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1891.] (1. King — Materials fur a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 
3. S. macrophylla, Vent. Hort. Malm. ii. No. 91 (in note). A 
tree 80 to 120 feet high; young branches very thick, rough from the leaf 
cicatrices, the apices deciduously rufous or tawny-pilose. Leaves sub- 
coriaceous, broadly ovate to ovate-rotund or obovate-rotund, eutire, 
narrowing to the slightly cordate 7-nerved base; upper surface sparsely 
and rather minutely pubescent, some of the hairs 2-branched, becoming 
glabrescent with age, the midrib and nerves always pubescent ; under 
surface sub-tomentose, tawny, the midrib and 6 to 8 pairs of lateral 
nerves prominent, rufous-villose ; transverse venation distinct, rather 
straight ; length 8 to 16 in., breadth 6 to 12 in., petiole 3'6 to 6 in., 
softly hairy, tawny. Panicles solitary, axillary, nearly as long as the 
leaves, much-branched, many-flowered, hispidulous-pubescent, capillary, 
shorter than the flowers. Flower-buds minute, sub-globose. Calyx 
'15 in. long, campanulate, stellate-hairy, 5-lobed ; the lobes triangular, 
erect, shorter than the tube. Follicles 3 to 5, shortly stalked, woody, 
sub-rotund, about 2'25 in. each way, crimson when ripe, outside pubes- 
cent and longitudinally rugose ; inside smooth. Seeds oblong, black, 
smooth, '75 in. long. Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Brit. Ind. i. 356; It. Brown 
in Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 230. 
Malacca; Maingay No. 233 (Kew Dist.). Perak; at elevatious of 
200 to 500 feet ; King’s Collector Nos. 6052 and 7923 ; Scortechini, No. 
230. Distrib. Java, Brit. North Borneo. 
4. S. LAE VIS, Wall. Cat. 1138. A shrub or small tree; young 
branches rather thin, with pale striate bark, the apices deciduously 
rusty-puberulous. Leaves membranous, narrowly ovate-oblong, sometimes 
slightly obovate, the apex shortly and bluntly acuminate ; the base 
tapering, acute, rarely rounded, faintly 3-nerved : both surfaces glabrous, 
shining, the midrib and 6 to 9 pairs of spreading nerves prominent on 
the lower: length 4'5 to 9 in., breadth 2 to 3 in.; petiole 11 to 2-5 in., 
smooth, thickened at the apex. Panicles meagre, solitary, axillary, 
slender, puberulous, shorter than the leaves, few-flowered ; pedicels 
about as long as the flowers. Flower-buds oblong. Calyx '5 in. long 
or more, pubescent on both surfaces but especially on the inner ; the tube 
urceolate, divided at its apex into 5 linear-oblong sub-acute ascending 
lobes, longer than the tube, slightly connivent but not cohering by their 
apices, hispidulous on their inner surface. Male flower ; staminal column 
shorter than the tube, glabrous; anthers 10, sessile at its apex, elongate- 
ovate. Hermaph. flower : gynophore very short ; ovaries 5, boat-shaped, 
rusty-pubescent, sub-sessile, with a ring of 10 sessile anthers at their 
base outside : styles almost obsolete ; stigmas 5, cylindric, free, radiat- 
ing, recurved, pubescent beneath. Follicles 3 to 5, coriaceous, narrowly 
