238 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
S. attenuata, Wall. Cat. 4426 ; A. DC. Prod. VIII. 256 ; Brand Monog. 
Sympl. 39. 
Kedah : King’s Collector 1764.— Disteib. Assam, Burma. 
8. Symplocos febeuginea, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 40 (1814), PI. Ind. II. 
542. A tree with spreading branches reaching 50 to 60 feet in height 
and 1 foot in diam. of stem ; branchlets stout, dark brown, smooth, inno- 
vations densely ferruginous-villous. Leaves coriaceous; elliptic or 
elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; glabrous and 
shining above, ferruginous-villous especially on the nerves beneath, 
turning yellow when dry; margins serrulate, denticulate or almost 
entire, recurved; 5 to 8 in. long, 1'5 to 3 in. broad; midrib stout, very 
prominent beneath, impressed above ; main-nerves 12 to 14 pairs, pro- 
minent beneath, parallel at first and straight for some distance then 
arching near the margin ; secondary nerves few ; reticulations obliquely 
transverse, not prominent ; petiole '3 to -5 in. long, densely rusty-villous, 
thick. Inflorescence an axillary panicle of spikes, 2 to 6 in. long, 
the spikes and panicle short in bud, longer in flower, much elongated in 
fruit, the branches of the panicle mostly near the base, densely ferru- 
ginous-villous ; bracts very small, ovate-acute, villous ; bracteoles under 
each flower 3, the central one -12 in. long, ovate-acuminate, the two outer 
shorter, ovate-acute, the three together as long as the calyx. Calyx 
5-lobed ; lobes ovate-obtuse, -1 in. long, pubescent without. Corolla 
5-lobed, white, rotate; tube '05 in. long; lobes -1 in. long, oblong-obtuse, 
3 -nerved. Stamens indefinite, 40 to 70, in 5 fascicles inserted on the 
corolla-tube ; filaments slender, gradually increasing in length from the 
inside outwards, the outer ones a little longer than the petals ; anthers 
rounded, short. Ovary depressed, disk glabrous ; cells 3 ; style thick, 
•1 to -2 in. long, stigma 3-lobed ; ovules several in each cell. Fruit a 
globose or ampulliform drupe, faintly ribbed, -15 to -2 in. long, sur- 
mounted by the persistent calyx with enlarged connivent teeth ; 
exoearp thin ; endocarp very hard, bony, about 12-14-ribbed, globose 
below, cylindric and very short above. Seed 1, testa thin, albumen 
rather scanty; embryo curved, -1 to -15 in. long. Wall. Cat. 4412 ; A. 
DC. Prod. VIII. 257; Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. I. Pt. 2. 466; Clarke in Hook, 
f. PI. Br. Ind. III. 574 (var. exc.) ; Koord. & Val. Bijdr. VII. 141 ; Brand 
Monog. Sympl. 40. S. mollis, Wall. Cat. 4433; G. Don Gen. Syst. IV. 
3. S. Verhuellii, Jungh. & de Vriese PI. Nov. Ind. Or. 12 ; Miq. l.c. 
467. S. javanica, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. ii. 239 
(syn. S. rubiginosa exc.) and For. PI. II. 145. S. lachnobotrya, and 
S. Horsfieldiana, Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 475. Dicalyx javanicus, 
Blume Bijdr. 1117. 
Penang : Wallich 4433 ; Phillips ; Curtis 206 ; King’s Collector 
