70 G. King — Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. [No. 1, 
long, glabrous ; anthers about 10, sessile at tbe apex of the column, 
2-celled, tbe cells distinct. Female flower; gynophore very short; 
ovaries ovoid, villous (as are tbe united styles) ; with 10 sessile anthers 
at their base ; stigma discoid, deeply 5-lobed. Follicles 5, coriaceous, 
crimson when ripe, oblong, shortly beaked, about 2 in. long and 1 in. 
broad ; pubescent externally, glabrous shining and boldly ridged inside. 
Seeds oblong, ovoid, black. Mast, in Hook, ill FI. Br. Ind. i. 358 : Kurz 
For. FI. Burm. i. 138; Pierre FI. Forest. Coch- Chine, t. 194 B ; Blume 
Bijdr. i. 82; Br. in Penn. PI. Jav. Rar. 231 ; Miq. FI. Ind. Bat. i. pt. 2, 
175. S. angustifolia, Jack Mai. Misc. ex Hook. Bot. Misc. i. 287. S- 
Jaokiana, Wall. Cat. 1134. 
In all the Provinces except the Andaman and Nicobar Islands : 
at low elevations. Common. Distrib. Java and Sumatra, Cochin-China, 
Burmah. 
Yar. glabrescens, King : leaves 8 to 12 in. long, by 3 to 4'5 in. broad, 
softly pubescent beneath when young, much less narrowed to the (always 
sub-cordate or cordate) base than in the type ; panicles much branched 
and sometimes longer than the leaves. 8. angustifolia, Kurz (not 
Roxb.), in part, For. FI.. Burm. i. 138 ; S. parviflora, Kurz (not of 
Roxb.) Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliii. pt. 2, p. 116. 8. mollis, Kurz (? of 
Wall.) 1. c. xlv. pt. 2, p. 120. 8. Balanghas, Linn, var, glabrescens, Mast, 
in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 358, in part. 
Andaman Islands ; Heifer (Kew Distrib. No. 595); Kurz, Prain, 
Bot. Gard. Collectors. Nicobars, Kurz. Great Cocos, Prain. There are 
no Mergui or Eastern Peninsula specimens of this at Calcutta, and I be- 
lieve the variety to be confined to the Islands above named. 
In this species the petioles lengthen with the age of the leaf, 
many young leaves having petioles less than p 25 in. long, while in old 
leaves the length varies from 1 to 15 in. And there is considerable 
variability in the size of the blade. Moreover, while in some the upper 
surface of the leaves is perfectly glabrous (except the midrib which 
is almost invariably rusty-tomentose), in others it is rough and scaberu- 
lous from the presence of scattered stellate hairs. The next species 
(8. ensifolia, Mast.) has, in my opinion, a very poor claim to specific 
rank ; and I think it would be better to treat it a shrubby variety of 
this with narrower leaves and longer flowers. 8. parviflora, Roxb. also 
differs very little from this, and might be reasonably enough regarded 
as a form of it with broader more glabrous cordate leaves with fewer 
nerves. 
13. S. ensifolia, Mast, in Hook. fil. FI. Br. Ind. i. 359. A shrub 
or small tree : young branches and petioles densely ferruginous-tomen- 
