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white, oblong-obtuse, "2 in, long, 5-nerved. Stamens in bundles of 6 to 

 12 each opposite the corolla-lobes, 30 to 60 in all ; filaments slender, 

 outer as long as petals ; anthers rounded, very small. Ovary and disk 

 nearly glabrous at top ; style slender, -15 to "2 in. long, stigma capitate ; 

 cells 3, ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit ovoid-cylindric, blueish-purple 

 when ripe, -3 to 4 in. long, -2 in. broad, surmounted by calyx-rim with 

 patent lobes, nearly as wide as the top of the fruit ; exocarp crustaceous ; 

 endocarp very hard, bony, obscurely ribbed and irregularly indented. 

 Seed 1, testa membranous, albumen fleshy, embryo straight. Brand 

 Monog. Sympl. 58. Symplocos No. 42, Herb. Ind. Or. Hook. f. 

 & Th. 



Pbrak : on Gunong Bubu, 5,000 feet, Wray 3919 ; Scortechini. 

 Malacca : on Mount Ophir, Griffith (K.D.) 3650; Bidley 10083; Derry 

 623; Lobb. 



The specimens of Wray and Scortechini have the leaves rounded at both ends, but 

 there seems no reason to keep them as a separate variety from the specimens from 

 Mount Ophir which are acute at apex and cuneate at base. 



17. Stmplocos Curtisii, Oliv. in Hook. Icon. t. 1757 (1888). A 

 shrub or small tree, reaching 10 to 15 feet in height ; branchlets slender, 

 pale brown, glabrous ; leaf-buds small, acuminate, pubescent. Leaves 

 chartaceous ; elliptic, abruptly long acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; 

 glabrous on both surfaces, pale greenish-brown when dry; margins 

 obscurely denticulate, slightly recurved; 4 to 9 in. long, 1-5 to 3 in. 

 broad ; midrib slender, raised beneath, impressed above ; main-nerves 

 5 to 7 pairs, the lowest pair very near the margin, the rest gradually 

 more and more distant, all curving upwards to and along the margin, 

 where they form an intramarginal looped nerve ; secondary nerves very 

 few or none ; reticulations transverse, fairly prominent, rather distant ; 

 petiole "2 to '4 in. long, channelled above. Inflorescence of short (up to 

 •4 in. long) racemes axillary to the upper leaves or on the young wood 

 below them ; racemes about 5-flowered ; bract ovate-acute, "1 in. long, 

 keeled, villous ; bracteoles 2, similar but smaller ; pedicels stout, about 

 •05 in. long. Calyx-tube about "1 in. long ; lobes 5, ovate, obtuse, as 

 long as tube, all minutely pubescent without. Corolla-tube very short, 

 lobes elliptic-oblong, -2 in. long, 5-nerved, white. Stamens many, 60 or 

 more ; filaments slender, longer than corolla-lobes ; anthers rounded, 

 minute ; staminal bundles only noticeable in bud. Ovary villous, disk 

 glabrous ; style slender, -2 in. long, stigma capitate ; cells 3, ovules 2 in 

 each cell. Fruit a cylindric oblong berry, bright blue when ripe, '5 to 

 •8 in. long, somewhat constricted at about one-third distance from the 

 top ; the top surmounted by the calyx-rim and connivent teeth ; exocarp 



