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below into a cup, tips free, deciduous. Calyx bell- shaped, leathery, like the 

 wacteoles densely scaly, 5-fid, lobes valvate oblong or rounded. Feials 5, 

 contorted-imbncate, spathulate, longer than the sepals. Stamiml-tuhe 

 flivided into 4-5 phalanges opposite the petals ; filaments many, bearing 

 a globose head of sinuous 1-celled anthers, or a single annular 1-celled 

 miner, Ovary scaly externally, 4-5-celled; styles connate, stigmas capi- 

 tate ; ovules many and 2-seriate in each cell. Fruit very large, subglobose 

 or Oblong, spiny, indehiscent or loculicidally 5-valved. Seeds arillate ; 



cotyledons fleshy, often connate.— Distkib. Malay Peninsula and islands : 

 .species 3. •' ' 



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1^' **•. *i^etliinus, DC. Prodr. i. 480; leaves scaly beneath, flowers 



Dout 3in. diam., stainiual column tubular at the base ouly, anthers sinuous 



m globose lieads. Koen. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vii. 2m, t. 14-16; Eoxb. Fl. 



m^m.m. Miq.FL Ind.Sat. I vi^ 2, 167. Grif. Not. ir. 528 ; Ic. t. 596. 

 -^umph. Amb. I 90, t. 29. . V 



; y^LAccA cultivated only?— Distrtb. Malay islands. 



Tein n ' K ^^^^ ^"'^ V 2-2\ in., base rounded, obovateoblong, entire, feather- 

 »t th -^^ ^^^' shining above, scaly beneath, not hairy ; petiole about 1 in., thickened 

 Brn^i ^^^\ ^^^ers in lateral tiichotomous cymes; peduncles angular, subulate. 



' clotl I ' .deciduous, half the length of the calyx. Calyx bell-shaped, leathery, densely 

 t^ J wita large peltate scales, 5-lobed. lobes obtuse. Petals oblong, tapering at the 

 ^ruit h^f \^^^^^ ^^^ calyx. /!Sta men 8 hu^er than the petals. Ovary oblong, schIv. 

 5*val ®j ^ '^"^^^'."^cry large, somewhat woody, densely muricate, indehiscent or tardily 

 Mai ^*^P -^^ within. Seeds arillate.— The Durian is probably not indigenous in the 



'nnnli I- 'f^i'"^^'^' Wallace (Kew. Gard. Mis. viii. 228) states that two varieties, both 

 "^"fruited, are indigenous in Borneo. 



(abonf '^ ?^^^^*^<5ensis, Planch, mss. ; leaves scalv beneath, flowers large 

 8imi -' diam.), staminal column tubular for half its length, anthers 

 «nuuusin globose heads, 



i A^^^^"^^ P^(^«A, Maingay; Birma, Brandts, 



twice tT ^' ^^® ^^^^* ^^^ MxixgQ of D. Zihethinus, but with the flowers nearly 

 tbemfjn ^^^f- Petals twice the length of the sepals. Staminaltuhe divided, aboul 

 wild fur Tu ^^^^ ^ phalanges. Ovary and fruit as in the preceding.— Perhaps thg 

 ^ ot the Durian. 



or h^' ®*^eyanus, Grif. N'otnl. iv. 531 ; leaves glabrous above pubescent 

 diaa, f ^^ *^® ^"^^^^^ surface, scaly on nudrib only, flowers about 1 in. 

 filament "^^'^^ 4-5-adelplious, anthers annular solitary on the end of each 



obloo„ In Ir ^^'^ ^'^'""t -intl f'>Hage of D. ZihctUnm. Calyx ventncose. Petalt 

 'l>e toiHHi • ''^*^' '""Scr than the sepals. Staminal-pfuilanges 4 or 5, ihvKhng about 

 black con '"*'' numerous filaments each bearing a solitary anther with a thickened 

 'Dialler _r'^1!''« l>or(lere(l by an annular cell. Ovari/ and fruit of D. Zibethmus, but 

 • -"elerred by Planchon, in Herb. Kew, to Neesla, but erroneously. 



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hoS) -^eam simple entire, scaly beneath. Flowers small, axillary, 

 ^i n H connate at the base, deciduoua Calyx deeply 4-5-parted. 

 i^eguU,?^^'^-k'»Iate, entire or laciniate. Stamens, many, some free, others 

 opeS t "^'^^^'^ent, outermost without anthers • anthers oblong, 1-celIed, 

 »obo3^ o^ ? terminal pore, solitary, or in groups of 2-6. Pollen 

 ^ «i-valved. Ovary 3-5-celled, style elongate ; ovules one or 



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