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and usually shining, dark greenish-brown when dry ; margins entire 
or very shortly serrate, recurved when dry ; 6 to 12 in. long, 2-5 to 
5 in. broad ; midrib stout, much raised beneath, impressed above ; 
main-nerves 10 to 13 pairs, raised beneath, curving upwards to 
and along the margin ; secondary nerves few or none ; reticulations 
transverse, parallel, not prominent ; petiole '7 to 1'3 in. long, stout, 
glabrous. Inflorescence of simple spikes, strobilate when young and 
scarcely -5 in. long, in flower 1-5 to 2 in. long with pubescent rachis, 
in fruit reaching 3 in. long with stout nearly glabrous rachis, in 
the axils of upper leaves or the young branchlets below them ; bracts 
broadly ovate, acute, concave, minutely grey or tawny-pubescent ; 
bracteoles 2, lanceolate-acute, '1 in. long, all early deciduous ; buds 
ovoid, grey-pubescent. Calyx-tube '075 in. long; lobes 4, ovate-acute, 
blunt, '1 to '15 in. long, both grey-pubescent. Corolla-tube short, 
lobes 5, white, oblong, acute, '25 in. long, 5-nerved. Stamens in 5 
bundles opposite the corolla-lobes, about 60 ; filaments very slender, 
outer ones longer than corolla-lobes ; anthers rounded, minute. Ovary 
and disk glabrous ; style curved, "25 in. long, stigma capitate ; cells 3, 
ovules 2 in each cell. Fruit ovoid-oblong, 1 to 1-5 in. long, '75 to 1 in. 
broad, waxy greenish-white when half ripe, dark blue when ripe ; pale 
brown, shining, smooth, obscurely angled when dry ; surmounted by 
the calyx-rim -15 in. broad with erect calyx-teeth ; exocarp thick, fleshy ; 
endocarp very hard, woody, with 8 sharp star-like ridges ; cells 3. Seeds 
1 to 3, testa thin fibrous, albumen fleshy, embryo straight, radicle long. 
Brand Monog. Sympl. 52. Doxomma rigidum, Miers in Trans. Linn. 
Soc. Ser. 2. Bot. I. 104. Barringtonia rigida, Clarke in Hook. f. FI. 
Br. Ind. II. 510. 
Pebak : Wray 1294, 3207 ; Scortechini 2046 ; King's Collector 4246, 
4277, 4613, 5045, 5048, 6095, 6179, 7260, 7898, 8543, 10013. Seeangob : 
Ridley 10544. Malacca: Maingay (K.D.) 767, 965. Sixgapobe : 
Cantley 50 ; Ridley 1798, 5960. 
22. Stmplocos bubiginosa, Wall. Cat. 4432 (1829). A large shrub 
or a tree sometimes reaching 70 to 100 feet in height and 15 to 20 in. 
or more in diam. of stem ; branches stout, grey, nearly glabrous , 
branchlets stout, angled, glabrous or cinnamomeous- or ferruginous- 
hirsute ; leaf-buds lanceolate, '3 to - 4 in. long. Leaves coriaceo- 
cbartaceous ; obovate-oblong, acute or shortly and abruptly acuminate 
at apex, cuneate at base ; glabrous above, pubescent especially on 
the nerves beneath, the pubescence pale rusty-brown, pale greenish- 
brown when dry ; margins shortly dentate especially on the upper 
half, sometimes nearly entire, recurved; 5 to 11 in. long, 2 to 4 in. 
broad ; midrib stout, prominent beneath, impressed above ; main- 
