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13. Symplocos Brandiana, King & Gamble, n. sp, A small tree 

 reaching 15 to 25 feet in height ; stem 4 to 6 in. in diam. ; branchlets round, 

 densely covered with soft ferruginous tomentum and long stiff hispid 

 hairs ; innovations densely ferruginous-silky-tomentose. Leaves mem- 

 branous; ovate-oblong, long acuminate at apex, rounded or cordate at 

 base ; pilose on both surfaces, at length glabrescent above, paler beneath, 

 olive-brown when dry ; margin entire, recurved, thickly villous ; 3 to 

 6 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad ; midrib slender, prominent beneath ; main- 

 nerves about 8 pairs, much curving upwards to join as a looped intra- 

 marginal nerve, raised beneath ; reticulations obscure ; petiole scarcely 

 •1 in. long. Inflorescence of axillary few-flowered racemes or panicles 

 up to 1*5 in. long, lax-flowered; rachis sjender, thickly ferruginous- 

 villous, as are the bracts and calyx ; bracts leaf-like, cuspidate- 

 acuminate, -2 to "4 in. long ; bracteoles 2, similar but smaller ; pedicels 

 •1 in. long; flowers white. Calyx-tube very short; lobes linear- 

 lanceolate, "1 to -2 in. long. Corolla-tube very short ; lobes elliptic- 

 obtuse, glabrous, 3-nerved, -15 in. long. Stamens 60 to 70 or even 

 more, in 5 bundles opposite the corolla-lobes ; filaments slender ; 

 anthers small, rounded. Ovary and disk villous, style slender, stigma 

 capitate. Fruit oblong-cylindrical, light blue, constricted above the 

 middle, villous, "8 in. long, -3 in. broad ; exocarp fleshy, endocarp 

 crustaceous ; cells 3, the lower one bearing 1 seed ; albumen fleshy ; 

 embryo slightly curved. 



Peeak: Curtis 2030; Scortechini 346, 349 on Maxwell's Hill, 

 3,000 feet ; Wray 677 at Waterfall Hill, Lariit ; King's Collector 1887, 

 in dense jungle on rocky creeks. 



We have named this handsome species in honour of the author of the most recent 

 monograph of the genus. 



14. Symplocos congolor. Brand Monog. Sympl. 65 (1901). A tree, 

 reaching 30 to 40 feet in height ; branchlets dark brown, innovations 

 tawny-pubescent. Leaves thinly coriaceous ; oblong or oblong-obovate, 

 abruptly acuminate at apex, the acumen mucronate, attenuate at base ; 

 glabrous on both surfaces, shining above ; margins entire or obscurely 

 dentate ; 3 to 4 in. long, 1-1-5 in. broad ; midrib slender, slightly raised 

 above ; main-nerves 6 to 7 pairs, rather obscure, arching upwards to 

 anastomose near the margin; reticulations prominent; petiole about -1 in. 

 long. Liflorescence of sessile or very shortly peduncled, 3-branched 

 panicles up to "6 in. long, all golden-pubescent, about 10-12-flowered ; 

 bracts ovate-acute, small ; bracteoles smaller, 2 to each pedicel ; pedicels 

 slender, about -1 in. long. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, '05 in. long; 

 lobes 5, rounded, short. Corolla-tube very short ; lobes oblong, -1 in. 



