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the leaves or above the scars of fallen leaves on year-old wood below the 
leaves and shoots of the year ; pedicels T to - 2 in. long, covered like 
the obtuse buds with rusty tomentum. Calyx-lobes round, -025 to 
*075 in. in diam., with searious margins, closely imbricate, rusty- 
pubescent outside. Corolla campanulate, -1 in. long ; tube short ; lobes 
5, imbricate, rounded, crenulate, sparingly pubescent near the base 
within, in ? flowers wanting or deciduous. Stamens very short, 
attached to the corolla-tube above the base ; filaments linear ; anthers 
rounded, opening by marginal slits ; staminodes subulate or somewhat 
hastate, acuminate. Ovary depressed, obscurely 5-lobed, pubescent ; 
stigma short, cylindrie, with 5 minute punctiform styles. Berry ovoid, 
shining -35 by -3 in., 1-2-seeded. Seeds ovoid, -25 by -15 in. ; testa 
shining, dark brown, thick ; bilum large, oblong ; albumen thick ; 
cotyledons flat. A. DC. Prod. VIII. 178; Clarke in Hook. fil. PI. 
Br. Ind. III. 537. S. attenuatum, A. DC. l.c. ; Wight Ic. t. 1590 ; 
Kurz Por. PI. II. 117, and in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. (1877) 
229. Mimusops ? attenuata, Wall. Cat. 4150. 
Kedah : Langkawi, Curtis. Penang : Curtis 273, 703, 704. 
Pebak : Scortechini 1463 ; King’s Collector 1224. Malacca : Maingay 
{K.D.) 982; Griffith (K.D.) 3604; Goodenougli 1735. Singapore: 
Wallich 4150 ; Lobb 319 ; Ridley 5643, 5908. A sea-shore tree, 
found also by Bidley on Tiuman Island and at Kwala Pahang (Trans. 
Linn. Soc. Ser. 2. III. 317). — Distrib. Burma, Andaman Islands, 
Nicobar Islands, Malay Archipelago to the Philippines and S. China. 
5. Sideroxylon firmum, Pierre ; Burck in Ann. Jard. Buit. V. 17, tab. 
III. (1885). A small tree ; branchlets thick, striate, brown ; innovations 
ferruginous-pubescent. Leaves coriaceous; oblong-lanceolate, shortly 
acuminate at apex, narrowly acute at base; glabrous above, rusty- 
pubescent on the nerves beneath and on young leaves; margins recurved ; 
4 to 5 in. long, 1 to l - 5 in. broad ; midrib strong, prominent, impressed 
above; main-nerves 12 to 16 pairs, very prominent, about -2 to -3 in. apart, 
starting at an angle of about 40° with the midrib, parallel, curved near 
and along the margin ; reticulations transverse, very regular and 
prominent ; petiole 1 to 1-5 in. long, channelled above and bordered 
by the decurrent margins of the blade, rusty-pubescent. Flowers 
fascicled, 4 to 6 together in the axils of the leaves ; pedicels variable, 
'3 to "6 in. long, rusty-pubescent, slender in flower, thickened in fruit. 
Oafo/as-lobes 5, rounded, imbricate, T5 in. long, densely rusty-pubescent, 
3 outer thick, 2 inner more or less searious on the margins. Corolla 
campanulate, ‘15 in. long, 5-lobed, glabrous within, slightly hairy 
without , tube rather short ; lobes oblong, rounded. Stamens inserted 
-on the top of the tube; filaments glabrous.; anthers ovate-apiculate ; 
