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13. Symplocos Beandiana, King & Gamble, n. sp. A small tree 
reaching 15 to 25 feet in height ; stem 4 to 6 in. in diam. ; branchlets round, 
densely covered with soft ferruginous tomentum and long stiff hispid 
hairs ; innovations densely ferruginous-silky-tomentose. Leaves mem- 
branous; ovate-oblong, long acuminate at apex, rounded or cordate at 
base ; pilose on both surfaces, at length glabrescent above, paler beneath, 
olive-brown when dry ; margin entire, recurved, thickly villous ; 3 to 
6 in. long, 1 to 2 in. broad ; midrib slender, prominent beneath ; main- 
nerves about 8 pairs, much curving upwards to join as a looped intra- 
marginal nerve, raised beneath ; reticulations obscure ; petiole scarcely 
•1 in. long. Inflorescence of axillary few-flowered racemes or panicles 
up to 1-5 in. long, lax-flowered ; raehis slender, thickly ferruginous- 
villous, as are the bracts and calyx ; bracts leaf-like, cuspidate- 
acuminate, '2 to '4 in. long ; bracteoles 2, similar but smaller ; pedicels 
•1 in. long ; flowers white. Calyx-tube very short ; lobes linear- 
lanceolate, -1 to - 2 in. long. Corolla-tube very short ; lobes elliptic- 
obtuse, glabrous, 3-nerved, -15 in. long. Stamens 60 to 70 or even 
more, in 5 bundles opposite the corolla-lobes ; filaments slender ; 
anthers small, rounded. Ovary and disk villous, style slender, stigma 
capitate. Fruit oblong-cylindrical, light blue, constricted above the 
middle, villous, -8 in. long, -3 in. broad ; exocarp fleshy, endocarp 
crustaceous ; cells 3, the lower one bearing 1 seed ; albumen fleshy ; 
embryo slightly curved. 
Perak : Curtis 2030 ; Scortechini 346, 349 on Maxwell’s Hill, 
3,000 feet; Wray 677 at Waterfall Hill, Larut; King's Collector 1887, 
in dense jungle on rocky creeks. 
We have named this handsome species in honour of the author of the most recent 
monograph of the genus. 
14. Symplocos concolor, Brand Monog. Sympl. 65 (1901). A tree, 
reaching 30 to 40 feet in height; branchlets dark brown, innovations 
tawny-pubescent. Leaves thinly coriaceous ; oblong or oblong-obovate, 
abruptly acuminate at apex, the acumen mucronate, attenuate at base ; 
glabrous on both surfaces, shining above ; margins entire or obscurely 
dentate ; 3 to 4 in. long, 1-1-5 in. broad ; midrib slender, slightly raised 
above ; main-nerves 6 to 7 pairs, rather obscure, arching upwards to 
anastomose near the margin; reticulations prominent; petiole about -1 in. 
long. Inflorescence of sessile or very shortly peduncled, 3-branehed 
panicles up to -5 in. long, all golden-pubescent, about 10-12-flowered ; 
bracts ovate-acute, small ; bracteoles smaller, 2 to each pedicel ; pedicels 
slender, about -1 in. long. Calyx-tube funnel-shaped, -05 in. long; 
lobes 5, rounded, short. Corolla-tube very short; lobes oblong, -1 in. 
