lb 
the ends of the branchlets, puberulous, shorter than the petioles, robnst, 
with many short spreadiug brandies, many- flowered ; pedicels short, 
pubescent ; bracteolea subulate, deciduous. Calyx from *3 to '4 in. long, 
deeply 5-lobed and almost rotate when expanded, atellate-puberulous 
externally, glabrous internally, the lobes lanceolate. Male flower with 
15 to 30 anthers almost sessile round the apex of the column and sur- 
rounding the rudimentary villous ovary. Female flower ; ovaries 5, 
bi-ovalate ; styles united ; stigma 5-lobed. Follicles 1 to 5, on rather 
stout pubescent stalks, when ripe 6 to 8 in. loug and 125 to 2 5 
in. broad, membranous, boat-shaped, gibbous about the middle, con- 
spicuously veined and more or less puberulous externally especi- 
ally on the nerves. Seeds 1 (rarely 2), ovoid, glabrous, shining, o to 
1 iu. long, attached to the very base of the follicle. Mast, in Hook, 
fil. Fl. Br. IndL i. 361 ; Kurz For. Fl. Burm. i. 140; Pierre PI. Forest: 
Coch-Chine, t. 201. Scaphium Wallichii, R. Br. in Beun. PI. Jav. Rai\ 
Malacca, Griffith. Diatrib. Snmatra, Burmah. 
M, Pierre is in doubt whether his fine figure (1. c. t. 201), represents 
really the true plant of Wallich. In my opinion it does so most decidedly : 
R. Brown was right in describing the ovaries as five, and there is a 
specimen in the Calcutta Herbarium with 5 follicles. 
20. S. appinis, Mast, in Hook, fii Fl. Br. Ind. i. 361. A tree : 
young branches rather stout, rough, dark in colour, the leaf cicatrices 
large, the very youngest minutely rusty-tomentose. Leaves thinly 
coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, with rather straight edges ; the apex broad, 
suddenly acute ; the base truncate (sometimes obliquely so), 3-nerved ; 
both surfaces glabrous, the upper shining, the lower pale and rather dull : 
main nerves 6 or 7 pairs, conspicuous beneath as is the midrib ; length 
5 to 9 in., breadth 475 to 5 5 iu. ; petiole 4*5 in., thickened at each end. 
H Panicle erect, as long as the leaves, its branches downy, flattened or 
angular; peduncles thickly striated, angular, Bub-pilose, spreading; 
ultimate pedicels downy, densely crowded. Flowers very small, the 
buds ovoid. Flowers *25 in. Calyx-lobes ovate, longer than the funnel- 
shaped tube. Follicle a span long, falcate, leafy, glabrescent, shining 
within. Seeds "65 in, long, solitary, oblong, black." Scaphium ajjine, 
Pierre Fl. Forest, Coch-Chine, t. 195 E, 
Malacca ; Maingay, No. 225 (Kew. Distrib.) 
The only Maiugayan specimen of this in the Calcutta Herbarium 
consists of leaves only, with a single dotached fruit ; and I have seen no 
specimen from any other collector. The foregoing description (as re- 
gards inflorescence, flower and fruit) is therefore copied verbatim from 
Masters (in F. B. I. L c.). 
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