240 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



near the margin in an intramarginal network ; reticulations obscure ; 

 petiole '2 to 'S in. long, bordered by the decurrent margins of the 

 blade. Inflorescence a few- and basally-branched pubescent panicle of 

 long slender racemes, 2-5 to 3 in. long ; racemes 12-16-flowered ; 

 pedicels •! in. long; bracteoles 2, lanceolate, -05 in. long, ciliate, 

 pubescent. Calyx-tuhe '05 in. long ; lobes 5, oblong, obtuse, '075 in. 

 long. Corolla white, sweet-scented; tube very short; lobes ovate-oblong, 

 ■2 in. long. Stamens in 5 bundles opposite the corolla-lobes, 40 to 70, 

 the outermost the longest and equal to the corolla-lobes. Ovary 

 depressed, disk glabrous ; cells 3 ; style "125 in. long, stigma capitate. 

 Fruit an ovoid-ellipsoid drupe, '25 in. long, smooth, tipped with the rim 

 and erect teeth of the persistent calyx. Seeds 1 to 3, testa membranous ; 

 embryo slender, straight, •! in. long. Brand Monog. Sympl. 48. 



Penang : Curtis 3459. Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3651.— Disteib. 

 Borneo {Teysmann, Motley, Beccari 2374, Haviland 509b, 1642, 3706). 



11. Symplocos adenophylla, "Wall. Cat. 4427 (1829). A tree reach- 

 ing 50 to 60 feet in height, stem 15 to 20 in. in diam. ; branchlets dark 

 brown, smooth, upper parts and innovations dark rusty-glandular- 

 pubescent. Leaves cbartaceo-coriaceous; narrowly lanceolate to elliptic- 

 lanceolate and elliptic ; obtusely long caudate-acuminate at apex, 

 cuneate or attenuate at base ; glabrous on both surfaces, shining or not, 

 olive-brown or dark reddish-brown when dry ; margins crenate or sub- 

 entire, the crenatures with large glands, sometimes recurved ; 3 to 5 in. 

 long, "7 to 1-5 in. broad ; midrib slender, impressed above ; main-nerves 

 5 to 8 pairs, distant, arching upwards to join in a looped intramarginal 

 nerve at about two-thirds of the distance to the margin ; secondary 

 nerves and reticulations obscure ; petiole -3 to -5 in. long, often bent. 

 Inflorescence a 3- and basally-branched axillary panicle of racemes, 

 glandular-rusty-pubescent, 1 to 2 in. long, racemes about 12-flowered ; 

 bracts ovate-acute, caducous ; pedicels "05 to '1 in. long ; bracteoles 

 minute, thin, obtuse. Calyx-tube glabrous or minutely pubescent, -05 

 in. long ; its teeth very minute, triangular or rounded, rusty-pubescent. 

 Corolla yellowish- white, tube short; lobes oblong, i-ounded, about 

 •15 in. long, incurved at tip. Stamens 40 to 50, in 5 bundles opposite 

 the corolla-lobes, outer ones as long as those lobes ; filaments slender ; 

 anthers small, rounded. Ovary depressed, disk glabrous, cells 3 ; style 

 slender, -1 in. long ; stigma capitate. Fruit an oblong-cylindrical or 

 ellipsoid drupe "3 to "35 in. long and half as broad, smooth, pale 

 yellowish-brown, crowned with the minute, inconspicuous, much- 

 incurved, persistent calyx-teeth ; exocarp smooth, thin ; endocarp 

 bony, ribbed. Seed 1 ; embryo straight, pendulous. G. Don Gen. 

 Syst. IV. 3 ; A. DC. Prod. VIII. 257 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. I. Pt. 2, 466 ; 



