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long. Stamens about 60, scarcely exsert. Ovary and disk silky- 
pubescent ; style slender, stigma capitate, 3-4-lobed. Fruit an oblong 
glabrous drupe, -3 in. long, -15 to -2 in. broad, surmounted by tlie 
slightly depressed disk which is shortly overtopped by the calyx-lobes. 
Penang : on Penam Bukit at 2,000 feet, Curtis 1039. 
15. Symplocos calycodactylos, Brand Monog. Sympl. 63 (1901). A 
tree (?) ; branchlets villous with long tawny spreading bristles, innova- 
tions densely villous. Leaves membranous; oblong-lanceolate, long- 
acuminate at apex, rounded at base, sometimes almost cordate ; both 
surfaces covered sparsely with tawny bristles, especially on and along 
the nerves beneath ; margins distantly long glandular denticulate ; 
4 to 5-5 in. long, 1-5 to 2 in. broad ; midrib slender, impressed above ; 
main-nerves about 8 pairs, curving slightly upwards at an angle of 
about 30° with the midrib to anastomose near the margin ; reticulations 
prominent, primary ones transverse parallel ; petiole stout, villous, - 15 
to -2 in. long. Inflorescence a slender, axillary, tawny-villous raceme, 
2 to 3 in. long, with about 4 to 5 flowers ; bracts lanceolate-acuminate, 
•25 in. long, caducous ; pedicels -5 in., very slender, ending in a dense 
tuft of tawny bristles beneath the calyx. Calyx-tube short; lobes 5, 
linear oblong, densely tawny-bristly without, glabrous within, -25 in. 
long. Corolla-tuba short ; lobes 5, obovate, glabrous, as long as calyx- 
lobes or slightly longer. Stamens about 80, 5-adelplious, filaments 
flattened; anthers small, rounded. Ovary and disk villous; style 
slender, -1 in. long; stigma small, capitate. Fruit unknown. 
Peeak : at Waterloo, 3,000 feet, Curtis 1330. 
16. Symplocos ophibensis, Clarke in Hook. f. PL Br. Ind. III. 479 
(1882). A bush (Wray), or more probably a small tree; branches terete, 
nearly black, glabrous ; innovations appressed-tawny-pubescent ; buds 
ovate-acuminate, silky, -1 in. long. Leaves coriaceous ; elliptic or elliptic- 
lanceolate, acute or rounded or sometimes emarginate at apex, cuneate or 
rounded at base ; glabrous and usually shining above, sparsely pubescent 
beneath when young, afterwards glabrous, reddish-brown when dry ; 
margins entire or very obscurely denticulate, recurved ; 2 to 4 in. 
long, 1 to 1-5 in. broad ; midrib stout, impressed above ; main-nerves 
8 to 10 pairs, raised on both surfaces, straight at first, then curving 
upwards and joining in an intramarginal looped nerve; secondary 
nerves many, similar, reticulations prominent ; petiole stout, -1 to -2 in. 
long. Inflorescence of very short racemes, from the axils of the upper 
leaves or from the new wood below them ; racemes *3 to 4 in. long, 
silky-pubescent, 5-7-flowered; bracts and bracteoles very small, ovate, 
acute ; pedicels 0 to -1 in. long. Calyx-lobes 5, silky-pubescent, ovate- 
acute, ciliate, - 6 in. long ; tube - 1 in. long. Corolla-tube short , lobes 
