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3. S. MACROPHVLLA, Veut. Hort. Malm. ii. No. 91 (in note). A 

 tree 80 to 120 feet high; young branches very thick, rough from the leaf 

 cicatrices, the apices deciduously rufous or tawny-pilose. Leaves sub- 

 coi'iaceous, bi'oadly ovate to ovate-rotund or obovate-rotund, entire, 

 narrowing to the slightly cordate 7-nerved base ; upper surface sparsely 

 and rather minutely pubescent, some of the hairs 2-branclied, becoming 

 glabrescent with age, the midrib and nerves always pubescent ; under 

 surface sub-tomentose, tawny, the midrib and 6 to 8 pairs of lateral 

 nerves prominent, rufous-villose ; transverse venation distinct, rather 

 straight; length 8 to 16 in., breadth 6 to 12 in., petiole 3"6 to 6 in., 

 softly hairy, tawny. Panicles solitary, axillary, nearly as long as the 

 leaves, much-branched, many-flowered, hispidulous-pubescent, capillai-y, 

 shorter than the flowers. Flower-buds minute, sub-globose. Calyx 

 •15 in. long, campanulate, stellate-hairy, 5-lobed ; the lobes triangular, 

 erect, shorter than the tube. Follicles S to 5, , shortly stalked, woody, 

 sub-rotund, about 2"25 in. each way, crimson ^j^^L*ipe, outside pubes- 

 cent and longitudinally rugose : inside smootl^^^?*- oblong, black, 

 smooth, 'TS in. long. ]\[ast. in Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. 356; R. Brown 

 in Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 230. 



Malacca ; Maingay No. 233 (Kew Dist.). Perak ; at elevations of 

 200 to 500 feet ; King's Collector Nos. 6052 and 7923 ; Scortechini, No. 

 230. Distrib. Java, Brit. North Borneo. 



4. S. L.\Evis, Wall. Cat. 1138. A shrub or small tree ; young 

 branches rather thin, with pale striate bark, the apices deciduously 

 rusty-puberulous. Leaves membranous, narrowly ovate-oblong, sometimes 

 slightly obovate, the apex shortly and bluntly acuminate ; the base 

 tapering, acute, rarely rounded, faintly 3-nerved : both surfaces glabrous, 

 shining, the midrib and 6 to 9 pairs of spi'eading nerves prominent on 

 the lower: length 4*5 to 9 in., breadth 2 to 3 in. ; petiole I'l to 2'5 in., 

 smooth, thickened at the apex. Panicles meagre, solitary, axillaiy, 

 slender, puberulous, shorter than the leaves, few-flowered ; pedicels 

 about as long as the flowers. Ilotver-buds oblong. Calyx "5 in. long 

 or more, pubescent on both surfaces but especially on the inner ; the tube 

 urceolate, divided at its apex into 5 linear-oblong sub-acute ascending 

 lobes, longer than the tube, slightly connivent but not cohering by their 

 apices, hispidulous on their inner surface. Malejloioer; staminal column 

 shorter than the tube, glabrous ; anthers 10, sessile at its apex, elongate- 

 ovate. Hermaph. flower : gynophore vei'y short ; ovaries 5, boat-shaped, 

 rusty-pubescent, sub-sessile, with a ring of 10 sessile anthers at their 

 base outside : styles almost obsolete ; stigmas 5, cylindric, free, radiat- 

 ing, recurved, pubescent beneath. Follicles 3 to 5, coriaceous, narrowly 



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