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Cooke PI. Bomb. II. 108 ; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. VII. 144. S. polycarpa, 

 Wall. Cat. 4423 ; DC. I.e. 255 ; Kurz ll.c. S. Loha, Don Prod. 144 ; 

 DC. I.e. 255. S. racemosa, Wall. Cat. 4418 {in part, not o/Eoxb). 



Vae. malasica, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 573. A small 

 tree with spreading branches, reaching 30 to 40 feet in height and 1 foot 

 in diam. of stem ; branchlets dark grey-brown, smooth, innovations 

 glabrous ; buds lanceolate acuminate. Leaves coriaceo-chartaceous, 

 alternate ; elliptic- or oblong-Ianeeolate, acute or acuminate at apex, 

 cuneate at base ; entire or serrate, glabrous on both surfaces, turning 

 yeUow when dry ; margin distantly and shghtly denticulate, glandu- 

 lar ; 4 to 7 in. long, 1-5 to 2-5 in. broad ; midrib thick, impressed 

 above; main-nerves about 10 pairs, irregular, curved upwards and 

 branching towards the margin ; secondary nerves few ; reticulations 

 prominent on the under surface ; petiole '4 to '7 in. long, channelled 

 above. Inflorescence an axillary panicle of spikes, the branches 

 mostly near the base ; spikes 1-5 to 4 in. long, glabrous or shghtly 

 pubescent ; bracts very small, deciduous ; bracteoles under each flower 

 ■3, ovate, acute or obtuse, ciliate, -05 in. long. Calyx-lobes 5, rounded, 

 imbricate, glabrous, tube as long as lobes, the latter -05 in. long. 

 Corolla 5-lobed, white or yellowish ; tube very short ; lobes ovate- 

 orbicular, -1 to '15 in. long. Stamens indefinite, about 40, the outer 

 ones longer than the petals, inserted on the corolla-tube ; filaments 

 slender ; anthers short, rounded. Ovary inferior, 3-celled ; ovules 3 

 to 4 in each cell; style thick, "1 in. long, stigma capitate. Fruit a 

 globose drupe '15 to "2 in. long, surmounted by a rim formed by the 

 short calyx-lobes, smooth, olive-coloured, exocarp and endocarp thin, 

 ribbed. Seed 1, testa thin, albumen rather scanty ; embryo curved. 



Perak: Wray 2798; Scortechini ; King's Collector 6299, 6903. 

 Malacca : Griffith ; Maingay (K.D.) 957 ; Derry 506. 



Vae. aciominata, Brand Monog. Sympl. 40. Leaves long acuminate, 

 blunt at the tip, serrulate, 3 to 5 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad ; main- 

 nerves 7 to 8 pairs, all nerves and reticulations, except the impressed 

 midrib, prominent on the upper surface in young leaves. Flotuers 

 sometimes pedicellate. Fruit somewhat urceolate, ribbed. Symplocos 

 acuminata, Miq. M. Ind. Bat. I. Pt. 2. 467. Dicalyx acuminatus, Bl. 

 Bijdr. 1119. 



Perak : Scortechini 1556. — Disteib. Java, Sumatra {Forbes 

 3208). 



Vae. attenuata, Clarke in Hook. f. PL Br. Ind. III. 573. Leaves 

 long acuminate at apex, long attenuate at base, 3 to 4 in. long, 1 to 

 1-25 in. broad ; margins serrate. Spicate branches of the inflorescence 

 slender, usually short. Fruit small, often only -1 to '15 in. in diam. 



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