Flora of the Malayan Pemnsula. 
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1. Symplocos, Linn. 
Trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, often turning yellow when dry, 
entire or toothed. Floivers white, sometimes red, in axillary simple or 
compound spikes or racemes, sometimes in few-flowered fascicles, occa- 
sionally reduced to one flower ; bracts small, solitary at the base of the 
pedicels ; bracteoles 1 to 3, small, at the base of the flower. Calyx-tube 
adnate, short when in flower, campanulate, often enlarged in fruit ; lobes 
5, imbricate. Petals 5 in one series, or 6 to 10 in two series, free or 
somewhat connate, or sometimes connate in a tube, imbricate. Stamens 
adnate to the corolla, at the base of the petals or higher up the tube, 
numerous, many-seriate, the outer the longest ; filaments filiform, or 
sometimes flattened ; anthers short, dehiscing in longitudinal parallel 
cells. Ovary inferior, or semi-superior, 2-5-eelled ; style filiform ; 
stigmas capitate, slightly lobed ; ovules 2, pendulous from the inner 
angle of each cell. Fruit an oblong, ovoid or sub-globose drupe ; endo- 
carp woody or thin, often ridged or ribbed, 1-3-seeded. Seeds usually 
1 only (by abortion) ; embryo terete, straight or curved, in the centre 
of fleshy albumen ; cotyledons much shorter than the radicle. — 
Distrib. Warmer regions of Asia, Australia and America, species 
about 290 to 300. 
Filaments more or less pentadelphous ; corolla-tube divided 
nearly to the base (Subg. I. Hopea) : — 
Fruit (where known) more or less ampulliform ; embryo 
curved (Sect. i. Paluba) : — 
Inflorescence compound, branching at any rate at the 
base : — 
Branches of the inflorescence paniculately racemose, 
drupe nearly -5 in. long .. .. ..1. S. odoratissima. 
Branches of the inflorescence racemose : — 
Racemes densely ferruginous-tomentose ; pedicels 
scarcely -05 in. long, thick .. .. ..2. S.fulvosa. 
Racemes ferruginous-villous ; pedicels -2 in. long, 
slender ; leaves elliptic, under 4 in. long . . 3 . S. nivea. 
Racemes pulverulent; pedicels -2 in. long, slender; 
leaves obovate . . . . . . . . 4. S. pulverulenta. 
Racemes glabrous or slightly pubescent ; pedicels longer 
than -05 in., slender : — 
Leaves over 4 in. long and 2 in. broad ; calyx-lobes 
glabrous . . . . . . . . 5. S. monticola. 
Leaves under 4 in. long and 1-5 in. broad; calyx- 
lobes pubescent . . . . . . . . 6. S. fasciculata. 
Branches of the inflorescence spicate : — 
Leaves beneath and inflorescence glabrous or nearly so ; (7. S. npicata. 
endocarp of seed thin . . . . . . i var. malasica. 
Leaves beneath and inflorescence ferruginous- villous ; 
endocarp of seed hard, bony . . . . . . 8. S. ferniginea. 
