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tose. Leaves membranous, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, shortly 

 caudate-acuminate, entire, the base rounded, sometimes minutely cordate, 

 rarely acute ; upper surface glabrous, the midrib alone tomentose ; under 

 surface sparsely rusty-tomentose, the midrib and 8 to 10 pairs of spreading 

 lateral nerves prominent : length 6 to 12 in., breadth 125 to 3"5 in., 

 petiole "3 to 1*5 in. ; stipules erect, linear, half as long as the petiole, 

 deciduous. Panicles or racemes axillary, solitary, lax, few-flowered, 

 rusty-tomentose, hardly so long as the leaves; bracteoles linear, shorter 

 than the pedicels. Galyx "5 or "6 in. long, broadly campanulate, pubes- 

 cent on both surfaces, the tube much shorter than the linear-lanceolate 

 spreading lobes the tips of which curve inwards and cohere. Male 

 flower ; staminal column longer than the calyx-tube but much shorter than 

 its lobes, glabrous, curved, bearing at its apex 10 2-celled, oblong, 

 nearly sessile, anthers. Female floioer ; gynophore very short: ovaries 

 5, ovoid, rusty- villous, surrounded at the base by 10 sub-sessile stamens. 

 Styles short, united, densely covered with white hairs ; stigmas united 

 into a boldly 5-lobed disc. Follicles 1 to 5, shortly stalked, narrowly 

 oblong, tapering to each end, the apex with a hooked beak, coriaceous, 

 brownish- velvett}^, I'ed vrhen ripe, 2 to 2'5 in. long and '75 in. broad. 

 Seeds oval, black, smooth. Pierre Fl. Forest, Coch-Chine t. 194 C. 

 S. angustifolia, Jack (not of Roxb.) Mai. Misc. ex Hook. Bot. Mis. i. 

 287. 



Penang, Perak, at low elevations, common. Distrib. Burmah. 



I have no doubt whatever that this is the plant described by Jack 

 as the S. angustifolia of Roxb. 



14. S. PUBESCENS, Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 357. A tree, 

 the younger parts rusty-pubescent. Leaves oblong, obtuse, or abruptly 

 acuminate, entire, the base cordate ; upper surface glabrous ; lower 

 densely and minutely pubescent, the nerves stellate-pilose : length 4 to 

 6 in., breadth 2 to 25 in. ; petiole 1'25 in., sulcate : stipules subulate, 

 '25 in, long. Panicle erect, as long as or longer than the leaves, much 

 branched : ultimate pedicels jointed, pubescent, spreading. Calyx '25 

 in. long, campanulate; the lobes triangular acute, as long as the tube, 

 hairy within. Ovary globose, downy. 



Malacca, Maingay. 



Except by Maingay's two specimens in the Kew Herbarium, this 

 species is unknown. Specimens of it in good flower and in fruit are 

 much wanted, so that a completer description than the foregoing may 

 be prepared. 



15. S. COLOBATA, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 50. A tree 30 to 60 feet 

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