense ferruginous tomentum is absent, and 

 the leaves are different, so we have no hesitation in describing it as a new species. 



The following Bornean species seems worthy of description here : it 

 may possibly be found also in the Peninsula : — 



Symplocos Havilandi, King & Gamble, n. sp. A small tree (?) ; branchlets stout, 

 somewhat flattened, yellowish-brown ; leaf -buds conical, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous ; 

 elliptic, abruptly acuminate at apex, acute at base ; glabrous on both surfaces, orange- 

 brown when dry; margins entire, recurved; 3 to 4 in. long, 1-25 to Vlo in. broad; 

 midrib stout, impressed above ; main-nerves 7 to 8 pairs, the lowest pair near the 

 margin and more acutely angled (about 45°) than the others, straight at first at an 

 angle of 60°, then curved to meet in a widely looped intramarginal nerve, prominently 

 raised above when dry; secondary-nerves and reticulations also raised; petiole '4 to 

 •5 in. long, stout, rough, the upper half winged by the decurrent margin of the blade. 

 Inflorescence a nearly sessile, few-branched panicle of racemes, about 1"5 in. long 



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