Casearia .] lxii. samydace.®. 831 
Bruas. Perak (Scortechini) : Gunong Keledang (Ridley). Distrib. 
Cambodia, Malay islands. 
(3) C. velutinosa Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 75, p. 34. 
Shrub. Branches velvety flexuous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, 
oblong to ovate acuminate, base rounded or shortly narrowed; 
nerves 12, prominent beneath, depressed above; glabrous above, 
softly tomentose beneath, 6 to 10 in. long, 3 to 4-5 in. wide; petioles 
tomentose, -2 in. long. Heads -15 in. across. Flowers -i in. 
across. Sepals imbricate, pubescent, 5 sub-orbicular, oblong 
hairy outside. Petals o. Stamens 10, glabrous; anthers small 
introrse. Staminodes forming a tube with them, sub-spathulate 
hairy. Ovary conic. Stigma large capitate. Capsule *5 in. long, 
dehiscing into 3 narrow boat-shaped valves. Hab. Forests, local. 
Perak, Gunong Keledang. Bindings, Lumut; Bruas (Ridley). 
(4) C. latifolia Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. 75, p. 34. 
C. albicans King, l.c., not of Wallich nor of Clarke. 
A big shrub or tree (Wallich), about 10 ft. tall with flexuous 
white slender branches, quite glabrous. Leaves thinly coriaceous 
dark green, elliptic-ovate long-acuminate, base rounded; nerves 
fine, 8 pairs, slightly raised beneath, reticulations fine conspicuous, 
8 in. long, 4 in. wide; petioles -2 in. long. Heads small, axillary 
usually many-flowered. Bracts short, ovate. Buds globose, 
glabrous pedicelled. Fruit oblong-ellipsoid, yellow, *5 in. long. 
Hab. Hill forests. Perak, Ulu Bubong (Kunstler 10869), Penang 
(Wallich 7197 (1), 7432) halfway up Western Hill; Pulau Betong 
(Curtis). 
(5) C. esculenta Roxb. FI. Ind. ii. 422; Clarke, l.c. ii. 592 ; 
King, l.c. 17. 
Shrub or treelet up to 20 to 30 ft. tall, glabrous. Branches 
white, flexuous. Leaves thinly coriaceous, elliptic-oblong acute, 
base cuneate or round, edge obscurely undulate (or not); nerves 
6 to 8 pairs, 3 to 4 in. long, 15 to 2-25 in. wide. Heads many- 
flowered; pedicels -2 in. long, all glabrous. Calyx teeth 4 ovate. 
Fruit oblong-ovoid, x in. long, valves broad, ovate. Hab. Malacca 
(Griffith, Maingay), rare. Distrib. India. 
Griffith’s Malacca specimens are identical with another one collected by 
him in Khasyia in Kew Herbarium, and I should conclude it was an error 
of localisation to refer them to the peninsula were it not for Maingay’s 
specimens. 
(6) C. leucolepis Turcz, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. i. 463. 
Glabrous plant with stout branches. Leaves distant, thinly 
coriaceous or membranous, oblong blunt or bluntly acuminate, 
base inequilateral rounded or sub-cordate, edge minutely crenulate; 
nerves slender, 10 pairs, 4 to 6 in. long, 2*5 to 3 in. wide; petioles 
-2 in. long. Flowers several in short heads of woolly bracts. 
Pedicels slender, *15 in. long. Sepals 4, oblong blunt inside 
pubescent. Stamens 8, shorter; anthers ovate acute. Staminodes 
