234 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
glabrous and dull beneath, ferruginous-brown when dry ; margins 
faintly crenate-serrate, with a row of glands, slightly recurved ; 3 to 
4-5 in. long, 1-25 to 2 in. broad ; midrib slender, slightly impressed 
above ; main-nerves 6 to 8 pairs, the lowest pair close to the margin, 
the rest gradually more distant upwards, curved upwards to and along 
the margin where they meet in a looped intramarginal nerve ; reticu- 
lations many, forming an elegant network; petiole - 75 in. long. 
Inflorescence of tripartite sessile panicles of racemes, the racemes 
1 to 2 in. long, densely ferruginous-tomentose ; bracts and bracteoles 
minute, hidden in the tomentum ; pedicels thick, -05 in. long ; flowers 
white, then yellowish. Calyx-tube short ; lobes very short, rounded, 
densely tomentose without. Corolla-tube short ; lobes ovate-oblong, 
glabrous, -15 in. long, 3-5-nerved. Stamens many, obscurely separated 
in bundles ; filaments slender ; anthers very small rounded. Ovary 
and disk glabrous, style glabrous, -075 in. long, stigma capitate ; 
cells 3. Fruit unknown. 
Pebak : Scortechini 563, 567. 
3. Symplocos nivea, Brand Monog. Sympl. 36 (1901). A tree, 
reaching 50 to 60 feet in height ; branchlets slender, rounded, dark 
brown, glabrous ; leaf-buds ovate-acuminate, tawny-pubescent. Leaves 
chartaceo-coriaceous ; elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acute or acuminate at 
apex, cuneate at base ; glabrous and shining above, glabrous and pale 
beneath, dark olive-brown when dry ; margins obscurely undulate- 
crenate, recurved; 3 to 4 in. long, 1 to 1-75 in. broad; midrib slender, 
impressed above ; main-nerves 5 to 6 pairs, irregularly spaced and 
often branched, at first straight then curved upwards to and along 
the margin where they anastomose in a looped intramarginal nerve ; 
reticulations obscure ; petiole slender, -3 to -4 in. long. Inflorescence 
an axillary panicle of villous racemes 2 to 3 in. long, the racemes 
12-15-flowered; bracts and bracteoles ovate-lanceolate, villous, quickly 
caducous; pedicels slender, -2 in. long. Calyx-tube adnate to the 
ovary; lobes 5, oblong-obtuse, -1 in. long, glabrous, persistent. Corolla 
pure white ; lobes twice as long as those of the calyx. Stamens 
about 60, as long as the corolla. Ovary glabrous, 1-celled, ovules appa- 
rently 2 ; style slender from a conical villous base. Fruit unknown. 
Penang: at Pulau Boetong, Government Hill and Muka Head, 
Curtis 715. 
4. Symplocos pulvebulenta, King & Gamble, n. sp. A tree (?) ; 
ultimate branchlets and inflorescence grey- or golden-pulverulent-scaly ; 
leaf-buds lanceolate-acuminate. Leaves membranous ; obovate, abruptly 
short acuminate at apex, cuneate often unequally at base ; glabrous on 
both surfaces except on the nerves, olive-green when dry; margins 
