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Cooke PI. Bomb. II. 108 ; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. VII. 144. S. polycarpa. 
Wall, Cat. 4423 ; DC. l.c. 255 ; Kurz ll.c. S. Loha, Don Prod. 144 ; 
DC. l.o. 255. S. racemosa, Wall. Cat. 4418 [in part, not of Eoxb). 
Var. malasica, Clarke in Hook. f. PI. Br. Ind. III. 573. A small 
tree with spreading branches, reaching 30 to 40 feet in height and 1 foot 
in diam. of stem ; branchlets dark grey-brown, smooth, innovations 
glabrous ; buds lanceolate acuminate. Leaves coriaceo-chartaceous, 
alternate ; elliptic- or oblong-lanceolate, acute or acuminate at apex, 
cuneate at base ; entire or serrate, glabrous on both surfaces, turning 
yellow when dry ; margin distantly and slightly denticulate, glandu- 
lar ; 4 to 7 in. long, 1-5 to 2'5 in. broad ; midrib thick, impressed 
above ; main-nerves about 10 pairs, irregular, curved upwards and 
branching towards the margin ; secondary nerves few ; reticulations 
prominent on the under surface ; petiole -4 to -7 in. long, channelled 
above. Inflorescence an axillary panicle of spikes, the branches 
mostly near the base ; spikes 1'5 to 4 in. long, glabrous or slightly 
pubescent ; bracts very small, deciduous ; bracteoles under each flower 
3, ovate, acute or obtuse, ciliate, - 05 in. long. Calyx-lobes 5, rounded, 
imbricate, glabrous, tube as long as lobes, the latter -05 in. long. 
Corolla 5-lobed, white or yellowish ; tube very short ; lobes ovate- 
orbicular, -1 to -15 in. long. Stamens indefinite, about 40, the outer 
ones longer than the petals, inserted on the corolla-tube ; filaments 
slender ; anthers short, rounded. Ovary inferior, 3-celled ; ovules 3 
to 4 in each cell ; style thick, - 1 in. long, stigma capitate. Fruit a 
globose drupe -15 to • 2 in. long, surmounted by a rim formed by the 
short calyx-lobes, smooth, olive-coloured, exocarp and endocarp thin, 
ribbed. Seed 1, testa thin, albumen rather scanty ; embryo curved. 
Perak : Wray 2798 ; Scortechini ; King’s Collector 6299, 6903. 
Malacca : Griffith ; Maingay (K.D.) 957 ; Derry 506. 
Var. acuminata, Brand Monog. Sympl. 40. Leaves long acuminate, 
blunt at the tip, serrulate, 3 to 5 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad ; main- 
nerves 7 to 8 pairs, all nerves and reticulations, except the impressed 
midrib, prominent on the upper surface in young leaves. Floivers 
sometimes pedicellate. Fruit somewhat urceolate, ribbed. Symplocos 
acuminata, Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. I. Pt. 2. 467. Dicalyx acuminatus, Bl. 
Bijdr. 1119. 
Perak : Scortechini 1556. — Distrib. Java, Sumatra ( Forbes 
3208). 
Var. attenuata, Clarke in Hook. f. PI. Br. Ind. III. 573. Leaves 
long acuminate at apex, long attenuate at base, 3 to 4 in. long, 1 to 
1-25 in. broad ; margins serrate. Spicate branches of the inflorescence 
slender, usually short. Fruit small, often only -1 to -15 in. in diam. 
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