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long, glabrous ; anthers about 10, sessile at the apex of the column, 

 2-celled, the cells distinct. Female flower; gynophore very short; 

 ovaries ovoid, villous (as are the united styles) ; with 10 sessile anthers 

 at their base ; stigma discoid, deeply 5-lobed. Fullicles 5, coriaceous, 

 crimson when ripe, oblong, shortly beaked, about 2 in. long and 1 in. 

 broad ; pubescent externally, glabrous shining and boldly ridged inside. 

 Seeds oblojig, ovoid, black. Mast, in Hook, fil Fl. Br. Ind. i. 358 : Kurz 

 For. Fl. Burm. i. 138 ; Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch- Chine, t. 194 B ; Blume 

 Bijdr. i. 82; Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 231 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 

 175. 8. angustifolia. Jack Mai. Misc. ex Hook. Bot. Misc. i. 287. S. 

 Jackiana, Wall. Cat. 1134. 



In all the Provinces except the Andaman and Nicobar Islands : 

 at low elevations. Common. Distrib. Java and Sumatra, Cochin-China, 

 Burmah. 



Var. glabrescens, King : leaves 8 to 12 in. long, by 3 to 4"5 in. broad, 

 softly pubescent beneath when young, much less narrowed to the (always 

 sub-cordate or cordate) base than in the type ; panicles much branched 

 and sometimes longer than the leaves. 8. angustifolia, Kurz (not 

 Roxb.), in part. For. Fl.. Barm. i. 138 ; 8. parviflora, Kurz (not of 

 Roxb.) Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliii. pt. 2, p. 116. 8. mollis, Kurz (? of 

 Wall.) 1. c. xlv. pt. 2, p. 120. 8. Balanghas, Linn. var. glabrescens^ Mast, 

 in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 358, in part. 



Andaman Islands ; Heifer (Kew Distrib. No. 595) ; Kurz, Prain, 

 Bot. Gard. Collectors. Nicobars, Kurz. Great Cocos, Prain. There are 

 no Mergui or Eastern Peninsula specimens of this at Calcutta, and I be- 

 lieve the variety to be confined to the Islands above named. 



In this species the petioles lengthen with the age of the leaf, 

 many young leaves having petioles less than '25 in. long, while in old 

 leaves the length varies from 1 to 1"5 in. And there is considerable 

 variability in the size of the blade. Moreover, while in some the upper 

 surface of the leaves is perfectly glabrous (except the midrib which 

 is almost invariably rusty-tomentose), in others it is rough and acaberu- 

 lous from the presence of scattered stellate hairs. The next species 

 {8. ensifolia, Mast.) has, in my opinion, a very poor claim to specific 

 rank ; and I think it would be better to treat it a shrubby variety of 

 this with narrower leaves and longer flowers. 8. parviflora, Roxb. also 

 differs very little from this, and might be reasonably enough regarded 

 as a form of it with broader more glabrous cordate leaves with fewer 

 nerves. 



13. S. ENSIFOLIA, Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 359. A shrub 

 or small tree : young branches and petioles densely ferruginous-tomen- 



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