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strongly elevate beneath, 14 to 20 pairs, midrib prominent, sunk 
above; 8 to 10 in. long, 4 to 5 in. wide; petioles stout, i to 175 in. 
long. Peduncle and bud-sheaths silky. Sepals oblong hairy. 
Petals (in bud) hairy. Fruit oblong-obovoid, 1-5 in. long, entirely 
covered with curved rounded transverse lamellae in 5 vertical rows, 
hairy underneath, long wings linear-oblong blunt, main nerves 3, 
prominent, 6 in. long, i-i to 2 in. wide; short wings broad ovate 
convolute, i in. long. Hah. Johor, Gunong Belumut (Holttum). 
Disirih. Borneo. 
The only flower seen is a very young bud. 
Vol. i. p. 241, sp. 5, Synaptea nitens RidL, note :— 
Flowers have been obtained by Haniff on Mount Olivia, Penang, 
for the first time. Panicles i to 2 in. long with numerous short 
branches densely light rufous, woolly-tomentosc. Pedicels -05 in. 
long, tomentose. Sepals ovate-lanceolate blunt, little longer, 
densely tomentose hairy, •! in. long. Petals glabrous, linear blunt, 
narrowed above stamens, then dilate, -3 in. long. Stamens 15, 
filaments very short, connective rather broad, prolonged to a short 
point. Ovary sessile. Style columnar short dilate and grooved 
at tip; stigmas short erect, 5. 
Order XXIV. Sterculiacejs. 
Vol. i. p. 269 after sp. Sterculia laevis Wall., insert :— 
(3a) S. neriifolia Ridl. Journ. Bot. 1924, p. 294. 
Small tree 10 to 12 ft. tall, glabrous, bark of branches pale, 
longitudinally rugose. Leaves mostly crowded at the ends of the 
branches, oblong-lanceolate, narrow, glabrous, shining, tip acuminate 
blunt, base long narrowed; nerves 17 pairs nearly horizontal, 
inarching within the margin, fine but prominent; 6-5 to 7 in. long, 
1*2 in. wide; petioles slender thickened at the tip and base, i in. 
long. Raceme sub-terminal, 3 in. long, puberulous. Flowers on 
distant branchlets *05 in. long bearing i to 3 flowers; pedicels 
•I in. long. Males, calyx tube cylindric-campanulate, *15 in. long, 
pale green and grey, nearly glabrous, lobes linear blunt nearly as 
long, free at tip, white-hairy on the edge. Stamen-column short 
erect, anthers in two rows of 5 each, lower row smaller than the 
upper one. Female flowers and fruit unknown. Hab. Xegri 
Sembilan, Bukit Tangga (Burkill 11,826). 
Allied to 5 . lavis, but with very narrow lanceolate leaves. 
Vol. i. p. 2'j$,sp. 1, Scaphium linearicarpum Ridl., note 
The fruits described above were quite young. Ripe fruits of 
what is apparently this species have since been obtained by Moham¬ 
med Nur at the Semangkok Pass, Selangor. The carpel is thin and 
papery, lanceolate blunt, curved on the lower edge, but not gibbous 
as in S. afme, 9 in. long, 175 in. wide, pubescent hairy, nerves 
thickly hairy. Seed ellipsoid, rugose when drj^ densely hairy, 
l in. long. 
