64 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
oblong, with short straight beaks, bright red when ripe, puberulous 
externally, slightly carved, glabrous, shining and ridged internally, 2 
in. long and about '5 in. broad. Seeds 3 or 4 oblong, black, shining. 
Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 357. Pierre FI. Forest. Coch-Chine 
t. 192, figs. 1 to 7 ; Br. in Benn. PI. Jav. Rar. 230; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. 
i. pt. 2, 174. S. coucinea, Jack Mal. Misc. i. 286, not of Roxb. 
Penang, Perak, Malacca, Singapore : at low elevations : but not 
common. 
5. S. HYPOS'tiCTA, Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. Suppl. 399. A shrub or small 
tree, all parts glabrous except the inflorescence : young branches slender, 
dark and smooth becoming (by the falling off of the bark) pale and 
striate. Leaves membranous, oblong, to oblong-lanceolate, sometimes 
slightly obovate, abruptly acuminate or even caudate-acuminate, entire, 
the base slightly narrowed and rounded, or not narrowed and truncate, 
emargiuate, rarely acute, 3-nerved ; both surfaces glabrous, shining : 
lateral main nerves 3 to 5 pairs, spreading, curved, inarching far from 
the mai'gin, prominent beneath : length 3'5 to 5 5 in., breadth 1'5 to 
225 in., petiole 1 to 1'5 in., thickened at base and apex. Racemes 
axillary, solitary, drooping, longer than the leaves, minutoly whitish 
pubescent, with superficial brown stellate hairs: bracteoles linear, 
longer than the pedicels. Galy.v with narrowly campanulate tube '25 
in. long, densely rufous-pubesceut externally and glabrous inside: lobes 
5, not quite so long as the tube, linear, spreading, connivent, cohering 
from some time by their tips, the edges recurved, glandnlar-pilose inside, 
sub-pubescent outside. Male flower ; staminal column short, glabrous, 
with 8 sessile oblong 2-celled anthers at its apex. Female flower : gy- 
nophore short ; ovaries 4, ovoid, conjoined, shortly tomentose, with ring 
of 8 sessile anthers at their base. Style simple, curved, sparsely 
villous ; stigma large, glabrous, with 4 fleshy obloug-obovoid curved 
lobes. Follicles 2 or 3, coriaceous, bright red when ripe, narrowly 
oblong, tapering to each end, 2 to 2'25 in. long and '65 in. broad ; 
externally minutely rusty-pubescent ; internally glabrous, wrinkled. 
Seeds 4, oblong, pointed, black. Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beug. Yol. 
xlv. pt. 2, p. 120. 
Pei'ak ; King’s Collector, Wray. Nicobars, Kurz. 
6. S. pabvifolia, Wall. Cat. 1123. A tree 20 to 30 feet high : 
young branches slender, striate, the older pale, the younger dark-coloured, 
glabrous. Leaves membranous, drying of a pale green, obloug-lanceolate, 
rarely ovate-oblong, bluntly acuminate, entire ; the base acute or round- 
ed, faintly 3-norved ; both surfaces glabrous : main nerves 6 to 8 pairs, 
