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undulate, crenate at the apex, base shortly narrowed, 5 inches 

 long, 2 inches wide ; midrib elevate beneath ; nerves 6 pairs, 

 branched and anastomosing ; petiole 5 inch long. Inflorescence 

 of terminal sessile panicles of racemes 2 inches long. Branches 

 pubescent. Bracts caducous. Flowers large, half an inch 

 across, white, fragrant, sessile. Ovary short, obconic. Sepals 

 large, glabrous, ovate or oblong-ovate, obtuse, yu inch wide, 

 white. Corolla of 4 oblong rounded lobes, shortly joined at the 

 base. Stamens about fifty ; filaments as long as the corolla, 

 free to base. Style stout. Stigma capitate. Drupe elliptic, 

 rounded at both ends, sessile, light brown when dry, and 

 crowned by the presistent sepals, f inch long, f inch through; 

 pericarp corky. Seed not ribbed. 



A common tree on the Padang in open woods and on 

 stream-banks. 



Near S. cerasifolia, Wall., but the flowers are larger, the 

 fruit smaller, and the seed not ribbed. A very handsome tree. 



no. Symplocos (Cordyloblaste) pulcherrima, n. sp. 



Symplocos Scortechinii, Ridley, op. cit. p. 315. 



Small tree; branches dark red, glabrous. Leaves elliptic- 

 lanceolate, obtuse, harrowed to the base, margins crenulate 

 with few long crenulations, coriaceous, glabrous, midrib chan- 

 nelled above, elevate beneath, red, nerves 9 pairs inarching 

 within the margin, main reticulations nearly as prominent, 4 

 inches long, if inch wide; petiole channelled above, flattened, 

 \ inch long. Inflorescence axillary, of i — 4 flowers on a short 

 J inch peduncle, nodding, glabrous. Bracts and bracteoles 

 linear, very small. Calyx campanulate, \ inch long, with short 

 rounded-ovate lobes, glabrous except the pubescent tips. 

 Corolla § inch long, base tubular; lobes free for J their length, 

 oblong-rounded, nearly glabrous with a little silky hair in the 

 centre outside; margins pubescent, white veined with red. 

 Staminal tube silky pubescent within, adnate to the corolla at 

 the base of the lobes; free part of the filaments slender, of 

 various lengths, the tallest little shorter than the corolla-lobes, 

 about 60. Anthers rounded, oblong, four-lobed. Ovary ovoid. 

 Style as long as the corolla-tube, all hairy. Stigma capitate. 

 Fruit oblong, slightly narrowed at the base; apex elevated 

 above the calyx-rim, white, silky, J inch long, \ inch through. 



Stream-banks on the Padang and woods on the ridges at 

 Observation Hill. In the previous paper I referred this 

 beautiful shrub to S. Scortechinii, King & Gamble, which 

 species I have not seen. It differs, however, from the descript- 

 ion in the smaller flowers, stiffer leaves, less hairy corolla, and 

 several other points. 



OLEACE^. 



*iii. Olea capitellata, Ridl. op. cit. p. 317. A shrub 

 with dark green leaves and small yellowish-white flowers. 

 Common on the Padang and the ridges from near Wray's 

 Camp. Endemic. 



