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near the margin in an intramarginal network ; reticulations obscure ; 
petiole -2 to "3 in. long, bordered by the decurrent margins of the 
blade. Inflorescence a few- and basally-branched pubescent panicle of 
long slender racemes, 2'5 to 3 in. long ; racemes 12-16-flowered ; 
pedicels '1 in. long; bracteoles 2, lanceolate, - 05 in. long, ciliate, 
pubescent. Calyx- tube -05 in. long ; lobes 5, oblong, obtuse, ‘075 in. 
long. Corolla white, sweet-scented; tube very short; lobes ovate-oblong, 
•2 in. long. Stamens in 5 bundles opposite the corolla-lobes, 40 to 70, 
the outermost the longest and equal to the corolla-lobes. Ovary 
depressed, disk glabrous ; cells 3 ; style -125 in. long, stigma capitate. 
Fruit an ovoid-ellipsoid drupe, -25 in. long, smooth, tipped with the rim 
and erect teeth of the persistent calyx. Seeds 1 to 3, testa membranous; 
embryo slender, straight, -1 in. long. Brand Monog. Sympl. 48. 
Penang : Curtis 3459. Malacca : Griffith (K.D.) 3651. — Distrib. 
Borneo ( Teysmann , Motley, Beccari 2374, Haviland 509b, 1642, 3706). 
11. Symplocos adenophylla, Wall. Cat. 4427 (1829). A tree reach- 
ing 50 to 60 feet in height, stem 15 to 20 in. in diam. ; branchlets dark 
brown, smooth, upper parts and innovations dark rusty-glandular- 
pubescent. Leaves ebartaceo-coriaceous; narrowly lanceolate to elliptic- 
lanceolate and elliptic ; obtusely long caudate-acuminate at apex, 
cuneate or attenuate at base ; glabrous on both surfaces, shining or not, 
olive-brown or dark reddish-brown when dry ; margins crenate or sub- 
entire, the crenatures with large glands, sometimes recurved ; 3 to 5 in. 
long, -7 to 1-5 in. broad ; midrib slender, impressed above ; main-nerves 
5 to 8 pairs, distant, arching upwards to join in a looped intramarginal 
nerve at about two-thirds of the distance to the margin ; secondary 
nerves and reticulations obscure ; petiole -3 to -5 in. long, often bent. 
Inflorescence a 3- and basally-branched axillary panicle of racemes, 
glandular-rusty-pubescent, 1 to 2 in. long, racemes about 12-flowered ; 
bracts ovate-acute, caducous ; pedicels -05 to - 1 in. long ; bracteoles 
minute, thin, obtuse. Calyx-tube glabrous or minutely pubescent, -05 
in. long ; its teeth very minute, triangular or rounded, rusty -pubescent. 
Corolla yellowish- white, tube short; lobes oblong, rounded, about 
•15 in. long, incurved at tip. Stamens 40 to 50, in 5 bundles opposite 
the corolla-lobes, outer ones as long as those lobes ; filaments slender ; 
anthers small, rounded. Ovary depressed, disk glabrous, cells 3 ; style 
slender, -1 in. long ; stigma capitate. Fruit an oblong-cylindrical or 
ellipsoid drupe -3 to - 35 in. long and half as broad, smooth, pale 
yellowish-brown, crowned with the minute, inconspicuous, much- 
incurved, persistent calyx-teeth ; exocarp smooth, thin ; endocarp 
bony, ribbed. Seed 1 ; embryo straight, pendulous. G. Don Gen. 
Syst. IV. 3 ; A. DC. Prod. VIII. 257 ; Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. I. Pt. 2, 466 ; 
