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VI. ANONACE^. 
[Slelechocarpus. 
1 . STELECHOCARPUS, BI. 
Trees with coriaceous leaves. Flowers unisexual, fascicled on 
the old wood. Sepals 3, small, elliptic to orbicular, imbricate. 
Petals very coriaceous, round, concave. Stamens in male indefinite 
ovoid. Ovaries 6 or more. Stigma sessile. Carpels globose berried, 
4 to 6 seeds. Torus conical. 3 to 4 species, Malayan. 
Leaves pellucid-punctate membranous . . . . (1) S. punctatus 
Leaves coriaceous not pellucid-punctate . . . (2) S. nitidus 
(1) S. punctatus King, Jou/n. Js. Soc. Beng. lxi. (2), 4; 
Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. iv. 4, pi. 1. 
A tree 20 to 30 ft. tall, branchlets puberulous. Leaves mem¬ 
branous elliptic-ovate acuminate, base rounded, above glabrous 
except the pubescent midrib; beneath puberulous or glabrous, reti¬ 
culations distinct; nerves 12 to 14 pairs, bold beneath; 7 to 10 in. 
long, 3 to 4 in. wide; petioles -15 to *2 in. long, pubescent stout. 
Male flowers in fascicles from trunk; buds turbinate, *5 in. across; 
peduncles 1 to 1-5 in. long, stout, puberulous. Sepals very cori¬ 
aceous rounded concave pubescent outside. Petals very cori¬ 
aceous rounded glabrous; outer 3 puberulous outside; inner 
smaller. Anthers sessile flat connective not produced. Hab. 
Perak (Kunstler), not seen. 
5 . Burahol Bl., a native of Java, is recorded from Singapore, Lobb. 
Lobb’s localities are always unreliable, and he probably collected the plant 
in Java. 
(2) S. nitidus King, Journ. , 4 s. Soc. Beng. l.c. 5; Ann. Bot. 
Gard. Calc. l.c. 4, pi. 2. S. Schefferi Boerl. 1 c. Bogor, 89, pi. 71. 
A tree 30 to 60 ft. tall; stem 6 to 8 in. through, glabrous. 
Leaves coriaceous dark green oblong-lanceolate shortly acuminate, 
base acute; nerves deeply impressed on upper surface, bold below, 
inarching within the margin; 6 to 9 in. long, -18 to 3-25 in. wide; 
petioles *35 in. long. Male flowers fascicled on the trunk, pale 
pink tinged with black; peduncles stout, 1 to 1-5 in. long, scurfy, 
puberulous. Sepals very coriaceous shortly oblong obtuse con¬ 
nate at base, puberulous. Petals larger, outer -5 in. long, ovate 
rounded, very thick and hard, inner smaller. Female flowers like 
the males, but no stamens, very numerous silky ovaries. Carpels 
broad ovoid obtuse, 2*5 in. long, 175 in. wide, puberulous, black. 
Seeds 8 in 2 rows, flat, 1-25 in. long, -5 in. thick. Hab. Limestone 
rocks in forests up to 800 ft. altitude; Perak, Gunong Pondok 
(Kunstler). Dislrib. Sumatra. 
2 . SAGERJEA, Dalz. 
Trees glabrous. Leaves coriaceous. Flowers uni- or bi-sexual, 
fascicled on tubercles on the old wood (or solitary axillary). Sepals 
orbicular to ovate, imbricate. Petals 6, in 2 series, imbricate, 
