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Subgenus I. — Hopea. 
1. Symplocos odoratissima, Choisy ex Zoll. Syst. Verz. 136 (1854). 
A tree with spreading branches reaching 60 to 70 feet in height and 
18 to 24 in. in diam. of stem ; branches grey, stout ; branchlets dark 
greyish-brown, angled, striate, minutely puberulous ; leaf-buds acumi- 
nate, ‘15 in. long. Leaves thinly coriaceous ; elliptic or elliptic-obovate 
or elliptic-oblong, shortly acuminate at apex, cuneate or slightly 
rounded at base ; glabrous on both surfaces ; margin entire or serrate, 
blackish-brown when dry ; 3 to 6 in. long, 2 to 2-5 in. broad ; midrib 
slender, prominent beneath, impressed above ; main-nerves 8 to 10 
pairs, arching upwards to and along the margin where they meet in an 
intramarginal looped nerve near it ; reticulations transverse, not pro- 
minent; petiole - 4 to '6 in. long, flattened above. Inflorescence of 
grey-pubescent panicles, 1-5 to 2 in. long, axillary to the upper leaves, 
longer in fruit and stouter ; branches paniculately racemose ; bracts very 
small, deciduous ; bracteoles 2, below the calyx-tube, ovate-acute* 
reflexed, -05 in. long ; pedicels '15 in. long. Calyx-tube -05 in. long, 
pubescent ; lobes 5, as long as tube, rounded. Corolla-tube very short ; 
lobes ovate-obtuse, -15 in. long, pubescent on back, ciliate, white. 
Stamens in 5 bundles opposite corolla-lobes, very many, 80 to 100 in 
all ; filaments slender ; anthers rounded. Ovary villous ; style thick, 
•075 in. long, stigma lobed ; cells 3, ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit an 
ampulliform drupe, -4 to '5 in. long, -25 in. broad, lower part rounded, 
upper cylindrical, crowned by the calyx-rim and connivent lobes, the 
calyx-rim -075 in. broad ; exocarp corky, rusty-brown, slightly pubescent ; 
endocarp hard. Seeds 1 to 3, usually 1 only perfect ; testa membranous, 
albumen fleshy; embryo slightly curved, '15 in. long, radicle long. 
Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. I. Pt. 2, 468; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. VII. 148; Brand 
Monog. Sympl. 35. Dicalyx odoratissimus, Blume Bijdr. 1116, 
Perak : King’s Collector 10030, 10411, 10777. Singapore : Ridley 
4428 (this latter specimen has leaves up to 8 in. long and 3‘5 in. 
broad). — Distrib. Sumatra ( Beccari 834), Java, Borneo ( Beccari 
4014). 
This is var. divaricata, Brand, which seems to us hardly separable, unless by the 
leaves being almost entire. In the Java and Sumatra specimens of G. odoratissima 
the leaves are markedly serrate. 
2. Symplocos fulvosa, King & Gamble, n. sp. A very large tree, 
reaching 150 feet in height (Scortechini) ; branchlets dark-brown, young 
ones and innovations densely terruginous-tomentose. Leaves chartaceo- 
coriaceous ; elliptic, abruptly long blunt-acuminate at apex the acumen 
often curved, cuneate or attenuate at base ; glabrous and shining above, 
