244 Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
white, oblong-obtuse, - 2 in. long, 5-nerved. Stamens in bundles of 6 to 
12 each opposite the corolla-lobes, 30 to 60 in all ; filaments slender, 
outer as long as petals ; anthers rounded, very small. Ovary and disk 
nearly glabrous at top ; style slender, -15 to "2 in. long, stigma capitate ; 
cells 3, ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit ovoid-cylindric, blueish-purple 
when ripe, - 3 to - 4 in. long, - 2 in. broad, surmounted by calyx-rim with 
patent lobes, nearly as wide as the top of the fruit ; exocarp crustaceous ; 
endocarp very hard, bony, obscurely ribbed and irregularly indented. 
Seed 1, testa membranous, albumen fleshy, embryo straight. Brand 
Monog. Sympl. 58. Symplocos No. 42, Herb. Ind. Or. Hook f 
& Th. 
Perak: on Gunong Bubu, 5,000 feet, Wray 3919; Soortechini. 
Malacca : on Mount Ophir, Griffith (K.D.) 3650 ; Bidley 10083 ; Derry 
623 ; Lohh. 
The specimens of Wray and Scortechini have the leaves rounded at both ends, but 
there seems no reason to keep them as a separate variety from the specimens from 
Mount Ophir which are acute at apex and cuneate at base. 
17. Symplocos Cdrtisii, Oliv. in Hook. Icon. t. 1757 (1888). A 
shrub or small tree, reaching 10 to 15 feet in height ; branchlets slender, 
pale brown, glabrous ; leaf-buds small, acuminate, pubescent. Leaves 
chartaceous ; elliptic, abr-uptly long acuminate at apex, cuneate at base ; 
glabrous on both surfaces, pale greenish-brown when dry; margins 
obscurely denticulate, slightly recurved; 4 to 9 in. long, 1-5 to 3 in. 
broad, midrib slender, raised beneath, impressed above; main-nerves 
5 to 7 pairs, the lowest pair very near the margin, the rest gradually 
more and more distant, all curving upwards to and along the margin, 
v liei e they form an intramarginal looped nerve ; secondary nerves very 
few or none ; reticulations transverse, fairly prominent, rather distant ; 
petiole 2 to 4 in. long, channelled above. Inflorescence of short (up to 
■4 in. long) racemes axillary to the upper leaves or on the young wood 
below them ; racemes about 5-flowered ; bract ovate-acute, -1 in. long, 
keeled, villous ; bracteoles 2, similar but smaller ; pedicels stout, about 
05 in. long. Calyx-tube about - 1 in. long ; lobes 5, ovate, obtuse, as 
long as tube, all minutely pubescent without. Corolla-tube very short, 
lobes elliptic-oblong, -2 in. long, 5-nerved, white. Stamens many, 60 or 
more ; filaments slender, longer than corolla-lobes ; anthers rounded, 
minute ; staminal bundles only noticeable in bud. Ovary villous, disk 
glabrous ; style slender, -2 in. long, stigma capitate ; cells 3, ovules 2 in 
each cell. Fruit a cylindric oblong berry, bright blue when ripe, -5 to 
•8 m. long, somewhat constricted at about one-third distance from the 
top ; the top surmounted by the calyx-rim and connivent teeth ; exocarp 
