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long. Stamens about 60, scarcely exsert. Ovary and disk silky- 

 pubescent ; style slender, stigma capitate, 3-4-lobed. Fruit an oblong 

 glabrous drupe, -3 in. long, -15 to -2 in. broad, surmounted by the 

 slightly depressed disk which is shortly overtopped by the calyx-lobes. 

 Penang : on Penam Bukit at 2,000 feet, Curtis 1039. 



15. Symplocoscalycodactylos, Brand Monog. Sympl. 63 (1901). A 

 tree (?) ; branchlets villous with long tawny spreading bristles, innova- 

 tions densely villous. Leaves membranous; oblong-lanceolate, long- 

 acuminate at apex, rounded at base, sometimes almost cordate ; both 

 surfaces covered sparsely with tawny bristles, especially on and along 

 the nerves beneath ; margins distantly long glandular denticulate ; 

 4 to 5-5 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. broad ; midrib slender, impressed above ; 

 main-nerves about 8 pairs, curving slightly upwards at an angle of 

 about 30° with the midrib to anastomose near the margin ; reticulations 

 prominent, primary ones transverse parallel ; petiole stout, villous, "15 

 to "2 in. long. Inflorescence a slender, axillary, tawny-villous raceme, 

 2 to 3 in. long, with about 4 to 5 flowers ; bracts lanceolate-acuminate, 

 •25 in. long, caducous ; pedicels '5 in., very slender, ending in a dense 

 tuft of tawny bristles beneath the calyx. Calyx-tube short ; lobes 5, 

 linear oblong, densely tawny-bristly without, glabrous within, -25 in. 

 long. Corolla-tube short ; lobes 5, obovate, glabrous, as long as calyx- 

 lobes or slightly longer. Stamens about 80, 5-adelphous, filaments 

 flattened ; anthers small, rounded. Ovary and disk villous ; style 

 slender, 4 in. long ; stigma small, capitate. Fruit unknown. 



Peeak : at Waterloo, 3,000 feet, Curtis 1330. 



16. Symplocos ophirensis, Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. III. 479 

 (1882). A bush (Wray), or more probably a small tree; branches terete, 

 nearly black, glabrous ; innovations appressed-tawny-pubescent ; buds 

 ovate-acuminate, silky, -1 in. long. Leaves coriaceous ; elliptic or eUiptic- 

 lanceolate, acute or rounded or sometimes emarginate at apex, cuneate or 

 rounded at base ; glabrous and usually shining above, sparsely pubescent 

 beneath when young, afterwards glabrous, reddish-brown when dry ; 

 margins entire or very obscurely denticulate, recurved ; 2 to 4 in. 

 long, 1 to 1-5 in. broad ; midrib stout, impressed above ; main-nerves 

 8 to 10 pairs, raised on both sru-faces, straight at first, then curving 

 upwards and joining in an intramarginal looped nerve ; secondary 

 nerves many, similar, reticulations prominent ; petiole stout, •! to "2 in. 

 long. Inflorescence of very short racemes, from the axils of the upper 

 leaves or from the new wood below them ; racemes -3 to "4 in. long, 

 silky-pubescent, 5-7-flowered ; bracts and bracteoles very small, ovate, 

 acute ; pedicels to "1 in. long. Calyx-lobes 5, sOky-pubescent, ovate- 

 acute, cihate, -6 in. long; tube "1 in. long. Corolla-tube short; lobes 



