Saurauja.} xxiv. TERNSTRCEMIACEJE. (W. T. Thiselton Dyer.) 287 



ASSAM, Griffith. 



Covered except on the smooth upper surface of the leaves and old wood with dense 

 brown flocculent tomentum without scales. Leaves 8-10 by 4-5 in., broadly elliptic, 

 oblong, rounded at both ends, abruptly and very shortly acuminate, margin with remote 

 spinulose serratures ; petioles about 2 in. Sepals $ in. 



** Floivers in fascicles (the peduncle evanescent) of about 4 trichotomous 

 cymes from the axils of fallen leaves. Styles 5. 



3. S. fasciculata, Wall. PI As. Ear. ii. 40, t. 148, Cat. 1468 ; cymes 

 1-3-flovvered glabrous, bracteoles minute linear-deltoid. 



EASTERN SUBTROPICAL HIMALAYA; Nipal, Wallich; Sikkim, alt. 2-4000 ft., 

 Griffith, &c. 



A bush or small tree 20 ft. high, tomentose as in S. napaulensis. but the scales trun- 

 cate and torn. Leaves 7-10 by 23 in., narrow elliptic-olong, acute or rounded at the 

 base, attenuate-acuminate, obtusely serrate, glabrous above, ferruginous- tomentose 

 beneath ; petioles 1-2 in. Cymes 2-3 in., branches red; bracteoles ^in. Flowers ^in. 

 diarn., pedicelled, subcampanulate, white then pink. Sepals % in., ovate, obtuse. 



4. S. punduana, Wall. PI. As. Rar. ii. 40, Cat. 1470; cymes many- 

 flowered scaly, bracteoles broadly ovate, flowers f in. diam. S. fasciculata 

 var. abbreviata, Choisy Mem. Ternstr. 27. 



SIKKIM HIMAYALA; alt. 3-5000 ft. ; KHASIA MTS., alt. 2-4000 ft. ; MISHMI HILLS 

 and BIRMA, Griffith. 



Habit of S. j'asciculata, but the scales mostly acute. Leaves 8-11 by 3-4 in., acu- 

 minate; petioles 1-2 in. Cymes 3 in., rarely solitary; bracteoles ^-\ in. Flowers 

 | in. diarn., pink. Sepals |-^ in., broadly ovate, rounded. Varies with elliptic obtuse 

 leaves. 



5. S. Roxburg-hii, Wall. PI. As. Rar. ii 40, Cat. 1467 ; cymes many- 

 flowered thinly tomentose, bracteoles -deltoid acute, flowers ^ in. diam. 

 Ternstrcemia serrata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 40, not of Jack. 



SILHET and KHASIA MTS., ascending to 4000 ft. ; CHITTAGONG-, /. D. H. & T. T. ; 

 PEGU, Kurz. 



A shrub or small tree, tomentose as in S. napaulensis, the scales minute acute. 

 Leaves 6-14 by 2-5 in., elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acute at both ends or shortly acumi- 

 nate, obtusely serrate, smooth above, ferruginous-tomentose below ; petioles 1-2 in. 

 Cymes 1-3 in. ; bracteoles -^ in. Flowers subcampanulate. Petals white, then pink. 

 Stamens about 50. Styles 5. Berries the size of a small pea. 



*** Flowers (except on the old wood) in fascicles of many simple or very 

 shortly peduncled pedicels. Styles 3 or 5. 



6. S. tristyla, DC- Mem. Ternstr. 31, t. 7 : leaves obovate or broadly 

 oblong. Wall. Cat. 1466. S. leucophloia and S. media, Korth. Verh. Nat. 



ii. 522. Cleyera pentapetala, Spreng. Syst. Veg. ii. 596. 



EASTERN PENINSULA ; from Tenasserim, Heifer, to Penang, Sincapore, and Malacca, 

 Wallich, Maingay.D&TRiv. Moluccas, S. China. 



A shrub or small tree ; branches with grey unspotted bark. Leaves 7-10 by 2$- 

 4 in. acuminate, spinulose-serrate, glabrous on both sides except the scale-like hairs 

 on the nerves and the midrib beneath; petioles -! in. flowers on old wood in 

 fascicles of about twice 3-chotomous cymes. Pedif-els f in., scaly and hairy, flowers 

 i in. diam. /Sepals obovate, obtuse. Petals white. /Stamens about 20. Styles 3, rarely 5, 

 distinct. Berries usually 3-lobed. 



7. S. macrotricha, Kurz, ms. ; leaves very narrowly lanceolate. 



