576 xci. STTRACEJ!. (0. B. Clarke.) ISymplocos. 



Himalaya; from Nipal to Bhotan, alt. 5-8000 ft., very common. Khasia; alt. 

 4-6000 ft., common. Maexaban ; alt. 5-7000 ft., not unfrequent, Kiire. 



An erect tree, often 50 ft. ; branchlets glabrous. Leaves 4^ by 1| in., base- 

 cuneate or obtuse, coriaceous ; nerves numerous, indistinct, not parallel ; petiole j in. 

 Fanicles ^-1 in., dense, often tripartite from the base, branches stout ; bracts ^ in. 

 broad, obtuse ; bracteoles ^ ini, broad, obtuse. Calyx-tube nearly glabrous, teeth 

 ^ in., broad, obtuse, glabrous, minutely ciliate. Corolla 5-^ in. Stamens 20-2§. 

 Disc densely covered with long white hairs. Fruit 5 by ^ in., ellipsoid, smooth, tip 

 obtuse, calyx-teeth incurved ioconspieuous. Embryo straight. — There has been much 

 confusion respecting this very distinct species. Wallich has, under No. 4418, three 

 plants named 8. racemosa, Eoxb., none of which are right, except letter C, upon 

 which De CandoUe (in whose Herbarium the specimen is) founded his 8. nervosa. 



11. S. kurg'ensis, Clarke ; leaves oUong acuminate scabrou8-villou» 

 beneath, panicles rufous-hirsute, flowers subseasile, calyx-tube glabrous, teeth 

 closely siUjy. Symplocos, n. 31, Serb. Ind. Or. Hk.f. \ T. S.,spicat8e aflBnis, 

 Bedd. For. Man. 153. 



Mts. of KuEG, common, G. Thomson ; Beddome. 



Branchlets thick, soon glabrescent except the tips. Leaves 5J by 2 in., base 

 rounded or subcordate when mature, sub-denticulate, villoas and glandular-scabrid 

 beneath, coriaceous ; nerves 10 on each side, thick, much elevated beneath; petiole 

 ^ in., rusty-villous. Panicles 2-3 in. ; bracts j in., ovate, densely hairy. Calyx-lobes 

 ^ in., ovate. Petals §• in. Sta-mens 50. Disc and style glabrous. Fruit nearly \ 

 by \ in., cylindric, smooth ; calyx-rim as broad as the fruit, teeth patent. Fmbryo 

 straight. — This differs from 8. Hohenaelceri, u. 37, in the rounded base of the leaves, 

 which are glandular-scabrous beneath, and in the compound spikes. 



Sbct. 2. Racemes or spikes undivided (in S. racemosa var, divided). Em- 

 biyo straight. Species 12 to 69. 



* Species of the Himalaya and Khasia Mts. 



12. S. racemosa, Soxb. Sort. Bmg. 40, and Fl. Ind. ji. 639 ; leaves 

 oblong cuneate at both ends obscurely crenate, midrib glabrous or pilose beneath, 

 racemes hairy half as long as the leaves, disc glabrous. Kurz in Journ. As. 

 Soc. 1877, pt. ii. 238, and For. Fl. ii. 144, not of Wall, nor of A. DC. S. 

 Hamiltoniana, Wall. Cat. 4420 ; A. DC. Prodr. viii. 264 ; Brand. For. Fl. 301. 

 S. ligida, Wall. Cat. 4422, type sheet. S. nervosa, A. DC. I. e. 266, not of 

 Wight. S. propinqua, Hance in Seem. Journ. Bot. 1868, 329. — Symplocos n. 

 62, Serb. Ind. Or. H.f 8; T. 



Throughout Nokth-East India, alt. 0-2500 ft., common from the Terai of 

 Kumaon to Assam and Pegu; common throughout Chota Nagpore. — Disteib. Birma, 

 China. 



A small tree, or more frequently a shrub ; branchlets soon glabrous. Leaves 5 by 

 If in. (sometimes almost orbicular leaves) obtuse, coriaceous ; nerves distant, not 

 conspicuous; petiole ^ in. Racemes 2-4 in.; bracts ^ in., ovate, hairy, deciduous ; 

 lower pedicels often distant, i-J in. ; bracteoles ^ in., ovate. Calyx-tube usually 

 glabrous, lobes ^ in., ovate, minutely pubescent. Corolla ^ in. 8tamens sometimes 

 115. Fruit nearly 5 by |^ in., subcylindric, smooth ; calyx-rim nearly as wide as the 

 fruit, with erect teeth. Esmhryo straight. — 8. rigida, Wall, type, differs by some of 

 the racemes terminating in a leafy hranch, so that the pedicels appear solitary from 

 the old wood bearing the fruits. — Kurz must be mistaken in thinking that this was 

 8. racemosa of A. DC., who describes his plant as having racemes about as long as 

 the petioles and the ovary pilose at the summit. A. DCs plant was therefore, as 

 he states, 8. racemosa, Wall. = 8. theafolia, Don. Kurz also refers the Kew Distrib. 

 n. 3660 to 8. spicata, whereas that number is 8. racemosa, Eoxb. 



Vab. Jchaswma ; flowers sessile in dense clusters on the Spike. Symplocos, n. 

 1275, Griff. Itin. Notes, 87.— Khasia ; Nongkreem (alt. 4500 ft., perhaps), Griffith. 



