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tose. Leaves membranous, oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate, shortly 
caudate-acuminate, entire, the base rounded, sometimes minutely cordate, 
rarely acute; upper surface glabrous, the midrib alone tomentose; under 
surface sparsely rusty-tomentose, the midrib and 8 to 10 pairs of spreading 
lateral nerves prominent : length 6 to 12 in., breadth 1 "25 to 3 5 in., 
petiole "3 to J*5 in. ; stipules erect, linear, half as long as the petiole, 
deciduous. Panicles or racemes axillary, solitary, lax, few-flowered, 
rusty-toinentose, hardly bo long as the leaves; bracteoles linear, shorter 
than the pedicels. Calyx *5 or *6 in. long, broadly campaniilate, pubes- 
cent on both surfaces, the tube much shorter than the linear-lanceolate 
spreading lobes the tips of which curve inwards and cohere. Mah 
flower ; staminal column longer than the calyx-tube but much shorter than 
its lobes, glabrous, carved, bearing at its apex 10 2-celled, oblong, 
nearly sessile, anthers. Female flower ; gynophore very short: ovaries 
5, ovoid, rusty-villous, surrounded at the base by 10 sub-sessile stamens. 
Styles short, united, densely covered with white hairs ; stigmas united 
into a boldly 5-lobed disc. Follicles 1 to 5, shortly stalked, narrowly 
oblong, tapering to each end, the apex with a hooked beak, coriaceous, 
brownish- vol vetty, red when ripe, 2 to 2'5 in. long and '75 in. broad. 
Seeds oval, black, smooth. Pierre Fl. Forest. Coch- Chine t. 194 C. 
jS. august ijolia, Jack (not of Roxb.) Mai. Misc. ex Hook. Bot. Mis. i. 
287. 
Penang, Pcrak, at low elevations, common. Distrib. Burmah. 
1 have no doubt whatever that this is the plant described by Jack 
as the & a?igustifolia of Roxb. 
14. S. puhescens, Mast, in Hook. fil. Fl. Br. Ind. i. 357. A tree, 
the younger parts ruBty-pubescont. Leaves oblong, obtuse, or abruptly 
acuminate, entire, the base cordate ; upper surface glabrous ; lower 
densely and miuutely pubescent, the nerves stellate- pi lose : length 4 to 
6 in., breadth 2 to 2 5 in.; petiole 1*25 in., sulcate : stipules subulate, 
■25 to long. Panicle erect, as long as or longer than the leaves, much 
branched: ultimate pedicels jointed, pubescent, spreading. Calyx "25 
in. long, campanulate; the lobes triangular acute, as long as the tube, 
hairy within. Ovary globose, downy. 
Malacca, Maingay. 
Kxcept by Maingay's two specimens in the Kew Herbarium, this 
species is unknown. Specimens of it in good llower and in fruit are 
much wanted, so that a completer description than the foregoing may 
be prepared. 
15. S. colokata, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 50. A tree MO to 60 feet 
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