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spreading, rather prominent on both surfaces as is the midrib : length 

 4 to 65 in., breadth 1 to 1"75 in.; petiole 1 to 175 in , smooth, slender, 

 thickened at the apex. Racemes solitary, axillary, much shorter than 

 the leaves, few-flowered, glabrous ; flower-pedicels shorter than the 

 flowers, capillary. Flower-huds oblong. Calyx lees than '5 in. long, 

 glabrescent externally, puberulons internally especially on the lobes ; 

 tube wide, cylindric, with 5 linear-lanceolate lobes about as long as itself, 

 spreading, incurving and joined for some time by their tips. Male 

 floiver : staminal column shorter than the tube and bearing at its apex 

 about 12 small oblong anthers with thick connective and diverging cells. 

 Herm. Jlower : gynophore very short, glabrous ; ovaries 5, broadly ovate, 

 rusty-pubescent ; styles united, recurved, with many white spreading 

 hairs : stigmas clavate, flattened, recurved, spreading. Follicles 3 to 5, 

 broadly oblong, with a straight beak, 1 to 1'25 in long, -6 in. broad. 

 Seeds 2, broadly ovoid, black, shining. Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. 

 i. 356 ; R. Brown in Benn. PI. Javan. Ear. 229 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Vol. 

 i. pt. 2, p. 173. 



Peuang, Perak, Malacca. 



Closely allied to S. laevis, Wall. : but with smaller flowers and 

 follicles, and with calyx lobes coherent at their tips. 



7. S. KuNSTLERi, King, n. sp. A tree 30 to 60 feet high ; all 

 parts (except the inflorescence and the tips of the young branches) 

 glabrous ; branches with pale smooth striate bark. Leaves thinly coriace- 

 ous, broadly ovate (or slightly obovate) to oblong or narrowly elliptic, the 

 apex rounded, blunt, sub-acute or very shortly and sub-abruptly acumin- 

 ate ; slightly narrowed to the rounded or sub-truncate, rarely acute, 3 to 

 5-nerved, base ; both surfaces shining ; lateral nerves about 7 to 9 pairs, 

 spreading, slightly prominent beneath : length 4 to 9 in., breadth 2 to 

 4"5 in. ; petiole "75 to 2' 75 in., slender, glabrous. Panicles solitary, 

 narrow, in the axils of (and shorter than) the mature leaves, or supra- 

 axillary, slender ; the lateral branches short, 1-to 3-flowered, flocculent- 

 tomentose, rusty ; bracteoles lanceolate to ovate, caducous. Calyx '3 to 

 •35 in. long, the tube urceolate, densely stellate-tomentose outside, sub- 

 glabrescent inside ; lobes 5, shorter than the tube, linear-lanceolate, 

 villous on the inner surface, tomentose on the outer, spreading, conni- 

 vent and slightly coherent by their tips. Male flower : staminal 

 column slender, shorter than the calyx-tube, curved, bearing at its 

 apex 5 to 7 sessile bi'oad anthers. Herviaph. flower : gynophore short ; 

 ovaries 3, ovoid, villous, with a ring of adpressed sessile oblong anthers 

 at their base : styles distinct, short, thin, sparsely villous ; stigmas 

 thick, fleshy, clavate, bent (outwards) on themselves. Follicles 2 or 3, 



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