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Perak ; King's Collector, No. 8673, Scortecliini. Distrib. W, Sumatra, 

 Forbes, No. 2 105 : Java, Burmah ; Wallich. 



There is no doubt this comes very close to S. colorata, Roxb. of 



"which it might possibly be better to treat it as a variety characterised 



by larger flowers, with much more exserted staminal column, larger 



leaves, thinner and dark-coloured branchlets. Wallich, however, who 



saw the tree growing, regarded it as a species; and Robert Brown (PI. 



Jav. Rar. p. 235), while treating it as a variety of colorata, remarks 



that it is probably worthy of specific rank. This plant (whether species 



or variety) is never found in British India proper. Its most northerly 



limit is Teuasserim, and fi-om thence it extends southward into the 



Malayan Archipelago. In the Flora of British India, Dr. Masters gives 



the distribution of this as " Tropical Westei-n Himalayan." The plant, 



however, which occurs in tropical valleys in that region is just as 



different from 8. fulgens, Wall., as that is from S. colorata, Roxb. It is 



the tree to which Wallich gave the name S. pallens ; and which he 



published (without describing) in Voigt's Hort. Suburb, Calcutta, p. 



105. The leaves of S. pallens resemble those of colorata in shape ; but 



their under sui-face is covered with dense pale yellow stellate tomentum. 



The calyx has a much wider mouth than that of colorata, and (like the 



axis and pedicels of the panicle) is densely covered with a very pale 



yellow tomentum, while the tomentum of colorata is of a vivid coi'al red. 



8. pollens is confined to the Western Himalaya, just as 8. fulgens is 



limited to Burmah and Malaya. 



17. S. ALATA, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 50. A tree 80 to 150 feet high ; 

 young branches rather stout, striate, glabrous. Leaves membranous, 

 broadly ovate or ovate-oblong, acute or shortly acuminate, entire ; the 

 base deeply cordate, 5 to 7-nerved, some of the basal nerves pinnate on 

 one side ; both surfaces glabrous ; lateral nerves 4 pairs, prominent oa 

 both surfaces as are the midrib and basal nerves ; length 4 to 12 in., 

 breadth 3 to 8 in., petiole 1'5 to 7 in. : stipules minute, subulate, cadu- 

 cous. Racemes from the axils of pi^evious year's fallen leaves, usually 

 in pairs, sometimes solitary, rarely terminal, about as long as the 

 petioles, flocculent, rusty-tomentose, as are the flowers externally; bracts 

 3 to each flower, ensiform, caducous. Calyx "75 in. long, campanulate, 

 deeply divided into 5 or 6 thick, fleshy, lanceolate segments. Male 

 flower ; staminal column thin, cylindric, much shorter than the calyx, 

 glabrous, bearing at its apex 25 elongate anthers in five groups of 5 

 each ; ovaries imperfect. Female flower ; staminodes in 5 phalanges, 

 sessile, embracing the bases of the 5 sub-ovate, multi-ovulate-ovaries ; 

 stigmas broad, emarginate. Follicles pedunculate, woody, pulverulent- 

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