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woody, from peach-coloured to calamine when ripe, oblong, rounded at 

 at the base, the apex acute and slightly curved ; externally rugose (the 

 rugae mostly longitudinal), minutely tomentose, inside smooth; length 



3 to 35 in., breadth r25 to 15 in. Seeds narrowly ovoid, nearly 1 in. 

 long, black. 



Perak ; King's Collector Nos. 3259, 7211, 7245, Scortechini No. 1805 ; 

 at 100 to 300 feet elevation. Disti'ib. Sumatra ; Forbes, No. 2679. 



In externals this species closely resembles /S. parviflora, Roxb. 

 But, after numerous dissections, I conclude that the two species are 

 quite distinct. The ovaries of this are never more than 3, and they are 

 always densely villous ; those of parviflora are invariably 5, and they 

 are scaly, not villous. The stigmas of this are long and are bent out- 

 wards on themselves ; these of parviflora are short and recurved out- 

 wards from their junction with the styles : they are not bent on them- 

 selves. The follicles of this are thicker and more woody and the seeds 

 are larger than those of 8. parviflora. Moreover this has never more 

 than 7 stamens, while S. parviflora has 10. The leaves of this are rather 

 thicker in texture and the young branches are thinner and paler than 

 those of 8. parviflora. 



8. S. PARVIFLORA, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 50. A tree 20 to 50 feet 

 high ; young branches rather thick ; the tips ferruginous-tomentose ; the 

 bark pale, rough, glabrous. Leaves membranous, oval, ovate or obovate- 

 oblong, the apex rather abruptly shortly and bluntly acuminate, entire ; 

 the base rounded and slightly cordate, or sub-truncate and emarginate, 

 6-nerved ; both surfaces glabrous, but not shining ; the midrib and 7 or 

 8 pairs of spreading rather prominent lateral nerves sparsely stellate- 

 pubescent on the lower when young ; length 4 to 10 in,, breadth 2 to 

 5'5 in. ; petiole 1 to 4 in., deciduously rufous-tomentose. Panicles about 

 as long as the leaves, slender, the lateral branches short and the flower- 

 pedicels capillary, everywhei'e covered with rusty stellate tomentum, 

 ebracteolate. Calyx '2 in. long with an urceolate tube, the mouth with 

 5 linear- lanceolate lobes almost as long as the tube, incurved and united 

 by their apices, stellate-tomentose externally, glabrous within. Male 

 floiver : staminal column shorter than the calyx-tube, bearing at its apex 

 10 sessile short narrowly ovate anthers with thick connective. Hervi. 

 flower : ovaries 5, ovoid, scaly, with a I'ing of anthers at their base : ovules 



4 or 5. Styles slightly united, slender, sparsely villous, short ; stigmas 

 united into a fleshy boldly 5-lobed disc, but easily separable into 5 

 fleshy flattish recurved stigmas. Follicles 1 to 5, thickly coriaceous, 

 brilliant red to orange, pubescent to glabrescent, oblong, shortly beaked, 

 25 to 3*5 in. long and 1*25 to 1"5 in. broad ; inside glabrous, shining, 



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