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woody, from peach-coloured to carmine when ripe, oblong, rounded !tt 
at the base, the apes acute and slightly curved; externally rugose (the 
rugae mostly longitudinal), minutely fcomentose, inside smooth; length 
3 to 3'5 in., breadth 1'25 to 1*5 in. Seeds narrowly ovoid, nearly I in. 
long, black. 
Perak ; King's Collector Nos. 3259, 7211, 7245, Scortechini No, 1805 ; 
at 100 to 300 feet elevation. Distrib. Sumatra ; Forbes, No. 2679. 
In externals this species closely resembles 8. parvijlorai Roxb. 
But, after numerous dissections, I conclude that the two species are 
quite distinct. The ovaries of this are never more than 3, and they are 
always densely villous; those of parvijiora are invariably 5, aud they 
are scaly, not villous. The stigmas of this are long and are bent out- 
wards on themselves ; these of parvijiora are short and recurved out- 
wards from their junction with tho styles : they are not bent on them- 
selves. The follicles of this are thicker and more woody aud the seeds 
are larger than those of S. parvijlura. Moreover this has never more 
than 7 stamens, whilo S. parvijiora has 10. The leaves of this are rather 
thicker in texture and the young branches are thinner and paler than 
those of parvijiora. 
8. S. PAavrFLORA, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 50. A tree 20 to 50 feet 
high ; young branches rather thick ; the tips forruginous-tomentose ; the 
bark pale, rough, glabrous. Leaves membranous, oval, ovate or obovate- 
oblong, the apex rather abrnptly shortly and bluntly acuminate, entire; 
the base rounded and slightly cordate, or sub-truncate and eraarginate, 
5-nerved ; both surfaces glabrous, but not shining ; the midrib and 7 or 
8 pairs of spreading rather prominent lateral nerves sparsely stellate- 
pubescent on the lower when young ; length 4 to 10 in., breadth 2 to 
5*5 in. ; petiole 1 to 4 in., deoiduously rufous-tomentose. Panicles about 
as long as the leaves, slender, the lateral branches short and tho flower- 
pedicels capillary, everywhere covered with rusty stellate tomentum, 
ebracteolate. Calyx "2 in. long with an urceolate tube, the mouth with 
5 linear-lanceolate lobes almost as long as tho tube, incurved and united 
by their apices, atellate-tomentose externally, glabrous within. Male 
flower; staminal column shorter than the calyx-tube, bearing at its apex 
10 sessile short narrowly ovate anthers with thick connective. Herm. 
flower : ovaries 5, ovoid, scaly, with a ring of anthers at their base : ovules 
4 or 5. Styles slightly united, slender, sparsely villous, short; stigmas 
united into a fleshy boldly 5-lobed disc, but easily separable into 5 
fleshy flattish recurved stigmas. Follicles 1 to 5, thickly coriaceous, 
brilliant red to orange, pubescent to glabrescent, oblong, shortly beaked, 
2*5 to 3*5 in. long and 1*25 to 1*5 in. broad ; inside glabrous, shining, 
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