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Clarke in Hook, f . Fl. Br. Ind. III. 575 ; Brand Monog. Sympl. 48 ; 

 Stapf in Trans. Linn. Soc. 2nd Ser. IV. 204. S. iteophylla, Miq. Fl. 

 Ind. Bat. Suppl. 476 ; Brand I.e. S. hancana, Miq. I.e. 



Kedah : Bidley 5583. Penang : Wallich 4:4,27 a ; Maingay (K.D.) 

 959 ; Curtis 402, 445. Peeak : Wray 1119, 3842, 3925, 4123 ; Scot- 

 techini 490; King's Collector 1269, 2606, 6873. Selangoe: Bidley 7553, 

 8549. Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3649. Singapoee : Wallich 4427b ; 

 G. Thomson; Hullett 828; Walker 255; Bidley 3635a, 3809.— Disteib. 

 Sumatra {Beccari 147) ; Bangka {Horsfield 39) ; Borneo {Beccari 2115, 

 Lobb, Haviland 1187). 



A variable species as regards the leaves and the length of the inflorescence ; the 

 prominent glands on the margins of the leaves are a noticeable character. 



12. Symplocos peeakensis, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree with 

 spreading branches reaching 50 to 60 feet in height ; stem 15 to 20 in. 

 in diam ; branchlets dark brown, very slender. Leaves chartaceous ; 

 elliptic, long caudate-acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; glabrous on 

 both surfaces, green when dry ; margins entire, recurved ; 2 to 3'5 in. 

 long, 1 to 1*5 in. broad ; midrib slender ; main-nerves 6 to 7 pairs, 

 the two lowest near the margin and produced upwards along it, the 

 others curved upwards to meet in a looped intramarginal nerve, which 

 is rather prominent ; secondary nerves and reticulations obscure ; 

 petiole -2 in. long, channelled above. Inflorescence a sessile 3-branched 

 panicle of racemes axillary to the upper leaves or on the branchlets 

 below them, 1 to 2 in. long or less ; panicle branches and racemes very 

 slender, the latter about 8-10-flowered ; rachis grey-pubescent ; 1 bract 

 and 2 bracteoles, ovate-acute, scarcely "05 in. long, persistent; pedicels 

 about -05 in. long. Calyx-tube short ; lobes 5, rounded, grey-pubescent, 

 ciliate, '05 in. long, as long as tube. Corolla-tube short; lobes oblong, 

 white, -125 in. long. Stamens about 40, in 5 bundles opposite the 

 corolla-lobes ; filaments slender, exsert ; anthers rounded, minute. 

 Ovary villous ; cells 3 ; style rather thick, villous, 4 in. long, stigma 

 small. Fruit a cylindrical glabrous drupe, "4 to -5 in. long, -25 in. 

 in diam., the top rusty-hirsute and crowned by the persistent rusty- 

 hirsute calyx-lobes, the calyx-rim -1 in. broad ; exocarp fleshy, endo- 

 carp hard, bony. Seeds 3, testa rather thick, embryo straight. 



Peeak : Scortechini 646 ; Wray 2593, 2944 ; King's Collector 4446, 

 4570, 4586, 7863, 10163, 10501, 10515, 10801, 10985. Selangoe: 

 Bidley 10223. 



This species is very near to S. adenophylla, but the leaves are entire, much thinner 

 and smaller, and not glandular, and the inflorescence is more compound, more slender, 

 grey- and not rusty-pubescent, and has rounded calyx-lobes. 



