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nerves 10 to 13 pairs, parallel, very prominently raised beneath 
and usually impressed above, curving upwards to and along the 
margin ; secondary nerves few or none ; reticulations many, pro- 
minent, transverse, parallel; petiole thick, densely pubescent, -5 to 
1 in. long. Inflorescence of simple erect spikes, from the axils of upper 
leaves or from the young branchlets below them ; spikes 1 to 2 in. long, 
softly cinnamomeous-pubeseent, the rachis stout especially in fruit ; 
flowers about 12 to 16 in each spike, each flower supported by a broad 
ovate rounded bract -175 in. long and two ovate-acute braeteoles -1 in. 
long. Calyx-lobes ovate-lanceolate, acute, ’06 to '07 in. long ; tube as 
long as lobes. Corolla-tube short, lobes white, oblong, -15 in. long, 
3-nerved, glabrous. Stamens in 5 bundles opposite to the corolla-lobes, 
usually about 30; filaments unequal, the outer ones longer than the 
corolla-lobes ; anthers minute, round. Ovary and disk glabrous, style 
slender, about -15 in. long, stigma capitate or lobed; cells 3. Fruit an 
ovoid-oblong drupe, -4 in. long, - 25 in. broad, surmounted by the calyx- 
rim '1 in. in diam., pale brownish-yellow when dry, glabrous or softly 
pilose ; exocarp thin, crustaceous, fragile ; endoearp woody, faintly 
ridged; seeds usually 3. A. DC. Prod. VIII. 257; Miq. PI. Ind. Bat. I. 
Pt. 2. 466 ; Clarke in Hook. f. FI. Br. Ind. III. 580 ; Brand Monog. 
Sympl. 53. Lodhra rubiginosa, Miers in Journ. Linn. Soc. XVII 
299. 
Penang: Wallich 4432; Curtis 528, 1692; G. King. Pebak: 
Scortechini 1825 ; King’s Collector 5192, 5771, 7112, 8105, 10015, 10021. 
Malacca : Maingay (K.D.) 955 ; Griffith (K.D.) 3652. Johore : Ridley 
11115. Singapore: Cantley 72; Ridley 4117. — Distrib. Sumatra 
{Forbes 1991), Borneo {Beccari 1216, Haviland 1679, 3480). 
Subgenus II. — Cordyloblaste. 
23. Symplocos confusa, Brand Monog. Sympl. 88 (1901). A shrub, 
5 to 8 feet high (Lobb) ; branchlets rough, dark brown, marked with pro- 
minent cushion-like sears, uppermost ones and innovations ferruginous- 
pubescent. Leaves chartaceous; variable in shape, elliptic-oblong to 
ovate-lanceolate bluntly acute at apex, attenuate often unequally at 
base ; margins entire or slightly undulate, recurved ; glabrous on both 
suifaces; 3 to 4 in. long, P5 to 2 in. broad ; midrib slender; main-nerves 
inegular, about 6 pairs; secondary nerves and reticulations also irregular, 
indistinct , petiole '2 to ’3 in. long, slightly pubescent. Inflorescence of 
very short, 1-4-flowered, axillary, grey-silky racemes about -25 in. long ; 
biacts very small, ovate-acute ; braeteoles also minute, 2 to each pedicel ; 
pedicels - 05 to -1 in. long; flowers white, sweet-scented. Calyx-tube 
