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the ends of tbe branchlets, puberulous, shorter than the petioles, robust^ 

 with many short spreading branches, many-flowered ; pedicels short, 

 pubescent ; bracteoles subulate, deciduous. Calyx from '3 to '4 in. long, 

 deeply 5-lobed and almost rotate when expanded, stellate-puberulous 

 externally, glabrous internally, the lobes lanceolate. Male flower with 

 15 to 30 anthers almost sessile round the apex of the column and sur- 

 rounding the rudimentary villous ovary. Female flrnver ; ovaries 5, 

 bi-ovalate ; styles united; stigma 5-lobed. Follicles 1 to 5, on i-ather 

 stout pubescent stalks, "when ripe 6 to 8 in. long and 1"25 to 2*5 

 in. broad, membranous, boat-shaped, gibbous about the middle, con- 

 Bpicuously veined and more or less puberulous externally especi- 

 ally on the nerves. Seeds 1 (rarely 2), ovoid, glabrous, shining, -5 to 

 1 in. long, attached to the very base of the follicle. Mast, in Hook, 

 fil. Fl. J3r. Ind. i. 361 ; Kurz For. FL Burm. i. 140; Pierre Fl. Forest. 

 Coch- Chine, t. 201. Scaphium WallicMi, R. Br. in Benn. PL Jav. Rar. 

 236. 



Malacca, Griffith. Distrib. Sumatra, Burmah. 



M. Pierre is in doubt whether his fine figure (1. c. t. 201), represents 

 really the true plant of Wallich. In my opinion it does so most decidedly : 

 R. Brown was right in describing the ovaries as five, and there is a 

 specimen in the Calcutta Herbarium with 5 follicles. 



20. S. AFFiNis, Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 361. A tree : 

 young branches rather stout, rough, dark in colour, the leaf cicatrices 

 large, the very youngest minutely rusty-tomentose. Leaves thinly 

 coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, with rather straight edges ; the apex broad, 

 suddenly acute; the base truncate (sometimes obliquely so), 3-nefved ; 

 both surfaces glabrous, the upper shining, the lower pale and rather dull : 

 main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, conspicuous beneath as is the midrib ; length 

 5 to 9 in., breadth 4" 75 to 55 in. ; petiole 45 in., thickened at each end. 

 " Panicle erect, as long as the leaves, its branches downy, flattened or 

 angular; peduncles thickly striated, angular, sub-pilose, spreading; 

 ultimate pedicels downy, densely crowded. Flowers very small, the 

 buds ovoid. Flowers "25 in. Calyx-lobes ovate, longer than the funnel- 

 shaped tube. Follicle a span long, falcate, leafy, glabrescent, shining 

 within. Seeds "65 in. long, solitary, oblong, black." Scajpldum affi,ne, 

 Pierre Fl. Forest, Coch-Chine, t. 195 E. 



Malacca ; Maingay, No. 225 (Kew. Disti-ib.) 



The only Maingayan specimen of this in the Calcutta Herbarium 

 consists of leaves only, with a single detached fruit ; and I have seen no 

 specimen from any other collector. The foregoing description (as re- 

 gards inflorescence, flower and fi'uit) is therefore copied verbatim from 

 Masters (in F. B. I. 1. c). 



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