238 S. Kurz — Contrihtttions towards a [No. 2, 



Glabrous ; flowers sessile, in compound puberulous spikes, . . . . , S. lucida. 



Young- shoots more or less pubescent ; flowers shortly pedicelled, in simple or branched 



villous-tomentose racemes, S. racemosa, 



t t Racemes quite glabrous. 

 Glabrous ; petioles and rib beneath sparingly hairy ; racemes slender, . . S. leiostacliya. 

 * * Ovary 1- rarely Z-celled. Drupes more or less turbinate or adversely pear- 

 shaped, by abortion usually 1-seeded, the endocarp often intruding so as to 

 cause the seed to be more or less curved. Embryo curved. 

 X Stamens in 2 or more series, not fascicled. 



t Flowers sessile, in simple or compound spikes. 

 Drupes ribbed or torulose. 

 Young- shoots, spikes, and leaves beneath more or less rusty pubescent or tomentose ; 



drupes ribbed, S, Javanica. 



Glabrous ; spikes glabrous ; drupes torulose-ribbed, , S. spicata. 



O Drupes terete and smooth. 



Glabrous, also the spikes ; drupes ovoid-turbinate, S. polycarpa. 



t t Flowers pedicelled, in simple or compound racemes. Drupes 

 terete. 

 Glabrous ; racemes compound, minutely appressed pubescent, stout ; drupes ovoid- 

 turbinate (unripe), S. pediccllata. 



Glabrous ; leaves caudate acuminate ; racemes simple, slender, pubescent ; di-upes 



ovoid-turbinate, /S'. caudata. 



X X Stamens collected into 5 bundles. Flowers white. 



Racemes shortly tomentose, short ; pedicels very short and thick, S. leucantha. 



Racemes appressed pubescent, forming- slender panicles ; pedicels long, filiform, 



. . 6'. cratccgoides. 



1. S. SULCATA, Kurz in Journ, As. Soc. Beng. 1871. 65. 



Var. a. glabeioe, leaves more coriaceous, quite glabrous and sHning 

 above ; drupes larger and glabrous. 



Var. /?. PUBESCEisrs, leaves narrower and longer acuminate, less glos- 

 sy and almost opaque, pubescent on the midrib beneath ; young shoots 

 rusty villous-tomentose ; drupes (unripe) pubescent. 



Hab. Not rare in the drier hill-forests of Martaban, at 3000 to 6000 

 feet elevation ; var. /?. Upper Tenasserim, Daunat j^ass, 4000 ft. (Dr. Bran- 

 dis).— Fr. March. 



2. S. LUCIDA, Wall. Cat. 4414 ; DC. Prod. VIII. 255. 



Hab. Not unfrequent in the hill-forests of Martaban, especially on 

 the Nattoung ridges, at 5 — 7000 ft. elevation. — Fl. March. 



3. S. EACEMOSA, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II. 539 ; DC. Prod. VIII. 255. 

 (^. Samiltoniana, Wall. Cat. 4420 ; DC. 1. c. 254). 



Var. a. EoxBURGHiANA, racemes usually simple or nearly so, leaves 

 quite glabrous {S. rigida, Wall. Cat. 4422), or the midrib beneath slightly 

 appressed pubescent. 



Var. /8. COMPOSITA, racemes more or less branched ; leaves glabrous. 



Hab. Rather frequent in the open and dry forests, all over Ava and 



