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Leaves coriaceous ; obovate-spathulate, very obtuse and emarginate 
at apex, acuminate at base; both surfaces dull, glabrous, nearly 
black when dry; margins recurved; 2—3 cm. long, 1:5—2°5 em. 
broad; ribs 3, the two outer forked pedately to make 5 in all, curved 
to join in loops at the very apex, the 5 lying in channels and them- 
selves raised on the upper surface; main nerves few, short; transverse 
nervules and reticulation irregular, raised on the upper surface: 
petiole rather slender, about 5 mm. long, gradually broadening into 
the blade. Flowers hermaphrodite, in very short axillary or lateral 
fascicles of racemes, the racemes very few-flowered, 3—5 mm. long, 
bracts 0, or quickly deciduous. Perianth-tube enclosing the ovary ; 
lobes triangular, acute, ‘5—1 mm. long, persistent in fruit. Disk 
concave, 1—2 mm. broad, with 5-lobed stigma in the centre. Drupe 
blue-black, globose, 2 mm. in diam., obscurely furrowed; exocarp 
fleshy, endocarp rugose with many interior plates: albumen much 
branched ; cotyledons much shorter than the radicle. 
PERAK: camp on Ulu Batang Padang, 1500 m. alt., Wray 1536!. 
I am still unable to identify Maingay K.D. 1314 from Malacca: see 
Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. V. 234. It seems to come nearest to H. Wrayi or H. 
plurinervis ? . 
2. ScLEROPYRUM, Arnott. 
Trees with axillary spines. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, penni- 
nerved. lowers polygamous, in short catkin-like spikes at the leaf- 
less nodes. Perianth-tube of male flowers solid, of female or herma- 
phrodite flowers adnate to the ovary; lobes 4—5, valvate or sub- 
imbricate. Stamens 4—5, opposite the perianth-lobes, filaments 
bifid, the anther-cells on separate branches, transversely dehiscing. 
Disk annular, undulate on the margin. Ovary inferior; ovules 3, 
pendulous from the top of a central column; style short; stigma 
large, peltate. Fruit a pyriform drupe on a thickened pedicel, 
crowned by the remains of the perianth-lobes; exocarp thick, fleshy, 
endocarp hard. Seed 1, globose; albumen copious; embryo terete, 
central, surrounded by the albumen; cotyledons oblong; radicle 
superior._—DistTriB. Species 2—-3, in India and Malaya. 
Leaves glabrous; drupe subglobose, pyriform, 2—3 
em. in diam. ae oc 
Leaves softly tomentose beneath; drupe pyriform, 1— 
1-5 cm. in diam, oe ve .- 2 S. RIDLEYI, 
1. S. MAINGAYI. 
