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boldly ridged. Seeds broadly oroid, black. '6 in. long, smooth. Roxb. 

 Fl. Ind. iii. 147; Brown in Bennett PI. Jav. Rar. 232 : Wall. Cat. 1121. 

 Kurz For. Fl. Burm. i. 138. Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch- Chine, t. 195 F. 

 8. Maingayi, Mast, in Hook. fiL Fl. Br. Ind. i. 359 ; Pierre Fl. Forest. 

 Coch-Chine, t. 188 A. 



Penang, Malacca, Perak ; at low elevations, common. Distrib. 

 Burmah and Sylhet in British India ; Cochin China. 



After careful dissection of the flowers of the types of the two species 

 8. parviflora, Roxb. and ^S*. Maingayi, Masters, and of flowers of many 

 other specimens, I can come to no other conclusion than that they are one 

 and the same. There is a curious tendency to inequality in size in the 

 leaves, some being twice as large as others rising from the same twig 

 within the distance of an inch. And the panicles usually follow the 

 leaves in the matter of length. 



9. S. ScORTECHlNii, King, n, sp. A tall tree ; young branches 

 rather thick, their bark pale, rough, the youngest parts deciduously rusty- 

 pubescent. Leaves thinly coriaceous, oblong, slightly obovate, the apex 

 rounded, with an abrupt short blunt point, entire ; the base slightly 

 narrowed, rounded or minutely cordate, 3-nerved ; upper surface glabrous, 

 shining ; the lower slightly paler, dull, thickly dotted with minute 

 reddish flat shining glands, the midrib and 4 to 5 pairs of prominent 

 ascending lateral nerves stellate-pubescent: length 2'5 to 35 in., 

 breadth 125 to 1'65 in. ; petiole '65 to 1 in., deciduously pulverulent- 

 tomentose. Panicles racemes-like, axillaiy, solitary, shorter than the 

 leaves, densely pulverulent-tomentose, imsty ; pedicels as long as the 

 buds : bracteoles ovate, "25 in. long, imbricate, caducous. Calyx cam- 

 panulate, divided almost to its base into 5 broadly ovate spreading not 

 connivent lobes, pubescent-tomentose both internally and externally 

 Male flower : staminal column shorter than the calyx, crowned by about 

 10 short anthers with thick sub-cuneate connective and short divergent 

 cells. Herm. floiuer : Ovary 3-ce\\ed, obliquely ovoid, pubescent-scaly; 

 ovules 3 or 4 in. each cell. Styles connate, pubescent. Stigmas 3, 

 large, ovoid, spreading, glabrous, dark-coloui'ed. Follicles not seen. 



Perak ; Scortechinii, No. 2068. 

 Collected only once, and without fruit. 



10. S. BICOLOB, Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 359. A tree 

 40 to 60 feet high : young branches rather thin, cinereous, striate, 

 glabrous, rufous-pubescent at the very tips. Leaves small, membranous, 

 obovate-oblong, acute or shortly mucronate, entire, slightly narrowed 

 to the minutely 2 to 3-nerved rounded base ; upper surface glabrous 



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