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oblong, witli sliorfc straight beaks, bright red when ripe, puberulous 

 externally, slightly curved, glabrous, shining and ridged internally, 2 

 in. long and about "5 in. broad. Seeds 3 or 4 oblong, black, shining. 

 Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 357. Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch-Chine 

 t. 192, figs. 1 to 7 ; Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 230; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 

 i. pt. 2, 174. 8. coccinea, Jack Mai. Misc. i. 286, not of Roxb. 



Penang, Perak, Malacca, Singapore : at low elevations : but not 

 common. 



5. S. HTPOSTiCTA, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 399. A shrub or small 

 tree, all parts glabrous except the inflorescence : young branches slender, 

 dark and smooth becoming (by the falling off of the bar-k) pale and 

 striate. Leaves membranous, oblong, to oblong-lanceolate, sometimes 

 slightly obovate, abruptly acuminate or even caudate-acuminate, entire, 

 the base slightly narrowed and rounded, or not narrowed and truncate, 

 emarginate, rarely acute, 3-nerved ; both surfaces glabrous, shining : 

 lateral main nerves 3 to 5 pairs, spreading, curved, inarching far from 

 the margin, prominent beneath : length 3'5 to 5"5 in,, breadth 15 to 

 2*25 in., petiole 1 to 1'5 in,, thickened at base and apex. Racemes 

 axillary, solitary, drooping, longer than the leaves, minutely whitish 

 pubescent, with superficial brown stellate hairs: bracteoles linear, 

 longer than the pedicels. Calyx with narrowly campanulate tube "25 

 in. long, densely rufous-pubescent externally and glabrous inside : lobes 

 5, not quite so long as the tube, linear, spreading, connivent, cohering 

 from some time by their tips, the edges recurved, glandular-pilose inside, 

 sub-pubescent outside. 3Iale flower-; staminal column short, glabrous, 

 with 8 sessile oblong 2-celled anthers at its apex. Female floiuer : gy- 

 nophore short ; ovaries 4, ovoid, conjoined, shortly tomentose, with ring 

 of 8 sessile anthers at their base. Style simple, curved, sparsely 

 villous ; stigma large, glabrous, with 4 fleshy oblong-obovoid curved 

 lobes. Follicles 2 or 3, coriaceous, bright red when ripe, narrowly 

 oblong, tapering to each end, 2 to 2'25 in. long and "65 in. broad; 

 externally minutely rusty-pubescent ; internally glabi'ous, wrinkled. 

 Seeds 4, oblong, pointed, black. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Vol. 

 xlv. pt. 2, p. 120. 



Perak ; King's Collector, Wray. Nicobars, Kurz. 



6. S. PABVIFOLIA, Wall. Cat. 1123. A tree 20 to 30 feet high : 

 young branches slendei*, striate, the older pale, the younger dark-coloured, 

 glabrous. Leaves membranous, drying of a pale green, oblong-lanceolate, 

 rarely ovatc-oblong, bluntly acuminate, entire ; the base acute or round- 

 ed, faintly 3-nerved ; both surfaces glabrous : main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, 



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