oblong, with short straight beaks, bright red when ripe, pnbcrulous 
externally, slightly curved, glabrous, shining and ridged internally, 2 
in. long and about "5 in. broad. Seed* 3 or 4 oblong, black, shining. 
Mast, in Hook, fil. El, Br. Ind. i. 357. Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch-Clmie 
t. 192, figs. 1 to 7; Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 230; Miq. FI. lud. Bat. 
i. jit. 2, 171. S. ror.cuira, Jack Mai. Misc. i. 2<S'», nut of R.oxh. 
Peuang, P.rak, ilulmjcn, .Singapore : at low elevations : hut not 
common. 
5. S, htposiicta, Miq. Fl. Iud. Bat. Suppl. 399. A shrub or small 
tree, all parts glabrous except the inflorescence: young branches slender, 
dark and smooth becoming (by the falling off of the bark) pale aud 
striate. Leaves membranous, oblong, to oblong-lanceolate, Bometimes 
slightly obovate, abruptly acuminate or even caudate-acuminate, entire, 
the base slightly narrowed and rounded, or not narrowed and truncate, 
eriiargiuate, rarely acute, 3-nerved; both surfaces glabrous, shining: 
lateral main nerves 3 to 5 pairs, spreading, curved, inarching far from 
the margin, prominent beneath : length 3 5 to 5"5 in., breadth 1'5 to 
2*25 in., petiole 1 to 1*5 in., thickened at base and apex. Racemes 
axillary, solitary, droojiing, longer than the leaves, minutely whitish 
pubescent, with superficial brown stellate hairs: bracteoles linear, 
longer than the pedicels. Calyx with narrowly campanulato tube '25 
in. long, densely rufous-pubescent externally and glabrous inside: lobea 
5, not quite so long as the tube, linear, spreading, connivent, cohering 
from some time by their tips, the edges recurved, glandular-pilose inside, 
sub-pubescent outside. Male flower ; stamina! column short, glabrous, 
with 8 sessile obloug 2-celled anthers at its apex. Female flower: gy- 
nophore short; ovaries 4, ovoid, conjoined, shortly tomentose, with ring 
of 8 sessile anthers at their base. Style simple, carved, sparsely 
villous ; stigma large, glabrons, with 4 fleshy oblong-obovoid curved 
lobes. Follicles 2 or 3, coriaceous, bright red when ripe, narrowly 
oblong, tapering to each end, 2 to 2'25 in. long and 65 in. broad; 
externally minutely rusty-pubescent; internally glabrous, wrinkled. 
Seeds 4, oblong, poiuted, black. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. Vol. 
xlv. pt. 2, p. 120. 
Perak ; King's Collector, Wray. Nicobars, Kurz. 
6, S. parvifolia, Wall. Cat. 1123. A tree 20 to 30 feet high: 
young branches slender, striate, the older pale, the younger dark-coloured, 
glabrous. Leaves membranous, drying of a pale green, oblong-lanceolate, 
rarely ovate-oblong, bluntly acuminate, entire ; the base acute or round- 
ed, faintly 3-nerved ; both surfaces glabrous : main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, 
173 
