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1353. Perak : Wray 3387; Scortechini 900; King's Collector 925, 
4376, 4395, 4683, 5235, 6219, 7091, 8646, 11019. Pahang : Ridley in 
Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, III. 318. Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 956.— 
Distrib. Assam, Burma, Java ( Forbes 682, 798, 861, 1203), Sumatra 
( Forbes 2614, 2691, 3150 ; Beccari 842), the Moluccas, the Philippines, 
and S. China. 
The leaves in this species are very variable ; for instance, those of King’s Collector 
Nos. 4395, 4683 have oblong-lanceolate leaves 6 to 8 in. long and about 2 in. broad, 
with more distant nerves, and are nearly glabrous beneath ; but some of the leaves 
approach very nearly to those of other specimens, and we cannot therefore separate 
it as a variety. The marked elongation of the fruiting inflorescence is another 
source of difficulty in superficial identification. 
9. Symplocos Ridleyi, King & Gamble, n. sp. A medium-sized 
tree ; branchlets glabrous, angled, striate ; leaf-buds acuminate, glabrous. 
Leaves coriaceous ; ovate or oblong, acuminate at apex, attenuate at 
base ; glabrous on both surfaces, shining above, greenish-yellow when dry; 
margins entire or remotely and faintly denticulate, recurved ; 3 to 4 in. 
long, 1 to 1-5 in. broad ; midrib slender, raised above ; main-nerves 8 
to 9 pairs, raised on both surfaces, straight, meeting in a looped intra- 
marginal nerve; secondary nerves few; reticulations prominent, raised 
above ; petiole -3 in. long, channelled above. Inflorescence of sessile or 
very short few-flowered axillary racemes, as long as the petiole ; raebis 
silky-pubescent ; bracts and bracteoles orbicular, ciliate, pubescent ; 
pedicels none or very short. Calyx-lobes orbicular, thin, ciliate, T in. 
broad, concave ; tube very short. Corolla-tube very short, lobes ovate, 
•12 to T5 in. long, 3-5-nerved, white. Stamens about 50, in bundles 
opposite the corolla-lobes ; filaments slender, the outer ones a little 
longer than the corolla-lobes ; anthers rounded. Ovary villous, 3-eelled, 
ovules 2 in each cell; disk glabrous; style thick, -1 in. long, stigma 
capitate, lobed. Fruit not known. 
Singapore : Ridley 5684. 
A species very closely allied to S. phyllocalyx, Clarke, of N. India and China, and 
to S.japonica, A. DC. of Japan. 
10. Symplocos celastrifolia, Griff. MS.; Clarke in Hook. f. FI. 
Br. Ind. III. 575 (1882). A tree (?) ; branchlets smooth, slender, 
glabrous. Leaves chartaceous ; elliptic or elliptic-oblong, shortly and 
bluntly acuminate at apex, euneate at base ; glabrous on both surfaces, 
greenish-brown above, yellowish beneath when dry ; margins crenate, 
slightly recurved; 2-5 to 5 in. long, 1-5 to 2-25 in. broad; midrib 
slender, impressed abovd ; main-nerves 6 to 8 pairs, irregular, not pro- 
minent, at first straight, then curving upwards and branching to meet 
