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stylus 1 mm. longus. Bacca obovoideo-oblonga, elongata, 2-22 
em. longa, 1-1°2 cm. diametro, 1-2 sperma; pericarpium tenue, 
vernicosum, crustaceum; semina ovoideo- -elliptica, acuta, plano- 
subconvexa, ‘7 cm. longa, 7-8 mm. lata. S. rufa, King & 
in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. iv. p- 89. S. pubescens var. Scor- 
techinui, King & Gamble l.c. p. 830. 
Matay Peninsuta. Perak: Lax open sandy marsh 
ground; 90 m. (March), King’s Collsctor 3973; 6199; 7839; 
10187; Kelan Tujor, 150 m. (April), Z. Wray Tr. 4033 ; 1344; 
2894. 
Selangor: Curtis 2398 (teste Icon. J. S. Gamble in herb. 
Gamble) ; Dambung Batak, Scortechini 1858; Campar, Ridley 
9698. 
The fruit is obovoid with a thin pericarp and contains one or 
two seeds. It is very different from the arge, many-seeded 
fruit of Clarke’s S. rufa, founded on Maingay’s plant from 
Malacca (see p. 
The specimens tank black on drying; the —s except when 
very large, are trinerved and are unlike those pubescens, 
C. B. Clarke, which are quintuplinerved it remain green 
when dried. 
42. S. ‘Ties Colebr. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xii. 356. t. 15 
sane amp 
ex, ramis et ramulis pubescentibus; cirrhis singulis. 
Folin ‘tiptiner ri glabra nervis paginae superioris excepta, 
Superne vernicosa, in siccitate atro-fusca, nervis pubescentibus, 
pagina inferiore nervorum angulis pubescentibus; petiolis pubes- 
centibus. J ascii axillares, compressae. Calycis seg- 
Corolla 2: onga, lobis 1 mm longis acutis ad basin linea 
pilorum ichewetes notatis. Antherae ovatae, apiculatae, 0°75 
mm. longae, basi barbatae, subsessiles, in tubo medio insertae. 
Ovarium cum stylo glabrum, 175 mm. ditt Fructus ellip- 
tico-globularis, olivae pra a a monospermus (Colebrooke) ; 
Wall. Cat. 1587; G. Don, ee . p. 66; A. DC. in DC. Prodr. 
ix. p. 13; Roxb. Fl. Ind. "366; Benth. in pees Linn., 
Soc. i. p. 101; C. B. Clarke fi in a fick. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 89; 
Brandis, Indian Trees, p. 475; Dop in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. lvii. 
Se - p. 16; non Dalz. et. Gibs. Bomb. Fl. p. 155. 
E. Bengal: Silhet; M@. R .Smith & W. Gomez in 
Het “Wallich 1587; Khasia Hills, Jasper Hill (June), Hooker 
eed Mig 1147; Griffith K.D. 3721; Assam, Lumathu Hills, 
79. 
S. datinases' is a particularly distinct plant in the dry condition 
Since leaves and flowers become a black-brown, whereas S. 
pubescens, to which it wage some resemblance, always remains 
- @ yellowish-green colour. The nerves on the upper surfaces of 
the leaves bear a line of hairs, and on the under surface there 
is a pocket of hairs in the angles of the nerves. The flowers 
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