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when adult, with a few small scattered white stellate haii's when young ; 

 under surface pale from a layer of minute whitish hairs, the midrib 

 and ] 6 to 18 pairs of sub-horizontal lateral nerves rufous-tomentose ; 

 length 2*5 to 3 in., breadth 1'2 to 1'4 ; petiole about 1 in., slender, scaly- 

 tomentose. Panicles about as long as the leaves, slender, in the axils 

 of young leaves, pulverulent-tomentose, sub- ferruginous ; branches 

 short, spreading. Calyx pedicellate, ovoid-oblong, pointed in bud, when 

 adult '3 in. long, widely campanulate, with 5 linear incurved pubescent 

 lobes as long as the tube. Staminal column shorter than the tube, 

 glabrous ; anthers about 12, sessile at the apex of the column, their 

 connective thick, cuneate, the cells divergent. Follicles unknown. 



Malacca; Maingay, No. 230 (Kew Distrib.) Perak. Wray, No. 

 2378. 



Recognisable at once by its small leaves, white beneath. The 

 figure named S. hicolor, Mast, by Pierre (Fl. Forest. Coch-Chine t. 187) 

 agrees neither with M. Pierre's own description of it ; nor with Masters' 

 type-specimen. There may probably have been some printer's blunder 

 in the matter. 



11. S. ANGUSTIFOLIA, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 50. A small tree : young 

 branches densely velvetty rusty-tomentose ; ultimately rather pale, 

 glabrous, warted and striate. Leaves membranous, oblong-lanceolate 

 rai'ely ovate-lanceolate, acuminate or acute, entire, slightly narrowed 

 to the rounded 3-nerved base : upper surface glabrous, the lower more 

 or less densely and softly rusty-tomentose : length 4 to 7 in., breadth 

 1"25 to 2'25 ; petiole "6 to 1"1 in., rusty-tomentose. Panicles solitary, 

 axillary, crowded at the apices of the branches, lax, drooping, longer 

 than the leaves, everywhere densely rusty-tomentose ; pedicels much 

 longer than the ovate pointed buds. Calyx "2 in. in diam., hispidul- 

 ous-pubescent everywhere except the tube which inside is glabrous, deeply 

 ■ divided into 5 linear-lanceolate lobes ; the lobes longer than the tube, 

 spreading, connivent, cohering by their tips, their edges i-ecurved. Male 

 ■flower : staminal column as long as the tube, glabrous, recurved, bearing 

 at its apex 10 oblong sessile anthers with large connective, the cells 

 slightly divergent. Eerm. flotver : gynophore short, glabrous : ovaries 5, 

 ovoid, rusty-tomentose with a ring of 10 sessile anthers at their base : 

 style short, sparsely pilose : stigmas much longer than style, fleshy, 

 spreading, recurved. Follicles 4 or 5, ovate-oblong with a short curved 

 beak, 275 in. long and 1*35 in. broad, densely but minutely velvetty 

 rusty tomentose outside, smooth shining and rugose inside and with a 

 few small scattered whitish hairs. Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 148. Pierre Fl. 

 For. Coch-Chine, t. 190; Wall. Cat. 1133; R, Brown in Benn. PI. .Tav. 



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