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crustaceous, endocarp woody; cells 1 to 3. Seed usually 1, testa mem- 

 branous, albumen fleshy, embryo straight. Brand Monog. Sympl. 69. 

 Penang : Curtis 1099. Peeak : Wray 692, 2830 ; Scortechini 328, 

 646, 1423 ; King's Collector 2084, 2099, 2406, 8431. 



18. Symplocos crassipes, Clarke in Hook. f. PI. Br. Ind. III. 580 

 (1882). A tree (?) ; branchlets stout, smooth, grey. Leaves stoutly 

 chartaceous ; large, elliptic-lanceolate, abruptly acuminate at apex, sub- 

 cordate or obtusely rhomboid at base ; glabrous on both surfaces ; margins 

 sub-entire, slightly recurved ; 6 to 7 in. long, 2 to 3 in. broad ; midrib 

 prominent, thick ; main-nerves 10 to 12 pairs, irregular and at irregular 

 angles, usually only slightly curved upwards to meet in a looped intra- 

 marginal nerve "25 in. from margin ; secondary nerves and few trans- 

 verse reticulations prominent ; petiole very stout, '15 to -2 in. long. 

 Bacemes axillary, 4-flowered ; pedicels very small, "1 in. long at most ; 

 bracts ovate-acute, like the rachis and calyx densely ferruginous- 

 pubescent. Calyx-tube very short ; lobes ovate, '075 in. long. Corolla- 

 tube short ; lobes -1 to "15 in. long, oblong-obtuse. Stamens about 

 30, slightly exsert. Ovary 3-celled ; disk fulvous-pilose. Fruit not 

 known. Brand Monog. Sympl. 52. 



Malacca : on Mount Ophir, Maingay (K.D.) 960. 



19. Symplocos penangiana, King & Gamble, n. sp. A small tree (?) ; 

 branchlets rounded, upper ones and innovations densely dark ferru- 

 ginous-hirsute. Leaves chartaceous ; lanceolate, long acuminate at apex, 

 somewhat rounded at base ; glabrous above, sparsely pilose beneath 

 with long stiff ferruginous hairs especially on and along the nerves ; 

 greenish-brown when dry ; margins distantly but sharply serrate in the 

 middle part, entire on the acumination and near the base, revolute; 

 4 to 7 in. long, 1 to 1'25 in. broad ; midrib prominent beneath, impressed 

 above ; main-nerves 4 to 6 pairs, irregularly distant, curving upwards 

 and meeting about "2 in. from the margin in a looped intramarginal 

 nerve ; secondary nerves and transverse reticulations scanty but pro- 

 minent ; petiole short, "15 in. long, stout, hirsute. Liflorescence a sessile 

 very short raceme or panicle of flowers on the young branches ; bracts 

 several, very small, densely rusty-hirsute. Calyx-tube short ; lobes 5, 

 oblong, obtuse, -125 in. long, glabrous within, densely rusty-hirsute 

 without. Corolla-tube short ; lobes 5, oblong, rounded, '2 in. long. 

 Stamens about 30 ; filaments slender ; anthers rounded. Ovary villous ; 

 style slender, pubescent, '15 in. long ; stigma capitate. Fruit unknown. 



Penang : at West Hill, 2,500 feet, Curtis 325. 



20. Symplocos cekasifolia, Wall. Cat. 4434 (1829). A tree, reach- 

 ing 60 feet and even 80 feet in height ; stem with a diam. of 20 in. ; 

 branchlets glabrescent, smooth, somewhat angled, reddish-brown ; leaf- 



